Fox News overlooks alleged Nazi ties, hires former White House staffer Seb Gorka

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In a predictable twist, Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and reportedly a sworn member of a Nazi-allied party in Hungary, is joining Fox News. Fox News host Sean Hannity announced the hire on his radio show Wednesday afternoon.

“Joining us now is Dr. Sebastian Gorka,” Hannity told listeners. “I can officially announce today he is a Fox News national security strategist.”

Gorka thanked Hannity, calling him a “great supporter.”

“You’ve been a great supporter, not only of myself, but of the administration and the president, and it’s great to be back as part of the superb Fox family,” Gorka said.

https://thinkprogress.org/gorka-fox-news-hiring-184ee8a4fb6e/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. For Fox "News," being a Nazi isn't a bug, it's a feature.

[Initech]

2. Well Fox News is officially the white supremacist propaganda outlet.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Also overlooking that he doesn't know the first thing about national security.

[anneboleyn]

12. No or the Middle East. He doesn't know Arabic, never publishes anything academic, joke dissertation

that is a total embarrassment.

[TreasonousBastard]

14. He does talk fast, though. Fast enough you hardly realize nothing he says means anything...

Kind of like his old boss.

[Hortensis]

20. He did reportedly "publish" a bunch of times the letter C that members

of a Nazi-sympathetic fascist group added as a middle initial to identify themselves to each other. I think I read that it was a lower-case c. That was a while ago and presumably they're using some other device now.

Also, while providing documentary evidence of the connection, he could have had not the slightest fantasy even that someday he'd someday be part of a White House inner circle. Truly bizarre. In any other era, even a Fox News wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole.

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. Fraud. More lies.

[emulatorloo]

5. Of course

[Roland99]

6. Not Faux News anymore. Its now Nazi News

[Flaleftist]

7. Overlooked?

They probably saw it as a plus.

[JDC]

8. No doubt. Its resume booster. They know full well of his history.

[Garrett78]

18. Yep. Change "overlooks" to "celebrates."

[ProudLib72]

9. If this man is hired by Faux Nooze

They should be stripped of all authority by @RealFCC.
Then they should be indicted!

[Ccarmona]

10. A Despicable Human Being- eom

[anneboleyn]

11. Fox is hiring a charlatan who doesn't speak Arabic, who has never published anything academic, yes

belongs to some new-Nazi party in Hungary (apparently he was still wearing some pin that showed this affiliation according to what I read), and of course is a very recent immigrant(but he's the okay kind of immigrant that Trump doesn't notice). He declares that he's an expert on Middle East politics and American politics despite a total lack of academic credibility (and a total lack of the basic linguistic skills that would be required).

Absolutely fucking ridiculous -- Fox continues to doom themselves by hiring exactly what the people don't want -- a moron who got booted out of the Trump WH (oh I know he "resigned&quot and who talks always and only about the "dangers of Islam." Fox's audience is old (70s is the average age), and they are trying to reach a younger audience as they know if they don't they will fizzle out. Hiring Trump stooges like Gorka is exactly the way to undermine their effort to reach younger viewers. Lmfao.

[Golden Raisin]

13. Is anyone surprised? In his wildest

dreams Joseph Goebbels could not have come up with a successful propaganda tool like Fox News.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Next up: Carter Page.

Unless he's taken up residence at Club Fed, of course.

[sarcasmo]

16. Not a Doctor, the new segment on Fox News. No health care? Seb will answer your questions.

[wildeyed]

17. It's a feature, not a defect. n/t

[riversedge]

19. Gorka says he has on occassion worn his father's uniform....

....Despite that, Fox has hired him as a “national security strategist.”

Gorka’s hiring is also questionable considering the fact that he is reportedly a sworn member of a Nazi-allied party in Hungary. In March, The Forward uncovered Gorka’s ties to a group known as Vitézi Rend, which according to the State Department, was “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany” during World War II.

“I have never taken an oath of loyalty to the Vitézi Rend,” Gorka told Tablet Magazine after The Forward story was published. “Since childhood, I have occasionally worn my father’s medal and used the ‘v.’ initial to honor his struggle against totalitarianism.”

He remained in the White House for months after his ties were revealed.

Gorka left the White House in August, not long after his closest ally, former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. Gorka has repeatedly said he resigned, but a White House official told a pool reporter that Gorka “did not resign” but “no longer works at the White House.”

During his time working for Trump, Gorka defended the White House’s silence on a bombing at a mosque because, according to Gorka, it might have been faked by liberals. Gorka also drew criticism for saying people should stop criticizing white supremacists so much.........................

[Gothmog]

21. Gorka is a nazi

[gvstn]

22. Fox hired new logo artist too (didn't catch the name but the new graphic is stylish.)

[ProfessorGAC]

23. He Was Also On CSPAN WJ The Other Day

I tried to get in and ask why, despite his new "book" being out, they thought it appropriate to interview a nazi. I never even got off hold.