Influential conservative Iowa radio host Steve Deace likened ESPN to Nazis after the sports network suspended former Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling as a commentator for posting an Islamaphobic meme to his Facebook page. In an August 28 article for the Conservative Review, Deace wrote that the network's executive "brown shirts" (sic) -- a reference to the Nazi's feared Sturmabteilung assault division -- were overreacting to Schilling's post, a meme likening Muslims to Nazis.