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Palin comes down on analyst’s side in dispute over Muslim comment

Palin, the 2008 Republican Party candidate for vice president of the United States, accused ESPN of “weakness” and being “a journalistic embarrassment” for relieving Schilling of his responsibilities at the network for a social media post equating Muslim jihadists with Nazis.

“By denying the accuracy of Schilling’s tweet, ESPN shows its weakness as it buys into the propaganda of ISIS and other terror organizations, helping mislead the public about the very real threat of terrorism,” Palin said on her Facebook page, according to the Associated Press.

Schilling, a retired baseball star with the Philadelphia Phillies, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Boston Red Sox, apologized for his remark and deleted it from the web shortly after it appeared.

But ESPN removed Schilling from his latest assignment, covering the Little League World Series, and from his regular role on the network’s weekly “Sunday Night Baseball” wrapup program.

The network offered no indication of whether or how the incident might affect Schilling’s future at ESPN, the AP said.

Palin, herself a former commentator on Fox News and a former sportscaster in Anchorage, AK, unexpectedly came to Schilling’s defense on Friday after the Twitter comment came to light.

Palin said ESPN had lost its credibility “as a sound and reasonable media outlet” and said “your intolerant PC police are running amok and making a joke out of you.”

PC is short for politically correct.

Palin suggested that ESPN should “stick to sports.”

But Schilling, who won 216 games in a 20-year baseball career that ended in 2009, also has lived an outspoken life.

The hard-throwing righthander, who was a star on three world championship teams was a six-time All-Star, was known for arguments with management, teammates and baseball writers, including exchanges with Barry Bonds, Manny Ramirez and Mitch Williams, as well as writing a controversial blog.

But Schilling, a throat cancer survivor, also sponsored a foundation that donated tens of thousands of dollars to research into wiping out ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the debilitating nerve disease that shortened the career of and killed baseball great Lou Gehrig and afflicts renowned physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking.

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