The U.S. and Mexico national football (soccer) teams are playing each other, and Fox Sports has been promoting it in a particularly tone-deaf way. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (Think Tank), Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies), and Jimmy Dore, (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“How do you get soccer fans excited to watch this weekend’s big soccer match between the U.S. and Mexico? If you’re Fox Sports, you apparently enlist the voice and words of Donald Trump.
The network posted the promo below on Friday morning, which includes such inspiring lines as “I love the Mexican people” and “Our country has tremendous people, tremendous potential.” Left out are the GOP frontrunner’s comments about Mexicans “bringing drugs, “bringing crime” and being “rapists.””*
Read more here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-fox-sports-uses-trump-to-hype-u-s-vs-mexico-soccer-match/
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