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attention. i mean, when barstool is out there stirring the pot and they're not necessarily the pot of gold, that's not a surprise. but, certainly, the portion of people that seem to agree with the idea that it should be a very limited, incredibly limited group, that would be drawn from, to be the notre dame leprechaun mascot. we're just talking about as mascot here. that's the part that elevated. and samuel jackson responsibilitying after that full day of debate in the social media world. and the way he responded, very measured, positive, that was certainly newsworthy. >> was it necessarily racist? i mean, in part of the social media back and forth, portnoy said i don't think it should be a ripped tall white guy with black hair either. >> well, he's certainly entitled to his opinion. i think it's in the eye of the beholder, whether something is racist or not. samuel jackson himself didn't
wookiee is the first female mascot. jackson debuted the other night. one viewer was the head of barstool sports dave portnoy who sent out a tweet that sparked a social media deluge. you know what's sad, the internet culture has made me afraid to say i think the notre dame mascot should always be a midget looking ginger. so i'm not going to say it. there are other racially motivated tweets that jackson felt to respond. here's what he said. like it or not, this guy right here is still one of your notre dame republic practileprechauns. how about we use this negative energy to bring us together this season? see y'all next game. what do you make of the retweets? the 13,000 likes that it received? >> well, that's the part certainly that gets your
use that term. and seemed to want the issue to go away. he tamped it down. tried to defuse it. talked about the negative energy. i'm not here to throw that label on it or not. but the reason why we wrote about it, why it seemed newsworthy, was the fact that that it had a full day of news cycle. i think it's interesting three days after the official tweet, portnoy pretty much backed down from that concept and suggested he was just joking. and if somebody at notre dame wanted to have a black student mascot, if they wanted to have a female as they do with lynnette, or even an indian person, he said, they can just knock themselves out. so, i think he certainly changed his tune a bit in those next three days. >> you know what struck me is that if you had a little person with red hair, the way that portnoy seems to think