A Milwaukee-based CBS affiliate has dismissed one of its weather presenters after she reportedly called Elon Musk a Nazi on social media, over a gesture the tech billionaire made during an inauguration rally for US President Donald Trump.
WDJT-TV (Channel 58), where meteorologist Sam Kuffel had worked since 2019, has confirmed her departure but provided no official explanation in an internal memo to or public comments, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
While the station described the matter as a “personal issue,” Kuffel was reportedly dismissed one day after commenting on Musk’s gesture on her Instagram account.
The TV channel has removed Kuffel’s bio from its website and no longer mentions her in its weather section, but retains articles written by her. Her Instagram account has been set to private, but screenshots purportedly capturing her posts are available online. She has not commented publicly on the incident.
Before her tenure at WDJT-TV, the journalist worked at WAOW-TV (Channel 9) in Wausau, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a degree in atmospheric science.
The Anti-Defamation League, a US-based pro-Israeli group which monitors anti-Semitism and hate speech, has described Musk’s gesture as “awkward” but did not say it was a Nazi salute. Similarly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the subject of an International Criminal Court warrant on charges related to genocide, has tweeted in support of the X owner, declaring him to be “a friend of Israel.”
It’s that same fucking map again
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TL:DR the countries who voted against did so to prevent Russia from using this vote as a justification for their invasion of Ukraine. Indeed they used the pretense of “removing Nazis” for their invasion.
These countries do not condone fascism (or at least officially. I’m looking at you, USA)
Indeed they used the pretense of “removing Nazis”
Absolutely huge brained move to vote for the glorification of nazism in response.
I’ve never been good at reading stuff like this, so it’s more than plausible I’m just missing it, but I can’t find where the resolution would give anyone the legal power or moral authority to invade another state.
Completely removing any credibility from the narrative that you like Nazis by checks notes voting against condemning Nazis.
Is that also the US’s justification for voting against this resolution every time it comes up, before or since?
Garbage article, hiding behind the ADL, afraid to call him a nazi as well. Cowards who don’t call out nazi-ism are playing defense for the nazi’s. To the wall with the lots of them, good on Sam for not bowing to fascist authority.
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And the ADL condones the salute, but condemns the jokes.
You know there is a specific type of person who holds 95% percent Nazi views, but is pointing fingers in all directions when an actual Nazi is called out as a Nazi. It is the same type of person that says he hates rapists most of all things, but never admits there is enough proof of sexual misconduct about any actual rapist. That person is the next door m’fer that enables fascism and patriarchy throughout history, and he is complicit to both.
So Netanyahu, leader of a bunch of Nazis, just said he’s a friend to them, case closed.
Fire him!
I’ve never trusted Russia Today to be a fact based news source and more importantly it’s been a long time since I’ve trusted CBS to report on anything that isn’t 100% motivated by their own self-interested drive for profit.
TLDR:
Neither news source involved are known to me to be particularly trustworthy.
wasn’t there a quote about control and knowing who you can’t criticize?
Democrats?
You can’t criticize the democrats? Did Fox News shut down?
You can’t criticize the democrats?
Depends on the instance.
smells like a duck quacks like a duck, shits on the floor. must be a duck…
this is where u support them and prop them up to motivate people to do the same
only found this site for her: https://www.facebook.com/SamKuffelWx/
OMG the comments section on that article is something…
