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ESPN’s Max Kellerman takes shot at SEC fans: ‘Easy to propagandize and almost immune to facts’
By SDS Staff
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ESPN’s Max Kellerman took a shot at Southeastern Conference fans Thursday on an ESPN First Take segment with Stephen A. Smith.
Kellerman said that President Donald Trump’s base voters in the SEC “seem to be susceptible to very low quality information and easy to propagandize and almost immune to facts.”
The clip can be viewed below:
ESPN’s Max Kellerman says SEC football fans are dumb, susceptible to propaganda & don’t care about facts and that’s why they support President Trump. pic.twitter.com/4ML7VHcJhP
— The Daily Coverage (@TDCoverage) August 27, 2020
Kellerman’s comments transcribed:
“Stephen A., you made the argument a couple weeks ago, that you thought that if SEC football wasn’t played that could swing the general election because people in Trump’s base would be very upset that they didn’t have football, which is practically a religion down there,” Kellerman said. “And I disagreed because he would simply shift blame because the pandemic is raging. They seem to be — susceptible to very low quality information and easy to propagandize and almost immune to facts.
“Because, as Kellyanne Conway, an advisor to Trump, said they have ‘alternative facts.’ And if they stay in their propaganda silos like the Fox News propaganda silo, it wouldn’t matter what happened because they’ll say, ‘Oh no, the handling of the pandemic has been great.’ The handling of the pandemic has been the worst in the industrialized democratic world — by far. The United States, by far. At the federal level, it’s been a disaster, and as a result, we’re dealing with this pandemic. And yet, I didn’t think that would affect voters because the blame would be shifted.”
Kellerman also added that it would take a NFL stoppage due to social justice to make a difference with voters.
The NBA also elected to resume the playoffs after the short boycott.
It’s important to note that ESPN broadcasts nearly every SEC game in the fall except the “SEC on CBS” on CBS Sports.
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