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.”
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.
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/
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?
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.
That’s a bit of bullshit. The ADL said specifically that it was NOT a Nazi salute. Which is the end of the ADL, for me. They’re simply not credible as alleged opponents of anti-Semitism.
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?
Yeah but it was more so talking about how when Democrats are in power it’s okay to criticize both Democrat and republicans, however once Republicans are in power you’re not allowed to criticize Republicans because the power stigma shifts.
something that I’ve started noticing as of late as well. If you try to criticize the Republican Party you’ll be met with resistance, arguments and full shutdown leadin to personal attacks, where if you criticize the Democratic Party, they will still disagree with what you say but they’ll at least listen to you.
Democrats?
Democrats are criticized by democrats all the time. Republicans actively censor all criticism they have control over.
Republicans actively censor all criticism they have control over.
One of the major reasons why I like Lemmy is the multitude of options available for dealing with “Republican” moderators of all political bents.
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…
Fire him!
Love how he’s been championing Nazis and telling holocaust jokes for years , but the salute is somehow too much for people
And the ADL condones the salute, but condemns the jokes.
An actual source in the form of the HuffPost.
Weird how they broth agree, thus entirely defeating your propaganda.
How is it propaganda
Your implication is rt is less trustworthy than Huff Post, because of the race of the owner. You yourself proved that’s false.
Hi, random person here who just happened by your comment:
Your implication is rt is less trustworthy than Huff Post, because of the race of the owner.
You are absolutely full of shit here, at no point ever was that said or implied.
Be better.
Edit: You too, tankie mod that deleted this.
Oops, didn’t realize I subbed to a tankie shithole. Thanks for deleting my comment, made me look at the instance domain!
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Not my post, not my source
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How is it propaganda if your source also agrees
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Race?? Huh??
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The leader of the free world everybody.
The world arbiter of freedom and goodness
Is there even a leader of a free world any more? When the US went fascist it was Germany, but they’ve been having issues too lately.
Xi Jinping
I’m afraid a country can’t be totalitarian and free at the same time.
Chinese people consider their country to be a functional democracy with massive popular support for its policies and the way it has improved their lives, so “totalitarian” is a lie. Unless that’s just what you call it when billionaires get executed for financial crimes?
And people say hexbear is all tankies!
Weird how libs never have anything but vague accusations of tankie and totalitarian while actual Marxist-Leninist governments have history’s most successful poverty eradication campaign
The whole free world was a bullshit narrative to begin with.
Very true.
Leader of a divied up and purchased world doesn’t have the same ring to it. It has a ring of truth instead
The leader of divided and failing colonizer nations seems more accurate.
OMG the comments section on that article is something…
So Netanyahu, leader of a bunch of Nazis, just said he’s a friend to them, case closed.
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.
It’s like when a todler is hiding behind a thin pole and everyone can still see them. The ADL can’t hide anything behind the phrase “awkward gesture.” Someone needs only ask, “What makes it awkward?”
