Seb Gorka No Longer a Contributor at Fox News

[brooklynite]

Mediaite

Seb Gorka, pundit turned White House staffer turned pundit, is no longer a Fox News contributor, the network confirmed to Mediaite.

Gorka, a self-proclaimed national security expert, worked as a contributor for Fox News before he joined the Trump administration (to apparently wreak havoc on the National Security Council). He returned to Fox News in November 2017 shortly after he was reportedly forced out of the administration by former chief of staff John Kelly.

When reached for comment, Gorka replied to Mediaite with a furious torrent of emails, the first of which accused this reporter of being in a “drug-induced haze.”

“You really are obsessed with me aren’t you. I’d be flattered if you weren’t a washed-out hack,” Gorka wrote in a second email.

[Beakybird]

1. It seems like only the exceptionally twisted, corrupt, and mean make it in their world

So he's out at Fox. In at Sinclair.

[Hortensis]

12. Yes, and the creep apparently already has a syndicated radio show.

Since November.

[ChubbyStar]

2. A self proclaimed asshole is more like it

Nobody is obsessed with Seb....except Seb. Get lost dirtball.

[gratuitous]

3. "You really are obsessed with me . . ."

Poor little Nazi; maybe he doesn't think all attention is good anymore.

[TwilightZone]

4. Another of the projection masters.

"I’d be flattered if you weren’t a washed-out hack"

Look in the mirror, Gork.

[LiberalFighter]

5. How do we know he isn't a Russian sleeper agent?

[TheBlackAdder]

6. His undergraduate and graduate schools are rated amongst the worst in the world.

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Heythrop College (BA) -- 158 of 162 in UK. 6,795th ranking in world.

https://www.4icu.org/reviews/4701.htm


Corvinus (MA & PhD) -- 7 or 42 in Hungary. 2,260th ranking in world.

https://www.4icu.org/reviews/9315.htm

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[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Strictly, Heythrop College *was* among the lowest rated in the UK - it closed last summer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heythrop_College,_University_of_London

It specialised in philosophy and theology, with Catholic links. The prime central London buildings were sold off, and it's going to be a luxury retirement complex.

[tanyev]

7. Poor Seb. All dressed up and nowhere to go.

Seb wearing his honorary medal of Hungarian nationalist (and Nazi-sympathizing) organization Vitezi Rend.

[Achilleaze]

8. An indictment in the offing?

Fox Inc. (R) might know that the HAMMER OF JUSTICE is about to fall on more of the KGOP republican traitors. Could be that they canned this KGOP wanker to try and make it look like they give a shit and save themselves further disgrace?

[Baltimike]

10. He is here illegally. If you see him, please call ICE. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. His wife still appears to work in the DHS, where she protects white supremacists

Controversial Trump Aide Katharine Gorka Helped End Funding For Group That Fights White Supremacy

WASHINGTON ― Weeks before a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, led to three deaths and 19 injuries, the Trump administration revoked a grant to Life After Hate, a group that works to de-radicalize neo-Nazis.

The Department of Homeland Security had awarded the group $400,000 as part of its Countering Violent Extremism program in January, just days before former President Barack Obama left office. It was the only group selected for a grant that focused exclusively on fighting white supremacy. But the grant money was not immediately disbursed.

Trump aides, including Katharine Gorka, a controversial national security analyst known for her anti-Muslim rhetoric, were already working toward eliminating Life After Hate’s grant and to direct all funding toward fighting what the president has described as “radical Islamic terrorism.”
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Katharine Gorka, now an adviser in the Department of Homeland Security’s policy office, has pushed conspiracy theories about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the government and media. Sebastian Gorka is a deputy assistant to the president and has described Islam as an inherently violent religion. He argued days before the Charlottesville attack that white supremacy is not “the problem” facing the country.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katharine-gorka-life-after-hate_us_59921356e4b09096429943b6?guccounter=1

Other sources I spoke with specifically identified Katharine Gorka, the wife of former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka, as a driving figure behind efforts to de-prioritize white supremacist violence. Although Mr. Gorka was forced out of the White House in August 2017, Mrs. Gorka remains a full-time adviser for Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security, where she has reportedly played a critical role in shaping the administration’s counterterrorism agenda, including drafting reports to Congress on terrorism recruitment. Like her husband, Mrs. Gorka has been vocal in her criticism of Islam, reportedly raising concerns inside D.H.S. that their influence would mean fewer resources for combatting right-wing extremism. (A spokesperson for D.H.S. previously denied that Katharine Gorka is “pushing the department toward an Islamist-only approach to terrorism,” insisting that she champions “an all-forms-of-extremism approach.”)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/trump-administration-tree-of-life-shooting-domestic-terrorism

“Katie is much more dangerous than Sebastian,” said Eric Rosand, a former senior State Department official responsible for programs on Countering Violent Extremism, or CVE. “She played a significant role in denying CVE grant funding to groups that work to de-radicalize neo-Nazis and other far right extremists and Muslim-American groups that work to build resilience against violent extremism, but without the involvement of the police.”
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The grant issue isn’t the only area where Gorka has had an impact, according to former officials. She has also been linked to the departure of career DHS officials who wanted the department to engage with a broader group of Muslim-American communities she viewed as too extreme.

“Her CVE ‘worldview’ was so at odds with George Selim, the head of the CVE task force, that it led to his resignation over the summer,” said Rosand.
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Moving forward, CVE experts say Katharine is currently working on the drafting of a DHS report to Congress on what the department is doing to counter the exploitation of the internet and social media as a recruitment tool for terrorists. An individual familiar with the process said Katharine “keeps putting in references to the internet being something millennials use.” A DHS official acknowledged Gorka’s input on the report but said it’s only in an early draft form and is subject to change.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnhudson/the-gorka-that-matters-isnt-leaving-the-trump-administration