Joe Cooper
2016-05-04 15:08:34 UTC
For baseball fans, the performance of Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt
Schilling in the 2004 American League Championships ranks among the most
memorable gutsy plot lines of all time.
The Red Sox, fighting a World Series winless streak dating back to 1918,
were down three games to none to their archrival, the New York Yankees.
The Sox then won two straight games. In the crucial Game Six, Schilling
was slated to start, despite a torn tendon sheath in his right ankle that
required medical staff to literally suture his tendon to deeper tissue.
He proceeded to throw seven innings, giving up just one run, and giving
us the immoral image of blood seeping through his sock as he dragged his
team to victory.
ESPN created a "30 for 30" documentary on the series titled "Four Days In
October." The original documentary ran one hour and five minutes, and
included a 17-minute segment focusing on Schilling's heroics.
When ESPN re-aired the documentary this week, however, the 17-minute
Schilling segment was simply cut.
Why?
Two weeks ago, Schilling posted on Facebook that men who believe they're
women shouldn't use the women's bathroom. He shared a meme with a rather
hideous gentleman in a skirt, and a leather top with cutouts for his man
boobs and stomach, wearing a blonde wig. The caption: "LET HIM IN! To the
restroom with your daughter or else you're a narrow minded, judgmental,
unloving, racist bigot who needs to die!" Schilling added: "A man is a
man no matter what they call themselves. I don't care what they are, who
they sleep with, men's room was designed for the penis, women's not so
much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic."
This logic is, of course, inarguable. But it led ESPN to fire him
nonetheless, stating: "ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has
been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with
ESPN has been terminated."
By inclusive, ESPN does not mean ideologically inclusive. They simply
mean that if you do not kowtow to politically correct idiocies about men
magically becoming women, you will not be tolerated. ESPN is the same
channel that rewarded Caitlyn Jenner, nee Bruce, the Arthur Ashe Courage
Award for getting a misguided boob job, facial reconstruction surgeries
and hormone treatments that will not solve his underlying mental illness.
Pointing out that Caitlyn is still a man, however, will get you fired
from that same network.
Not only that, but you will be memory-holed. Any person can be wiped from
history with a Hillary Clinton-esque cloth at any time if he or she
violates the prevailing leftist orthodoxy. Mike Tyson can still star in
multiple "30 for 30" episodes after being convicted of rape. But
Schilling must be excised from one of the most crucial sporting series in
baseball history because he thinks men with penises are still men.
Every area of American life has now been transformed into an enforcement
mechanism for leftist groupthink. Entertainment. Education. Even sports.
Conservatives spend all their time and energy focusing on elections. But
the real battles are fought in the cultural space, on supposedly minor
issues like the employment of All-Star and borderline-hall-of-famer Curt
Schilling. If conservatives fail to realize that, elections are only the
beginning of their losing streak.
Source: http://bit.ly/1T1q5NA
--
"It's ironic that Donald Trump, hailed as the anti-establishment savior,
has supported and funded establishment and liberal causes much of his
adult life, and to this day is getting less opposition from the
establishment than bad boy Ted Cruz."--David Limbaugh
"Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended
on behalf of people who arent and to impose their will on those who
didnt ask for it." (Derek Hunter)
"Trump, almost on a daily basis, is giving the delegates pledged to him
on the first ballot a story line ample reasons that could comprise a
narrative, plain for all to see, that he is unprepared to be president
and wont come up to speed."--Arnold Steinberg
Schilling in the 2004 American League Championships ranks among the most
memorable gutsy plot lines of all time.
The Red Sox, fighting a World Series winless streak dating back to 1918,
were down three games to none to their archrival, the New York Yankees.
The Sox then won two straight games. In the crucial Game Six, Schilling
was slated to start, despite a torn tendon sheath in his right ankle that
required medical staff to literally suture his tendon to deeper tissue.
He proceeded to throw seven innings, giving up just one run, and giving
us the immoral image of blood seeping through his sock as he dragged his
team to victory.
ESPN created a "30 for 30" documentary on the series titled "Four Days In
October." The original documentary ran one hour and five minutes, and
included a 17-minute segment focusing on Schilling's heroics.
When ESPN re-aired the documentary this week, however, the 17-minute
Schilling segment was simply cut.
Why?
Two weeks ago, Schilling posted on Facebook that men who believe they're
women shouldn't use the women's bathroom. He shared a meme with a rather
hideous gentleman in a skirt, and a leather top with cutouts for his man
boobs and stomach, wearing a blonde wig. The caption: "LET HIM IN! To the
restroom with your daughter or else you're a narrow minded, judgmental,
unloving, racist bigot who needs to die!" Schilling added: "A man is a
man no matter what they call themselves. I don't care what they are, who
they sleep with, men's room was designed for the penis, women's not so
much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic."
This logic is, of course, inarguable. But it led ESPN to fire him
nonetheless, stating: "ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has
been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with
ESPN has been terminated."
By inclusive, ESPN does not mean ideologically inclusive. They simply
mean that if you do not kowtow to politically correct idiocies about men
magically becoming women, you will not be tolerated. ESPN is the same
channel that rewarded Caitlyn Jenner, nee Bruce, the Arthur Ashe Courage
Award for getting a misguided boob job, facial reconstruction surgeries
and hormone treatments that will not solve his underlying mental illness.
Pointing out that Caitlyn is still a man, however, will get you fired
from that same network.
Not only that, but you will be memory-holed. Any person can be wiped from
history with a Hillary Clinton-esque cloth at any time if he or she
violates the prevailing leftist orthodoxy. Mike Tyson can still star in
multiple "30 for 30" episodes after being convicted of rape. But
Schilling must be excised from one of the most crucial sporting series in
baseball history because he thinks men with penises are still men.
Every area of American life has now been transformed into an enforcement
mechanism for leftist groupthink. Entertainment. Education. Even sports.
Conservatives spend all their time and energy focusing on elections. But
the real battles are fought in the cultural space, on supposedly minor
issues like the employment of All-Star and borderline-hall-of-famer Curt
Schilling. If conservatives fail to realize that, elections are only the
beginning of their losing streak.
Source: http://bit.ly/1T1q5NA
--
"It's ironic that Donald Trump, hailed as the anti-establishment savior,
has supported and funded establishment and liberal causes much of his
adult life, and to this day is getting less opposition from the
establishment than bad boy Ted Cruz."--David Limbaugh
"Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended
on behalf of people who arent and to impose their will on those who
didnt ask for it." (Derek Hunter)
"Trump, almost on a daily basis, is giving the delegates pledged to him
on the first ballot a story line ample reasons that could comprise a
narrative, plain for all to see, that he is unprepared to be president
and wont come up to speed."--Arnold Steinberg