what s next? now racist curt schilling is running his mouth off on smerconish. i want consistency. here s the irony relative to schilling. i want consistency. if you re going to assess political statements and make hiring and firing decisions based on them, then i want there to be consistency. that s what i m for and he probably agree with that. but i m not going to sit here for some add homonym attack that was unwarranted and without merit by any guest. i regret i called him pompous because that s not the way i roll, but that was not right. one more. smerconish, when i want insight, i ll listen to smerconish, not espn, that s for sports. right and you can find here on cnn and cnn international and during the week on sirius xm potus. see you next week. we should take it one game
what s the right path? joining me someone who has himself been fired from espn, he also pitched 20 years in major league baseball. was a six-time all-star, best remembered perhaps for the 2004 al series against the yankees. when he pitched with his right sock 0 bloody from a recent surgery. here s the 2016 facebook post he got fired over on the issue of transgender rest rooms. it included the line, i don t care what they are, who they sleep with, men s room was designed for the penis, women s not so much. now you need laws telling us differently? poo th pathetic. curt schilling joins us from the road. hey, kurt, you believe that you were fired unjustly, for speaking your mind. i m curious, do you therefore support jemele hill on the grounds that she was unjustly fired for speaking her mind? two things. first off, i wasn t fired for
but what he has to say is disturbing and it s no wonder that he doesn t have a job with espn. but you know, for each of us, i think we recognize that through our social media, we are so identified with our respective employers and in your case, fox sports. and in my case, i ve been drilled by cnn, i ve been warned, hey, if you do something on your social media account, you re out of here. isn t it will same with her? well obviously they have reached a different agreement. or she would have been let go. i think that they looked at the information. i think they sort of, i don t know, bowed to public pressure or came out with a statement that was kind of just wishy-washy. and made it seem like they took her to task. but if you know jemele, she is a strong, opinionated, and well-versed on the topics that she discusses.
michael, you said parties exist to win. donald trump elected to do the people s business, maybe he is hashtag #hopeful. ste stephanie, i ve been highly critical of him. i said here on cnn, maybe we ve elected a compromiser in chief. now for the first time in nine months, that s where he appears to be. i just want it to continue. up ahead, the white house thinks that espn should fire an ank who tweeted that the president is a white supremacist. i ll talk to two people with special insight. former world series star pitcher curt schilling, himself fired by espn over something he posted on social media. and pam oliver, herself an anchor for fox sports.
say you re political, you re a distraction, that s not our business, we re sports, you re out of here i m going to tell you something that may come as news to you, i want them to hold that same standard for everybody. you, her, and whoever is next. you have to, can you agree with me that that s not even remotely close to what they do. they have made it very, and again, it s their right, michael, they re a privately owned company. they can do whatever they choose to do. disney and espn have decided that they will support the jones and hills of the world though are every bit as racist and intolerant as they say everybody else is. that s their prerogative. curt schilling, i appreciate you being here. now for a different perspective, fox sports senior correspondent and nfl sideline reporter pam oliver. aren t you glad you came out to play today, pam? oh, my gosh. what is happening here? i think maybe curt schilling was