“A Nice School Shooting” — And Then It Gets Worse. And Even Worse.
by tristero
There doesn’t seem to be a bottom to the rightwing. Or to how far the mainstream press will go to attempt to normalize them. This would have seemed to be as low as it could get:
The conservative married couple’s afternoon talk show on KNUS in Denver had been going for a half-hour on Tuesday when the husband made a remark that alarmed his wife, stunned their listeners — and soon cost them their jobs.
“All right, Chuck Bonniwell, Julie Hayden here, a little after 1:30, talking about the never-ending impeachment of Donald Trump,” Mr. Bonniwell said on the air. “Yeah, you wish for a nice school shooting to interrupt the monopoly—”
Well, openly wishing for a “nice school shooting” got them yanked from the air, like pronto.
Good, right? Nope.The station still had to fill up that air time. So who did they pick?
On Thursday, to replace the canceled “Chuck and Julie Show,” KNUS began airing a show hosted by Sebastian Gorka…
A group with alleged historical links to Nazi Germany has told NBC News it was “proud” when President Donald Trump’s deputy assistant wore its medal.
Controversy has swirled around Sebastian Gorka, one of Trump’s top counterterrorism advisers, ever since he attended the president’s Jan. 20 Inaugural Ball wearing the honorary medal of Hungarian nationalist organization Vitezi Rend…
… members of the organization were likely complicit in the murder of some of the hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews toward the end of World War II.
That’s right. The radio station replaced a guy who was yearning for “a nice school shooting” with a man who, in the White House, wore medals linked to a Nazi-aligned group implicated in the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews.
And then it gets even worse. Because this is how the NY Times described Sebastian Gorka:
On Thursday, to replace the canceled “Chuck and Julie Show,” KNUS began airing a show hosted by Sebastian Gorka, a hard-line conservative who was briefly an adviser to Mr. Trump before being forced out in August 2017.
The Times thinks Sebastian Gorka is “a hard-line conservative?” Are they out of their minds?
A “hard-line conservative” is to Sebastian Gorka as rotted shark is to dog poop. Yes, rotted shark is utterly revolting, but eating dog shit can kill you.
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