Conservative Twitter Dunks On ESPN Over Trailer for Documentary About NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace

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Conservative Twitter users dunked on ESPN on Tuesday over a trailer for a special about a noose that hung over NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage at Talladega Superspeedway last year that sparked a cultural controversy.

The incident was initially investigated by the FBI as a hate crime, but it was deemed “that the garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there since as early as last fall,” reported ESPN. Wallace had later been accused of perpetrating a hoax, which he vehemently denied.

“It was a noose that, whether tied in 2019 or whatever, it was a noose,” Wallace told CNN in 2020. “It wasn’t directed at me, but somebody tied a noose, that’s what I’m saying. It is a noose.”

The E60 special about the NASCAR community’s response to the incident airs on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN.

Bubba Wallace reflects on that and more tonight at 7:30 ET on ESPN. (via @E60)

— ESPN (@espn) December 14, 2021

Right-wing Twitter users slammed ESPN for perpetuating the false narrative that Wallace was the victim of a hate crime in 2020.

Except it wasn’t true. It was a garage pull that people thought looked like a noose.

The FBI cares more about investigating that and parents who attend school board meetings than investigating the likes of Larry Nassar, Nicholas Cruz, etc. https://t.co/BRqcfyqB0v

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 14, 2021

ESPN is one of those garbage outlets where employees lack both talent and ethics

— Dan Gainor (@dangainor) December 14, 2021

Also from ESPN:

FBI says rope had been in Talladega garage since October; Bubba Wallace not victim of hate crimehttps://t.co/Z0mIQIVxFm

— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) December 14, 2021

Holy hell the lie continues! It was a door pull in his garage. Shame on @espn. https://t.co/BFOFC1IGGp

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) December 14, 2021

The FBI concluded it wasn’t a noose…

Not sure what ESPN is trying to do here… https://t.co/g3YrnepUTp

— Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) December 14, 2021

It wasn’t a noose tho… https://t.co/G59yejhjEy

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) December 14, 2021

The FBI literally sent 15 agents who confirmed that it was a garage door pull chord that had been there for months.

These people want to tear our country apart with their lies https://t.co/rMDMcL2ea4

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 14, 2021

They’re still pushing this hoax https://t.co/dQLahCa15q

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) December 14, 2021

This is quite literally fake news.

ESPN knows it, Bubba Wallace knows it, and Twitter knows it. But the narrative is more important than the truth. https://t.co/QyYs9tQqOn

— Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) December 14, 2021