Posted on 04/20/2016 8:14:34 PM PDT by Robwin
BRISTOL, Conn. — ESPN announced that it has fired network analyst and former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling following his comments on Facebook about transgender people.
In a statement released Wednesday, ESPN said "Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated."
This week, Schilling reposted an image of an overweight man wearing a long blond wig and revealing women's clothing. It included the phrase: "Let him in! To the restroom with your daughter or else you're a narrow minded, judgmental, unloving, racist bigot who needs to die!!!"
Schilling added his own comments, saying, "A man is a man no matter what they call themselves" and "Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic."
Schilling was apparently referring to laws in several states that restrict bathroom access to transgender people.
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The MSNBC of sports. Glad I stream and don’t have cable or DirecTv.
Trump should consider at some point let some people like Schilling use his platform to start a $5 per month sports podcast or something like that.
I’m shocked that Mr. Schilling actually thinks there is freedom of speech in the failing USA. He will pay a severe price for being uninformed.
And people wonder why Donald Trump is so popular, because look what is happening to this country, you give your opinion and you get FIRED from leftist a-holes who want to implement tyranny on this country. When I go to a women’s bathroom I want to see WOMEN coming out of the stalls, not men wearing dresses
And men actually watch this channel?
ESPN is extremist liberal. Other than a few games each year, I tune it out.
He wouldn’t shill for drag queens trolling the little girls’ rooms.
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Some FReeper posted an excellent vanity explaining the rise in transgender men. Said that feminism is to blame because men are beaten down emotionally and then they start identifying as women.
I mean look at Bruce Jenner. Hanging around with the Kardashian women on their show and crap. I’d probably would have morphed into a dame too.
He’s too good for that politically correct social experiment parading as a sports channel.
Shoot me if I ever watch ESPN on purpose again.
thx Curt!.....a standup man.....so rare in these days...
Inclusiveness to the Left is shut your mouth and keep your damned opinion to yourself.
Apparently ESPN felt Schilling’s view offended a lot of their customers so they showed him the door.
George Orwell opined that in an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Here we are.
F ESPN
They fired Rush Limbaugh a couple of years back for controversial comments on a black football player.
Sports world has big time libs. Its like a freakin’ echo chamber.
Gay test LOL. I didn’t even notice her pretty face at first I got locked in somewhere else........
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