"When we invited the speechwriter for a *literal fucking neo-nazi* onto our show, we were shocked at his racist comments! We had no idea he was anything but a considerate and reasonable human being, how could we possibly have foretold he would be a blatant racist?!"
Really this should be the end of @cnn.com It’s the equivalent to showing porn to drive audience views. Or using “comics” to “accidentally” use racist tropes about Puerto Rico. Editors and campaign staff know exactly what they are doing when they book these people. cc @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Dwight Eisenhower was a Republican. He ordered the National Guard out to enforce the desegregation of Alabama schools. He also was the first to warn of the danger of the rapidly growing military/industrial complex.
This kind of hatred has been actively as well as passively encouraged for the past few decades: racism against Arabs and brown people generally, bigotry towards Muslims and Jews and anyone who thinks or prays differently.
Until consequences are normal, we'll see a lot more of this.
ugh that's almost as bad as when the pro-Palestinians were protesting the rape victims who came from Israel to speak at a Synagogue in South New Jersey.
Well, not nearly as bad as that, but still pretty bad.
This is a garbage show hosted by former respected journalist Abby Philip who is now just another media whore.
She hosts this show nightly, usually with a couple of fascists on the panel, and she runs it basically like Jerry Springer because all she cares about are ratings and her career, dumb bitch
You cannot make this up. The line beneath him of a scrambling to limit fallout from vile rally combined with a Republican "strategist" implying their guest is a terrorist. Top notch strategy work there bud.
Shame on @cnn.com for having that guy on today, and triple shame on them for having him in in the future, which they almost undoubtedly will because we're living in Hell.
Happy to see I am wrong and CNN has issued a statement that they won't have this POS back on air. But he shouldn't have been on in the first place given his history, and I have no faith they won't put on someone just as bad on the future.
I wasn't expecting to hear "counterpoint: kys" on CNN but here we are lol. Can't wait to see what they do tomorrow to solidify my moral high ground and establish a new level of force I can escalate to.
Just insane how someone can be so insulting to a man’s face for standing up against the extermination of a people the whole world has decided don’t matter. Fucking vile hateful shit.
it does feel like we're crossing into some new territory when:
1.) CNN invites a former writer for American Nazi Richard Spencer on to their roundtable
2.) the guy makes an extremely thinly veiled death threat *on live TV* and still acts like he wasn't in the wrong at all
Yeah. This is all their party has left. And all it really is at the end of the day. The through line from...fuck, who is it they say was the disciplined one. William Buckley?
Yup. Mistresses are a dime a dozen and only generate ratings because the media hypes them up. Plenty of others who could bring ratings who are not racists, Nazis or outright fascists.
Your reading comprehension seems poor. First, if Ryan had said he hoped Hasan's beeper WOULD go off, THAT would be wishing him harm. Not only did Ryan NOT wish Hasan harm, he was definitely NOT "implying he should be murdered." Your sense of humor also seems poor.
I'm more surprised that he's not getting investigated for bomb threats , he literally said and meant that , that's who Zionists are , they threaten people who disagree with them expecting zero confrontation or consequences
“Banning the mouthpieces of a racist doesn’t hurt the racist, so it shouldn’t be done. We need to hear absolutely every side of a story especially if we get some sweet views.”
A Nazi throws out a death threat aimed at Medhi Hasan and former VA Rep Scott Taylor who was caught up in an election scandal of his own and lost his seat are platformed but hey it’s must see TV
The "you know that" look she gave him was priceless. Unfortunately, I think our own nation has this SAME level of intractability and vitriol in our political divide.
THAT is the guy who thinks HE KNOWS BEST what is good for our children's education, and is trying to destroy public schools. Joking about a brown guy getting blown up by Mossad. Glad they tossed him, but now he is a martyr to MAGA. 🤮
No matter how many times I see it, I cannot believe people equivocate Palestine and Hamas and expect not to be seen as insanely bad faith while they do it.
I have seen it here, seen it on reddit, seen this cunt do it live on CNN now. I still can't grasp his disbelief at being contradicted.
