Fox’s Outkick hires Curt Schilling, a QAnon and Parkland shooting conspiracy theorist

Fox Corp.’s sports property Outkick has hired Curt Schilling as a host. Schilling is a QAnon believer who has also promoted conspiracy theories about the Parkland, Florida, and Sandy Hook, Connecticut, mass shootings and shared posts attacking Muslims and trans individuals.

Schilling is a former baseball pitcher and legendarily unsuccessful businessman. He has been a political and sports commentator and has had stints at ESPN and Breitbart News. 

Outkick announced this week that it has hired Schilling to host The Curt Schilling Baseball Show. The site describes itself: “Questioning the consensus and exposing the destructive nature of ‘woke’ activism, OutKick is the antidote to the mainstream sports media that often serves an elite, left-leaning minority instead of the American sports fan.”

Right-wing conspiracy theorist and sexist commentator Clay Travis founded the site. Outkick also features Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren. Fox Corp., which owns Fox News, bought the site in 2021. Schilling appeared on the February 22 edition of Fox & Friends, where he was introduced by co-host Brian Kilmeade as “the latest superstar talent to join Outkick … welcome aboard.” 

Schilling has expressed his dislike for the family that runs Fox, the Murdochs, claiming that “the Murdoch sons are HARD CORE Hollywood liberals” and calling Rupert Murdoch conceited. He’s attacked Fox News — his new corporate sibling — for being insufficiently right-wing, saying that “Fox has joined the gaggle of things I cannot trust to be objective”; “Fox is also a very involved member of the Fake News crowd”; and “I’ve pretty much stopped caring what they think. Outside of Kilmeade, Carlson and Baier they are headed to the FAAAAAR left.” Schilling has also advocated for the lynching of journalists.