CNN Fires Commentator Jeffrey Lord For Tweeting ‘Sieg Heil’

Fired CNN commentator Jeffrey Lord. Image by YouTube

By Daniel J. Solomon August 10, 2017

CNN fired pro-Trump commentator Jeffrey Lord on Thursday after he tweeted the Nazi slogan “Sieg Heil” and mocked the liberal organization Media Matters as “fascist.”

“Nazi salutes are indefensible,” a cable spokesman said. “Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.”

Lord, who was an aide in the Reagan administration, has been a high-visibility pundit defending the Trump administration.

The contretemps kicked off after Lord accused Media Matters of receiving funding from financier George Soros, as part of a long-running Twitter battle with the group’s head, Angelo Carusone.

In a column for the American Spectator, Lord had called Media Matters “fascist.” In response to criticism from Carusone on Twitter, Lord responded with the Nazi slogan, meaning “hail victory.”

Sieg Heil!

— Jeff Lord (@realJeffreyLord) August 10, 2017

Lord later claimed that he was “mocking Nazis and Fascists.”

Contact Daniel J. Solomon at [email protected] or on Twitter, @DanielJSolomon

Daniel J. Solomon is the former Assistant to the Editor/News Writer at the Forward. Originally from Queens, he attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where he wrote his senior thesis on French-Jewish intellectual history. He is excited to have returned to New York after his time in Massachusetts. Daniel’s passions include folk music, cycling, and pointed argument.

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