Thread: Liberal Media Exaggeration

I mean this really isn't a big deal really, but it's just one of those things that bugs me when something is being reported. I'll highlight the comment. Well, the title is a part of the exaggeration.

Curt Schilling Will Return To ESPN After Hillary Clinton Deathwish

ESPN has confirmed to Vocativ that Curt Schilling will be returning to the Monday Night Baseball booth as an analyst this season. Schilling has been a part of ESPN's baseball coverage since last October and was originally announced as an addition to the booth in January.

On March 1, Schilling was a guest on 610 Sports in Kansas City. The conversation veered to Hillary Clinton's campaign and Schilling—a man not lacking for political hot takes—told the hosts, "If she's allowed to get to the general election before she's in prison I'll be stunned and upset." He went on to add that if he had his druthers, "after what happened to General Petraeus, she should be buried under a jail somewhere."

Schilling was not immediately suspended or reprimanded, but at the time, an ESPN spokesperson said, "We are addressing it."

Well, at some point in the past three weeks they addressed it. "We've addressed it with Curt," an ESPN spokesperson told Vocativ via email.

Evidently, Schilling's desire to see Clinton locked away in some horrible subterranean prison—or just buried in a grave that is conveniently located underneath a prison—did not violate ESPN's guidelines for 2016 Presidential Election coverage, which state: "We should refrain from political editorializing, personal attacks or 'drive-by' comments regarding the candidates and their campaigns."

Glad to have you back in in the saddle, Curt. Keep pumping out those memes. Your bosses are cool with it.
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Any reasonable person, unless they are just looking for something, knows that Schilling is not literally wishing Hillary was dead. Also any reasonable person knows the expression "she should be buried under a jail somewhere" isn't literal. This stuff just drives me up the wall.

That's it.


http://www.vocativ.com/news/301082/c...ton-deathwish/

Manipulated headlines to get people to bite or just respond to the headlines without ever reading the actual story is pathetic...and those who bite should know better by now!