I support businesses’ rights and if ESPN wants to enact a ban on political commentary from their on-air talent (it seems a bit of a stretch for me to include personal social media accounts into that) they have the right to do such and contributors have the right not to sign with them. However, if ESPN is allowing one on-air talent to air his political views while denying another the same privilege under the same rules, then it seems tantamount to discrimination and a host of other problems, which isn’t OK.

Team Azinger, for the record.

*UPDATE: Further making my case for their cherry-picked policy enforcement, check out the Tweets of on-air talent [Kenny] Mayne…