Ouch: ESPN’s Decision to Give ‘Caitlyn’ Jenner the Courage Award Just Backfired Big Time
Woman Involved in Bruce Jenner’s Car Crash Decries ESPY Award
By Des Bieler. Caitlyn Jenner made news Wednesday night when she took the stage at the ESPYs to receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. Some found her words powerful and moving while some questioned why she was there in the first place.
Count Jessica Steindorff among those who thought that the award should have gone to someone else. She was among those involved, as was Jenner, in a February traffic accident in Malibu, Calif., that claimed a woman’s life.
Steindorff is suing Jenner over the incident, as are the stepchildren of the woman, Kim Howe, who died. Steindorff had this to say to Entertainment Tonight about the former Olympic gold medalist and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star receiving the award:
“I find it difficult to understand how the culture we live in can honor a person who is responsible for taking a life and injuring several others with both an award and a reality show,” Steindorff told ET. “For an individual who is such a positive role model in many aspects of her life, Caitlyn has failed to do the right thing and take responsibility for her actions.”
“I would hope that someone who seems to greatly value the importance of human existence would be more sensitive to the fact that she ended another person’s life. Sadly we are living in a tabloid society,” she added.
(Read more from “Woman Involved in Bruce Jenner’s Car Crash Decries ESPY Award” HERE)
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The ESPY Bruce Jenner Courage Award Spectacle
By Norvell Rose. It was indeed a spectacle. But the fallout from Wednesday night’s ESPY Award presented to Caitlyn Jenner — the transgendered woman formerly known as Bruce — is certainly not what a cable net that relies on its fans for success wants to see. The homepage homage to Caitlyn’s “courage” has been blasted with sharply negative comments on the ESPN website.
Western Journalism published a pre-show piece on the Arthur Ashe Courage Award given to Jenner — that post was entitled “Receiving The ‘Courage’ Award From ESPN Could Be The Worst Thing To Happen To Caitlyn Jenner.” Ironically, putting the used-to-be-a-man cultural celebrity in the center-stage spotlight during the nationally televised ABC show last night may have been pretty bad for ESPN as well…if posted reaction is any indicator.
Among the many news outlets gushing with morning-after praise about the high-profile award and Jenner’s long acceptance speech is The Washington Post. The paper noted that Jenner’s moment (actually many moments) in the spotlight was among the “Best of the 2015 ESPYs.”
Then, there are comments such as the following about Jenner’s tearful celebration of self and emotional plea for acceptance of other transgendered people:
“…to give an award like the Arthur Ashe award for Courage to a guy that just feels he’s a woman or whatever the case may be is an absolute travesty and a total misuse and black mark for that award.” (Read more from “Ouch: ESPN’s Decision to Give ‘Caitlyn’ Jenner the Courage Award Just Backfired Big Time” HERE)
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Peter Berg, Friday Night Lights TV Series Producer, Shares “Hateful” Meme about Bruce Jenner
According to the Examiner, producer Peter Berg shared on his Instagram account a “hateful meme” about “Caitlyn” Jenner by comparing him to a true American hero, double-amputee Colonel Gregory Gadson. (Col. Gadson is a West Point classmate of Restoring Liberty Publisher Joe Miller) Here’s the image shared by Berg:
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