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BainsBane

(53,003 posts)
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 08:08 AM Aug 2017

Jeffrey Lord, Trump Defender on CNN, Is Fired for Using Nazi Slogan

The article is dated 8/10, so he was fired before this weekend's protests.


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.”



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/business/media/jeffrey-lord-fired-trump-cnn-nazis.html
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Jeffrey Lord, Trump Defender on CNN, Is Fired for Using Nazi Slogan (Original Post) BainsBane Aug 2017 OP
It's about time. That man is abominable. shraby Aug 2017 #1
Indeed BainsBane Aug 2017 #2
The racism he spouted for the past three years wasn't enough jrthin Aug 2017 #3
Yeah, it sounds like they used it to be rid of him. There's a lot worse they SHOULD have fired him OnDoutside Aug 2017 #5
Good riddance! smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #4
You mean the "I was joking" excuse wasn't good enough... Wounded Bear Aug 2017 #6

jrthin

(4,825 posts)
3. The racism he spouted for the past three years wasn't enough
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:28 AM
Aug 2017

to get him fired. Now we know where CNN red line is.

OnDoutside

(19,908 posts)
5. Yeah, it sounds like they used it to be rid of him. There's a lot worse they SHOULD have fired him
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:02 AM
Aug 2017

for.

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