First, here is the video of the moment in question. Girdusky, said that "I hope your beeper doesn't go off," a menacing "joke" implying that Hasan is a terrorist.

He should have been instantly banned from CNN for it, but was at least banned after this segment went to commercial break.

While CNN was right to ban Girdusky for his extraordinarily offensive remark, he should have never been invited onto CNN's air in the first place.

Girdusky is a full-on racist who wrote for the neo-nazi Richard Spencer under his real name

He currently runs a Republican censorship PAC dedicated to banning #LGBT books and school curricula about racism https://www.turtlediaries.net/p/gop-political-consultant-once-wrote

Unfortunately, there are hundreds of Ryan Girduskys who are routinely invited onto mainstream media television discussions. I know this because before going independent, I was a producer at The Hill on its "Rising" program.

Like all mainstream media shows, we were constantly trying to have balanced panel discussions. But we always had a problem: It was very difficult to find Republicans who weren't crazy.

Frequently, my colleagues would book right wing commentators and as someone who'd come out of conservative media, I often had to review them before they were put on air.

More than a few times, people who were "alt right" activists were booked before I removed them. Many right-wing guests were outright Christian supremacists who literally wanted Christians to have more civil rights than non-believers or people of other faiths.

They were extremists, in other words.

It was a huge chore trying to find non-extreme Republicans.

Ironically, the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action in media are Republican commentators. The MSM are desperate to find any who can engage in civil dialogue without fillibustering or collapsing into bigoted rants.

This is why you often see the same Republicans everywhere.

Republican elites have a huge quality problem on their side but they don't care to do anything about it. That's bc they realized that engaging in informational hygiene would shrink their very unstable coalition.

They've chosen extremism over centrism. And never get called on it.

The mainstream media needs to stop platforming dishonest and bigoted Republicans. America needs to hear what the far right thinks.

Reporters can present these views and their significance. We don't need the bigots.

The hard reality is that Republicans are so far from the center that they cannot engage in civil debate. The viewers would be better served by ending the right wing food fights.

CNN 's Republican chief executives clearly are behind these recent Republican affirmative action hires. They suppose that having more right wing droogs on the air will get Republicans to flip away from Fox.

But this will never work. For every Foxbot tuning in, they lose 2 disgusted viewers.

@mattsheffield

Media Acidification: increasing the number of the hateful in a group by forcing the decent to leave & keeping the toxic members.

Mainstream media organizations have been escorting the moral & fair minded out of journalism and increasing the number of amoral bigots on air.