Fake-black race troll Shaun King’s Peyton Manning hit piece was built on lies

“But I decided, on a whim, to Google ‘Peyton Manning sexual assault University of Tennessee.'” – Shaun King  

New York Daily News contributor Shaun King has an axe to grind. As a fake-black race troll who has reportedly been “excommunicated” by the Black Lives Matter movement for lying about his own racial heritage, King knows that the only way to remain relevant in the click-iverse is to craft culturally hypersensitive hit pieces on admired white athletes in the interest of shaming the public and the media.

After Super Bowl 50, King put forth the proposition that Peyton Manning was being treated differently than Cam Newton and that the contrast in the way the two quarterbacks were being looked upon was motivated by racism. It wasn’t, of course.

Manning, who has conducted himself as a consummate professional for as long as he has been in the NFL, is universally lauded for his accomplishments, not his whiteness. And Newton, who has long been noted for pouting when the chips were down, responded poorly to losing the Super Bowl, acting like a petulant child when he faced the media after the game.

Newton’s criticism was well-earned but King, who makes his living chumming the waters of racism (and possibly by setting up fake charities), decided to make it his mission to prove that fans and media outlets were looking down their noses at Newton because he’s African American.

Based on a tip that he admits to having received via a Facebook comment, King started digging into a scandalous 20-year old story about Peyton Manning “assaulting” a female trainer at the University of Tennessee and, based on documents he secured by the alleged victim’s attorney, he proceeded to pen a piece for the NY Daily News headlined “Peyton Manning’s squeaky-clean image was built on lies.”

The NFL media has long been aware of the allegations made against Manning when he was 19 years old. They are so commonly known, in fact, that they are mentioned on Manning’s Wikipedia page. Still, the allegations were news to King so he decided to take it on himself to make them new to everybody else once again. Manning is probably retiring, after all, and he just won a Super Bowl. King determined that the timing was perfect to publish a TMZ-esque shock piece knowing that the clicks would come rolling in. And roll in they did.

King’s NY Daily News piece has been so widely read that it appears right at the top of Google in a search for Peyton Manning’s name. The popularity of the article backfired on Shaun King, though. While he succeeded in riling up a few bitter Patriots fans and other race-baiting trolls like himself he also wound up with a spot light being shown onto his own suspicious past.

In particular, King earned the attention of the tenacious Clay Travis of Fox Sports and Outkick the Coverage. Travis has spent the past two days decimating King’s reputation and reporting on the fake outrage that has followed his article. Additionally, Travis has revealed material changes in the story of Manning’s alleged victim who, as it turns out, may be a serial victim; also known as somebody who sues people for income.

Twenty years ago Manning’s alleged victim made no claims of any type of physical contact. Those claims were made seven years later when she sued the Manning family for defamation. That detail wasn’t included in Shaun King’s biting article, however. The piece was written for one purpose and only one purpose — to establish a racial undertone to the lack of outrage surrounding Manning and to contrast that with the way the media has treated Cam Newton.

The poorly researched hit piece was so bad that many (real) African American’s have now spoken on the matter. On Monday, journalist Jason Whitlock told Dan Patrick, “The guy that wrote this story for the New York Daily News, he’s not a journalist.”

“He’s a race hustler from Twitter, from the Black Lives Matter movement, who stirs racial controversy to elevate himself,” Whitlock continued. “Listen, the guy’s been busted. First of all, he’s white and presenting himself as black. He said that as a child in high school he was allegedly attacked by a group of white people because he was black. Well, he wasn’t black and there were people saying that wasn’t why he was attacked and there’s no proof of it. He said that it was the first hate crime in Kentucky or whatever.”

According to Whitlock, he even interviewed Shaun King for a writing position while at ESPN and after interviewing him said, “Holy cow. There’s so much suspicious, skeptical stuff to this guy that we walked away and looked into the stories he told us, and we couldn’t find proof of them.”

Sadly, the damage done by King’s article can only be undone with time, but by publishing it, King has done even greater damage to his own shaky reputation as an activist and as a journalist.

Below you will find an original signed court affidavit from the alleged victim that includes no mention of any physical contact. Credit: @ClayTravis