Posted on 04/21/2016 1:20:42 PM PDT by Morgana
BOSTON — Former Red Sox pitcher and ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling has been fired from his position as an analyst for ESPN following comments he made on social media earlier this week regarding the bills going through several states to require people to use the bathroom of their assigned gender. The bill impacts the transgender community, because many of those individuals prefer to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.
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recall too how gayBC fired Rush Limbaugh because he as “too political”.
Hunter S. Thompson was a protected species at ESPN as he railed against Bush and Abu Ghraib.
The left acts and conservatives talk. Those who formerly did not even belong to our society now govern it and with the help of those once in charge.
When folks didn’t have Anita Bryant’s back in 1977 was when the blueprint of going after people who stood against their agenda was set. And they’ve used it effectively ever since.
Your post at #3 does not express that sentiment.
Wow!
Curt Schilling blew $114 million and then took out a $75 million loan from Taxpayers and defaulted?
Curt is not all that bright.
You are certainly correct, he was a very evil person to disagree with all of the cultural commissars who created this “crisis” in the last few months. We we were all just so wrong on this last year, how could we have been so stupid for so many hundreds of years? Isn’t it great we are so much more enlightened now?
By the way, one should not have to surrender their First Amendment rights as long as they are not discussing it on the job, whether you are an RN working in a hospital, or a sports announcer.
But the simple fact of life is that if you engage in social media, even personally, it is a given that makes you vulnerable to your employer’s whim.
Once that box is open (and it IS clearly wide open now) where does it stop?
If the liberals say that disagreeing with the basic concept of anthropogenic global warning is a hate crime worthy of censure, and someone takes video of me saying it and posts it to social media, is it acceptable and expected that I should get fired for that?
They are not a "private business" when they have to have broadcasting licenses to operate. The rules of broadcast licenses are intended to preclude one-party control of broadcasting apparatus. The industry is regulated to prevent a monopoly of power. Remember the crap they gave Rupert Murdoch when he was buying up media assets?
If I started a website saying my company sucked because they hire gays, I’m pretty sure I’d be fired.
If your company is does not have the ability to influence elections, they can do what they want. When you are in the broadcasting business, you need to be regulated to prevent just this sort of anti-free speech abuse.
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Seems we’re all for that around here except when it comes to bite us.
Fighting back against Broadcast licensed Thought Nazis *IS* our personal responsibility, and if we can use the hammer of government against would be Nazis, we should. They have certainly been doing it to us.
It really is about the opinions being expressed. Some are allowed by the broadcast industry (Mostly headquartered and staffed from very Liberal New York city) and some are not.
“Curt Schilling blew $114 million and then took out a $75 million loan from Taxpayers and defaulted?
Curt is not all that bright.”
And neither are the currently un-indicted Rhode Island politicians who made the loans possible. They’re still sweating the probe. Wink-wink.
Ben: But, you are a male.
Abe: Yes, but it is a shorter walk to the Women's room.
What was the lesson?
ESPN is getting far too anal.
But in your opinion, people aren’t allowed to criticize ESPN for their decisions?
I do not disagree with Schilling on the issue, but I do take issue with the headline that states baseball legend. Schilling was not a baseball legend, a very good pitcher, yes. There have been a lot of those. Walter Johnson was a legend. Sandy Koufax was a legend. Pedro Martinez was a legend. Clayton Kershaw will be a legend. Schilling, just misses out from this category.
Interesting point. The difference today is that, even in red states, we have blue cities. If our states were as homogeneous today as they were back in the 19th century, we could definitely have another CW.
FR should have a forum for issues like this where Freepers can sign a petition stating we are now going to boycott idiotic businesses like ESPN for supporting perverted sick people and treating normal decent people like garbage
We needed it for issues like states fining Christian businesses for not baking cakes, for bruce springstein being an idiot about NC law- for NY being idiots about NC law etc-
There are enough freepers that we could possibly make a big enough economic difference that they would rethink things especially if the petition makes it clear that we will make it our priority to tell as many others to join the boycott as possible-
I would think a forum specifically for activist issues like this would be a good addition
What you say is true...I think part of that is that we aren’t as hell bent as controlling others as liberals are. And they take advantage of that.
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