For roughly 10 minutes, legendary MLB pitcher Curt Schilling’s official Twitter account had a tweet posted that compared the percentage of radical Muslims to the percentage of Nazis in Germany in 1940.
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However, Schilling quickly deleted the tweet and backtracked after several users criticized the comparison. At least one user told Schilling that he'll be lucky to "still have a job tonight" as an analyst for ESPN.
@justindiaz92 i didnt say anything. If its anywhere true its terrifying in number
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 25, 2015@CurtisMMorrison agreed!
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 25, 2015@CooperD311 curious as well how that can be a "fact", who could possibly know that #?
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 25, 2015He ultimately apologized to one Twitter user, saying the message "didn't come across in any way as intended."
@SwedishCar850 agreed, my apologies. That didn't come across in any way as intended or interpreted.
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) August 25, 2015---
UPDATE: ESPN has pulled Schilling from an announcer gig during Little League World Series games after he posted the Internet meme comparing Nazis to radical Islamists.
ESPN said the insinuation in the post was “completely unacceptable,” and “in no way represents our company’s perspective. We made that point very strongly to Curt,” BuzzFeed reported.
(H/T: Mediaite)
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