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.”
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
this is where u support them and prop them up to motivate people to do the same
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
Antidefamation league? More like antisemitism defence league.
UN vote on combating glorification of nazism
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.
Defending nazism to own the russkies, what a great policy.
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.
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 got to wonder what’s up with that.
Denouncing nazis would embolden our enemies huh
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.
how’s this explain germany, which abstained?
Love how he’s been championing Nazis and telling holocaust jokes for years , but the salute is somehow too much for people
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.
Very true.
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.
An actual source in the form of the HuffPost.
How far we have fallen
Weird how they broth agree, thus entirely defeating your propaganda.
How is it propaganda
Your implication is rt is less trustworthy than day, Huff Post, because of the race of the owner. You yourself proved that’s false.
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If it quacks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, maybe, just maybe its a duck. They will still give some political grace saying its jot PC to call him a nazi even if he starts calling tump “mein fuher”, starts preaching mein kampf, and starts building oddly large ovens.
I don’t think musk is a neo-nazi.
He’s just a businessman and right now the alt-right are his clientele.
He’s actually making “the libs” look stupid because they used to be all-in on the tesla bandwagon. Hopefully we can learn from this and stop putting our faith in people who only want to maximize profit off of us.
I think it’ll be hilarious when all the businesses rolling back DEI bring it back and “the libs” forget why it was ever taken away in the first place.
Ya’ll are being herded like sheep. Musk is your shephard.
He’s a fucking Nazi. This isn’t some business strategy, dude thinks he can take on the world cause everyone who can stop him won’t. This is best case scenario for him. Now he can openly be a Nazi and get paid. And we’re not sheep we’re hostages, homie.
