Curt Schilling, ESPN Analyst, Is Fired Over Offensive Social Media Post

Ummmmm what is your point?????? This has nothing to do with muslims or christians ????

 

And as always, those on the right are the first ones to employ Godwin's law. Especially funny when you consider how Schilling calls himself a born again Christian {sic} while his spiritual leader Jesus said judge not ...........

 

Lets face facts about Mr. Schilling he was almost bankrupt when he went through a 50 million dollar retirement fortune. ESPN gave him a job. He said something they did not like he got fired. He should have not needed a job in the first place. Lol honestly he doesnt sound like the brightest bulb in the box!

 

I'll answer for him. What should happen is leftist antagonists should leave Schilling alone and let him have his bigoted opinions. He isn't hurting them. ESPN can hire or fire whoever they please. That's not what is bothering anyone.

 

So what's bothering you and everyone else?

And don't give the canned response that his free speech has been taken away from him, cause we all know that's BS.

 

Really? The left will intimidate public figures until they relent and apologize and their employers fire them. That IS a form of curbing free speech. It doesn't rise to the level of literally violating the 1st Amendment of course, since that would require actual govt action against Schilling but it never has to come to that and the left knows this. A small reminder from Bill Maher of how precious free speech is:
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ESPN is a huge bastion of leftist politically correct nonsense (don't forget who gave Keith Olbermann his final and last chance after he burned more bridges than
the Nazi army leaving the Netherlands). Personal rights aside, why do vulnerable public figures spout off on Twitter knowing Big Brother is looking over their shoulders?

 

A principled person who opposed the support of the LGBT community as a form of condoning the behavior could choose not to represent a company, in this case ESPN.

As a baseball analyst, Schilling represented ESPN and therefore contributed to the bottom line of the company.

Seems to me he wants his cake and to eat it too.

If Curt is a Christian and believes transgenders are an affront to God, and they are basically just perverts wanting to spy on women in the lavatory, he's entitled to this opinion privately. Once he goes public with it, well the perception is his opinion represents that of ESPN also. This is precisely why ESPN distanced themselves from the comment, it's their policy to support that particular community...employees are expected to not openly disparage this community as representatives of the company. If they do, expect consequences.

Curt lost his job. ESPN never stated he was not entitled to his views or attempted to force him to reverse his position on the matter, they separated themselves from an employee who was openly going against a stated corporate policy of inclusion.

If Curt was retweeting a joke about a Hindu, or a Christian, more than likely he would have equally had his job jeopardized because again...ESPNs policy is one of INCLUSION.

Are Christians banned from Disney theme parks? Are Christians banned from viewing ESPN?
Are Conservatives banned from Disney theme parks? Are Conservatives banned from viewing ESPN?

Of course not.

Curt Schilling's comments detracted from a policy of inclusivity, which is including transgenders.

As an on-air personality, Mr. Schilling should have expected backlash, because what he says, even on a private Twitter account, might be perceived as reflective of ESPN as a whole.

Look on the brightside, Curt can now tweet and post to his heart's content with no fear of retribution from ESPN anyway. They are done with him and his attitude should be the same, he is no longer obliged to follow corporate policy as an on-air representative of ESPN.

 

Ah, join us or your life will be over. Love the fascism.

 

No, not in the least. If you're going to babble, at least try and babble coherently.

 

I'm

Lol yes we know, not agreeing with everything LGBT is obvious grounds you have no business being an analyst for baseball.

So when will it be required that you are pro LGBT before you can get hired lol?

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Ah , agree with us or keep your mouth shut?

So where do I get my booklet that shows me acceptable views I am allowed to use?

 

I've never made any claim that even remotely approaches that.

See above. Please try and be rational.

 

Apples and Oranges. I can only think of one person who "got fired" for a private conversation. Shilling put his views out in public, then pretty much dared his employer to do something about it.

 

I am being rational to the situation. You can be fired for your personal views outside of work. Which is inherently wrong by all means. It is sad we live in a time where just because you may be opposed to someones political stance your life literally can depend on it.

PC is fascism.

 

No it's not lol. Obviously since you can lose what you got for posting your views socially or privately. That means in order to keep your job, if someone in the media asks you a question you better say whats acceptable, even if it is a lie on your behalf just to save your own ass. Is that the country we live in now, live a lie so you can receive a paycheck?

Interesting. Great qualities we are teaching children.

 

I don't know if these allegations are true but lets assume they are.

