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player ready...Axios writer Alexi McCammond says that Charles Barkley told her Tuesday night that “I don’t hit women but if I did I would hit you.”
It’s entirely believable that Barkley would say this. He’s joked about beating women before, and made comments like “I Just hope they don’t have women officials.” What set him off Tuesday night was McCammond calling him out for attempting to have it both ways with Democratic presidential candidates Deval Patrick and Pete Buttigieg.
According to McCammond, he made the remark after “he came in talking about how he loves Deval Patrick… once someone from Pete’s campaign came around he said he loved Pete and I reminded him he previously said he was a Deval fan.”
There are almost no times I will beak an OTR “agreement” but this is not OK. And it was all because he came in talking about how he loves Deval Patrick and once someone from Pete’s campaign came around he said he loved Pete and I reminded him he previously said he was a Deval fan
— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) November 20, 2019
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Barkley apologized Wednesday morning. “”My comment was inappropriate and unacceptable. It was an attempted joke that wasn’t funny at all,” he said in a Turner Sports statement. “There’s no excuse for it and I apologize.”
McCammond is covering Wednesday’s Democratic debate in Atlanta. It’s unclear why Barkley was at an off-the-record event with Pete Buttigieg’s campaign staff.