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 CNNs 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 didnt 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. Trumps 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 Hannitys 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. Carusones 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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Now days, you can’t even call a spade a shovel.
He forgot that only BLACK supremacists can be praised.
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