Top CBS lawyer: No sympathy for Vegas victims, 'probably Republicans'
A top lawyer for CBS said she is “not even sympathetic” to victims of the Las Vegas shooting because “country music fans often are Republican,” when discussing the tragic mass shooting that occurred in Las Vegas late Sunday night.
Hayley Geftman-Gold, the network's vice president and senior counsel, took to Facebook after a gunman opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas, killing at least 58 people and sending more than 500 others to hospitals.
“If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs [sic] will ever do the right thing,” Geftman-Gold wrote in a now-deleted message that was first reported and captured by The Daily Caller.
Geftman-Gold continued: “I’m actually not even sympathetic bc [sic] country music fans often are Republican gun toters [sic].”
Geftman-Gold is presumably referring to Sandy Hook, which occurred in Newtown, Connecticut back in 2012. A 20-year-old gunman, Adam Lanza, killed 20 children and six adults during the tragic event that sparked intense political debates regarding gun control.
Geftman-Gold does not work directly with the network’s news division. According to her LinkedIn bio, Geftman-Gold has worked at CBS since September 2016 and graduated from Columbia University law school in 2000.
“CBS is looking into the matter,” a company spokeswoman told Fox News.
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“CBS is looking into the matter”
I hope they do more than look into it. This woman is a sorry excuse for a human being.
I was just over on the CBS site, they have a statement that she was fired
Does party affiliation really matter here? This is a horror visited on people enjoying music. CBS should distance itself from this person, just another monster in another form.
I wonder why the link didn't include evidence of the posting when they claimed it was 'captured by the Daily Caller' before it was deleted.
No you don't.
Yes, I do. It's fox news. Not the most credible of sources, to say the least. Having it seeded by Badfish certainly doesn't help either.
Because Fox News would have to deal with that pesky little thing called context
Lol. As if any context could excuse her comment! Spin, spin, spin...
CBS delt with the context, they fired her.
What a sick, sad person.
Dumb thing to do, she will "resign" within a couple days.
She's already been fired
Not defending her comments but the attacks on her coming from the same quarter as those who dismissed or outright denied the Sandy Hook slaughter are really "fun" to see. Do those people think we don't remember how scummy they are?
Here is a link with the screenshots of the Tweets:
http://tribunist.com/news/cbs-attorney-no-sympathy-for-vegas-victims-because-country-music-fans-are-republican-gun-toters/?utm_source=CDH
I am not an R and do like some of today's CW music. I am glad CBS fired that pig.
“CBS is looking into the matter
That speaks volumes about CBS. There is nothing to think about, unless CBS is sympathetic to those vile, hate filled comments
She only said what most on the Left were thinking.