1. Born again Christian - Irrelevant
2. thoughtless - Irrelevant
3. reckless - Irrelevant
4. >>>MOD EDIT Flamebait Removed<<<
5. right wing - Irrelevant
6. wasted MILLIONS - we should all be so lucky
7. huge bailout by taxpayers. - if he broke the law he needs to be charged and prosecuted
8. embarrassment to baseball - The only thing he is an embarrassment to is himself.
9. needs to be banned from the game forever - >>>MOD EDIT Flamebait Removed<<<

Feel i needed to add, i defend ESPN's right to hire and fire whoever they will. I doubt Schilling really cares either way. For all i know he probably wanted out of his contract.

 

He didn't post his views privately that I know of, it was public on twitter and facebook.

And you are leaving out an option, how about just saying "No Comment"?

Since when did this country require everyone to blab about their feelings and opinions on every subject?

 

What's wrong with famous people, anyway?

One would think they would have the common sense to post anonymously.

 

Schilling has never been shy about openly expressing his bigotry. Too bad that he has so many like minded defenders.

 

Fired for expressing a political opinion. Got it. OK when leftists do it, but not if conservatives do it. Got that too.

 

Yeah like the Dixie Chicks were treated oh so well while right wingers who attacked President Obama didn't quite get the same treatment.


Laughable.

 

Great way to describe the Fox network when it fired liberal co-host Marc Lamont Hill.


Same when MSNBC fired liberal Melissa Harris because she was too "leftward".



Or when Keith Olbermann was fired.





I can list a few more - the Hitlerians have dominated radio/tv for years and have fired good reporters because of their views. But in this right wing "politically correct" fascist state we live in, somehow, that is perfectly all right.

 

Lol Who said I was some avid Fox News supporter? Oh wait I must be since I dont have my head stuck up the arse of liberal agenda. Lamont Hill was fired for some truly serious issues like being an avid supporter of cop killers. Which of course is a hell of a lot worse than a person who is a sports analyst and thinks guys should use guys bathrooms lol.

But to agree to fire Lamont over those views I do not agree with. In the name of their "Fair and balanced" slogan I personally would have kept him on simply for the ratings and give liberal retardation a voice for everyone to hear and for the pure enjoyment of watching him bury himself in front of the country.

I dont think you should be fired until you personally threaten someone, not just because you are in love with a cop killer. So no, I don't agree with the guys firing.

Strike one!!!

What? that woman was let go because her shows ratings were horrible, they kept trying and trying and went a long time with her low ratings to see if things would change but they didn't. She was constantly wrecked by other shows, including by Fox news programs that showed at the same time she did. Her real nail in the coffin was her email that lashed out at her employer claiming she was just their "token" and then she boycotted her own show in which that was probably the last viewer it had.

She had her shot, nobody wanted to listen to her.

Strike 2. And how is MSNBC right wing lol?

Which time? This guy gets fired regularly it seems. CNN, MSNBC, Current TV and ESPN . He constantly seemed to want to battle his employers lol. Had nothing to do with right wing or left wing views, he is just a arse in general. He is no more left wing than Chris Mathews, yet look who still has a job and he is all up and down Obama's thigh.

Could it have been because of segments like during the Gabby Giffords shooting he was implying that Sarah Palin was the reason Giffords was shot? Or that like other morons doing everything they can to say the Tea Party was guilty as well for the shooting?

Could it be he was constantly telling half truths to get his false narrative across and then being called out on it?

Or could it be his seriously inappropriate attack on PSU students when they were having a fund raiser to fight pediatric cancer, sounding like a (*)(*)(*)(*)ing child battling college students for no reason what so ever other than to be nasty lol? Really, you want to compare attacking students who are having a fund raiser for a great cause, to saying that a guy should be going to a guys bathroom lol?

Oh and who can forget the horrible horrible tweet from Curt stating thet muslims extremists were like Nazi's lol, because we don't want to hurt the feelings of people that like cutting others heads off or anything .


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You can tell me when someone who supports men in womens bathrooms being fired, then you will have a point. PC is a liberal tool, always has been. your weak attempt is nothing more than a weak attempt at any kind of logic.

 

pathetic.


They got fired because of their viewpoints which is precisely what you condemned when you mentioned PC previously. Funny how you right wingers love to sling so much mud but cringe so severely when it is hurled back in your faces.

McCarthyite political correctness has been around for a long time. It is hell bent on destroying the USA. But God help anyone who dares bring out the truth to you people.

 

Typical lying didge from Mr.Truth lmao. The irony has me chuckling too.

! out of 3 is not a good argument. But please, keep up the ignorance, it suits ya