Back when news of the Dan Snyder lawsuit against City Paper first broke, the topic was never raised on Tony Kornheiser’s ESPN 980 radio show. That seemed odd, seeing as how Tony Kornheiser’s ESPN 980 radio show is largely devoted to the topics of D.C. sports and D.C. media.
Well, the story is back in the news this week thanks to Dan Snyder’s op-ed announcing a re-filed lawsuit, and this time, Kornheiser decided to dip his toe in the water. This comes from the second half of Tuesday morning’s show.
“I’m going to be dismissive of this, but I’m not gonna force anyone else to be as dismissive as I am,” Kornheiser began. “I have not talked about this before, and I’m gonna talk about it now, briefly. I’m gonna preface it by saying that there are two companies that provide me with the economic opportunity that I’ve had in recent years, which has been very beneficial to me. And in the words of my colleague Bomani Jones, I’m not gonna mess around with where the money comes from ok?
“One of the places the money comes from is Red Zebra, which is owned by Dan Snyder, this radio station, ok? And the other is ESPN. And I’ve been told in no uncertain terms by a variety of people, do not say stuff about the places where you work, so you need to understand that, that I am reluctant to be enormously expansive on certain things that jeopardize my well being. Not yours. No, do what you want about your well being; this is what I do about mine.”
Kornheiser proceeded to read most of Snyder’s piece, with a few interjections here and there. Then he finally offered his actual opinion.
“Let me say that my own opinion about this is that this lawsuit, in its various forms, has given this particular story life that it could never have had before,” Kornheiser said. “Life that it could never have had before. So at this point, I’m sort of willing to believe that the only reason for continuing this thing is out of some sort of principle having to do with Dan Snyder’s view of the...
