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Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Blogger Hired to Defend Redskins’ Name Quits After Two Weeks

Three weeks ago, the Washington NFL team hired Democratic political consultant Ben Tribbett, well known in Virginia political circles for his “Not Larry Sabato” blog, to help the franchise defend its oft-criticized name.

Instead, Tribbet ended up defending himself, and last night tweeted his resignation after deciding that too much of the debate over the team’s name had focused on him. (Tribbett is also an occasional contributor to Washingtonian.)

“I don’t want to be a distraction to the team as the political attacks have shifted towards being personal towards me,” he wrote. “So I’m going to send in my resignation to the Redskins. Hopefully that allows debate to move back to where it should be.”

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

and that will be the shelf life of RG3's knee this season too

Anonymous said...

Nice to know that America has solved all its problems so that we have time to devote to such "important" issues as the appropriateness of a team's name.
Give me a break you undereducated voters "aka" FOOLS.

Anonymous said...

No one is capable of simply ignoring anything anymore.MSM has made a huge case out of this issue,enabling native Americans to pursue for free.That officially makes the MSM a free legal service.No defense would have been the best defense.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like this dude wasn't getting paid enough.