People who listen to him and support him and these values are SICK. The idiot later said "It was a joke." Joking about murdering students in a school is NOT a joke. Here's the story.
Conservative radio host wishes for a ‘nice school shooting’ to distract from impeachment
washingtonpost Dec 19, 2019
As Chuck Bonniwell welcomed listeners back from a break on his Colorado talk-radio show just after 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, he laughed as he introduced a segment discussing the “never-ending impeachment of Donald Trump.”
“You know,” he said, “you wish for a nice school shooting” to interrupt the nonstop impeachment coverage.
His wife and co-host, Julie Hayden, immediately jumped in and cut him off.
“No, no, don’t even — don’t even say that,” she said. “No, don’t even say that. Don’t call us, Chuck didn’t say that.”
Bonniwell quickly tried to back off from the statement, saying he would want a shooting “in which no one would be hurt,” but the damage had already been done. By the end of the day, the couple’s conservative show was canceled by the Aurora, Colo., radio station 710 KNUS.
“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 in a statement Wednesday evening. “A programming decision was made to end the program immediately.”
Bonniwell did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Wednesday. In a now-deleted tweet, Bonniwell defended himself, suggesting people had misunderstood his intent.
“I made an inappropriate comment meant as a joke,” he said, the Denver Post reported. “I’m sorry it was not received that way.”
“Chuck & Julie” was removed from the station’s website and returned an error message by early Thursday.
The radio station said the “Chuck & Julie” show would be replaced by former White House aide Sebastian Gorka’s “America First” program starting Thursday.
KNUS is no stranger to controversy brought on by its programs. Another host denied allegations last week that he had posted white-supremacist memes online after he made comments on-air that mirrored an anti-Semitic post by someone using his name on a Russian social media platform frequented by extremists. That host told 9News the post was part of an elaborate plot by a local anti-fascist group to defame him. The station defended him.
