While appearing on CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin Friday, Fox Sports Radio Host Clay Travis proclaimed his love for the First Amendment and boobs during a segment on Jemele Hill's President Donald Trump tweets.
On Friday, he said that ESPN should not fire Hill for calling Trump a white supremacist on Twitter but the sports network acted hypocritically by keeping her on the air, after disciplining personalities like Curt Schilling.
Travis' statements brought the Twittersphere to a standstill and moved the spotlight off of the original subject of the conversation to him.
So this just happened a few mins ago live on CNN. pic.twitter.com/hmTdhBd59X
— Dylan (@DylansFreshTake) September 15, 2017
The host's comments about “the First Amendment and boobs” is something he has stated several times before. Earlier on Thursday, he wrote that Hill's statements were not means for firing as the White House deemed it to be.
"I don’t believe Jemele Hill should be fired for tweeting Donald Trump was a white supremacist and for recently saying police officers are modern-day slave catchers," he wrote. "I also don’t believe Curt Schilling should have been fired for what he said about the North Carolina transgender bathroom law or any of the other conservative political positions he’s adopted over the years."
In that same post, he wrote: "the only two things I 100 percent believe in are the First Amendment and boobs," which had very little variation from what he said Friday.
On Twitter, he even brushed it off as a non-issue and called out CNN for canceling his alleged appearance on Monday.
This is like the 4 billionth most controversial thing said on your own talk show back when you had a career in 1991. https://t.co/yV3EOLKGSb
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 15, 2017
You can't say you like the first amendment and boobs? I say and write it every day. Need to make tshirts now. https://t.co/wRGpzDEKjJ
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 15, 2017
So @CNN just texted to cancel my Monday interview they falsely claimed wasn't booked. Fake news gonna fake news. pic.twitter.com/qzpyke8ufT
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 16, 2017
The Washington Post also points out that he said the exact same thing in 2015.