At Breitbart Radio host Curt Schilling to the growing list of former Paul Nehlen supporters who have cut ties with the Wisconsin businessman and challenger to Republican Paul Ryan:
@pnehlen Spent better part of last night/today catching up on your post-interview antics. Can't give a platform to a man that is A) So ignorant as to be in need of help and/or B) A fascist making no attempt to cover up his beliefs. No positive benefit to giving you air time
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) December 30, 2017
Nehlen tweeted back, “The implosion of BreitbartNews continues…”:
https://twitter.com/pnehlen/status/947216374539137025?
Schilling’s move comes after reports of Steve Bannon cutting all ties with Nehlen:
REPORT: Paul Nehlen is 'deader than dead' to Breitbart, Steve Bannon https://t.co/5mdOKq47fx
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 27, 2017
Before this tweet, Schilling had been defending putting Nehlen on the air:
This is interesting @gehrig38. You called me an "idiot" and a "liar" last night because I suggested that it was problematic you were giving @pnehlen a platform next Wednesday. https://t.co/qQtaIarQAD https://t.co/erWiMCzofO
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 30, 2017
Some of Schilling followers weren’t happy with the decision, but the former major league star was having none of it:
I've had him on twice, supported him too. The stuff since then will destroy any chance he has of winning, and he has, imo, made a concerted effort to tie himself to groups that ARE racist and anti-semitic. I don't need him on the show to know what he did or said.
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) December 30, 2017
Censored? Please. What he's done the past few weeks has been an effort to associate himself with folks who are racist, anti-semitic and just overall scum. I'm not a fan of any of that crap. No sense giving a platform to 'rationalize' the ideology
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) December 30, 2017
Not at all. He wants to openly and comfortably tie himself to those folks then feel free. I think it's stupid, but that's just me. He can go somewhere else to rationalize the stuff.
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) December 30, 2017
Seriously? If you have to ask I cannot help.
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) December 30, 2017
Win favor? You clearly don't know me. Nothing more than not giving a guy a platform to rationalize the idiocy that followed my offering support and a platform. He's doing the exact thing he professes to be pissed at. That's as liberal as anything alive.
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) December 30, 2017
Not enough $ in Disney to make that happen, ever
— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) December 30, 2017
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