An Arizona-based sports news outlet has fired its lead Phoenix Suns reporter after the writer posted a series of social media messages celebrating the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Kirk was assassinated during an outdoor rally on Wednesday at a Utah college, felled by a long-range rifle shot to the neck that killed him in seconds. But after the murder, PHNX Sports writer Gerald Bourguet jumped to his X account to revel in the foul attack.
Bourguet, who describes himself as the lead Suns writer for PHNX Sports, immediately took to his X account and accused Kirk of spreading hate on a “daily basis.”
“Truly don’t care if you think it’s insensitive or poor timing to decline to respect an evil man who died,” he wrote. “Too many of you are more concerned with being polite and *appearing* to be good people rather than showing some damn backbone and standing on principal to condemn hate”
Now, it looks like Bourguet is on the unemployment line.
On Thursday, after a backlash ensued, PHNX Sports announced via X that it had “parted ways” with Bourguet.
The news outlet would not provide any further details about this personnel decision, but the meaning is clear: Bourguet was fired.
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