Posted on 10/30/2024 9:11:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Hill’s “Rising” co-host Amber Duke walked off set after her co-host Nomiki Konst said Duke “made Nazi comments in the past.”
“Rising is shorter than usual today because I chose not to continue sitting at a desk with someone who falsely accused me of ‘Nazi writings’ because they were losing an argument,” Duke, who previously worked as the Daily Caller’s White House Correspondent, tweeted Tuesday.
“I think I have been unfathomably patient with my cohost but everyone has a line,” she wrote.
The pair were discussing a controversy surrounding former CNN contributor Ryan Gidursky’s dismissal from the network when Konst said “you’ve made Nazi comments in the past, I’m not gonna bring that up.”
Duke defended herself. “I haven’t made Nazi comments,” she retorted.
“After the segment was over my cohost started screaming and insisting I had done Nazi writings while working for the Daily Caller. We got into it once before off air but nothing like this. It was incredibly toxic,” Duke told the Daily Caller.
“I left because I won’t sit at a desk with someone who would seriously accuse me of Nazism. Oddly enough, I took my rosary with me to the studio and set it next to my computer this morning because I had a feeling something bad was going to happen. I think it’s the only way I was able to stay relatively calm throughout the ordeal,” she concluded.
The spat stemmed from their Gidursky discourse after he jokingly told pro-Palestinian commentator Medhi Hasan’s he hopes his “beeper doesn’t go off” during a Monday episode of CNN‘s “News Night With Abby Phillip.”
The joke was likely a reference to the mass-pager explosions that Israel allegedly orchestrated against members of the terrorist organization Hezbollah based in Lebanon. Girdusky made the comment after Hasan quipped “if you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop … saying things.”
The Daily Caller reached out to Rising and Konst for comment but did not hear back by time of publication.
She should’ve never retreated. She should’ve demanded an apology.
Just accuse Nomiki Konst of sexually molesting black babies on many occasions.
CW-II is coming. Sad, but true.
After Trump wins in a landslide, you won’t be able to live with these people. One can tolerate so much.
We’re through being cool.
What the hell is a Nomilki Konst?
Nomiki Konst is a garbage human.
They are seething because they can feel their defeat.
Buy a “u” and delete the “o” and the “s”.
so the guy who supports nazi supporters, gets to stay on CNN afer calling someone else a nazi, but the guy who makes a pretty funny joke gets kicked off.
I’m sure there has to be an umlaut there somewhere.
In this election, anyone who votes Democrat is not a friend of mine. How can anyone support the weaponization of the DOJ and FBI in the 2020 election and subsequent and the censoring their opponents? The establishment has gone too far and if someone can’t recognize it and votes Democrat, I don’t want to waste any of my remaining time with them.
One major reason they hate Trump so much, is that Trump normalized treating disrespectful people with open contempt.
They can’t deal with being mocked.
The left’s dehumanization campaign marches on. At least more and more people are getting to see how evil and intolerant these leftists are.
And of course CNN in their extremism and unfairness would fire the person making a joke and not the one defaming others as Nazis. The left, as usual, flips all traditional morality on its head.
“Jane you ignorant slut.”
Nomiki Konst Is a leftist white woman who has a black sounding name.
CW-II is coming. Sad, but true.
Im not sad, because I’m tired of pretending and placating the left. Its time we either split from them or we fight them. Im F’ing tired of dealing with these wastes of space everyday and just experiencing their 3 year old non stop tantrums.
I like the pager line. I hope I get to use it
There are a lot of negative descriptions that are no longer tolerated by society, we need to add Nazi, fascist to the list.
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