{"id":3752,"date":"2017-01-23T11:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T18:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/staceydash\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2017-01-23T15:19:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T22:19:54","slug":"snl-fire-writer-tweeted-vile-insult-barron-trump-trying-make-look-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/staceydash\/2017\/01\/snl-fire-writer-tweeted-vile-insult-barron-trump-trying-make-look-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Did SNL fire writer who tweeted vile insult about Barron Trump? or are they trying to make it look that way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/632240794\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/632240794?et=ijAZxncXRRRN-3E82yVfxw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=iktKwl2slLGbF0EGKNA7M4zQRg1TrhNYXE6Q07Hxa4o=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/23\/arts\/television\/katie-rich-snl-suspended-barron-trump-tweet.html?_r=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"268\" data-total-count=\"268\">Katie Rich, a writer for \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d has been suspended from her position at that show following a widely criticized post she made Friday on her personal Twitter account in which she mocked Barron Trump, the 10-year-old son of President Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"205\" data-total-count=\"473\">She was suspended immediately after her tweet, and her suspension is indefinite, according to someone familiar with the plans at \u201cS.N.L.,\u201d who was not authorized by NBC to comment on personnel matters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"205\" data-total-count=\"473\"><strong>ORIGINAL:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Saturday Night Live writer Katie Rich decided to pick on Barron Trump, she really decided to be nasty. In the since-deleted post, she posted a photo of him with the caption: \u201cwill be this country\u2019s first homeschool shooter.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Barron is only ten years old and isn\u2019t homeschooled, but Katie still plunged ahead and spoke \u201ctruth to power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FoxNews reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2017\/01\/23\/nbc-wont-comment-on-snl-writers-controversial-barron-trump-tweet.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NBC isn\u2019t going to comment on the incident:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Katie Rich said Friday in a now-deleted tweet that Barron Trump \u201cwill be this country\u2019s first homeschool shooter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rich was immediately faced with a slew of comments criticizing her for taking aim at the 10-year-old. She has since taken down her website and social media pages.<\/p>\n<p>While a rep for \u201cSNL\u201d told us \u201cNBC will not be commenting,\u201d Rich\u2019s name was not listed as a writer for the show\u2019s latest episode which aired one day after Rich\u2019s tweet. She has been a writer for \u201cSNL\u201d since 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Instapundit <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/255307\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">asks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<blockquote><p>Has she been fired or suspended \u2014 or merely left off the credits to make it appear she\u2019d been punished somehow?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Very good question. \u00a0I guess we can keep checking the credits to see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that Saturday Night Live can\u2019t help itself \u2014 they were punch drunk in love with President Obama \u2014 did you<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2017\/01\/23\/snls-sappy-love-song-calls-obama-best-friend-taught-right-wrong\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"> SEE that embarrassing \u201clove song\u201d they sang to him<\/a>? \u00a0They think it\u2019s totally fine to be insulting to a President\u2019s kids as long as they aren\u2019t named Malia, Sasha, or Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>If they didn\u2019t have double standards, they\u2019d have no standards at all.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC think it&#8217;s totally fine to insult a President&#8217;s kids as long as they aren&#8217;t named Malia, Sasha, or Chelsea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2277,"featured_media":3755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Did SNL fire writer who tweeted vile insult about Barron Trump? 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