BY FLORIDA BILL
For me, I say Go Curt!!!!
Nonsensical "political correctness;" has just moved one
more step up the liberal ladder and this time it reaches into the grand old game
of baseball. And the one who got the high hard one is Curt Schilling, a future
hall of fame big league pitcher, with a reputation for honesty and belief in God
and country.
Schilling has been called on the carpet and suspended by ESPN
for offending the Muslim community in a tweet he published in late August which
called attention to the extremists in the Muslim ranks. The former big leaguer
has been an employee of ESPN for commentary and for calling the play by play of
little league games.
So what was the tweet which offended Muslims. Schilling pointed out that
fanatics make up some 5 to 10 per cent of the followers of Islam and he
juxtaposed that with the fact that it has been estimated that some 7 per cent of
citizens in Germany during the days of Adolph Hitler had been members of the
Nazi party. And in reference to the Nazis, Schilling noted, "How'd that
go?"
What did Mr.Schilling do, in the eyes of "political
correctness" lunatics? Who was insulted, and who is disciplining him?
It's ESPN, which is now waving its flag to the applause of loons who will never
recognize Islamic threats to America and the freedom which this
country provides.
The message in the tweet was that there is an Islamic threat to this
country and you better watch out. "Curt's tweet was completely unacceptable,
and in no way represents our company's perspective," ESPN said in a statement.
"We made that point very strongly to Curt and have removed him from his current
Little League assignment pending further consideration."
Amazing that ESPN cannot recognize the threat which Muslim terrorists are
posing. Have the sports people ever heard of the 9-11 attack, and Fort Hood
slaughter in the United States and the bombings and murders by Muslims in
Europe; and of course the decapitation of innocent Christians and journalists,
all in the name of Allah. Wake up ESPN. And thanks to former Gov. Palin for
her awareness of Islamic threats and pointing out the asininity of ESPN.
It is also worth noting that there were 65 million citizens in Germany in
the 1930s of which 7 per cent equates to about 4.5 million persons. There are
1.6 billion Muslims in the world and 5 per cent means that at least 100 million
qualify as extremists who favor violent jihad in the name of Allah.
ESPN should be embarrassed by its behavior. It should apologize to Mr.
Schilling and to Americans who understand the threat of Islamic terrorists.
Seems that ESPN has "apologized" to Schilling in a backhanded way by reinstating him to broadcast major-league playoff games. Sort of like a consent decree in a civil law case, where one party quietly retracts its complaint in return for not having to admit it did anything wrong.
ReplyDeleteThe whole affair bothers me for several reasons. First, as you point out, ESPN's abject subservience to "political correctness," whereby even implied criticism of Barack Obama's infallible policies --- in this case his refusal to define America's radical Muslim enemies as Islamic terrorists -- demands retribution. Second, Schilling's right to express his personal opinion (his First Amendment right) on a Twitter page totally apart from ESPN was violated. Schilling did not express his opinions on an ESPN broadcast. Third, if ESPN felt obligated to distance itself from Schilling's Twitter pages, it could have issued a statement to the effect that Schilling's personal opinions do not reflect those of ESPN and let it go at that. ESPN was totally wrong in their action toward Schilling.
I personally resent celebrities who abuse and take advantage of their access to press and broadcast media by promoting their political views -- usually leftist and pro-Obama -- to millions of readers and viewers out of context when covered about their entertainment careers. They certainly have the same right as I do to express their views, but I don't have access to mass media..So they abuse that right. They can, however, express themselves to their subscriber fans via e-mail and Twitter, as they all do and that's fine. That''s just what Schilling did, but he's not leftist so -- unlike other celebrities -- he was penalized for not being "politically correct."