Sinclair-owned Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO has canned reporter Jonathan Choe over a pro-Proud Boys propaganda video Choe had stitched together and tweeted on Saturday, the Stranger reports, characterizing the segment (which was deleted and was not aired on the local broadcast) as “a soft-focus montage of a Proud Boys rally in Olympia and advertised a Q&A session the hate group planned to hold afterward as if he were talking about some kind of humanitarian organization.”
“THAT’S A WRAP: Proud Boys and other marchers say they will stay on the Capitol campus in Olympia for a few more hours to mingle and answer questions if anyone is interested in learning more about their cause and mission,” Choe wrote in the tweet heralding the segment, which was too much even for right wing propagandists like Sinclair, who on Tuesday put out statement saying “decided to end our employment relationship with [Choe] effective today,” as the segment “did not direct or approve Jonathan Choe’s decision to cover this weekend’s rally, nor did his work meet our editorial standards.” Proud Boys groupie “journalist” Andy Ngo is likely sweating Choe’s new availability for production work, as the fascist white supremacist street gang may have just found themselves a better option with a more “mainstream” resume to run their comms.