Sarah Palin defends Curt Schilling, rips ESPN on Facebook

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Updated: August 28, 2015

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Sarah Palin is no fan of ESPN.

Sarah Palin has some harsh words for ESPN.

The former governor of Alaska and Republican vice president candidate wrote a long, angry message on Facebook condemning ESPN for suspending Curt Schilling.

Schilling was removed from ESPN’s Little League World Series and Sunday Night Baseball coverage earlier this week after tweeting out a meme that read: “Only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How’d that go?”

Palin titled her message, “ESPN IS A JOURNALISTIC EMBARRASSMENT,” and immediately began wondering what happened to the network she once loved.

“Your intolerant PC police are running amok and making a joke out of you,” she wrote. “By picking and choosing who they’ll tolerate and who they’ll try to destroy, ESPN has zero credibility as a sound and reasonable media outlet.”

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Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling #38 throws out the first pitch after being inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame prior to the game against the Minnesota Twins during the game on August 3, 2012.

Palin wasn’t done there. She accused ESPN of using her name and reputation to spew “crude, rude bile” and said the network’s on-air talent condoned misogyny and violence against women.

Palin also references a 2011 attack by former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson on an ESPN radio affiliate in Las Vegas just as Joe McGinniss’ book about the former Alaska governor entitled, “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,” was about to be released.

In that interview, Tyson took horrific shots at Palin, boasting about interracial sex, violence and the allegations that Palin had an affair with former NBA star Glen Rice, among other charges.

“One ESPN affiliate’s on-air rant featuring their misogynist, animalistic “analysts” grunting and giggling through an entire x-rated celebration of violence against women didn’t even draw a chirp from ESPN’s wussified leaders,” Palin wrote. “Look it up; I don’t want to have to recount it.”

Palin also defended Schilling’s tweet, saying there was nothing wrong with it except that the numbers were off.

“Reports show it’s 88% of Egyptian Muslims favoring DEATH for anyone who leaves Islam,” she wrote. “The majority of Muslims in many other places share the sentiment. In America, these views could be correctly described as ‘extreme.’

“The difference between Hitler’s army and the genocidal maniacs of ISIS is that the jihadists don’t have as much power… yet.”

She closed her argument by accusing ESPN of buying into the propaganda of ISIS and other terror organizations because they denied the accuracy of Schilling’s tweet and would rather concentrate on liberal global politics instead of sports.

Schilling did delete the tweet and apologized for it.