CBS Executive Fired After Demeaning Vegas Shooting Victims
Brendan Kirby
10-2-17
Network vice president said in deleted Facebook post that country music fans often are 'Republican gun toters'
While the rest of the nation mourned the stunning mass shooting that killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds more, a CBS executive on Monday whacked the victims.
As first reported by the Daily Caller, Hayley Geftman-Gold posted on her Facebook page that she had no sympathy for the victims, who were attending a country music festival Sunday on the Las Vegas Strip.
"If they wouldn't do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs [sic] will ever do the right thing," wrote Geftman-Gold, vice president and senior counsel of strategic transactions. "I'm actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters."
The Facebook page appears to have been deleted. CBS Corp. moved swiftly against Geftman-Gold.
"This individual, who was with us for approximately one year, violated the standards of our company and is no longer an employee of CBS," stated the network. "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."
The Media Research Center's Newsbusters site reported that Vocativ noted that Geftman-Gold had planned an impromptu victory party in Brooklyn at the intersection of President Street and Clinton Street last year for Democrat Hillary Clinton's expected victory in the presidential election.
Rich Noyes, research director at the Media Research Center, said the Facebook post reflects a larger bias.
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