January 1, WNBA Star Finally SPEAKS OUT After Media Tries Destroying Her Career

Wyatt’s Take

• Caitlin Clark calls out leftist media for lying about who she is and dragging her name through the mud over basketball plays
• USA Today went so far as to invoke Emmett Till in a hit piece attacking Clark for… falling down and arguing with refs
• Clark reminds virtue-signaling reporters: you don’t know me, stop making accusations about my character

Caitlin Clark has had enough of the media circus trying to destroy her reputation. After weeks of insane controversy drummed up by race-baiting journalists, the Indiana Fever star is finally speaking out and setting the record straight.

“I think there’s just like a false characterization of who I am sometimes,” she said in an interview with ESPN on Friday.

The controversy reached peak absurdity when USA Today published an opinion piece that actually invoked the murder of Emmett Till while criticizing Clark for falling to the floor when hit by opposing players and arguing with referees over foul calls. Yes, you read that right — they compared a basketball player getting fouled to one of the darkest moments in American history.

Clark didn’t hold back in responding to the character assassination attempts.

“And I get it, like, as a reporter or as a blogger, like you can write an opinion piece and that’s your job and whatever. But at the same time, like you don’t know me. Like we’ve never had a conversation. I get people have a job to do. But at the same time, like don’t make accusations about my character and who I am when you don’t know me.”

“I understand this is your job and this is your profession, and this is what you get to do. And basketball is my profession, what I get to do. And the reason I play it is when I step in between the lines, I love it. And that’s what’s so fun about it for me is like, I get to compete. This was always my dream. And nobody should ever try to take that away from me.”

Clark hit the nail on the head when she said much of the media coverage isn’t “based in reality.”

“I think a lot of it is like, it’s not always based in reality. I feel like media and journalism have a responsibility to tell the stories and a lot of times you guys are the ones controlling the narratives about what people read and what people talk about and a lot of that is sometimes so far out of touch with what is reality.”

The whole mess started when Clark was punched in the throat by Phoenix Mercury star Alyssa Thomas during a game in June. Referees didn’t even call a foul in the moment, but later issued Thomas a one-game suspension after the game was over.

Instead of treating it like the basketball incident it was, the media turned it into weeks of racial controversy and emotional discourse that had nothing to do with what actually happened on the court.

Clark tried to bring some sanity back to the conversation when reflecting on the throat punch and its ugly fallout.

“It seems like there’s always a moment like that in every season that I’ve played so far… it gets exhausting, it gets frustrating… yeah it was a hard foul, it should have been dealt with in the moment, and it should have been decided what it was then and reviewed it, great, we move on. We see it happen in the NBA all the time. It’s not anything more than that, it’s basketball.”

“It’s emotionally exhausting, it’s draining, it makes your shoulders tense, because you know, people don’t want to talk about the basketball, they want to stir it up and make it something else.”

On the first day of All-Star weekend Friday, Clark reminded media and fans that she’s a human being with actual feelings — something the outrage mob seems to forget.

“People forget like I have feelings… I feel things, I have emotions, I get emotional, I get frustrated, I get sad and I get upset. Social media is not always reality and that is really lost on people… you read all these things and you’re like ‘oh that has to be true, that has to be what people really think of me.'”

“There’s going to always be people who don’t always agree with your playing style and how you carry yourself, and that’s okay. That might mean you’re doing something right too… there’s certainly days that are hard.”

Clark also brought up the emotional toll during a conversation with former President Barack Obama at the weekend event.

“He just complimented me for the way I handle everything. Obviously with everything going on, and he’s certainly someone who’s been in front of the media quite a bit. And he reminded me, he’s like ‘I got famous in my 40s, I didn’t have to do it in my 20s.'”

“And you know, sometimes, I think people don’t always realize I’m 23 or 24 years old and trying to navigate a lot of different things, while trying to play basketball at the same time. So it was cool to hear that from him. And I think honestly it’s probably a good reminder to all of us to treat people with respect and treat people with grace.”

Wyatt Matters

This is what happens when the media cares more about clicks and controversy than truth. A young woman trying to live her dream gets dragged through the mud by journalists who’ve never met her, all because they need to turn everything into a racial circus. Regular Americans see right through it — we know hard work and talent when we see it, and we’re sick of watching the media destroy people for sport. Time to get back to what matters: the game itself.