Curt Schilling Calls BuzzFeed 'Lying Ass Cowards' for Alex Jones Coverage

Curt Schilling isn’t pleased with BuzzFeed’s coverage of Alex Jones.

The former Boston Red Sox pitcher and outspoken conservative took to Twitter on Friday to criticize a BuzzFeed story centering on Megyn Kelly’s upcoming NBC News interview with the “Info Wars” founder.

“HA! @BuzzFeed has the balls to say someone else plays ‘loose and fast’ with truth? Really? Lying ass cowards,” Schilling wrote in a reply to the website’s tweet.

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The Breitbart personality’s ire stemmed from the story’s suggestion that conservative media outlets have a propensity for bending the truth.

The passage that bothered Schilling reads: “An uncanny ability to hijack the news is a trait that Jones shares with the pro-Trump media that he helped create. And while the pro-Trump media have a number of unfair advantages — including but not limited to playing fast and loose with the facts — the reason is largely that the movement understands the internet far better than its mainstream counterpart.”

Jones leaked an audio recording on Thursday from his interview with Kelly ahead of his appearance on this weekend’s episode of “Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly.” Jones does not want NBC to air the segment and feels that Kelly misinterpreted his thoughts on the Sandy Hook attack.

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Kelly and the network have been the subjects of criticism for giving a platform to the polarizing conspiracy theorist.

Schilling has proven in recent years that he has no qualms about speaking his mind.

ESPN fired him as a baseball analyst in April 2016 after he received flak for an anti-transgender meme he posted to Facebook. The network had previously suspended him in 2015 after he posted a Twitter meme comparing Muslim Jihadism to Nazi Germany.

HA! @BuzzFeed has the balls to say someone else plays "loose and fast" with truth? Really? https://t.co/GKKdwpApDp Lying ass cowards

— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) June 16, 2017

Trump's Relationship to Alex Jones: A Breakdown (Photos)

The recent backlash against Megyn Kelly and NBC for interviewing Alex Jones has renewed the spotlight on the host of conservative show "Info Wars." Kelly said in a statement Tuesday that she wanted to interview Jones because of his ties with President Donald Trump. Here's a breakdown of their relationship.
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Trump and Jones began a relationship on Trump's campaign trail, and have peddled some of the same conspiracy theories, according to Mother Jones. Perhaps Trump's most popular conspiracy theory is that President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States (he was), a theory also perpetuated by Jones.
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In December 2015, Trump was a guest on Jones' show. Jones introduced Trump as "a maverick" who "tells it like it is." Jones opened the show by praising Trump for taking attacks from media outlets like the Washington Post and the New York Post. Jones theorizes that the attacks on 9/11 were a hoax; it was surprising that a Republican candidate would go on a show whose host postures that the previous Republican president was part of such an elaborate hoax.
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At a January 2016 campaign event, Trump called Jones "a nice guy."
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In February 2016, senior policy advisor to Trump Stephen Miller appeared on "Info Wars," and repeatedly spoke to Jones' audience asking for support. "If you want to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, if you want to close the border, if you want to protect American jobs and wages, then you have to support Donald J. Trump," Miller said.
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"Hillary for prison" became the rallying cry at the 2016 Republican National Convention. The phrase was initially found on merchandise on the "Info Wars" website. Jones was a "special guest" at the convention.
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Trump continued to parrot Jones' ideas. Last August, Jones said, "It is surreal to talk about issues here on air, and then word-for-word hear Trump say it two days later."
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Also last August, Jones said on his show that he personally talked to Trump and encouraged him to push the idea that the election would be rigged. Trump did end up pushing this idea. "I'm afraid the election's going to be rigged. I have to be honest," Trump said at an Ohio campaign stop.
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In November 2016, Trump's advisor Roger Stone told the Washington Post that Jones would be a "valuable asset" to Trump.
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After the election, Jones said in an "Info Wars" video that Trump called him to thank him. "I wanted to talk to you to thank your audience," Jones said the then-president-elect told him.
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Even Hillary Clinton weighed in on Trump's reliance on Jones for ideas throughout the campaign, and released an attack ad featuring Jones. "This is what Trump listens to," says the ad as Jones talks about chemicals put in the water to make people gay.
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Jones' website is full of references to "presstitutes," and discredits news organizations like NPR and CNN. Trump is known for discrediting several news organizations. For example, in February he called the media "the enemy."
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POTUS calls conspiracy theorist profiled by Megyn Kelly ”a nice guy“

The recent backlash against Megyn Kelly and NBC for interviewing Alex Jones has renewed the spotlight on the host of conservative show "Info Wars." Kelly said in a statement Tuesday that she wanted to interview Jones because of his ties with President Donald Trump. Here's a breakdown of their relationship.

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Trump's Relationship to Alex Jones: A Breakdown (Photos)

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