Dan LeBatard was Slightly Emotional Over John Skipper's Resignation
While Dave, KFC and Big Cat were on The Rundown popping very expensive champagne to celebrate John Skipper’s career crashing and burning, this was Dan LeBatard’s reaction. Full on, ugly-faced, blubbering real tears. And unintentionally produced one of the funniest clips of the year.
Let’s review: A very successful, extremely wealthy and financially secure business executive decided to voluntarily leave a job he’d held for a lot of years. A grown man who made dump trucks filled with money, even while he was producing some of the worst content in the history of ESPN (see The Dan LeBatard Show) made a career choice, and it made this other grown man cry like he just had a death in the family. And as usual when I see that, it gives me this dull ache right in the pit of my stomach. From laughing so hard.
Check out Stugotz’ reaction. It’s like he wants to be anywhere in the world besides across the desk from this stuttering moron, having to do ad reads while his host sobs like he’s been pepper sprayed over a retirement announcement. And he’ll probably get his wish, since whomever replaced John Skipper is going to have to clean up his messes like this gawdawful show. What a goddamned embarrassment.
And just by way of perspective, this was Walter Cronkite announcing that the President of the United States had just been murdered:
But this is the thing in American now. TV hosts crying on the air over nothing. Jimmy Kimmel has had like a half dozen emotional breakdowns, including one over Cecil the Lion. That’s how far American Manhood has fallen in just 50 years. Watching this LeBatard clip has me crying now. For my country.