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riversedge

(80,815 posts)
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 07:43 PM Oct 2016

Curt Schilling Joins Breitbart

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Source: nymag.co




October 23, 2016 11:35 a.m.


Curt Schilling Joins Breitbart
By Gabriel Sherman





Schilling and Bannon during SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Patriot Forum in April. Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM

With it looking increasingly unlikely Donald Trump will be heading to the White House, the prospect that he will partner with his campaign CEO, Breitbart executive chair Steve Bannon, to launch a Trump TV network seems more and more probable. In the meantime, the right-wing website is staffing up with potential on-air talent.

On Monday, Breitbart plans to announce that former Red Sox pitcher and Trump supporter Curt Schilling will begin hosting a daily online radio show featuring political commentary and calls from listeners. The broadcast will eventually include a video livestream. The show marks Schilling’s return to media six months after ESPN fired him for sharing an anti-transgender Facebook post with a message that read: “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.”

“He got kicked off ESPN for his conservative views. He’s a really talented broadcaster,” Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow said.

Schilling’s jump to Breitbart will give him a national platform as he prepares to challenge Elizabeth Warren for her Senate seat in 2018.................

Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/curt-schilling-joins-breitbart.html



One thing Trump did was to usher in alt-right media showing up as normal news.


I now google 'Hillary news" and daily caller and Breitbart news articles show up. damn!
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apcalc

(4,528 posts)
1. They look like brothers.....hmmmmmm.
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 07:48 PM
Oct 2016

LiberalLovinLug

(14,689 posts)
6. All the crazy wingnuts start to look the same after awhile
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 04:31 AM
Oct 2016

Pastey skin. Frightened looking beady eyes and the forced shakey smile.

gordianot

(15,772 posts)
2. Impressed they got off the couch and must have walked out in the sunlight.
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 07:53 PM
Oct 2016

Someone's basement is empty.

Mc Mike

(9,260 posts)
3. Bannon looks like a homeless man, who's a bit sickly,
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 08:25 PM
Oct 2016

and extremely weathered by constant overexposure to the elements.

Midnight Writer

(25,410 posts)
5. Which describes Breitbart's appearance in his last days. Are they living the same life?
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 12:56 AM
Oct 2016

PSPS

(15,322 posts)
4. This was already posted in LBN
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 08:43 PM
Oct 2016

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
7. Duplicate topic - Locking
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 04:51 AM
Oct 2016
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