Former baseball pitcher, racist, transphobe, and all-around hard to deal with personality Curt Schilling was on Fox Business with host Trish Regan. She brought him on because he’s still a semi-celebrity, and he’s also a conservative. After an awkward opening where Schilling decided he was going to take over the conversation and talk about the video/audio of Donald Trump pointing out a 10-year-old girl and saying that he will be dating her in 10 years, this exchange happened.
Schilling: The things he said about the 10-year-old girl to me is at the very heart of why this is a problem. How many times—and I I have three boys and a daughter—how many times have you looked at a young man and said, “Wow, he’s going to be a beautiful young man,” “Wow, he's a gorgeous young man,” and that man was 12, 13, 14, 15—
Regan: I’ll be honest. Zero.
Schilling calls her a liar and on one level he’s right. He wants to make the false equivalency of someone telling you your child is a good-looking child to be the same as saying, “Hey Curt, your 10-year-old is hot, maybe I can sleep with him in 10 years!” Regan hits back and as Schilling drowns in his own crapulence, she drops this beauty on him.
Regan: You’re on your own on this one.
At this point, Curt Schilling, if his brain wasn’t a big bowl of fear and bitterness, might have cut bait and said something along the lines of “I think we are miscommunicating.” However, he doesn’t because, well, he’s a man! Trish Regan continues to say to him, that saying a kid is beautiful is one thing but adding on, as Donald Trump did, that you would like to date the 10-year-old you’re talking about is … gross. Schilling realizes, too late, that his skills of rhetoric are inferior to Trish Regan’s.
Schilling: Trish, I’m not gonna ask you how old you are but I’m going to guess in all your years of life you’ve said a few things and gone over the edge and said things, but you know what I probably shouldn’t have said that.
Regan tries her darnedest to save this right-wing interview, since Schilling just inadvertently made the case for a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Regan: I'll give me that he has a tendency to do that a lot. And the question people are having—and this is his vulnerability Kurt, because this is where Hillary Clinton is able to really exploit this wedge here because she's saying he says a lot of crazy stuff do you really want someone who says this kind of crazy stuff being the president of the united?
I can answer that. No, most Americans don’t. Unfortunately, Regan asked the final three brain cells in Curt Schilling’s head the question and his response was a blathering of this “simple question.”
Would you rather have someone you speaks in a way that makes you uncomfortable and has said things that you think are despicable and reprehensible, or do you want someone who has actually done those things.
He goes on to whistle a word salad with words like “Benghazi” and “Haiti” and “husband’s affairs.” It makes you wonder if Schilling was super duper hungover. If this is a part of Curt Schilling’s plan to run in eight years he is definitely speaking about 30-40 percent of the Republican base’s language these days. Update below as well.
UPDATE: Curt Schilling called into Boston sports radio WEEI today and continued his unhinged ranting. You can listen to it here.
H/T Deadspin.