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.”
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?”
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.
if i hear one more lib tell me that in USA you can freely say anything without repercussions as an argument…
They’ll just tell you it’s because Trump is in office that you can’t criticize it now
If a fascist man, who nazi salutes at public events and who publicly supports nazi and fascist aligned governments around the world cannot be called a nazi, who can?
Jewish Voice for Peace
From their perspective, Democrats.
From their perspective? Feminists.
Sure, them too.
So Netanyahu, leader of a bunch of Nazis, just said he’s a friend to them, case closed.
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.
The whole free world was a bullshit narrative to begin with.
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.
Very true.
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
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.
Musk tried to defend his flagrant Nazi pageantry by pointing himself out as a Zionist. Wasn’t literally Hitler a supporter of the creation of Israel (a Jewish state)?
Over this past year of Israel’s full-throated genocide in Palestine, I’ve been surprised to not see it pointed out that (to my understanding) Zionism was a platform of the Nazi party.
Am I wrong? Was Zionism not so explicitly supported by the Nazi party?
Antidefamation league? More like antisemitism defence league.
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?
You can’t criticize the democrats? Did Fox News shut down?
You can’t criticize the democrats?
Depends on the instance.
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.
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…
