“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, and you take it for what it is. You know who they are, you know what they are. I like that they are openly because then you know who they are. You know that they exist.”
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That sounds like an interview with one of Schilling's co-hosts!
"But I had people come up to me and go [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.”
Well, he can be all of that and still make a valid point.
racism in sports (Stephen A Smith practically makes a living on this topic).
Schilling off-topic was waaaayy off anything remotely relevant to sports.
He should be in the hall-of-fame. I don't care what his political views are or if he's racist or just an asshole, he is a hall-of fame baseball player.
I do doubt he gets in though because the BBWAA is awful, even without the added ammo from Curt.
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Stick a (fake) bloody sock in his mouth and tell him to STFU!
Yummmm. Taste's like ketchup!
Schilling is an example of this. I am not saying what he is doing is not stupid and hateful, but he is targeted and he probably right that a connected few hide their worldviews and bullshit behind a cloak of hypocrisy.
ESPN removed baseball analyst Curt Schilling from coverage of the 2015 Major League Baseball season after he retweeted a photo comparing radical Muslims to Nazis.
ESPN removed baseball analyst Curt Schilling from coverage of the 2015 Major League Baseball season after he retweeted a photo comparing radical Muslims to Nazis.
giant I think the difference is, Curt Schilling is a known bigot and racist, it was just the final straw. ESPN was looking for a reason to fire him and they got one. He should have been gone long ago. Kornheiser, by all acounts, not a racist.
ESPN removed baseball analyst Curt Schilling from coverage of the 2015 Major League Baseball season after he retweeted a photo comparing radical Muslims to Nazis.
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"Are they like ISIS trying to establish a caliphate here?!” Kornheiser said on ESPN 980 when talking about the Tea party to Howard Fineman and nothing happened to him.
ESPN removed baseball analyst Curt Schilling from coverage of the 2015 Major League Baseball season after he retweeted a photo comparing radical Muslims to Nazis.
giant I think the difference is, Curt Schilling is a known bigot and racist, it was just the final straw. ESPN was looking for a reason to fire him and they got one. He should have been gone long ago. Kornheiser, by all acounts, not a racist.
Not sure how Schilling is a known racist. A lot of adjectives might be fair, but what did he do that was racist? His tweet comparing Muslim extremists to nazis? does that count as racist? Saying Hillary Clinton should be buried under the jail? or saying people with a penis need to use men's rooms.
is there something I am not aware of?
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"Are they like ISIS trying to establish a caliphate here?!” Kornheiser said on ESPN 980 when talking about the Tea party to Howard Fineman and nothing happened to him.
ESPN removed baseball analyst Curt Schilling from coverage of the 2015 Major League Baseball season after he retweeted a photo comparing radical Muslims to Nazis.
giant I think the difference is, Curt Schilling is a known bigot and racist, it was just the final straw. ESPN was looking for a reason to fire him and they got one. He should have been gone long ago. Kornheiser, by all acounts, not a racist.
How exactly is Schilling a known racist/bigot?? Because he thinks Islamic terrorists are evil and men dressed as woman who have penises shouldn't be in a locker room or bathroom with young girls??
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"Are they like ISIS trying to establish a caliphate here?!” Kornheiser said on ESPN 980 when talking about the Tea party to Howard Fineman and nothing happened to him.
ESPN removed baseball analyst Curt Schilling from coverage of the 2015 Major League Baseball season after he retweeted a photo comparing radical Muslims to Nazis.
giant I think the difference is, Curt Schilling is a known bigot and racist, it was just the final straw. ESPN was looking for a reason to fire him and they got one. He should have been gone long ago. Kornheiser, by all acounts, not a racist.
Not sure how Schilling is a known racist. A lot of adjectives might be fair, but what did he do that was racist? His tweet comparing Muslim extremists to nazis? does that count as racist? Saying Hillary Clinton should be buried under the jail? or saying people with a penis need to use men's rooms.
is there something I am not aware of?
I think it fit a better narrative when people reported the Nazis comment to leave out the extremist part.
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"Are they like ISIS trying to establish a caliphate here?!” Kornheiser said on ESPN 980 when talking about the Tea party to Howard Fineman and nothing happened to him.
ESPN removed baseball analyst Curt Schilling from coverage of the 2015 Major League Baseball season after he retweeted a photo comparing radical Muslims to Nazis.
giant I think the difference is, Curt Schilling is a known bigot and racist, it was just the final straw. ESPN was looking for a reason to fire him and they got one. He should have been gone long ago. Kornheiser, by all acounts, not a racist.
