TV meteorologist is fired for tweet comparing
federal troops policing American cities to
Nazi Germany
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Leah Simpson
Original Article
Posted By: zephyrgirl,
8/5/2020 7:02:05 AM
A meteorologist at a Colorado news station has been fired after he shared a tweet comparing federal agents policing cities amid the recent unrest across the country to Nazi Germany. Marty Coniglio shared a picture of soldiers posing with Adolf Hitler and captioned the July 23 post: 'Federal police in cities … now where have I seen that before?' The following day Coniglio, who has been on television in Denver for three decades, confirmed he had stopped working for 9News. His social media profiles no longer refer to the network.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 8/5/2020 7:17:10 AM (No. 500387)
It's not "federal troops;" it federal police. Daily Mail is so frustrating.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cThree 8/5/2020 7:26:02 AM (No. 500396)
Quick reactions: It's another amazing example of how towering the arrogant confidence is these media jerks have, that outrageous garbage such as this tweet are perfectly ok because they are so woke.
Also, usually, when someone gets summarily fired, there's a lot of background we'll never know, of annoyance, complaints and pent-up animus.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/5/2020 7:52:03 AM (No. 500410)
No surprises on the behavior of the newscaster; especially In Denver. What’s surprising is that he got fired.
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Apparently 'the Cancel Culture' works both ways. Who da thunk it? I guess we can consider this a bit of good news for our side.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Clinger 8/5/2020 7:59:43 AM (No. 500419)
Just stinking great. If we go around firing everybody espousing thoughts someone believed to be radical we'll all starve to death. Nancy Pelosi can say these things but your garden variety mush mind cannot? I understand that an employer has every right to protect the brand but I just think we are further away from transitioning the process from choosing up sides to an merit based debate when we all play thought police. Far more conservatives will be on the wrong side of that stick.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/5/2020 8:11:20 AM (No. 500434)
Ninny Pelosi said the exact same thing. Why are we still looking at her hateful prune face?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Miceal 8/5/2020 8:17:46 AM (No. 500445)
Good...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/5/2020 8:33:29 AM (No. 500468)
Good. As long-time residents of Colorado, we abandoned the lefty 9News 30 years ago. Kyle Clark, you're next, pal.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/5/2020 9:16:38 AM (No. 500524)
Thirty years as the weather guy in Colorado?? That is the amazing part of this story. He was able to keep his thug-loving America hating under wraps until somebody really pushed his Nazi button.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 8/5/2020 9:17:51 AM (No. 500527)
Marty Coniglio has the right to post anything online within the law. Just as Channel 9 has the right to fire him. Approximately half of Channel 9s audience sharply disagrees with Coniglio’s Nazi image post. Faced with viewer backlash and revenue loss, Channel 9 fired him. Therefore, this story is about a business decision. Marty Coniglio was not denied freedom of expression.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
petrichor 8/5/2020 9:19:57 AM (No. 500533)
The Chicago weather...people just pontificate on climate change. When they get tomorrow right I may begin believing them on 50 years from now.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
GO3 8/5/2020 9:39:41 AM (No. 500555)
The problem with "local" news is that they are anything but. We have local news at 5:00 to 5:30, national news 5:30 to 6:00, then local again at 6:00 to 6:30. There is about 10 minutes of local weather and sports, and the rest of it is simply feeder segments from the national parent network unfiltered. IOW, we get roughly 80 minutes of national level dreck each night. No wonder the sheep are afraid.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/5/2020 9:46:41 AM (No. 500565)
Backfire of the cancel culture. Where does it end?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TLCary 8/5/2020 10:06:47 AM (No. 500603)
Now he can do the weather underground...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/5/2020 10:09:42 AM (No. 500607)
Marty Coniglio = Marty Bunny - - - an appropriate name for a leftist girly-man.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DW626 8/5/2020 10:24:33 AM (No. 500634)
#6 Asks the rhetorical question of the day.
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It's funny the article referred the SA troop as soldiers? The Sturmabteilung did for Hitler as what the Antifa/BLM are doing for the Democrats. These useful idiots like Marty Coniglio don't know squat, truly ignorant.
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