Barbara Walters Put Sage Steele in a Figure Four Leg Lock

Sage Steele is on a press tour telling everyone how silenced her voice was at ESPN and how she’s biracial or something. Her message is kind of all over the place but she recently told a story about the late Barbara Walters that has my full attention.

Here’s what she told Megyn Kelly in a recent interview about her altercation with Barbara Walters in 2014 on the set of The View:

“I was probably about four feet from the wall and the trash can, and Barbara was standing over here in front of me. She just started to back up towards me and looked at me and got close and elbowed me. And it pushed me back into the wall and the trash can. I was like, ‘What did [she] just do to me? This 140-year-old woman just tried to like tackle me. And I’m like, am I in a movie right now?”

You really have to feel for Sage Steele here.

She was being silenced as she was preparing to sit down on The View—the most watched show on daytime TV—when all of a sudden Barbara Walters powerbombed her through a table.

Barbara Walters chokeslammed Sage Steele and why? Because Sage went on Jay Cutler’s podcast (lol) and said female reporters in locker rooms are to blame for men sexually harassing them?

Or because she constantly has to remind everyone that she is biracial and equally as white as she is black in a way that makes it obvious she isn’t super proud of that black half?

Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Everyone knows the Constitution says we Americans can say whatever we want without having a legendary, elderly journalist put us in a figure-four leg lock in front of Whoopi Goldberg.

You should be able to say whatever you want, no matter how ignorant or dangerous and nothing bad should ever happen to you afterward.

You shouldn’t lose your extremely high-paying ESPN job that you could easily sleepwalk through.

You shouldn’t have to fist-fight Barbara Walters backstage at a View taping.

And most importantly, you should be treated like a fearless hero for being brave enough to get in front of a microphone and saying Colin Kaepernick is wrong for quietly protesting and exercising his freedom to do so.

Kaepernick fighting against police brutality is bad. Sage Steele fighting for the right to say Covid is fake is good.

I cannot wait to hear what new sob stories Sage tells on her crybaby victim tour as she and her agent attempt to line up her next career move. “Yea, Oprah put me in the sharpshooter until I tapped out”.

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