Being Conservative Can Cost You

   By Florida Bill 

                                 A few days ago, one of the great pitchers in the Grand Old Game was given his walking papers.   The cashiering order was delivered by the ESPN Sports Network to Monday Night Baseball analyst Curt Schilling who had sided publicly with conservatives on the raging bathroom controversy in North Carolina    
                                 It is pretty well known that ESPN swings far to the left and that conservative positions and philosophy are apparently deemed anathema, almost criminal by management.  
                                 In response to Schilling's comments posted on the social airways,  ESPN and its contingency of liberal loons, issued a fiery  statement: "ESPN is an inclusive company.  Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated."
                                It was not his analyzing on ESPN  time which rankled his bosses.  It was his posting on the social media of his endorsement of the North Carolina bathroom policy requiring transgendered individuals to use the male or female facility which corresponds to his or her gender at birth.               
                                Schilling's reaction to his firing was  that he believed ESPN to be "biased against conservatives."   "It was apparent to me early on," he explained in an interview, "that if you wanted to go off topic as a sports person,  you had to go off topic left or you were going to get in trouble."  
                                The LGBT community and liberals throughout the country have been outraged at the insensitivity of the bathroom law and have denounced it for its bigotry.  However, reasonable persons such as the retired baseball pitcher point to the nonsensical objection to the law, which is sending members of the LBGT community into a frenzy.
                   Schilling, an ESPN analyst since 2010, was an outstanding right hander for five major league teams over a 20-year career.  He won 246 games and lost 146, along with many awards.  He is a member of the elite 3,000 strike-out club, and in the four years between 2001 and 2004, he won 74 games, only losing 28. Predictably he will become a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
                    Schilling has been a strong conservative and fairly prolific in his writings.  He has been a critic of Hillary Clinton for her mishandling of classified emails and says that she ought to be buried under a jail.   
                   Schilling's firing by ESPN was prompted by his sharing of a cartoon on the social media which depicted an overweight man entering a washroom, dressed in woman's clothing, and wearing a silly-looking wig. Partially covering his chest was a holey tee shirt  exposing womens' breasts.  Below the cartoon was a comment:  "Let him into the restroom with your daughter or else you're a narrow-minded, judgmental,  unloving, racist bigot who needs to die."
                         To that,  Schilling added his own observation: "A man is a man no matter what they call themselves.  I don't care what they are, or who they sleep with. The men's room was designed for the penis, women's not so much.  Now you need laws telling us differently?  Pathetic."  With that, ESPN said, "You're out."
                          The 50-year-old Schilling is not one to back away from a  controversy, and generally he elects to plow in, head first. The transgender comments were actually the second time he has been targeted by his liberal sports network. 
                           Last August, he opened up on Face Book and condemned "radical Islam" for the evil murderers which they are.  As punishment, ESPN promptly demoted Schilling from Sunday baseball to the less popular Monday night baseball, castigating him for being offensive and disrespectful to Muslims. 
                          In last summer's tweets,  Schilling noted that radicals in the religion comprise about 5 to 10 per cent of its members; and that there are an estimated 1.6 billion followers of Islam.  He paralleled that with the fact that 7 per cent of the 65 million citizens of Germany had been members of the Nazi party.  And in reference to the Nazis, Schilling noted, "How'd that go?"  ESPN upbraided Schilling for offending Muslims and as a punishment, reassigned him.                              
                          Not one to go underground, Schilling also has noted that ESPN has employed as  sports announcers a number of dedicated left-wing racists who have a free hand when it comes to denouncing conservatives on the airways.   But Schilling apparently sees no reason to refrain from speaking out against the radical arm of Islam and the dangers it poses to the USA and to the world.   Good for him. 




                     
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