Trump-Schilling 2016!

I think I have the winning ticket for Trump. He should immediately name legendary Boston pitcher Curt Schilling as his running mate. Schilling was fired from ESPN yesterday for stating what most Americans of common sense believe about . . . bathrooms. From the New York Times:

ESPN Fires Curt Schilling Over an Offensive Social Media Post

. . . The post showed an overweight man wearing a wig and women’s clothing with parts of the T-shirt cut out to expose his breasts. It says: “LET HIM IN! to the restroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow-minded, judgmental, unloving racist bigot who needs to die.”

To that, Schilling added: “A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. 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? Pathetic.”

ESPN is an inclusive company,” ESPN said in a statement.

Inclusive? Of course, as Orwell understood, “inclusive” now means exactly the opposite: it means demonizing anyone who dissents from the orthodoxy of the identity-politics left. Like someone who believes human nature is real.

P.S. There’s a typically hilarious correction by the Times in the online version of this story:

Correction: April 20, 2016

An earlier version of this article misstated one of the countries in which David H. Petraeus served as a top United States general. It was Iraq, not Iran.

“Layers and layers of editors and fact checkers.”

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