WNBA Race Hoax, Michelle Obama's Grudge Against Barack, and Cagey FBI Epstein Comments, with Glenn Greenwald | Ep. 1083
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What incident sparked the WNBA race hoax discussion?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Welcome to the Megyn Kelly Show. Another race hoax takes center stage, this time in the WNBA. This story has had many twists and turns over the past week, so we're going to walk you through how it all unraveled in spectacular fashion. It all started on May 17th during the WNBA season opener when Kaitlyn Clark's team, the Indiana Fever, faced off against the Chicago Sky, home to player Angel Jussie Smollett-Reese.
Just kidding.
Angel Reese was the competitor. During the game, Caitlin Clark received a flagrant foul call against Reese. In other words, Caitlin committed the foul. After slapping her arm, Reese fell to the ground momentarily before jumping up to follow Clark across the court. angry at the foul. Keep in mind, she's committed umpteen numbers of these against Caitlin Clark, including she was the one who with the fingernails. But she was very angry that she'd been pushed, she felt, by Clark. Clark said there was nothing malicious behind the foul, and it's just a part of the game. Reese appeared to agree, eventually saying, all right, it was just a basketball play. Then after the game, the Associated Press reported the WNBA was launching an investigation into alleged racial abuse. directed at Reese by fever fans. Fans, you know, rooting for Caitlin Clark. The WNBA confirmed the investigation in a statement that read in part, the WNBA strongly condemns racism, hate, and discrimination in all forms. They have no place in our league or in our society.
We are aware of the allegations and are looking into the matter. Then Reese had a change of heart. She posted a TikTok video, which included this screenshot. It shows Clark walking away from Reese after the foul with the message, white gal running from the fade. It has since been taken down by Reese. Reese then spoke to reporters about how the alleged racism hurled her way was very hard to deal with during the game.
Obviously there's no place in this league for that. I think the WNBA and our team and our organization have done a great job supporting me. I've had communication from everyone, from so many people across this league and being able to support me. Going through this whole process, obviously it could happen to me, it could happen to anyone and I think they've done a great job supporting us in this.
How did it affect you Saturday, trying to do your job, trying to play and having this going on simultaneously?
Yeah, obviously it's tough, but I think I have a great support system. I'm loved by so many people. And obviously in the moment it is, it's hard to hear, but my support system is great. God has protected me.
What do you think the league's response is coming out right away and getting that investigation going?
Yeah, obviously, like I said, they understand that this is, this is the priority. Obviously there's no place for this. And they, they preach, I think two days before they put out no hate, no speech. And obviously the women in this league, they know, they know that and know there's no space for that.
OK, so now we're at it was it was hard to hear when it happened. What what happened exactly? You were subjected to racism. What specifically? What happened? It was hard to hear. If it can happen to me, it can happen. And did it happen to you? What what exactly is your evidence that anything at all happened to you involving racism from the fever fans? Okay, well, the evidence for why an investigation was launched by the WNBA was unspecified. The Daily Mail reported that Reese's coach and team only found out about the racism allegations when everyone else did. And they were not aware of any hate speech during the game. Angel Reese did not run off the court saying somebody said something racist to me.
Now the latest news is that they heard anonymous social media commentators saying there was racism. Oh, that's how you began your investigation? So nobody in the arena was actually complaining? She wasn't complaining? You, the coaches, didn't hear anything? It's some anonymous social media users who got this started. That's reliable.
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