ESPN sidelines reporter Sage Steele after the sportscaster questioned former President Obama's racial identity and blasted her company's Covid-19 vaccination policy.
Steele continued: “'Barack Obama chose Black and he’s biracial' and I'm like, well, congratulations to the president, that’s his thing. I think that’s fascinating considering his Black dad was nowhere to be found but his white mom and grandma raised him. But hey, you do you, I’m gonna do me."referred to her own company's vaccine mandate"I respect everyone’s decision. I really do. But to mandate it is sick," Steele said.
Vaccines have proved effective in preventing severe illness and reducing hospitalizations from the Covid-19, whichsince early last year, according to a running tally by NBC News. Also in the podcast, Steele took women to task for allegedly wearing provocative clothing to draw the interest of men at the workplace.
“When you dress like that, I’m not saying you deserve the gross comments, but you know what you’re doing when you put that outfit on too," she said."We need to be responsible as women too. We know what we’re doing when we put certain things on.” Cutler appeared to defend his guest by tweeting a Fox News Channel story about Steele being pulled off the air and writing,"Ridiculous. I'm also going to take a week off work. Be back next week."
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