Schilling got fired. Koenheiser didn't even get reprimanded or suspended.
If that's the case, then Schilling knew precisely not to spout off his bigoted, fear-mongering views on his public platform. He doesn't have a right to work for ESPN.
Schilling is a racist hack. Anybody else who thinks differently, I don't know what to tell toy.
Schilling is a racist hack. Anybody else who thinks differently, I don't know what to tell toy.
Again, what did Schilling do or say that is racist? I'm not saying he is or isn't, but I am asking what evidence you have? I have not seen any evidence of racism from him and it's 100% possible since I don't follow every single tweet or comment he makes that I just don't know about it.
Or is it just another...he's a Republican, he's racist comment, which make you look like a bigger idiot than Schilling, which is kind of hard to do.
Congratulations.
Neither was anyone who is currently calling someone "cracker". Or do you believe in original sin.? BTW, what about references to "Hymetown"?
Here is what I do not understand. Who cares who uses what bathroom. Men's room and women's room both have stalls with doors on them go in close the door take care of your business, sit, stand who really cares. The only time I ever saw a woman stand and urinate I was in McSorley's in NYC. The line was ridiculous for the ladies room and she was standing right next to me hitting the urinal better than me. I am tired of all this BS over bathroom's.
Nobody's defending what Schilling did. But that doesn't mean he can't make a valid point.
No, it's not cool, it's just simple human decency. I, for one, have sympathy for black people, because they a) were enslaved for hundreds of years and b) are still looked down upon by millions of white people in this country. Racism is alive and well folks, don't act like it isn't or it went away somehow.
"But I had people come up to me and go [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.”
predictable post from giants24.
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Cool to hold stuff against a person for stuff they never did or agree with based on white people doing it a long time ago?
No, it's not cool, it's just simple human decency. I, for one, have sympathy for black people, because they a) were enslaved for hundreds of years and b) are still looked down upon by millions of white people in this country. Racism is alive and well folks, don't act like it isn't or it went away somehow.
Isn't it also simple human decency NOT to refer to someone who has done nothing to you as "cracker"?
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Isn't it also simple human decency NOT to refer to someone who has done nothing to you as "cracker"?
OK, sure. But again, if someone calls me a cracker, I don't really care. There's been no discrimination against white people, ever, in human history. If someone calls a black person the n word, they are a racist, and pretty much a terrible person.
That being said, CS should have been horse whipped in public for supporting W.
Tell that to the black Jews? The Hispanic Serbs or Croats?
Every race has been discriminated against. Often.
Surely you jest.
In today's society, being labeled a racist is like 4th or 5th on the hierarchy of the career death knell:
1. Child Molester
2. Rapist/Murderer
3. Kidnapper
4. Wife beater
4a. Racist
It's irresponsible and honestly disgusting to toss the accusation around so cavalierly.
It's like we're back in 1690's Salem, MA.
Being an asshole or ignorant (if that's what you think Schilling is) doesn't make him a racist.
This has less to do with Curt Schilling than it does the people who use their own prejudices to judge people.
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that Schilling is an inconsiderate insensitive filterless pinhead? Incredible
Here is what I do not understand. Who cares who uses what bathroom. Men's room and women's room both have stalls with doors on them go in close the door take care of your business, sit, stand who really cares. The only time I ever saw a woman stand and urinate I was in McSorley's in NYC. The line was ridiculous for the ladies room and she was standing right next to me hitting the urinal better than me. I am tired of all this BS over bathroom's.
One could also ask why does it matter so much to the man who identifys himself as a woman to have to use the women facilities? If we are to assume that he is mature enough, and in touch with himself enough to understand those feelings enough to act on them, then wouldn't he be mature enough to also understand that there is likley plenty of children, young girls and even women who wouldn't as easily identify with a strange man as being a women and be uncomfortable changing with him in a locker room or using the same bathroom?
If he identifys himself as a women good for him but I'm sure it took him many years working through it to come to the point to where he is now in acting on that and I don't see why he can't simply be the bigger person and be gracious enough to simply change in a mans locker room. If I was in a locker room and saw some guy in drag changing I couldn't care less, but I think it would upsetting to my nine year old daughter if she was faced with it.
That being said, CS should have been horse whipped in public for supporting W.