Carolina Panthers Spanish-language Radio Analyst Forced Out Over Support of Donald Trump

CHARLOTTE – You’ve likely seen some of the reporting on Hispanic and Latino support for President Donald Trump eclipsing that from 2016, but not from the Left-leaning media that would like to bury that development. It appears that the Carolina Panthers organization would like to take part in the silencing, as well.

Luis Moreno, Jr. is one half of a popular Spanish-language duo that calls games for the Carolina Panthers. Or, at least, he was.

Moreno has parted ways with the NFL team. Why?

From the Charlotte Observer:

“Moreno Jr. says the answer is simple: He’s been openly supportive of President Donald Trump, and the Panthers didn’t approve […]

Prior to the stay-at-home order, he says, he was too absorbed in other things to focus much on politics. While stuck at home, though, he started devouring online content related to Trump and “found out that there are a lot of things that are happening that I wasn’t aware of that make me support him.”

Sometime in April, Moreno Jr. says, he retweeted a tweet from his personal Twitter account that was supportive of Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. Shortly thereafter, he says, he was tagged in a tweet along with several other Trump supporters.

He says he was then contacted by Eric Fiddleman — the radio and television affiliate manager for the Panthers as well as the Spanish-language radio general manager for the two announcers; Fiddleman, he says, told him the team was requesting that he remove any information related to the Panthers from his bios on his personal social-media accounts. […]

Moreno Jr. says he complied, changing his bios to include labels and hashtags that showed him to be a Trump supporter. He also continued to create and share social-media posts supportive of the president and his reelection campaign. […]

Then, over the summer, he says Fiddleman called again — this time to say Drummond wanted to talk to him about his social-media activity. Moreno Jr. says he told Fiddleman: “If what they want me to do is stop supporting the president, I’m not gonna do that.” […]

“Basically what I told Eric, I said, ‘Listen … I’m not even under contract right now. I am not willing to participate in this project anymore if I’m going to be censored. So unless they call me, I’m not going to do it anymore. Because I am not OK with them censoring my freedom of speech in support of the president.’”

“I’m hurt,” he says, “because this has nothing to do with my performance on-air. This has nothing to do with how good I am at what I do. I’m one of the best, and I’ll put myself against anybody in the country when it comes to what I do in Spanish. None of my support for the president was done on any of their social-media pages, it was never done on any of the airtime — whether it was a podcast or a broadcast or anything related to the Panthers. This was solely on my personal time on my personal accounts.” […]”

This is yet one more bit to add to the mountain of political correctness that has overtaken the NFL, and corporate America at large.

Read more about Moreno’s interactions with the team concerning his Trump support, and why he just wasn’t willing to accept being silenced, here.