Posted on 04/04/2022 11:08:34 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
A ‘conservative’ radio station caves to the mob.
I am no stranger to cancel culture — or what we know more commonly (and accurately, in my opinion) as censorship.
When I was one of a handful of conservatives on a liberal college campus, my peers on the left reported me to our resident advisor for “creating an unsafe environment” and demanded the administration step in to cancel speaker events I hosted through the College Republicans. They later would ask the university to revoke my degree. Throughout my six years as a political journalist and commentator, left-wing activists have tried every trick in the book to drive me out of the industry: digging up old tweets, demeaning my appearance and harassing my employers.
None of it has worked… until now.
About a month ago today, I posted a tweet during the State of the Union address poking fun at Vice President Kamala Harris’s outfit. Harris wore a chocolate brown business suit that was panned on social media — some users compared her to a Hershey’s chocolate bar, while others wondered why she wore the same color as her chair. I went for a UPS joke, featuring the company’s now retired slogan:
“Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently.”
No one had a problem with the tweet until a few days later, when I spoke critically of protests in favor of “trans kids” at the University of North Texas. A group of maniacal left-wing activists who want to chemically castrate children in the name of “gender affirmation” came after me. All of a sudden, the Kamala tweet was being re-framed as racist and dozens of Twitter accounts were bragging about contacting my employers about my “bigotry.”
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It’s odd that I couldn’t find it on YouTube but there was an hour-long BBC (I think) special on how the Nazis dealt with humor. It featured a pair of present-day comedians reading jokes from Nazi Germany and people being interviewed about what had happened to family members who had told jokes. Death for telling a joke was not uncommon. As was imprisonment even in the extermination camps. So, jokes where no laughing matter as Nazis can’t take being laughed at. One man had an act featuring several chimps. One night a Nazi officer asked if he could teach the chimps to salute and he said yes. As soon as the chimp saluted a Nazi everyone laughed, and the man was called up and sent to the Russian front where he died.
I remember Grandy.
Sorry to hear that’s what happened.
“Jealousy”, says the Devil, “is my favorite sin.”
Ms Gross and Mrs Boss
She so attractive she has to tone it down ... way down
Men want her and women envy her
Do I really have to add the ???
Amber was on with Dan Bongino today & she’ll be on again with him again soon...
And she looks like a HoHo.
Apologies to Hostess. HoHo’s are one of my weaknesses.
Especially frozen ones.
I cannot fathom WHY anyone would dress like Michelle obama did.
That has to rank up there with the most hideous outfits I have ever seen.
It reminds me of a pork roast that is wrapped in that stretchy, elastic netting.
Turd colored. Very appropriate
Tell that to the employer.
Her comment was minor. Typical of commentator banter. This is exceedingly childish to fire someone based on this innocuous statement.
She should sue. We should all sue based on these absurd PC reactionary sensitivities.
Yech. That dress of banded yellow is absolutely hideous. But it’s “incredible”!
And Melanie’s was a coat, not a jacket…and completely sedate and classy.
Amber Athey
Now that's LOL funny.
Oh my gawd, she looks like a whore. First Lady Melania, on the other hand looks the true First Lady that she was. I wished she were back again instead of that so-called doctor. (spelled in lower case on purpose.
“ Chris Plante is an embarrassment, anyway.”
“ Chris Plante? Do they also have that phony conservative Hugh Hewwit?”
You grumps should listen to his show. It could make you more personable. It’s live on WMAL (9-12 Eastern) or you can hear his show’s podcast at any time.
Chris Plante is the finest conservative media analyst on air, and is gifted with a great memory, a fine sense of humor, and global experience. You apparently don’t like any of those. However, most normal people enjoy his show.
You are right about Sirius XM on weekends. I can’t stand Sonnie’s Corner on Saturday at noon. It’s a show hosted by a supposed black conservative woman who rants through the whole show about how conservatives are failing blacks.
I suspect the first association of most English speakers would be ‘clouds.’
Yeah, I like Chris Plante.
I love how 90% of the comments here are about everything but the point of the story, which is that a “conservative” radio station fired a host that goofed on Harris.
Carry on, freepers.
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