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ESPN's Dan Le Batard Critical Of Sage Steele's Instagram Post

Dan Le Batard speaking on his radio show.

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The ESPN personality sounded off during his radio show today.

ESPN anchor Sage Steele has faced criticism today for an Instagram post that criticized protestors at LAX who caused her to miss a flight.

"So THIS is why thousands of us dragged luggage nearly 2 miles to get to LAX, but still missed our flights. Fortunately, a 7 hour wait for the next flight to Houston won't affect me that much, but my heart sank for the elderly and parents with small children who did their best to walk all that way but had no chance of making their flights. I love witnessing people exercise their right to protest! But it saddened me to see the joy on their faces knowing that they were successful in disrupting so many people's travel plans. Yes, immigrants were affected by this as well," she wrote.

During his radio show this morning, ESPN's Dan Le Batard, constantly unafraid to be critical of his own company, had some words for Steele and the Worldwide Leader in general.

The genie’s out of the bottle on this because we all have our own Twitter accounts and we all have our social media on this. And this is what ESPN is trying to prevent, Stugotz, because once one person does it, it opens the floodgates for the rest of us because of course, I, as the son of exiles, look at this and I’m like “what the hell are you talking about, your travel plans were affected? What are you talking about?” It’s the height of privilege.

And so once you start opening that portal, you get ESPN on ESPN crime. You get all this stuff that ESPN doesn’t want to have as people think of ESPN as liberal leaning.

But you can’t give this a voice and then muzzle the rest of us.

You can watch Le Batard's comments here.

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