Curt Schilling - not a future ESPN Courage award recipient

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utvols88 said:
Cleveland Caucasian shirt worn by Bomani Jones. Stephen A Smith blaming women for domestic violence and also making a comment about the women's national soccer team. Etc. He's still employed.

These were done ON AIR. Not privately
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Those are not liberal opinions.

Cleveland Caucasians = Cleveland Indians...would Bomani be suspended for wearing an Indians shirt?
 
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utvols88 said:
He's still employed and it was done on air. Schilling was on his private Facebook. Thats my point on that one
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Schilling has had multiple warnings about his public statements. This wasn't a one-time deal. And as I said earlier, if you work for a media giant, there is no such thing as speaking only for yourself. Any statement you make is going to reflect on your employer, for good or for ill.
 
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Their game highlights are awful at this point.

The other day they were showing the highlights of the Hawks vs Celtics from game 1, and this was their highlights of the game...

1) Celtics player makes 3
2) Celtics player gets layup
3) Celtics player makes 3
4) Celtic player pulls hamstring
5) Celtic player is helped off the court
6) Final score, Hawks 102, Celtics 101

What the ****
 
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bamawriter said:
Schilling has had multiple warnings about his public statements. This wasn't a one-time deal. And as I said earlier, if you work for a media giant, there is no such thing as speaking only for yourself. Any statement you make is going to reflect on your employer, for good or for ill.
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I don't think anyone disagrees with you, our point is the only reason he got fired is because he took a more right winged position on this issue, and none of their liberal hosts get fired for making left wing statements.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Screaming that if you don't support wars and military action blindly that you hate America....yes that's a conservative thing. And that is most certainly making patriotism political.
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That's total BS. Few say that crap and you know it. What you hear is support the troops even if you disagree with the conflict as they simply follow orders. Why in the hell do you think military members vote overwhelmingly conservative?
 
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bamawriter said:
Schilling has had multiple warnings about his public statements. This wasn't a one-time deal. And as I said earlier, if you work for a media giant, there is no such thing as speaking only for yourself. Any statement you make is going to reflect on your employer, for good or for ill.
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Right but these were done directly representing ESPN. Not a stupid meme on a private account.
 
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Schilling was hired by ESPN to report on sports, nothing more. He crossed the line imo and should have just kept those things to himself. We all have jobs here. Therefore, I think we all understand that while we have the freedom to say certain things it is in our best interest to not. And this goes for others on the network too, not just Schilling. Others on the network should face consequences for taking political sides publicly.
 
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volfanjustin said:
I don't think anyone disagrees with you, our point is the only reason he got fired is because he took a more right winged position on this issue, and none of their liberal hosts get fired for making left wing statements.
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Can you specify?

He got fired because it's bad for ESPN's image. It's a business decision.
 
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ReaderVol said:
That's total BS. Few say that crap and you know it. What you hear is support the troops even if you disagree with the conflict as they simply follow orders. Why in the hell do you think military members vote overwhelmingly conservative?
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LOL....the hell it's BS. Limbaugh, Hannity, and pretty much every right wing host went off on anyone who didn't support the war as unpatriotic. And don't go with that "support the troops" bullsh**, those guy took any objection to the war as being against the troops, period.

You are seriously revising history here.
 
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mrorange211 said:
Schilling was hired by ESPN to report on sports, nothing more. He crossed the line imo and should have just get those things to himself. We all have jobs here. Therefore, I think we all understand that while we have the freedom to say certain things it is in our best interest to not. And this goes for others on the network too, not just Schilling. Others on the network should face consequences for taking political sides publicly.
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Thats all true. But if you are on the right side of the political topic I doubt they care.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Can you specify?

He got fired because it's bad for ESPN's image. It's a business decision.
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First one that comes to mind is after Hurricane Katrina one of the morons on sports reporters on sunday mornings said something about what he perceived as Bush's lack of a response. Can't recall the exact quote but it was negative towards Bush, but that was a popular opinion at ESPN I'm sure so it was fine.

He got fired for being a conservative and making a political statement that the far left loons at ESPN don't agree with
 
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volfanjustin said:
First one that comes to mind is after Hurricane Katrina one of the morons on sports reporters on sunday mornings said something about what he perceived as Bush's lack of a response. Can't recall the exact quote but it was negative towards Bush, but that was a popular opinion at ESPN I'm sure so it was fine.

He got fired for being a conservative and making a political statement that the far left loons at ESPN don't agree with
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You honestly think that is the same thing?
 
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mrorange211 said:
And that's the hypocrisy of it that I think makes so many mad. They treat one side different than the others.
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True as well. You either have a very strict policy against anything outside what you are paid to speak on, or you let this go as a person speaking for themselves and not "the company" IMO.

Without either, you get what you described.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
LOL....the hell it's BS. Limbaugh, Hannity, and pretty much every right wing host went off on anyone who didn't support the war as unpatriotic. And don't go with that "support the troops" bullsh**, those guy took any objection to the war as being against the troops, period.

You are seriously revising history here.
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Uh no. I'm telling things as they are and were. Then explain why the OVERWHELMING majority of military members vote conservative?
 
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Persian Vol said:
Their game highlights are awful at this point.

The other day they were showing the highlights of the Hawks vs Celtics from game 1, and this was their highlights of the game...

1) Celtics player makes 3
2) Celtics player gets layup
3) Celtics player makes 3
4) Celtic player pulls hamstring
5) Celtic player is helped off the court
6) Final score, Hawks 102, Celtics 101

What the ****
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Lmao
 
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mrorange211 said:
Schilling was hired by ESPN to report on sports, nothing more. He crossed the line imo and should have just kept those things to himself. We all have jobs here. Therefore, I think we all understand that while we have the freedom to say certain things it is in our best interest to not. And this goes for others on the network too, not just Schilling. Others on the network should face consequences for taking political sides publicly.
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ESPN opened the door when it named a man, women of the year.
 
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mrorange211 said:
Schilling was hired by ESPN to report on sports, nothing more. He crossed the line imo and should have just kept those things to himself. We all have jobs here. Therefore, I think we all understand that while we have the freedom to say certain things it is in our best interest to not. And this goes for others on the network too, not just Schilling. Others on the network should face consequences for taking political sides publicly.
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If he had posted a cartoon mocking the laws he would still have a job. They made this bed when they gave Jenner that award. They have to defend against all perceived slights to the lgbt community.
 
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ReaderVol said:
Really? So spitting on returning servicemen as they returned from Vietnam was done by conservatives? Bashing the US military on a regular basis is done by conservatives? Libs attacked our military and conservatives responded with support. Period
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You mean the same conservatives that arrested over 800 black kids for trying to march from Selma to Birmingham? Or the same ones who turned hoses on them and turned police dogs on them?? How about the ones who had African Americans arrested for trying to register to vote??? I mean you wanna bring up what happened in 60's and 70's, the conservative republicans dos look to good toward black US citizens
 
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Schilling was just exercising his free speech.

And ESPN was just exercising its free speech too when they fired him.
 
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