Don Cherry gets blasted by former Sportsnet host Tara Sloane

It’s nothing new when Don Cherry trends on social media. But former Sportsnet host Tara Sloane has had enough.

“I see Don Cherry is trending yet again. I have never weighed in, but I want to now,” Slone tweeted earlier this week.

The reason why Cherry was trending this time was because one fan declared he’s “NOT a racist”and another asked:

“How is it that Don Cherry got cancelled for saying ‘you guys’ but (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau can wear blackface and abuse Canadians and he’s still in power? We live in a sick world.”

This prompted Sloane to answer the tweets and her response quickly went viral, garnering over 3,800 likes. This is what she said:

“I like(d) Don as a person because, like many of us, he wasn’t just one thing. But I loathed his perspective, more and more as the years went by.

“He sort of tolerated Hometown Hockey but was jealous of Ron (MacLean’s) other job/co-host,” she continued. “He thought we were soft and woke and focused on too much outside of hockey. HTH wasn’t for everyone, so that didn’t bother me.”

“He had some good points … He has tons of charisma, which is why he stayed on air for so long. But this incessant and nostalgic elevating of Don as some figure who we should look to as a hockey and political leader? Come ON.”

Sloan remained politically correct, offering her hope that Cherry is “healthy and doing well.” But she added that she’s glad he’s off the air for good.

“He is a bigot and had no place on national television with a national platform. It wasn’t the poppy incident, it was everything he proclaimed over three decades. Come. On. Stop with the deification.”

The poppy incident as you may remember refers to the time when Cherry was fired during a racist rant on the air of Hockey Night in Canada in 2019 in which he targeted Canadian immigrants for not wearing the red poppy on Remembrance Day. After being fired, Cherry did not apologize for his remarks, and viewed his termination as a form of censorship. Grapes went on to say that the incident and the way his co-host and friend Ron MacLean reacted to it had forever damaged their relationship. MacLean still regularly hosts intermission segments on Sportsnet’s NHL broadcasts.

Clearly, Cherry has more than one damaged relationship when it comes to former coworkers.