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.”
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 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.
Oh no the reporters are ze untermench
Hans get ze calipers
wasn’t there a quote about control and knowing who you can’t criticize?
Democrats?
Democrats are criticized by democrats all the time. Republicans actively censor all criticism they have control over.
You can’t criticize the democrats? Did Fox News shut down?
So Netanyahu, leader of a bunch of Nazis, just said he’s a friend to them, case closed.
OMG the comments section on that article is something…
this is where u support them and prop them up to motivate people to do the same
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.
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?
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.
Antidefamation league? More like antisemitism defence league.
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?”
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
The leader of the free world everybody.
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
Very true.
The world arbiter of freedom and goodness
