In the latest Twitter escapades of Curt Schilling, theRed Sox pitcher turned right-wing radio showhost jumpped to defend his Breitbart News colleague Milo Yiannopoulos, who came under fire this weekend after a video resurfaced of him apparently defending pedophilia. Yiannopoulos condones sexual relationships between men and boys as young as 13 and downplays the seriousness of abuse by priests in the Catholic Church in the video, which is nearly three hours long. After the video was publicized by the news media, Yiannopoulos was dropped as a spearker atthe Conservative Political Action Conference.
He later resigned from Breitbart News.
As the controversy stewed, Schilling took to Twitter Monday night to defend his colleague — later admitting he hadn’t seen the video. Schilling hosts a radio show for Breitbart called “Whatever it Takes.”
Let me see if I have this right. @lenadunham child molestor Woody Allen, sex with a minor, Roman Polanski, rapist, But Milo is the problem?
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) February 21, 2017
He battled back and forth with the twitterverse for the better part of an hour before someone sent him the link to the YouTube video.
Ok, pretty important piece of news, and commentary, I went into this discussion without. That’s a whole different ball of wax to be sure. https://t.co/qsvBiqfLWs
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) February 21, 2017
He dialed back his remarks after listening to Yiannopoulos’ remarks and apologized.
In any setting ever where protection of a molester is appropriate and IMO legal? But I apologize if it appeared in any way I was ‘defending”
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) February 21, 2017
that sort of commentary. I’ll accept any and all abuse thrown my way for not thoroughly going through ALL the material before responding.
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) February 21, 2017
that sort of commentary. I’ll accept any and all abuse thrown my way for not thoroughly going through ALL the material before responding.
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) February 21, 2017
Schilling owned his mistake, but just a few hours earlier on Monday he was blasting news organizations like CNN and MSNBC for propagating what he called “fake” news.
I started gathering “fake news” from the last 6 months last night. From outright lies to character assassination with no validation, I had
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) February 20, 2017
35+ articles in less then 30 minutes. From CNN to MSNBC to whatever else liberal propaganda was reported on, it’s stunning. And pathetic.
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) February 20, 2017
Schilling is known for his off-the-cuff social mediaantics,engaging in drawn-out arguments with liberals headed to the Women’s March on Washingtonthe day after Donald Trump’s inauguration. In 2014he got into a four-hour Twitter debate defending creationism. Schilling was fired from ESPN last April following a Facebook post in which he appeared to mock the transgender community.
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This is ESPN’s Curt Schilling’s disgusting view of transgender people #HB2 https://t.co/7DKRXDL4GL pic.twitter.com/hLNhtRf9xe
— Outsports (@outsports) April 19, 2016
The year before that the sports news network suspended Schilling following a tweet he made about Islamic extremism. In the now-deleted tweet Schilling said,”It’s said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. how’d that go?” His words were posted alongside an image of Hitler. He took down the tweet and issued a quick apology.
