Steve Kerr admits he was 'wrong' on Hong Kong, regrets calling Trump a 'buffoon'

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Steve Kerr's new New Yorker interview sounds a lot less like a man eager to lecture Americans and a lot more like a man trying to clean up a mess he's spent years making. Throughout his coaching career in Golden State, Kerr has taken every opening to preach left-wing politics.

Suddenly, though, the Warriors coach sounds like someone who is trying to move more toward the middle. Or at least sound that way.

New Yorker staff writer Charles Bethea had a lengthy, and revealing, sit-down with Kerr. It's not revealing because Bethea is an objective journalist who desired to seek truth. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Bethea doesn't even try to hide his own left-wing bias. He opens the piece with a glowing affection toward Kerr before making his position on the longtime NBA coach crystal clear. He writes that Kerr has been "refreshingly outspoken" throughout his career. Does anyone think Bethea would describe a conservative coach or athlete as "refreshingly outspoken"? Of course not.

But the writer took it a step further, calling Kerr's 2022 Uvalde comments "informed and impassioned advocacy." It's always "informed and impassioned advocacy" when the writer agrees. If he disagrees, then it's "dangerous misinformation" or "bigotry" or some other word-of-the-day from the progressive rhetoric dictionary.

Steve Kerr sounded more cautious in a new New Yorker interview, admitting he was "wrong" on Hong Kong and saying he regrets calling Donald Trump a "buffoon." (Robert Edwards/Imagn Images)

And the bias didn't stop at the introduction. Even Bethea's questions were designed to let Kerr know he was speaking with an ally, not an objective