FC/OT: espn suspends Schilling for tweet

[BobPSU92]

See the link below. From the article:

"(CNN) -- Curt Schilling, a star pitcher who was in the Major Leagues for 20 years and a baseball analyst for ESPN, was suspended from his Little League World Series duty after sending a controversial tweet Tuesday.

The tweet re-posted a meme that reads: "It's said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How'd that go?"

The text was superimposed of a red-tinted photo of Adolf Hitler.:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/25/us/curt-schilling-insensitive-tweet/index.html

 

[manofsteel200]

????? What's insensitive about that?

 

[Fairfax Lion]

So what the hell is the issue??? Did he step over that subjective and constantly moving "PC line in the sand" and hurt somebody's feelings?

Toooooooooo bad!!!

 

[Columbus_Lion]

Has anything happened to Chris Carter? He recommended people should commit a crime...far worse than an opinion.

 

[BobPSU92]

Has anything happened to Chris Carter? He recommended people should commit a crime...far worse than an opinion.

When I saw the vague headline on cnn.com this morning, I automatically assumed it was carter. Nope.

Speaking of carter, whatever happened to sarge here? He went MIA quite awhile ago. Did he go AWOL?

 

[BobPSU92]

Sarah Palin rips espn over Schilling suspension:

"Titled "ESPN IS A JOURNALISTIC EMBARRASSMENT," Palin's post tore into the sports network, charging "ESPN what happened to you? Your intolerant PC police are running amok and making a joke out of you!""

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/28/politics/palin-schilling-suspension/index.html

 

[ram2020]

Unreal. I'm so tired of all this faux outrage. It had a lot to do with Joe's undoing here and it is really becoming a dangerous precedent. I read an article, someone here may have posted about a female reporter that said something insensitive on her twitter and basically she got fired and publicly tarred and feathered. It about ruined her life. All because there are some Internet trolls who get off on being outraged and seeing people lose their jobs. This guy describes it well:

http://elitedaily.com/sports/colin-cowherd-dominican-player-faux-outrage/1146190/