Tfw ur a MAGA dude on CNN for the express purpose of trying to defend your party against racism allegations and promptly get so worked up at a British Muslim man saying your party is behaving racistly that you tell him Muslims are terrorists and should be blown up on live TV
It wasn't even a good burn it was just nasty and mean spirited; these people are angry toddlers who've never been made to grow up and take responsibility for their actions.
Holy shit, I've been seeing so many beeper comments like this, with the appropriate responses *finally* being made to the explicitly violent racism, but I haven't seen it on this large a platform.
I'm amazed at how well the director and the person running the video switcher in the control room followed the flow of the argument. It felt like "reality" TV -- that's how primed we are these days.
WTF! Extremist murderous ideology at work, how extremists have used a movement to justify a state and mass murder. Deeply concerning how very young are being brainwashed and indoctrinated into believing the right & superiority over other humans, lands etc. Started even before 1948! Nakba, history!
It’s frightening how mask off people are about their hate nowadays. After decades of them gaslighting us, they’re just torching it all to hell. You can’t out a positive spin on anything right now. It’s gonna get bad
I am very confused, because at this point Trump could literally shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose any voters... but suddenly, blatant racism is not okay?
He has also had his membership in the International Society of Ryans revoked, according to Grand Council members Gosling, Phillippe, Howard, Reynolds, Tedder and Seacrest.
I'm not sure which is funnier, Girdusky not being invited back or CNN saying it fosters debate between people "to explore important issues and promote mutual understanding."
The Xian Nationalists who now own CNN will keep Tapper, etc. on contract because of those contracts. Contracts, by the way, that were for many of these celebrity anchors, being re-negotiated at the time that CNN was purchased by the CNs. No one left to defend their principles. Not even Amanpour.
This kind of hatred has been actively as well as passively encouraged for the past few decades: racism against Arabs and brown people generally, bigotry towards Muslims and Jews and anyone who thinks or prays differently.
Until consequences are normal, we'll see a lot more of this.
And he got promoted from C-tier to B-tier on the cancel culture grifter circuit, which undeniably offers far greater professional prestige and material security.
Yeah, that’s pretty obvious. CNN has repeatedly demonstrated just in the past couple months they will happily promote racism whenever they think they can get away with it
Because contrary to their disingenuous response, he DOES represent the shit CNN supports. The only real reason he’s been kicked to the curb is there’s no plausible deniability/convenient excuse for them to hide behind.
Going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they assumed like traditional vampires he couldn't enter without their express invitation and they wanted to reach the monster demographic this close to Halloween
"This Project Veritas Nazi-adjacent provocateur we invited onto a panel to generate incendiary commentary will not be welcomed back. We'll find another one."
CNN: “Hey we knew this guy was a racist, Nazi loving piece of shit and we were perfectly happy to have him be a horrible racist and lie on air about others. But we never excepted him to say that about us!”
Okay good, but why was anyone who wrote for Richard Spencer invited in the first place? That’s the real question. CNN beyond its ‘civility’ facade was okay with fascist talking points as long as they were implicit instead of explicit.
Just a reminder that the Biden administration literally called pro Palestinian protesters agents of Iran so yeah it objectively is both sides but go off
He’ll just start a martyr tour on Reich wing media and they’ll hail him a hero. CNN will get demonized for suppressing “free speech” - we know their playbook.
this guy wrote the racist white american reply to the 1619 project, the "1776 project," and is listed as leadership alongside JD vance of the think-tank behind project 2025, if you were wondering just *how* racist he was exactly
I highly recommend that people stop watching CNN. They chose to platform someone associated with white nationalist Richard Spencer. What did they expect would happen? They continue to platform right-wing lunatics. This is on CNN. CNN is the problem.
I have a really hard time hearing people when a lot of folks are talking. Did Girdusky ALSO ask Hasan if he was Hamas, after making the beeper comment?
He gets called antisemite for the same reasons the far-right screams "THEY are the real racists" and "reverse racism!!" at Black folks, it's just easy racism they think everyone is going to nod along with, or at least tolerate
Him getting invited was like a sign to him to go mask off, ofc
CNN has pursued these split screen clickbait moments all year, it's pathetic, thirsty platforming of fools and bigots - then they say they're just in the middle of "2 sides", how shocked they try are, gasp!
