ESPN Slammed After Claiming "Noose" Was Found In Bubba Wallace's Garage In 2020: "Race-Hoaxing Clowns"

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ESPN faced backlash on Tuesday afternoon over a tweet that claimed that
a “noose” was found in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage last year,
despite the fact that the FBI concluded that it was a garage door pull.

ESPN made the claim in a nearly three-minute preview video that it
posted to Twitter about a documentary that the left-leaning sports
organization released today on Bubba Wallace and a controversy that
emerged last year when a crew member reported finding a “noose” in his
garage.

Nowhere in the short video clip did ESPN disclose the fact that NASCAR
had said in a statement that the FBI concluded that the “noose” was a
garage door pull down rope.

“The FBI report concludes, and photographic evidence confirms, that the
garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there
since as early as last fall,” NASCAR said in its statement. “This was
obviously well before the 43 team’s arrival and garage assignment.”

Last year, a noose was found in Bubba Wallace's stall at
Talladega Superspeedway. The next day, the NASCAR community
stood with him in unity.

"I was like, 'Holy s—, it's the whole garage.' … That's when
I lost it." pic.twitter.com/Zh5HWumagX

— ESPN (@espn) December 14, 2021

Notable responses to ESPN’s claim included:

Sean Davis, The Federalist: “It was a garage pull cord that had been
there for months, you dishonest, race-baiting, race-hoaxing clowns.”

Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA officer: “Totally fake news. Didn’t
happen.”

John Cardillo, political commentator: “You lying motherf***ers. It was
a garage door pull and you know it, but you are lying your as*es off to
fan the flames.”

Stephen Miller, political commentator: “ESPN itself reported this to be
false.”

Eric July, political commentator: “Was this story not proved to be like
a garage pull or some shit? Hahaha”

Seth Dillon, The Babylon Bee: “It was a pull rope that long predated
Wallace’s assignment to that garage. Pretending it was more than that
is evil.”

Rich Lowry, National Review: “Who’s going to tell them?”

Jim Hanson, defense expert: “OR A rope pull for a garage door was used
to play Woke BS.”

Gerry Callahan, radio host: “It was a wonderful show of support and all
but … it wasn’t a noose. Doesn’t that kind of matter?”

Curtis Houck, NewsBusters: “Except it wasn’t true. It was a garage pull
that people thought looked like a noose. The FBI cares more about
investigating that and parents who attend school board meetings than
investigating the likes of Larry Nassar, Nicholas Cruz, etc.”

Kylee Zempel, The Federalist: “You’d think these clowns would want the
world to forget that they had the FBI investigate a garage door pull
cord. NOPE ??”

Will Ricciardella, Fox News: “I don’t think the person who tied that
rope with the propose of pulling a garage door down could’ve possibly
seen this coming. But here we are.”

Chris Bedford, The Federalist: “This was debunked a year ago…Are we
celebrating the courage to see a garage pull-cord now?”

Tom Shattuck, radio host: “What a bunch of pure horse sh*t. There was
no noose. This was a pathetic theatrical performance.”

Jesse Kelly, political commentator: “Here’s the biggest sports network
in America producing an entire documentary about another race hoax as
if it was real.”

Kurt Schlichter, attorney: “This is a giant lie, Race Car Jussie.”

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