Curt Schilling tweets about shirt touting violence against media
Former Red Sox pitcher and potential politician Curt Schilling signaled Monday that he thinks a T-shirt about hanging journalists is amusing, calling the shirt “awesome.”
“So much awesome,” Schilling said on Twitter, including a photo of a man wearing the T-shirt that went viral on Sunday.
Ok, so much awesome here… pic.twitter.com/qx5rbW2cop
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) November 7, 2016
{mosads}Schilling — who all but announced a 2018 run against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) last month — quickly faced criticism for the tweet.
He defended his remarks, arguing the T-shirt and his original comment was meant sarcastically.
@BossGleinser Seriously? You think you need to ask if this is sarcasm? If you think you have to ask, any of you, you suck at sarcasm
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) November 7, 2016
He also repeatedly tweeted out a video of Australian-born comedian Steve Hughes’s skit on taking political correctness too far.
The Reuters photo taken of a man wearing the T-shirt at a Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rally in Minnesota went viral earlier this week after a Washington Post reporter shared the image on Twitter.
Zazzle, a website that sold the shirt, told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday that it was no longer being sold amid backlash over its message.
A Suffolk University/Boston Globe survey released late last month found Schilling — who supports Trump — trailing Warren by more than 30 points in a hypothetical matchup.
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