ESPN won’t comment on deceptively editing Will Cain video: commentary

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ESPN deceptively edited a video for its ESPYS presentation in which Will Cain discussed the pay gap for the U.S. women’s national soccer team.

The video was from four years ago when Cain, now a Fox News host, worked at ESPN.

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A guest, Carla Overbeck, Christen Press, Julie Foudy, Briana Scurry, Shannon Boxx, Lorrie Fair, Heather O'Reilly, Sam Mewis, Tobin Heath, Stephanie McCaffrey and a guest of the USWNT, recipients of the Arthur Ashe Award, at The 2023 ESPYS held at Dolby Theatre on July 12, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty Images)

Here’s the full context:

Cain has not said much about the video, other than a simple tweet repurposing the full video. Nor does he need to respond.

The video did not hurt Cain’s reputation.

ESPN can’t hurt Cain’s reputation at this point. He hosts the top-rated weekend show on television, Fox & Friends Weekend, which averages more viewers in one day (often around 2 million) than ESPN’s leading shows (often around 200,000 a day) do combined.

Based on the reaction, ESPN humiliated itself far more than it did Cain.

The attempt to generate the there’s that white conservative trying to diminish women narrative backfired.

Still, the decision to edit the clip left us with questions.

Did an executive make the call to smear Cain? Or did some low-level producer who dislikes Cain for his conservative values make the decision to edit the clip?

Does ESPN regret deceptively editing a clip from its own network?

Unfortunately, we can only surmise.

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