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Curt Schilling, ESPN Analyst, Is Fired Over Offensive Social Media Post <bathroom dust up>
CNBC.com ^ | 4/21/2016 | Richard Sandomir

Posted on 04/21/2016 4:47:04 AM PDT by mykroar

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To: mykroar
I despise ESPN, love sports but refuse to watch anything on that island of left wing lunacy.

Curt should have known that Free Speech only applies to promoting leftist dogma if you're affiliated with that trash dump.

21 posted on 04/21/2016 5:27:52 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: faucetman
When I read your post something came to mind. Back in the late 1970s I worked with a old Jewish guy who escaped Nazi Germany. He told me that the Gestapo troops would tell you to drop your pants right there on the sidewalk (If a male obviously) to see if you were circumcised. I guess we haven't changed that much.
22 posted on 04/21/2016 5:28:41 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (We have leaped off the cliff toward madness and we are still falling...)
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To: mykroar

Cut the cable. Reclaim your life.


23 posted on 04/21/2016 5:29:46 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: mykroar

Trump disagrees with Curt.

https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/723125136170213376


24 posted on 04/21/2016 5:30:28 AM PDT by llmc1
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To: faucetman
Send their ratings to the basement.

They're already there. The only reason they still broadcast is because their parent company has the muscle to hold the cable companies hostage with the rest of their offerings. ESPN is the most expensive channel on your cable bill. I tried to have it removed from my lineup and COX refused. When my contract with them is up I'm switching to Verizon or just pulling the plug all together.

25 posted on 04/21/2016 5:32:22 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: mykroar

If cable/satellite were allowed to let the consumer pick the channels they wanted, ESPN would sink like a rock. I don’t know they exact figure, but $5-6 of your cable bill goes to ESPN because of what they demand from cable providers.

And with that money, they’re able to outbid other competitors for most of the prime sports broadcasting contracts, all the while spewing their communist brainwashing and social engineering of sports.


26 posted on 04/21/2016 5:34:57 AM PDT by RabidBartender
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To: New Jersey Realist

Good point. Sports are about the only activity where women can’t compete on men’s teams and men can’t compete on women’s teams.

Yet they’re one of the biggest cheerleaders for transgender whatever.

Let’s make this fair. Why can’t transgenders compete on the teams of the sex they identify with?


27 posted on 04/21/2016 5:35:43 AM PDT by randita
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To: Hojczyk

OMG! What a stupid cave in post. He should stay fired for being such a pussy/wimp.

It’s only the “EXTREME” transgender, Muslim, gay, crossdresser people that he has a problem with. Other than that, he loves them. They are all his friends. It’s one big happy transgender, Muslim, gay, crossdresser family. How sweet. Kurt, would you trust your young boys and girls with these people? You would? FOOL!

Have some BALLS for crying out loud!


28 posted on 04/21/2016 5:40:26 AM PDT by faucetman (Iowa)
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To: mykroar
Completely apart from this but...there's another side to Curt Schilling.There's $75 million that was loaned to his now-failed company that's basically vanished.And that money is said to have been procured by questionable means.The SEC is investigating him,as are other agencies.Just google “Schilling” and “38 Studios” and you'll get hundreds and hundreds of hits.
29 posted on 04/21/2016 5:42:28 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Mac n Jac

But if you deny a wedding cake to a person for a leftist politically charged reason....your 1st amendment rights Do not count.

It has to be one or another.


30 posted on 04/21/2016 5:42:45 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Mac n Jac

For some reason, most people don’t get that.

As for Schilling, I’d have more sympathy if he wasn’t a taxpayer-teat sucking con artist to the tune of $75 million.


31 posted on 04/21/2016 5:43:55 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: mykroar

I remember when MTV used to play music videos. Looks like we are on our way to saying I remember when ESPN was a sports channel.

Can there be something that isn’t driven by the liberal agenda?

Guess I’ll go back to watching BBQ Pitboys on youtube. All they do is drink beer and cook meat.


32 posted on 04/21/2016 5:44:12 AM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: faucetman

Boycott? If anyone gave a crap, all these companies that threatened Georgia and North Carolina wouldn’t have. But no one cares.


33 posted on 04/21/2016 5:44:31 AM PDT by paul544
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To: mykroar

ESPN proved his posting correct.


34 posted on 04/21/2016 5:52:23 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: mykroar

What about being offensive to us who find this repulsive and dipownright scary?


35 posted on 04/21/2016 5:53:28 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: 4yearlurker

Not sure how to take your post.

I of course was kidding about having people drop their pants for penis examination before being allowed to enter sex (the word is NOT gender) specific bathrooms.

I guess I can see how my post could have been misconstrued to seem that I was supporting this stupid transgender bathroom policy. I assure you I am not.

I think we could tell that the guy in that photo was not really a woman. We wouldn’t have to check his junk. Also within groups everyone would know who these people (YES, I said “these people”) are. For those unknown and less obvious, I guess we just wouldn’t know, unless they use the urinal.

We are talking about such a miniscule group of people that we shouldn’t even consider their wishes. We have become a MINORITY rules society.

As far as the Nazis go, I didn’t know they did that. I am more offended that they put Jews in concentration camps and ovens. I really don’t see it as analogous.


36 posted on 04/21/2016 5:57:21 AM PDT by faucetman (Iowa)
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To: GreenHornet
In the last three years, the ESPN “Courage Award has been given to Robin Roberts, Bruce Jenner, and Michael Sam.

A lesbian, a homosexual, and a transgender! That's diversity!

37 posted on 04/21/2016 6:02:20 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: Phlap
He should sue for wrongful dismissal but would he win? Freedom of speech? Only if it says what is “right”.

The Bill of Rights only protects against government action. Therefore, there is no right of free speech in a private company.

38 posted on 04/21/2016 6:02:44 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: FatherofFive
Cut the cable. Blow up your TV. Reclaim your life.

Fixed.

39 posted on 04/21/2016 6:04:53 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: mykroar

In related news, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Kris Letang slams the NY Rangers Viktor Stalberg with a dirty hit, knocking out 3 of his teeth and nearly taking his head off. No punishment.

At the same time the Chicago Blackhawks’ Andrew Shaw is suspended one game. His offense? Hollering a “homophobic slur” during a game.


40 posted on 04/21/2016 6:05:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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