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FanHouse Interview: Jemele Hill on Her Hitler Comment, Don Imus Criticism and More
FanHouse Interview: Jemele Hill on Her Hitler Comment, Don Imus Criticism and More
In a column that was intended to explain why a Detroit Pistons fan couldn't root for the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals, ESPN's Jemele Hill wrote that cheering "for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim." Those words were quickly removed from her ESPN.com column , but the damage had been done: Hill was harshly criticized in the blogosphere and on Boston sports radio, and ESPN ...
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FanIQ Blog — ... Imus isn't the only one who's made stupid comments of late. Jemele Hill talks with Fanhouse about her Hitler comment. [Fanhouse] ...

Jemele Hill of ESPN.com explains Hitler reference
Sports stories from Newsday — ... Jemele Hill of ESPN.com recently made the age-old mistake of using Hitler in pretty much any comparative context, then she got in hot water for it, then she spoke to AOL Fanhouse about it. ...

Jemele Hill Speaks
RedsArmy.com - The Voice Of Celtics Fans — ... Jemele Hill talked to Michael David Smith at FanHouse about her suspension for the now infamous “Hitler” comment.  ...

Some Members Of The Mainstream Media Need Help With Their Analogies
Tirico Suave — Bonnie Bernstein Needs Analogy Help Dear Real, Credited, Respected, I-Went-To-School-For-This-Shit Journalists, I’ll be honest with you. I want you to win this so called mainstream media v. blogs war. I mean, you created it, you should come out on top. I don’t start seasons in Madden to go 6-10, right? But over the last few weeks, a few of you aren’t making it any easier on yourselves. First, ESPN.com’s Jemele Hill likened rooting for the Celtics to saying that Hitler was a victim, which even by the “yeah it’s fucked up but I get where you’re going” paradigm, still doesn’t ...

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sports.aol.com 6/18/2008 — If blogs did not exist, I guarantee you 99% fewer folks would have read Jemele Hill 's Saturday ESPN column, which argued that cheering "for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It's like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red ...
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Warning, non-soccer related: My post isn't very good. I couldn't really pin down what I was trying to say but did feel like posting a comment on the issue. I just read an article which was posted less than 1/2 an hour ago on deadspin, in which ESPN's Jemele Hill compared cheering for the Celtics to cheering for Hitler . While she might have been trying for humour, she did include the line, ...