Longtime CNN Reporter Leaves Network After Charlie Hebdo Twitter Spat

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Longtime CNN correspondent Jim Clancy left the network a week after getting into heated exchanges on Twitter about the Paris terror attacks, TV Newser reported Friday.

The news website obtained Clancy’s goodbye note to his colleagues, which did not detail why he left. A CNN spokesperson confirmed the 34-year veteran’s departure.

“Jim Clancy is no longer with CNN,” the spokesperson told TV Newser. “We thank him for more than three decades of distinguished service, and wish him nothing but the best.”

Last week, Clancy mixed it up with some of his Twitter followers after weighing in on satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo’s caricatures of Muhammad.

“The cartoons NEVER mocked the Prophet. They mocked how the COWARDS tried to distort his word. Pay attention,” he tweeted on Jan. 7, according to Mediaite.

“Get a grip, junior. It’s my Friday night,” he wrote in another tweet, according to Mediaite. “You and the Hasbara team need to pick on some cripple on the edge of the herd.”

Mediaite noted that Clancy’s Twitter account had been deleted as of Thursday.

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  1. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    Jim Clancy------- Part of the CNN International before it began trying to emulate Fox.

  2. Dude made it 34 years and bailed over a twitter spat. (twitter spat is funny all on it’s own btw)
    It makes me think that these guys/gals were getting by with a lot pre social media.

    I don’t know this guy, don’t watch CNN and don’t tweet, so I’m strictly outside looking in and from my perspective, this is very silly.

    Jim Clancy has gone out in silence, I know that much.

  3. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    Think we can get a consensus these days?

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