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maxsolomon

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5. I'm not surprised. He said he wasn't mourning Kirk's death.

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 11, 2025, 06:14 PM

Sep 2025

For a newspaper, a reporter deviating from Journalistic Objectivity risks alienating Conservatives. He should have just offered Tots & Pears, or better, "stay in his lane" and STFU.

He's a Sports Reporter and Sports is the place where local newpapers zealously guard neutrality - no politics. They don't want reading their paper or rooting for a team to become politically partisan.

Of course, it is anyway, with Liberals watching MLS & the WNBA while Cons demean both those leagues.

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PHNX Sports Suns writer Gerald Bourguet fired after Charlie Kirk posts [View all] orangecrush Sep 2025 OP

This along with MSNBC's firing of Mathew Dowd for saying the truth about Kirk should tell us fascism ... Botany Sep 2025 #1

Its completely true. orangecrush Sep 2025 #3

That's fucked up. He said nothing objectionable. Solly Mack Sep 2025 #2

Yup. orangecrush Sep 2025 #4

I'm not surprised. He said he wasn't mourning Kirk's death. maxsolomon Sep 2025 #5

I guess he felt compelled to speak out and, sometimes, our lane is that lane. Solly Mack Sep 2025 #6