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Suns Beat Writer Gets Fired After Series of Controversial Charlie Kirk Posts
New York Post ^ | Sep. 11, 2025 | Dylan Svoboda

Posted on 09/12/2025 4:55:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway

An NBA beat writer was fired over social media comments he made on the death of Charlie Kirk.

Gerald Bourguet, a Suns beat reporter for PHNX Sports, wrote a series of posts on X that set off an uproar on the platform after the conservative political commentator was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

“’Political differences’ are not the same thing as spewing hateful rhetoric on a daily basis, and refusing to mourn a life devoted to that cause is not the same thing as celebrating gun violence,” Bourguet’s X thread on Wednesday began. “Just so we’re 100% clear on that.” “If you’re saddened by today’s ‘political violence,’ horrified by the video, or repulsed by my response, ask yourself why your reaction was different when it came to school shootings, mass deportations or the HUNDREDS of videos of horrific murders in Gaza (which Kirk cheered on),” Bourguet wrote in another post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: charliekirk; democratterrorism; democratterrorists; media; suns
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1 posted on 09/12/2025 4:55:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

At least part of that screed is slanderous.


2 posted on 09/12/2025 4:58:25 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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Charlie Kirk NEVER spewed hateful rhetoric! So tired of this foul canard!


3 posted on 09/12/2025 4:58:35 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: nickcarraway

Slap my hand, black soul man.


4 posted on 09/12/2025 4:58:40 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: nickcarraway

Like I said on another thread, I refuse to get angry. Instead I will email, DM or send a message on Twitter/X thanking these psychopathic leftists for showing their true colors and helping Republicans sweep the midterms and probably the next 50 elections.


5 posted on 09/12/2025 4:59:47 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: nickcarraway

Get a load of this...

There’s a GoFundMe for mister newly unemployed.

About 11 grand so far.

Lefties don’t like to put their money where their mouths are, do they...


6 posted on 09/12/2025 5:01:03 PM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: nickcarraway

Lib hate speech is commonplace.


7 posted on 09/12/2025 5:02:15 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: nickcarraway

Man, the unemployment rate next month will go through the roof - I hope these wastes of space go through the roof as well.


8 posted on 09/12/2025 5:02:19 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: nickcarraway

Start preparing the DC monument for Charlie Kirk.


9 posted on 09/12/2025 5:03:28 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Suns Beat Writer

Well, good for them -- but I think we'd all like a piece of that action.

10 posted on 09/12/2025 5:06:26 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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You don’t agree with the crazy left, it’s hateful speech.

F them.


11 posted on 09/12/2025 5:06:30 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Libloather

They probably can’t do that - it would be repeatedly vandalized.


12 posted on 09/12/2025 5:10:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Flaming Conservative

You forget...ANYTHING the left disagrees with is hateful. The mere fact that Charlie Kirk spoke out and engaged them effectively makes him hateful. That’s their twisted worldview.


13 posted on 09/12/2025 5:13:24 PM PDT by rottndog (Posse Comitatus does not Trump the Constitution. )
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To: nickcarraway

It’s good they reveal themselves and suffer consequences. Keep it up, libtards.


14 posted on 09/12/2025 5:17:39 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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The now unemployed Mr Bourguet...


15 posted on 09/12/2025 5:19:01 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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Charlie Kirk NEVER spewed hateful rhetoric! So tired of this foul canard!

You are right, but it does not matter. These morons were told he did by their Masters. That’s all that matters. The truth is immaterial to them. They follow instructions.

16 posted on 09/12/2025 5:27:32 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: nickcarraway; Flaming Conservative; GrandJediMasterYoda; JerseyDvl; ClearCase_guy; rottndog

I don’t get angry, but at one time I had a hunting license for communists. It was like an elk tag. It was only good in a particular region and only for a particular time, but at least there was no bag limit. At times like this though, I keep hoping a new one will show up in the mail.


17 posted on 09/12/2025 5:32:21 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Rummyfan

That shirt makes him look like a fag.


18 posted on 09/12/2025 5:41:02 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant (“They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”)
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To: nickcarraway

So I created this video (via GROK). and it’s getting all kinds of reactions. Lots of love reacts, but the comments are mostly vial and disgusting. So I take those and send them to Conservatives who are exposing these asses to their community and employer.

Take a look...and feel free to dox anyone of them you see fit to dox.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BGdrr81tf/


19 posted on 09/12/2025 5:53:29 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (ui)
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To: Retain Mike

Yup...spent a couple of years out on the hunt...been places that most of us didn’t even know where we were. Different world back then.


20 posted on 09/12/2025 6:03:01 PM PDT by rottndog (Posse Comitatus does not Trump the Constitution. )
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