Tom Ley

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Even if we had talked to a pulmonologist, because I proposed to Defector Editor-in-Chief Tom Ley, you know, should I interview a doctor about this for our site? And he said, you know, you can't really do that secondhand because You won't be talking to someone who examined Hertz directly.

So even if you talk to the proper doctor, they're not going to know.

And even if Hertz had taken the L.A. Rams plane that had full beds on the way to Australia, you're still talking about even if you...

The story pointed out what lots of us have been discussing for over two years now, which is that longtime sports columnist Christine Brennan is so obsessed with shining a light on Kaitlyn Clark's greatness and undeniable fandom that she continues to overlook important context, fails to do any amount of self-reflection on her own biases, ignores and often insults other players and teams in making comparisons to Kaitlyn Clark, and and pushes aside any accusations of racism, almost always while invoking the name of civil rights activist Dr. Harry Edwards.

Now, Nathan's original story was good, but it was the follow-up from his defector editors, Samir Khalaf and Tom Ley, that was excellent and I hope is taught in journalism school for years to come.

Basically, they published a story detailing how after that first story by Giddy Nathan was published, Christine Brennan called them.

And they essentially laid out a very matter-of-fact, here's what happened in our phone calls.

Yeah.

And Tom Ley.

And Tom Ley, of course.

I think Tom Ley had been there for, like, a week or so.

Yeah.

So yeah, no, that was...

Mm-hmm

... full time.