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ESPN made headlines recently for its latest round of layoffs, jettisoning approximately 100 employees, including dozens of well-known on-air personalities.

In the immediate aftermath, accusations flew about why the self-proclaimed "Worldwide Leader in Sports" had to lay off employees. Many blamed ESPN's perceived liberal bias, with the network seen as pushing conservative-minded viewers away and often dipping its toes into "politics" (i.e., topics that some people are uncomfortable discussing but that may or may not actually have any direct ties to real politics).

Those accusations were raised again against ESPN Radio's "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz" when it interviewed comedian Hasan Minhaj, the "Daily Show" correspondent who hosted this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

Le Batard immediately fired back at the complaints, noting that the show had interviewed several well-known people with conservative viewpoints, including President Donald Trump.

"Many of you are inevitably complaining that we talked to a 'Daily Show' correspondent and we talked politics, allegedly. Just so you know though, all of you who complain that the other side isn't represented here, we've talked to Geraldo Rivera a number of times. We've talked to Donald Trump. We've talked to Curt Schilling. We've talked to Bill O'Reilly. So, if you want to believe that, that's fine. We just like talking to interesting people about interesting things. If you want to object to what we just did there, that's fine that you object to it. But I'm bored by you."

It is also worth noting that ESPN has also twice divorced frequent Trump-basher Keith Olbermann and continues to employ conservative columnist Will Cain.

Le Batard went on to say the accusations of liberal bias are just coming from people who are "bothered" by ESPN's attempt to offer a diversity of viewpoints.

"There are more minorities on ESPN with strong voices than at any time in the history of the company," Le Batard said. "That has evidently made some people bothered."

Le Batard, who is of Cuban descent, qualified his remarks by saying it is possible that some people "just don't like" those minority voices, including his own and those of other prominent minorities at the network, including Stephen A. Smith, Bomani Jones, Michael Smith, and Jemele Hill. He called it "unusual" and "suspicious" that so many of the people complaining about the liberal bias at ESPN were white and that the people they wished had been fired during the layoffs were all minorities.