Referring to the Israeli attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon in which they sabotaged several beepers in their supply chain and detonated them all at once, injuring and killing thousands, many of whom were civilians.
He's calling Hasan a terrorist, generalizing Arab ethnicities, and wishing death on him
It was a reflex to come out with a comment like that. No time to self-censor, it just came straight out. It’s an insight into what is going on behind those eyes.
Unfortunately, #cnn #abbyphillip guests often go wild, and she does little to stop them. Her 'Guys. Wait. Stop' pleas are irritating. It's giving me 👎🏾 #danabash vibes.
The level of comfortability genocidal bastards have, in order to say what they say on live television, needs to be studied, because holy shit dude, he really thought he was gonna get away with treating another person like less than human. Did he think he was on Israeli television with that one?!
If I were Kamala Harris I'd have my electronic devices triple checked by totally independent engineers. If these Bibi terrorists can threaten a guy on national TV, what would they do in secret?
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Call a Nazi a Nazi. It's the Nazi party now.
You know they can’t hear you here, right? It’s okay, you don’t have to pretend like they’ve ever been anything other than what they are.
Until consequences are normal, we'll see a lot more of this.
Well, not nearly as bad as that, but still pretty bad.
How the ... what the... fuck just happened.
She hosts this show nightly, usually with a couple of fascists on the panel, and she runs it basically like Jerry Springer because all she cares about are ratings and her career, dumb bitch
(Officially-CNN issued a statement saying he wouldn't be back.)
i say the racist shit i say *then* i apologize
that « then » tells you all you need to know, the apology wasn’t for what he said, it was for receiving pushback
(Officially-CNN issued a statement saying he wouldn't be back.)
What if CNN stopped giving these assholes mics and camera time?
(Officially-CNN issued a statement saying he wouldn't be back.)
Because their supporters know what they stand for, and they're okay with it.
BUT. Someone who is acceptable for OAN should've never been platformed by CNN in the first place.
He's now over on X claiming you can't go on CNN and "make a joke." Their fallback. We know they're not joking.
A tiny win but I'll celebrate it for a minute.
Yeah I can see why he's now persona non grata there.
1.) CNN invites a former writer for American Nazi Richard Spencer on to their roundtable
2.) the guy makes an extremely thinly veiled death threat *on live TV* and still acts like he wasn't in the wrong at all
He forgot CNN would cheerfully throw him under the bus if he crossed the line of whatever passes for acceptable discourse on cable news.
This is all you get.
Conversely, this guy is important on that side. Wrote for Project 2025.
Straight line.
why did i do that…
- Jake Tapper, probably
I have seen it here, seen it on reddit, seen this cunt do it live on CNN now. I still can't grasp his disbelief at being contradicted.
(Officially-CNN issued a statement saying he wouldn't be back.)
The authoritarian playbook is judiciary, bureaucracy, and the press.
The creeping Orbanization of America will be a shock should Trump win.
Until consequences are normal, we'll see a lot more of this.
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Was this his first cnn paycheck?
I BET my jacket, that Girdusky is on the DOJ list of those media heads paid in rubles.
Fixed their statement
Next week: We welcome Zionist #35943 to discuss the Israel/Gaza conflict."
*shocked Pikachu face*
https://bsky.app/profile/heyaries325.bsky.social/post/3l7nonzsks22i
(Officially-CNN issued a statement saying he wouldn't be back.)
At least at CNN.
He should lose his solid food privileges.
W. T. F.
Because that is their MO, and they should never get away with it.
(Officially-CNN issued a statement saying he wouldn't be back.)
Him getting invited was like a sign to him to go mask off, ofc
Saying the most absolute batshit, offensive shit you will ever hear in your life with no shame, goddamn
If someone said something like that to me on live national television, we moving furniture!
Or it’s Geraldo Rivera’s Chair 2.0
It's all very The View 2007
Being Anti Woke,
Rots The Brain 🧠🤯🤯
He's calling Hasan a terrorist, generalizing Arab ethnicities, and wishing death on him
It's multi-layer racism.
There are legions like him. It shames us all.