Pro Tip: Repeatedly Posting Pro-Hitler Tweets Could Eventually Cost You Your Job as a Blue Checkmark CNN Journalist
Stop me if you've heard this before at any time in your life, but there is a serious cycle of violence going on between Israel and the Palestinians and the situation is deteriorating by the hour. I can't speak intelligently about it, so I don't try. I don't understand exactly how this latest violence started, so I won't speculate. If it's like everything else in that troubled part of the world, this conflict probably traces its roots back 5,000 years. And may continue for another 5,000.
It's one of those situations that's best left to the experts to sort out. Though not everyone can resist chiming in. Such as this one CNN freelancer, who now finds himself as a former CNN freelancer because he couldn't help himself.
Daily Mail - A CNN contributor has been fired after tweeting 'The world today needs a Hitler' in response to the growing violence between Israel and Palestine.
In a statement, CNN officials said Adeel Raja's 'reporting contributed to some newsgathering efforts from Islamabad. However, in light of these abhorrent statements, he will not be working with CNN again in any capacity.'
Raja, who appears to have worked as a freelance contributor for CNN since 2013, tweeted the anti-Semitic remark at around 12:45 p.m. Sunday, and deleted it at around 3:15 p.m., according to the Washington Examiner.
It is just the most recent in a series of anti-Semitic tweets Raja has made over the past few years, Twitter users have discovered.
In 2014, while presumably watching the FIFA World Cup, Raja tweeted, 'The only reason I am supporting Germany in the finals — Hitler was a German and he did good with those Jews.'
The next day, he tweeted, 'Hail Hitler.' …
Mike Brest, a breaking news reporter at the Washington Examiner, pointed out, 'there are a lot of Hitler references' on his timeline, with screenshots of every time Raja used the word 'Hitler' in one of his tweets, and @thatcherite wrote that the FIFA World Cup tweet has been live for seven years and was only taken down on Sunday.
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OK, well that's good to know. You can only post so many positive Tweets about Der Fuhrer over so many years before eventually it'll catch up to you. The world and your employers might give you a couple of mulligans, but sooner or later you're going to go over your limit and it's going to cost you.
You'd think that in this day and age even a single "Hail Hitler" would be a disqualifier. And for sure, publicly rooting for Germany in the World Cup not because you're a fan of the team but because you're a big Final Solution guy is not the kind of thing you'd think would make it past the interview stage of CNN's hiring process. But I guess you'd be mistaken. It must be one of things the bosses figured could happen to anyone.
So let this be a lesson to anyone who's considering putting their name to some pro-Schicklgruber posts on the social medias. Do. Not. Do. That. People tend to look unkindly upon such sentiments. Even if you want to, say, praise the old one-testicled bastard for being a good wallpaper hanger or for his early artwork or the way he was nice to dogs. And especially if you want to congratulate him for his handling of the Jews. Before you press SEND, take a moment. Reread your post. Ask yourself if this is a thought that really needs to be shared with the world. Read it again. Give it a lot of thought. Then, instead of posting it, shove the phone straight up inside your ass, jump into the ocean and swim for the bottom blowing bubbles all the way down.
Good job with the vetting process, CNN.