Posted on 04/28/2016 6:49:04 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher and ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling hurled some high, hard ones at his former employer appearing on “Breitbart News Patriot Forum” on Sirius XM.
Schilling described the climate behind the scenes at the sports network for anyone who may be right of center, politically:
“We had the green room in ESPN. One of the things I got early on, people would walk up to me--I had people come up to me whispering, ‘Hey, I’m with ya. I’m a Republican, too.’ It was like a deadly serious thing, like, we didn’t talk… like religion on the table was a much easier discussion than who you voted for.”
Schilling also claimed that when discussions at ESPN turn to racial matters, he’s heard comments that would make David Duke blush.
“Some of the most racist things that I’ve ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating. You know who they are.” There’s surely plenty of evidence to support that.
ESPN co-host Michael Wilbon famously said, on the air, that he “use(s) the N-word all day, every day, my whole life.”
Wilbon’s co-host on PTI, Tony Kornheiser compared the tea party to Islamic terrorists saying the grass-roots conservative group was “like ISIS trying to establish a caliphate here.”
Let’s not forget NFL analyst Rob Parker who questioned whether Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III was authentically black because he votes Republican:
My question, which is just a straight, honest question, is … is he a ‘brother? He’s not really … he’s black, but he’s not really down with the cause. He’s not one of us. I keep hearing these things. He has a white fiancé, people talking about that he’s a Republican.
But Schilling is the one who lost his job. And he lost it for posting a picture on his personal Facebook page. Take a look at the picture and judge for yourself. Schilling gets fired for that, but Wilbon and Kornheiser keep their jobs.
no one on FR should be watching espn after that insulting award to caitlyn the freak over a soldier and a girl with cancer
ESPN is a leftwing propaganda operation—not a sports network.
Same with the Sports Illustrated rag.
well stated.
i hate that i can’t say things like that lol.
just a lot of @#$@#$ and @#$@#$s lol
I remember 30 or 40 years ago, SI did an issue on the environment. That’s when they jumped the shark. Cheryl Teigs in a see thru swim-suit, not so much. : )
Most Tea Party people want an end to Islamic immigration to America.
Most progressives like Kornheiser want open borders and massive Islamic immigration.
So WHO exactly wants to establish a caliphate here?
Also, the Tea Party is unanimous in their advocacy for small gov't, which is the precise opposite of the fascist, statist sensibilities Kornheiser attributes to them. He and his prog ilk have everything backwards, as usual.
The leftwing and their rabid, sicko propaganda have taken over “sports”, “science”, news reporting—and what else?
yep. and they did it without a fight.
music, dont forget music.
movies.
what’s PC and what’s not
Totally incompetent Tony Kornholer dances to please his leftwing masters and keep his job on ESPN.
Liberals just can’t get over skin color and black libtards who have a deep seeded inferiority complex over it are the worst.
I don’t think liberals are too much into sports. A boycott against ESPN would be their doom. They should not be biting the hand that feeds them.
Socialistic
Pompous
Nincompoops
Sports[???] Illustrated recently featured a lengthy article attacking quarterback Tom Brady for saying he liked Donald Trump.
That is what passes for “sports” in today’s sicko lefty media.
An easy dance for him — he’s a natural.
“They should not be biting the hand that feeds them.”
But they do—and aggressively.
Disney owns ESPN. that might be the problem.
Tony Kornheiser Net Worth and salary: Tony Kornheiser is an American journalist, sportswriter and TV host who has a net worth of $12 million dollars.
“ESPN biased against political conservatives”
DUHHHHH
The biggest problem I see is that it took so long for people to catch on.
When we moved west in 1959, my mom had thrown out all my comics and baseball cards. I think as a consolation prize they got me an SI subscription. I had a subscription till about 6 years ago. Through the years they had great writers and that’s compared to everyone, not just sports. And the photography was amazing.
They chafed the format to accommodate the social media generation and fewer full length article;es by great writers. That and the politics killed it for me after 49 years. Lots of nice women in swim suits too.
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