Schilling praises 'awesome' shirt promoting lynching journalists
Curt Schilling, the relentlessly political former All-Star who announced last month his plans to run for the senate in 2018, praised in a since-deleted tweet a man who attended a Donald Trump rally wearing a shirt that promoted the lynching of journalists.

When one Twitter user called out Schilling, a fervent Republican, for his "poisonous rhetoric," the former Boston Red Sox star encouraged them to get off the Internet "if a shirt makes you need a safe space."
"My goodness shut up," Schilling wrote. "It's a T-shirt, and in today's world if that makes you need a safe space get off the Internet."
Dan Haren, the recently retired three-time All-Star, was able to find some levity in the situation.
Ketchup. Sock. World Series.
— dan haren (@ithrow88) November 8, 2016
Some assembly required https://t.co/cEKpdHst1x
Schilling's politics have gotten him into trouble before. Last year, Schilling was suspended by ESPN for a racist tweet in which he compared Muslims to Nazis, and the 49-year-old was fired by the network in April after he shared an anti-transgender meme on Facebook.
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