1st that professor saying victims of Hurricane Harvey was karma. Then Bette
Milder saying Harvey victims don't deserve fed aid...now this?

CBS fires VP for writing 'Republican gun toters' killed in Las Vegas don't deserve sympathy

CBS fired a company executive Monday after she criticized some victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting as “Republican gun toters” who did not deserve sympathy.

Geftman-Gold made her Facebook comments in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, with at least 59 people killed and more than 500 injured. The attack occurred at the end of a three-day country music festival held over the weekend on the Las Vegas Strip. The event drew a diverse crowd of thousands of music fans, and police said the audience was more than 22,000 strong when gunshots rang out about 10 p.m. Sunday.

CBS confirmed to The Washington Post on Monday that Geftman-Gold was dismissed for her “deeply unacceptable” comments on social media.

“This individual, who was with us for approximately one year, violated the standards of our company and is no longer an employee of CBS,” the company said in a statement.


“Her views as expressed on social media are deeply unacceptable to all of us at CBS. Our hearts go out to the victims in Las Vegas and their families.”

Her posts have since been deleted.

http://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/02/cbs-fires-lawyer-for-facebook-post-saying-las-vegas-victims-do-not-deserve-sympathy/

Any body who would use a time like this to spout off their hate needs to be fired and showed how hate can backfire~~~

Worthless for this society~~

THIS! Is why I don't watch news, OR much TV period!

actions have consequences

these are modern consquences to the modern times of social media and 'speaking your mind' ....

statements like these are the reason why there is such a division in America , and more and more you hear it from one side only, I don't think there has ever been a time when republican politicians have uttered such vulgar statements. This is why I find it hard not to hate liberal democrats. Someone that could be so cold hearted as to say these things deserves to be hated and shunned by society .

come now, Trump just blasted the whole island of Puerto Rico in response to their need, didn't he?

statements like these are not the reason for division, they are a reflection of the division.

Bette Midler is not a politician. Republican Pastors have said much more terrible things about disaster survivors.

its not one sided, its American, the bad part of the good and the bad that is our reality in the states.

So a pschotic man assaults hundreds of innocent people with a gun ,and some of the nation's leaders decide to complete the carnage with an attack of WORDS???

Man what a world we're living in now - unbelievable!

Exactly chris. That man tried to kill those people's bodies, but these leaders appear like they are trying to kill whats left of their spirit too :(

I may have missed the article but not sure what you are referring to about Trump and PR. can you please post a link?

IMO this isn't all that accurate.

Her comment was "I’m actually not even sympathetic."

IMO the way it is presented in the OP article makes it seem she's trying to tell people they shouldn't be sympathetic, rather than just expressing her own personal feelings.

IMO there's a big difference.

I think the full comment was:
"If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing, I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters."

And IME/IMO far worse things are said on a daily, hourly, minutely, secondly, basis in news article comments sections and even these forums, by a loooooot of people.


IMO/IME people handle grief, tragedy, and responding to social/civil turmoil differently.
Some harden up, some lash out, some soften and go all lovey dovey everyone, some entrench in their political positions and go super gung ho to protect themselves.

IMO CBS immediately firing her is no different than what she did with her comment during a discussion on Facebook.

IMO that's part of a "problem."

I mean there are federal laws that protect alcoholics from being fired.

Does CBS say "this is a terrible situation. We stand by our employees. We will address the situation and figure out if this is an opinion that is affecting her ability to do her job, a response to social stress, addiction to online political ranting, offer help and counseling if she may need it?"

Nope. Just almost immediately "you're fired."

So I'm now wondering if I can actually believe that disclaimer at the beginning of shows or commercials that read something like "the views expressed in the following programs don't necessarily reflect the beliefs of this company."

I mean if they put anything on the air that may be controversial in any way, rather than pulling it, immediately "firing" it from their programming, why shouldn't I believe that it is actually expressing their views?
Because they immediately fire people for expressing their views/feelings on completely unrelated media.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/01/politics/trump-tweets-puerto-rico/index.html

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/30/trump-fires-back-at-puerto-rico-mayor-accuses-her-poor-leadership.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/us/politics/trump-puerto-rico-mayor.html

The fact that there are examples of famous or near-famous people of ALL KINDS who make such insane statements, is one of the many reasons why I have no patience with anyone who claims that ONLY the people they are prejudiced against, do "bad things."

Whether you are an Anti-Liberal, an Anti-conservative, or an Anti-this-or-that race/culture, you are entirely full of it when you claim that only the OTHER GUYS do this kind of stuff.

apologies for missing the post before

here is a link to the Time article


http://time.com/4963903/donald-trump-puerto-rican-leaders-want-everything-to-be-done-for-them/

I believe he was talking about the officials, not the citizens. The governor said Trump did everything asked but the mayor said he did nothing. To me that's a political thing and a bit different than saying PR deserved the hurricane.

I do realize it happens with all presidents. I don't think any victim deserves it as karma, regardless pf who is president.

I am sure some nut job said it was karma when someone else was president.

What I posted has been said within a month to 2 month time and is current.

It is disgusting to say anyone deserves a natural disaster or mass shooting because of karma

She will probably just go down the hall to CNN.

The ones who make comments like that aren't even humans they're subhumans. I don't watch any cable tv or any msm. I Haven't watched cable tv in a very long time. The only thing on tv worth watching in my opinion is TWD and law and order reruns.