Sinclair News Show Axed After Host Threatens Sexual Assault On Parkland Survivor

Ed Mazza
Updated

A conservative host for a station owned by the embattled Sinclair Broadcast Group has resigned after threatening one of the teen survivors of the Feb. 14 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

“I’ve been hanging out getting ready to ram a hot poker up David Hogg’s ass,” Jamie Allman wrote on Twitter on March 26.

The tweet by the host of “The Allman Report” on KDNL-TV, the Sinclair-owned St. Louis ABC affiliate, has since been deleted, but it caused advertisers to flee his show.

“We have accepted Mr. Allman’s resignation, and his show has been canceled,” a Sinclair spokesman told The Washington Post on Monday.

Allman, former spokesman for the St. Louis Archdiocese, also hosts a radio show on KFTK, a conservative station.

Since the mass shooting, Hogg has become an advocate for gun control, which has led to both conspiracy theories and personal attacks from the right.

On March 28, Fox News host Laura Ingraham mocked him for not getting accepted into four of the colleges he had applied to (one of which has since accepted him). That led Hogg to suggest a boycott of “The Ingraham Angle,” and since then, advertisers have fled her show as well, although she returned to the air on Monday night after a week’s break.

Allman had also mocked Hogg over the Ingraham boycott.

“You can’t say ‘Hey I’m just a kid,’” Allman said, according to the Riverfront Times. “We have to be allowed to refute what you’re saying... or to respond to it, you can’t be all the time grabbing your blanket when the going gets tough.”

Sinclair has also come under fire for forcing its anchors to recite the same scripted editorial against “false stories” that critics have likened to a “hostage video.”

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Students wait at a crosswalk as they arrive to attend classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first time since the shooting that killed 17 people on February 14 at the school on February 28, 2018 in Parkland, Florida.
Students wait at a crosswalk as they arrive to attend classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first time since the shooting that killed 17 people on February 14 at the school on February 28, 2018 in Parkland, Florida.
 A student holds a flower and a button that reads,' #MSDSTRONG,' as she arrives for classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first time since the shooting that killed 17 people on February 14 at the school on February 28, 2018 in Parkland, Florida. 
 A student holds a flower and a button that reads,' #MSDSTRONG,' as she arrives for classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first time since the shooting that killed 17 people on February 14 at the school on February 28, 2018 in Parkland, Florida. 
People arrive to offer support at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School 
People arrive to offer support at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School 
Police officers hug as they stand guard near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Police officers hug as they stand guard near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Broward County Sheriff officers welcome students as they arrive.
Broward County Sheriff officers welcome students as they arrive.
People hug each other as students arrive.
People hug each other as students arrive.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School staff, teachers and students return to school.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School staff, teachers and students return to school.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School staff, teachers and students return to school greeted by police and well wishers.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School staff, teachers and students return to school greeted by police and well wishers.
 Police officers stand in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as student arrive.
 Police officers stand in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as student arrive.
People arrive at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
People arrive at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
People arrive to offer support.
People arrive to offer support.
Broward County Sheriff officers wave as they welcome students as they arrive.
Broward County Sheriff officers wave as they welcome students as they arrive.

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