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.”
UN vote on combating glorification of nazism
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)
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.
This doesn’t explain why the West has repeatedly voted against it for over a decade.
Damn that’s crazy that the country full of nazis and the fascist military industrial complex masquerading as a country arming them with billions of dollars worth of weapons would be the only two in the world to vote against the glorification of nazism. Totally wild. Oh and they vote against it every time, for years? Wow crazy wonder what’s up with that.
Russia is also full of Nazis, in case you forgot. In fact, most militaries have way too many Nazis, because they like to have an excuse to kill people.
I know where I’m posting this, and it’s likely going to be ignored at best, but you don’t get to just pretend like it’s only other people.
Here’s some information, but I recommend you also find more on your own, as an excercise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism_in_Russia
Dmitry Valerievich Utkin, co-founder of the Wagner Group. Tattoos, for reference.
There’s plenty more to see. Nazis are a problem everywhere, and the authoritarian state of Russia certainly isn’t immune.
to prevent Russia from using this vote as a justification for their invasion of Ukraine.
The UN has, on a few occasions, voted to sanctioned war as lawful and justified. The resolution to condemn Nazism is absolutely not that, and it is pure bullshit to claim it would be functionally the same.
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.
There must be a better source for this news than RT.
Would you expect western propaganda outlets to be more truthful on this?
Here’s a Yahoo article on it ig. There’s a bunch more too now.
That’s not “a Yahoo article”. Yahoo! News hosts articles from different sources, and this is from some shitty E-tier website called comingsoon.net.
Probably the best source for this currently is the HuffPost.
Right so calling the guy who endorses and promotes Nazis on his website, who reuses Nazi rhetoric and who uses Nazis symbols on camera is reckless?
if i hear one more lib tell me that in USA you can freely say anything without repercussions as an argument…
