Posted on 08/14/2017 1:06:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Jeffrey Lord, the indefatigable defender of President Trump whose advocacy turned him into an unlikely political celebrity, was fired by CNN on Thursday after a convoluted Twitter exchange in which he evoked — mockingly, he said — a Nazi salute.
Mr. Lord received the news by telephone while on his way to CNN’s Manhattan studio in a town car provided by the network, which ferried him from his home near Harrisburg, Pa.
After Mr. Lord, 66, learned that his contract had been severed, the car turned around. “I didn’t have to walk; I thanked them for that,” he said in a telephone interview from the road.
While Mr. Lord was often castigated by critics for his relentless lobbying on Mr. Trump’s behalf — he was once rebuked on air by Anderson Cooper in particularly crude terms — it was a social media squabble that led to his ouster.
Mr. Lord had recently accused Angelo Carusone, president of the liberal watchdog site Media Matters, of emulating fascists by calling for sponsors to boycott Sean Hannity’s Fox News show. When Mr. Carusone responded on Thursday on Twitter, Mr. Lord posted the words “Sieg Heil!”, a response that he said was meant to mock Mr. Carusone’s behavior.
CNN executives did not view it that way. “Nazi salutes are indefensible,” the network said in a terse statement. “Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.”
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Oh, the irony.
Democrats are indeed fascists.
Definitely Socialists to be sure. Nationalist not so much. Globalist.
The term Nazi needs to be retired. There are so many applicable descriptions.
Irony is a ford too far for CNN.
Ponder that, you’ll get it eventually.
Which is exactly what it was, but apparently this NYT writer is too dim-witted to understand that. The Left obviously has their marching orders from the powers that be, to the point of looking stupid in carrying out those orders.
Didn’t Podesta say in one of his emails that whenever you are losing a debate just call the other person a Nazi? I’m sure if we go back a couple months there are dozens of examples of liberals calling people Nazis. But, I guess they didn’t mock them with a salute so it’s allowed.
Nazi salute is Roman, maybe it goes father back than that, in fact we had it here before the nazis came into power. Would they get excited with a closed raise fist, which killed many more under it, than with the nazis? Duuuuh! We know the answer.
“Democrats are indeed fascists.”
My former employer, General Dynamics, had a poster of weird colored Gumby looking characters in a circle. (They were featureless and their arms came to a point instead of hands. Their colors represented all except Caucasians and there was a purple/blue guy. I’m not sure what race he represented.) The poster read; “Strength and joy through diversity.” I recall seeing a Nazi poster that read: “Peace and strength through victory.” The parallel was striking.
I looked up the info printed on the bottom and it was a company that produced diversity training, counseling and consulting services for schools and industry. All of their stuff made me nauseous.
It’s okay to call a Republican a Nazi but don’t dare call a Nazi a Nazi.
i guess this won’t be on CNN for a while
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPXHRX8Q2hs
I remember when he was a conservaqtive.
They’ll say it was a production for the Republican convention.
One would think Ana Cabera would also be fired for saying “ Call a spade a spade”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9gXwilwizo
Obviously there was nothing wrong in the manner in which he referred to a Nazi salute, he was indicating that Nazi like behavior is totally unacceptable and inappropriate.
This is a low even for the NYT.
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