Tara slams coach Stephanie White for defending the assault on Caitlin Clark

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Tara: Okay, so Lee, if I walk out of here today and somebody who doesn’t like what I’ve said, um, decides they’re going to knock me to the ground, kick me, uh, and then punch me in the throat in the parking lot... Would that be assault? Lee: Uh, yes. Assault and battery. Tara: Yeah, it's assault and battery. Or, you know, likewise, you’re shopping at the Walmart, you get mad because somebody won’t get out of your way, you want their space in line, you do that to them, you get caught on video—you’re pretty much going to jail. Lee: Yeah, they'll pick you up. Tara: Yeah. So that’s not, we’d agree, just a foul, right? Like, that’s full-on assault. Like, illegal on the street. Lee: Mhm. Tara: Well, in—in normal America, anyway. Lee: Yeah, right. Tara: All right. Well, that’s what everybody watched—if you haven’t seen it, you’ve got to see it—uh, that’s what everybody watched happen to Caitlin Clark. Lee: Yeah. Tara: Her back was so badly hurt from being flung to the ground—and you can see her in the video, they’re trying to kick her and she’s like moving out of the way, then punch her in the throat—um, that she wasn’t able to play the next game. No foul is called. Refs pretend they don’t see it. The fans so outraged—we’ve been talking about this for two days now—fans so outraged, they’re screaming, they’re yelling, and you know, they’re online, it starts trending, like, what—what on earth is this? And it’s because Caitlin Clark is white and straight. She—look, she already capitulated to them. They wanted her to make some kind of—remember this went on forever—she wanted some kind of statement, um, admitting that she is privileged, um, you know, that she doesn’t deserve to be where she is and she’s only here because she’s white. Something like that. She finally broke down and did it, she tried to stay out of the politics. And when she did, the beatings got worse. Lee: No. Tara: And the refs' eyes got cloudier. So, we’re to the point now in the WNBA, it’s truly astonishing, you can commit a street-style assault that would get you arrested, on video, so not just violating, uh, the rules of the game, you know, not just committing, you know, your standard foul that they would call, you know, the refs would call on you, but I mean, actual crime. And no one’ll do anything. So understandably, the fans were outraged, right? Lee: Some, yes. Tara: Yeah, some of them. Uh, and it made it trend. Okay. So after it trended, the WNBA had to pretend, uh, stop pretending not to notice that this had taken place by this player, the forward, Alysha Thomas, with the Fien—Phoenix Mercury. And they fined her. Okay. Her coach was just interviewed about this... Um, I’m sorry, not her coach, get this: Caitlin Clark’s coach was just interviewed about this. The head coach, not the one that keeps doing the interview standing up for her. This is, uh, Fever head coach Stephanie White, okay? So, the coach should be like, "Yeah, hey, don’t felony-level assault my player. We—we can’t have crimes committed for the whole country to watch on the ba—the basketball court." But she didn’t. She went off on the fans for objecting to Caitlin Clark being beaten! After not saying a thing about Clark being beaten to the point where she missed the next game. So the woman who, um, you know, assaulted her, she says, "Yeah, I’ve got AB sneakers on today. Before we start with the questions," I’m reading from the transcript, I’m hoping to get the audio soon, "Before we start with questions, you know, I just want to address what’s going on with Alysha Thomas." Again, this is not her player. This is the person on the other team who assaulted her player. "You know, I think first and foremost, it’s absolutely unacceptable." So you think she’s going to say, "for Alysha to, you know, beat up Caitlin Clark on national TV." No, no, no! No! The fans complaining is unacceptable! She says there’s been so much toxicity, racism, homophobia, straight-out-like nonsense, hate no ...

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