Posted on 08/10/2017 2:21:24 PM PDT by LadyBuzz
CNN ended its relationship with political commentator Jeffrey Lord after he tweeted “Sieg Heil” on Thursday.
“Nazi salutes are indefensible,” a CNN spokesperson said in a statement. “Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.”
4h Angelo Carusone ✔ @GoAngelo Replying to @realJeffreyLord @amspectator Your headline has a mistake in it. Why do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you don't take yourself seriously. Follow Jeff Lord @realJeffreyLord Sieg Heil! 11:51 AM - Aug 10, 2017 364 364 Replies 66 66 Retweets 40 40 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Lord has been one of President Donald Trump’s biggest backers on the network.
The tweet was directed at Angelo Carusone, the president of Media Matters for America. Lord wrote an op-ed calling Media Matters a “fascist” group for launching a campaign to get advertisers for Fox News’ Sean Hannity to pull their support for him.
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
Das var schnell!...............
I dont know what the context of this was, but I really wish people would stop tweeting stupid stuff like that, even as a joke. It’s the nuclear button to run you out on a rail regardless of your point.
The Left has no sense of humor. They are out for blood. They don’t play. It is a death sport to them.
The guy broke Godwin’s Law, but it’s pretty clear it was sarcasm and not the real thing.
Wiki stuff on Lord.....
Political commentator[edit]
In July 2010, after Shirley Sherrod stated that one of her relatives had been lynched in the 1940s, Lord wrote an article in the American Spectator pointing out that the man in question had actually been beaten to death by police officers. Lord questioned Sherrod’s “veracity and credibility”.[8] He faced substantial criticism as a result,[9][10][11] including criticism from other contributors to American Spectator.[12][13]
In August 2011, Lord wrote an article in the American Spectator in which he was critical of Congressman Ron Paul (Republican, Texas), and of the views of some of Ron Paul’s supporters.[14] The article sparked considerable debate within the conservative movement.[15]
In May 2012, Lord wrote an article in The American Spectator in which he compared President Barack Obama with Mao Zedong because of the similarities between Barack Obama’s slogan “Forward” and Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward.[16] In the same article, he also compared Obama with the Hitler Youth due to their song “Vorwärts! Vorwärts!” (”Forward, Forward!”).
In February 2015, Lord called upon the Republican Party to demand an apology from the Democratic Party for its role in promoting and defending slavery and creating the segregationist Jim Crow system.[17]
In June 2015, Lord wrote an open letter to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the head of the U.S. Democratic Party, asking her to apologize for her party’s role in Indian removal, in promoting and defending slavery, in Confederate secession, and in creating segregationist Jim Crow regimes. Lord asserted that the Democrats’ historical support for such institutions contributed, and continues to contribute, to the existence of racism and bigotry in American society.[18]
In March 2016, during a Super Tuesday election night on CNN, an argument ensued for several minutes between Lord and a CNN contributor, Van Jones, about Lord’s defense of Donald Trump. The argument came about when a fellow contributor, conservative commentator S. E. Cupp, accused Trump of “crazy, dog whistle policy proposals”, that she believed he had made to attract prejudiced voters,[19] and because Trump had hesitated to disavow KKK member David Duke in a CNN interview the previous weekend. Lord responded that the KKK many decades earlier had supported Democrats and that the KKK was therefore left wing. He accused those who raised these worries of dividing Americans by race.[20] Van Jones questioned the relevance of the first point and declared the second point “absurd”. Lord responded that “history matters”, that Democrats continue to divide citizens by race today, and that doing so is “morally wrong”.[21]
In April 2017, on a CNN discussion program hosted by Don Lemon and featuring three other panelists including CNN commentator Symone Sanders, Lord maintained, as he had on an earlier CNN program, that President Donald Trump was the “Martin Luther King” of health care, explicitly comparing and equating Trump tactics to King tactics. This infuriated both Lemon and Sanders. Lemon ended the program in frustration and disgust after a few more minutes of discussion.[22]
CNN fired Lord on August 10, 2017, after he tweeted a Nazi salute of “Sieg Heil!” to Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America. [23]
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Good for Lord. Not sure how he lasted so long on the Fake News Network as he did.
Lord was way too smart to be on that channel.
Just commie salutes allowed.
Alau-Akbar would have gotten a pass.
Just another brick out of the wall. Soon, all that will be left of the CNN wall will be scattered bricks. Especially when the AT&T merger gets done. CBS is hinting it will pick up the pieces but their brand is worse.
"The tweet was directed at Angelo Carusone, the president of Media Matters for America. Lord wrote an op-ed calling Media Matters a “fascist” group for launching a campaign to get advertisers for Fox News’ Sean Hannity to pull their support for him."
With a minimum understanding of English it is seen as an insult and not a salute.
Your sheepish advice to surrender should embarrass you.
Does anyone know that 2000 years ago, Roman Gadiators raised their right arms in a “NAZI SALUTE” and intoned loudly, Caesar, we who are about to die salute you!!”
When I was in grade school, early in WWII, in the morning we raised our RIGHT hands and pledged alliegance to the Flag of the United States of America. During the war, it was indeed changed to our current “over the heart” for obvious reasons.
I think that in historic GREECE, the same salute was normal.
In school, those who “knew the answer” were instructed to “raise your right hand.”
Are reporters raising their right arm to gain attention to ask a question giving “THAT” salute.
Bill O’Reilly set to make first appearance on CNN
http://www.kitv.com/story/36108334/bill-oreilly-set-to-make-first-appearance-on-cnn
LOL! Great post!
Jeffery and Kayleigh. Wow! On CNN, there will be no free speech allowed when it is truth.
Somebody hit the escalator...
“the man in question had actually been beaten to death by police officers.”
Talk about a distinction without a difference!
What does it matter? Eric Bolling was suspended on a completely baseless 3rd party accusation made by some hack liberal journalist.
Obviously looks like he was mocking her, while CNN seems to think he was urging a Horst Wessel sing along.
An irony here, the left has a highly refined German sense of humor: laughing time is ovah, until zomeone is zuffering.
I don’t know why CNN is “offended”.
After all, the Nazis had perfected the art of fake news 80 years ago.
Next time a CNN person makes an allusion to Nazism, we should raise hell with CNN.
Like Google, they must control thought and speech.
It “will make you free”, of course.
“Your sheepish advice to surrender should embarrass you.”
Whatever.
Your digital fist-shaking isnt getting this guy un-fired, is it?
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