Curt Schilling emailed a blogger to question his integrity on Nazi tweet coverage
During his (mandated) time off working for ESPN, Curt Schilling has apparently taken to emailing writers who covered his tweet about Muslims and Nazis, and subsequent suspension.
The sports media blog Awful Announcing published an email Tuesday that Schilling sent overnight to writer Dan Levy, in which the former Red Sox pitcher accuses Levy of writing dishonest articles about Schilling’s social media controversy and suspension.
You can read the full near-1,000 word email on Awful Announcing, but here are some of the highlights.
Dan,
I am a Republican, next to California I live in the bluest area on the planet. I am a former Red Sox player, I am a Steeler fan, a Bruins fan and I raise chickens and next to my Rottie I have a 3 pd Maltese named Ellie I take everywhere. I’m 6’5″ 245 for crying out loud. My body is a cruel family joke (thanks to my Dad) and I am losing my hair.
All that to say ya, I’ve been on the receiving end of crap for a good long while.
Schilling asks for honesty and integrity.
All I ever ask is honesty and an attempt at integrity.
But if you want to rip me, or talk s[—] about me, please do it with more than an ounce of pride in your job.
Schilling says he never compared Muslims and Nazis in his now-deleted tweet.
Here’s a cut and paste of what you wrote
heinous as Schilling’s tweet comparing Muslims to World War II-era Nazis
And here’s what was actually tweeted
..’’only 5-10% of Muslims are Extremists’’
Why would you omit the one word in that entire tweet that provides the only important piece of context other than WWII era Nazism?
The now-deleted tweet contained a meme that read: “It’s said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How’d that go?’’
So if compare isn’t the word, as Schilling says, perhaps juxtapose? Also, the math is wrong, according to PolitiFact.
Back to the email.
I think you lack integrity, I think you lack an ounce of pride in your work and I think you’re a weakling to submit to personal bulls[—] attacks and lies in a public facing forum of a person you’ve never met, and don’t have the first idea about off the field. But I wil admit I could be wrong, as I have absolutely no idea who and what kind of person you are.
Lastly, Schilling asks that his email be kept private.
I did not write this letter for public consumption, I wanted to do this direct, to you, and have this remain between us.
God Bless and hopefully He will forgive me for this rant
Curt Schilling
So much for that.
Levy wrote a public response Tuesday afternoon defending his coverage, to which Schilling also responded in an email.
According to Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch, Schilling is scheduled to return from his suspension Sept. 6 to his job as an ESPN analyst on Sunday Night Baseball.
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