Radio Host Who Said Impeachment Makes You ‘Wish For A Nice School Shooting’ Booted From Air

UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 19: A person walks by the newspaper front pages, from around the US, on display at the Newseum the day after the House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Thursday Dec. 19, 2019. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 19: A person walks by the newspaper front pages, from around the US, on display at the Newseum the day after the House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment against President ... UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 19: A person walks by the newspaper front pages, from around the US, on display at the Newseum the day after the House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Thursday Dec. 19, 2019. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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A Denver radio station has fired a host who said that the “never-ending” impeachment process makes “you wish for a nice school shooting.”

Chuck Bonniwell’s cast-aside comment on Tuesday rippled across the web on Wednesday. By the end of the day, KNUS said it had ended Bonniwell and co-host Julie Hayden’s show.

“Given the history of school violence that has plagued our community, 710 KNUS confirms that an inappropriate comment was made on the Chuck & Julie show by co-host Chuck Bonniwell,” the station said Wednesday evening. “A programming decision was made to end the program immediately.”

The Colorado Times Recorder was the first to report Bonniwell’s remark.

KNUS said it will fill the newly empty time slot with former Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka’s “America First” show.

The station is in the middle of an internal investigation over social media posts made on the Russian social media site VK. A user on that site with the same name as a KNUS producer, Kirk Widlund, posted pro-Nazi material that was uncovered by a local antifascist group.

Widlund has denied ever using the site. KNUS manager Brian Taylor declined to comment on the matter to TPM last Friday.

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  1. Doesn’t the first amendment guarantee a job for life???

  2. Avatar for meri meri says:

    Damn, you beat me to it.

    You know the 1A will come up soon enough.

  3. “KNUS said it will fill the newly empty time slot with former Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka’s ‘America First’ show.”

    Uh oh…that means lots of radio spots for this product.

  4. That’s a nazi radio station you have there, be a shame if something happened to it…

  5. Speaking as the parent of someone who is sitting in her classroom right now as I type, my first choice would have been to ram Chuck Bonniwell’s microphone so far up his ass(*) that he can interview his own tapeworm. But “fired in disgrace” is OK, too, I guess.

    *: Without anyone getting hurt, of course.

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