Current Events > Reporter who cancelled ESPN sign guy for racist tweets fired for racist tweets

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A quick recap: A couple of weeks ago, former Iowa State student Carson King asked people to Venmo him money for beer via a sign he held up during ESPN's college football pregame show. For some reason so many people sent King money that he was able to turn the entire thing into a fundraising campaign for a children's hospital. When all was said and done, the 24-year-old ended up donating more than $1 million to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.

But thanks to the batshit crazy times we live in, a reporter from the Des Moines Register dug up racist and offensive tweets King had sent eight years prior when he was 16. Anheuser-Busch, who partnered with King to match donations, then announced it was cutting ties with King and even took back its offer of supplying him with free beer for a year.

At this point, the story is ridiculous enough, but we've got one more big twist. It turned out that the Des Moines Register reporter, Aaron Calvin, who dug up King's old tweets had ... wait for it ... wait for it ... wait for it... racist and offensive tweets of his own.

Thursday night, the paper announced it had fired Calvin.