Sinclair TV host resigns following vulgar tweet about David Hogg
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Jamie Allman, a conservative commentator at a television station owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, resigned following a vulgar tweet that suggested he would sodomize 17-year-old Parkland shooting survivor, David Hogg, with a "hot poker."
The tweet came on March 26 and followed a string of verbal attacks directed towards Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in the wake of their mobilization on the issue of gun reform after having suffered a tragic school shooting.
On March 26, Allman tweeted, "When we kick their ass they all like to claim we’re drunk. I’ve been hanging out getting ready to ram a hot poker up David Hogg’s ass tomorrow. Busy working. Preparing."
Allman was the host of a show on KDNL, an ABC affiliate in St. Louis, owned by Sinclair. A spokesperson for the company confirmed to TheWrap on Monday that Allman had been fired.
"Yes, his show is cancelled and he is off the air immediately," Ronn Torossian said.
"We have accepted Mr. Allman’s resignation, and his show has been canceled," Torossian also told the Washington Post.
Allman also hosts a separate morning FM radio show "Allman in the Morning," which he has not been removed from, though he has lost advertisers, TheWrap noted. However, on Tuesday he was absent from his show, and a fill-in host said, "Jamie’s taking a couple of days off," the Post noted.
Sinclair has come under fire for its far-right content that favors President Donald Trump, as well as a recent viral video in which news anchors across the country all read from the same Orwellian script.
The tweet by Allman also came just two days prior to Fox News host Laura Ingraham's criticism of Hogg. Ingraham lost advertisers as well, even as she returned to her show from vacation on Monday night. But instead of apologizing on-air, she doubled down and labeled the boycott of her show as a leftist attack on free speech and claimed that it was "Stalinist, pure and simple."
It all comes at a time when the Parkland shooting survivors have taken the country by storm in hopes to create positive change, and reduce gun violence. Conservatives have instead played victim, as they've bullied and dismissed the teenage students' efforts.
