Oh, the irony of someone named Bristol defending Curt Schilling.
Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, ripped ESPN Friday morning after it canned the former pitcher as a baseball analyst for, as she says, simply speaking “common sense,” while employing others who have made controversial statements about politics and her mother.
ESPN fired Schilling last week for sharing an insensitive Facebook post about North Carolina’s transgender bathroom law, and Palin — whose name was partly inspired by the city in Connecticut where the network resides — thinks the move was absurd.
SCHILLING SHARES PRINCE MEME WITH POLITICAL QUOTE HE NEVER SAID
In a blog post entitled “ESPN is OK with rapists, racists, slanderers, but not with Curt Schilling’s common sense,” Palin said, “It’s RIGHT to stand up and fight for the culture while the left tries to flush it down the toilet,” Palin wrote.
Palin lists examples of controversial behavior from other commentators who didn’t lose their jobs, including ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser comparing the Tea Party to ISIS and Kenny Mayne tweeting in 2011 that he “almost rammed” a vehicle with a Palin bumper sticker “with intent.”
She also mentions Charles Barkley saying in 2011 that her mother is “hot” but he would “never vote for her,” and Mike Tyson’s graphic and inappropriate comments about the elder Palin, as well. Although Barkley and Tyson made their comments on ESPN radio shows, neither was employed by the company.
“It’s perfectly fine for ESPN liberals (oh, but I repeat myself) to mouth off about any political topic… as long as they’re only threatening or lying about conservatives,” Palin wrote.
“I, for one, think it’s hilarious that Curt Schilling’s comments about ‘men being men’ was the straw that broke the camel’s back over at ESPN. I mean, that ESPN host laughing hysterically when Mike Tyson said my mom needed to be raped was just fine.”
Tyson said after that ESPN interview that he “never said anything bad about Ms. Palin being raped.”
Palin, whose mother also defend Schilling last week, concluded by saying the ex-pitcher is stating “an obvious truth” and thanked him for making ESPN’s “double standard SO obvious.”