CBS Weather Forecaster Fired for Sharing Anti-Elon Musk ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ GIF
When will Charlie, Mac and the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia community finally cut Pop-Pop some slack? Maybe he just had Asperger’s.
Twenty years ago, there was nothing remotely controversial about a character on a cable TV sitcom saying something like, “Screw that old bitch, he’s a Nazi,” when talking about another character who was old, a Nazi and a bitch. This is because, for many decades in America, the public nearly universally considered Nazi ideology, Nazi iconography, Nazi uniforms, Nazi salutes and Nazis themselves to be bad. As such, when the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season One episode “The Gang Finds a Dead Guy” aired in 2005, no one would get in trouble if they quoted Mac dismissing the wishes of Dennis and Dee’s neo-Naz — um, “awkward gesturer” — on Myspace or any other proto social media site from that era of the internet.
Today, however, former CBS 58 Milwaukee weather forecaster Sam Kuffel is out of a job for posting a GIF of Mac’s now-controversial line in “The Gang Finds a Dead Guy” after angrily ranting about Tesla CEO and conservative string-puller Elon Musk’s innocuous wave that completely coincidentally looked like a Nazi salute at the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Monday.
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On Tuesday, Kuffel posted a photo of Musk performing his “heart-sending” gesture to the inauguration crowd on Instagram with the caption, “Dude Nazi saluted twice. TWICE. During the inauguration,” then telling her followers, “You fuck with this and this man, I don’t fuck with you. Full stop.” Kuffel followed the rant with another Instagram post showing a GIF of Mac telling Charlie, “Screw that old bitch, he’s a Nazi,” shortly before the two torch all of Pop-Pop’s enthusiastic hand-waving paraphernalia.
As It's Always Sunny fans will remember well, in “The Gang Finds a Dead Guy,” Pop-Pop sends Charlie on a mission to retrieve his “I give my heart to the crowd” uniform. Upon learning that his friends’ grandfather is on the autism spectrum, Charlie teams up with Mac to try to sell Pop-Pop’s emphatic gesticulating artifacts to a museum, only to learn that most galleries have no interest in displaying any items that represent the loving hand-movement ideology. Seeing no way to capitalize on Pop-Pop’s affiliation with the neo-friendly-hand-extension party, they burn the entire box of heart-thumping keepsakes in the alley behind Paddy’s Pub.
Unfortunately for Kuffel, a journalist calling Musk’s “heil love hands” gesture a Nazi salute is now a job-losing transgression, which should have Mac and Charlie worried — Frank could fire them if he ever finds out they destroyed a precious trove of heart-throwing treasures.
