From Jussie Smollett to BYU, the media's history of peddling race hoaxes

OutKick founder Clay Travis reacts to BYU student newspaper calling out liberal media for pushing Duke volleyball player’s racism claims and previews college football this weekend.

Last month, claims made by a Black volleyball player from Duke University made national headlines. 

Rachel Richardson alleged that a fan from Brigham Young University (BYU) hurled the n-word and threats at her "throughout the entirety of the match" between the two schools on August 26. Her in-the-moment allegation led to the immediate removal and permanent ban of the suspected racist and BYU issued apologies to both Richardson and Duke University. 

The liberal media quickly ate it up.

Richardson was featured prominently on ABC's "Good Morning America" and was interviewed about what she claimed to have experienced during its August 30 broadcast. ABC News correspondent Janai Norman said she was "really impressed" with how the 19-year-old sophomore "was handling all of this," to which co-host George Stephanopoulos replied "a lot of grace."

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ESPN, ABC's sister network, similarly offered uncritical coverage of the saga. Stephen A. Smith shamed BYU for failing to "expeditiously" address the alleged racist incident. Fellow ESPN host and Duke alum Jay Williams wore a Blue Devils sweatshirt on-air in solidarity with Richardson, telling the athlete, "Hold your head high."

CNN went even further with its coverage. Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell grilled BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe for not taking swift action, Weekend anchor Jim Acosta invited former NAACP president Cornell William Brooks to lambast BYU. Other CNN programs including "New