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edbermac

(15,937 posts)
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 12:43 AM Nov 2019

Conservative Denver Radio Host Fired Midshow After Criticizing Trump

“I cannot and will not toe strict Trump party line,” Craig Silverman tweeted.

Conservative Denver radio station 710 KNUS fired host and former district attorney Craig Silverman during his broadcast Saturday after he criticized Donald Trump, according to the Denver Post.

Silverman told the paper he was taken off the air for replaying a 2015 interview with Trump surrogate Roger Stone, who was found guilty on seven federal charges on Friday including witness tampering.

In the interview, Silverman told Stone that one of his biggest concerns with Trump was his connection to Roy Cohn, who assisted Joseph McCarthy in the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the 1950s and later served as Trump’s personal lawyer. The Colorado radio station promptly took Silverman off the air and removed the webpage for his show from their site.

“Sad day for Colorado and the First Amendment,” Colorado State Rep. Dylan Roberts tweeted about the dismissal. “Toe the Trump line instead of talking about law and facts if you want a show? ‘Sad…as our President would say.'”

Silverman, who hosted “The Craig Silverman Show” on Saturdays mornings for more than five years, thanked Roberts for his support and said he would not back down from criticizing the Trump administration.

https://www.thewrap.com/conservative-denver-radio-host-fired-midshow-after-criticizing-trump-craig-silverman/

Guess he ignored the memo from Hair Furor.

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Conservative Denver Radio Host Fired Midshow After Criticizing Trump (Original Post) edbermac Nov 2019 OP
Just want to point out VMA131Marine Nov 2019 #1
Just want to point out, the Ministry of Propaganda Maru Kitteh Nov 2019 #4
One down, a thousand or so more to go........ lastlib Nov 2019 #2
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Nov 2019 #3
"Hail Trump!" struggle4progress Nov 2019 #5

VMA131Marine

(4,138 posts)
1. Just want to point out
Sun Nov 17, 2019, 12:48 AM
Nov 2019

Unless the radio station was government owned, this is not a First Amendment issue.

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