Not content with her rambling post on Facebook, Sarah Palin went on some show no one's ever heard of, on a channel no one's ever watched, to double down on her defense of Curt Schilling and, above all else, reaffirm our inherent right as Americans to say some stupid shit that offends virtually everyone but a tiny group of like-minded dullards.Hilariously, Palin spends most of her time in this video essentially reading her original Facebook post, but she does add a few new bits to her routine. She attacks ESPN for discrediting Schilling's "stats"—which, it's important to note, came from a Facebook meme—and claims that subsequently suspending Schilling shows ESPN's weakness as it "swallows ISIS propaganda." Palin, at one time a serious candidate for the office of Vice President of these United States, also accused "terrorists [of] using ESPN to mislead the public about the very real threat of terrorists." As always, anytime a racist says something racist and gets in trouble for it, it's an affront to his or her personal liberty. Nevermind the liberties of the rest of the people who have to read or listen to their garbage, though.Here is what Schilling's "stats" said, which were overlaid on a blood-red photograph of Adolph Hitler:"It's said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How'd that go?"These aren't even stats! "It's said." Great. It's also said that "if ifs and buts were cherries and nuts…" I don't even know what the end of that fucking idiom is, but it has certainly been said. This is what people like Sarah Palin don't seem to understand about the world (which is terrifying because many of these people are in charge): there are bad people everywhere. Literally everywhere. They are not bad because they are Muslim, or Christian, or Jewish, or whatever other way you want to differentiate them from yourself. They are just bad people. There have always been bad people who murder, exploit, and irresponsibly spread fear of what's different for their own personal gain.Suspending Curt Schilling for posting some nonsensical and offensive meme is not intolerance, like Palin would have you believe; it is incredibly tolerant, in fact. ESPN does a lot of stupid things, but not allowing one former athlete to use its platform to go Godwin's Law in the most inflammatory way possible ain't one of them. Rather than encourage stupid and hateful employees to be stupid and hateful without consequence, ESPN is saying that they won't allow this kind of behavior to infect their operation, and that they want everyone at their company to feel safe from discrimination. Taking a large public platform away from a person who has the power to influence and scare others into agreeing with his ignorant gibberish simply because he is famous is downright patriotic.But, as Palin points out, ESPN is far from perfect. The company is not entirely safe from discriminatory points of view. Perhaps Palin, who rightfully pointed out that misogyny is alive and well in Bristol, should be much more concerned that people like Stephen A. Smith are still on the air, and not that Curt Schilling has been taken off of it.h/t Awful Announcing
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