Former WWE interviewer, Charly Caruso (now Charly Arnolt) recently spoke about her former employer, ESPN.
Arnolt recently announced earlier this week that she was leaving ESPN for OutKick. Arnolt went on “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News on Thursday and explained why she thinks there is a contradiction in her former employer’s stated policy of staying out of politics.
Charly Arnolt talks about ESPN
Arnolt also applauded her former colleagues Sage Steele and Sam Ponder for opposing Lia Thomas and other transgender athletes competing in women’s sports.
“ESPN has been very adamant about keeping politics out of their programming, yet you just saw, late last month, they did a whole tribute, during Women’s Month, for Lia Thomas,” Arnolt said.
“Therefore, it doesn’t exactly seem like they are keeping politics completely out of the mix. But, I have to commend these two women for standing up for these women who are unfortunately losing so much of the success that they worked so hard for.”
Thomas swam for three years at Penn as a male, then transitioned to female and set a number of records.
OutKick was acquired by Fox Corp. in 2021. Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines had slammed a proposal from the Biden administration to bar blanket bans against transgender youth athletes and Ponder, the host of ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” tweeted:
“This would take away so many opportunities for biological women and girls in sports. It is a shame that we are needing to fight for the integrity of Title IX in 2023 and the reason it was needed in the first place.”
Steele, a “SportsCenter” anchor, tweeted:
“This is heartbreaking, maddening, and really difficult to watch. I keep thinking I’m going to wake up and be relieved that this was all just a ridiculous, comical, nonsensical dream….”
