July 14, 2026 • 14 mins
Ryan and Dana talk with National Correspondent Rory O’Neill about Lindsey Graham’s 62-year-old sister, Darline Graham Nordone, being appointed to temporarily fill his Senate seat ahead of a November election. They also discuss Ana Navarro criticizing those celebrating Graham’s death and react to listener Talkbacks about his passing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Late Senator Lindsey Graham's sister, Darlene Graham Nordone, is going
to finish Graham's Senate term after South Carolina Governor Henry
McMaster appointed her yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Here's McMaster making that announcement.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Is my honor to ask his little sister, Darlene Graham
to finish his work for him now.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Nordone, who's never held public office, going to serve until
January third of next year, unless she runs for and
wins the open Senate seat in November. She previously worked
to help people with disabilities find jobs. This is what
she had to say about her late brother during the
press conference.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Bob brother was the most amazing person, outstanding later and
just a genuinely good man. He was kind and considerate
and loved by his family.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Dearly Graham can considered nor Done his closest family member
after their parents died within fifteen months of each other
back in the seventies. He would go on to become
her legal guardian and later legally adopted her, which allowed
him to provide for her financially, including making her eligible
for military benefits while he was serving in the Air Force.
(01:19):
And remember Lindsey Graham, he was never married, didn't have
any kids, anything like that. It seems like he was
really close and protective and took care of his younger sister.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm going to hold a special election next month to
select a new Republican nominee because Graham was running for
reelection when he died. South Carolina representatives Nancy Mace and
Ralph Norman reportedly planning Senate campaigns. I mean, I can't
see Nancy Mace not getting into the race. She was
ready to get into the race, I think before Graham
(01:49):
was officially announced dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just I mean
a little much. There've also been a few reports that
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen might be interested. And the problem
with his younger sister, Darlene running is that she's too young.
She's only sixty.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Two, all right, Yeah, she could have a nice thirty
five year run. Well, the other thing I was wondering about,
and I guess, there used to be a thing where
the widow, like if a senator died, the widow would
take over. But how like for a grieving family member
to have all that responsibility on them. That's what I
was kind of thinking about with all of this, is like,
you know, her brother who she was so close to,
just died, and now she's going to be, you know,
(02:27):
doing all this work.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I'm sure she wants to carry it on.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But all this, you say, doing all this work, it's.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Really not a lot of work. Yeah, it was really
not all that much.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The last thing I wanted to know, and I thought
this was great senators from both parties, they're looking to
revive a Russia sanctions package to honor the legacy of
Lindsay Grant.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
So that's the way to do it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That is the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Honestly, I can't think of something that he would love
more than that. Maybe dropping a bomb on Vladimir Putin's
head with his name, yeah, with his name on That
might be the only thing he would love more than
reviving that sanctions package and passing it. And right now,
let's bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neill, whose reports
brought to you by Mark Spain Real Estate. So, Rory,
(03:13):
let's start with Lindsey Graham's sister being appointed to his
Senate seat. Now, of course there is going to be
an election in November because Graham was running for re election.
We don't know if she'd be interested in doing that.
But the one thing that stood out to me is
her age sixty two. I mean, I would have thought
(03:33):
there would have with somebody who was at least eighty, what.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Doing She's going to be the whipper snapper there at
that age.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, And I think she's going to take.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
The role of caretaker of the seat, right, just fill
out the term and that's it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
We're not expecting her to throw her hat in the ring.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
She doesn't have any other political experience, not that there's
anything wrong with it, but it didn't seem that she
didn't have those kinds of aspirations. And that was the question, right,
would Governor McMaster name this seat filler for the rest
of the term or would he name someone who's going
to campaign for that Senate seat in the upcoming primary,
sort of giving that person a blessing, you know, and
(04:14):
an upper hand against anyone who wants to run for
that seat.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And one Lindsey Graham's sister Darlene, once she got Trump's endorsement,
that was it. She was going to be appointed. And
now we'll see who enters the race for the Senate seat.
We know Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman are planning on
doing so. Nancy Mace is as thirsty as anyone could
(04:43):
be to get back in office, and she's not going
to because she's right when she said I think she
said yesterday, Trump ended her political career. Yeah, and if
you try to run for this seat, you're not gonna
get his endorsement either.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
And what she came in fifth in that primary, so so, yeah,
it seems unlikely. The Lieutenant Governor Pamela Eve also considered
one of the likely candidates for this seat, although she
is certainly a divisive figure among Republicans there. To put
it politely, but we could see the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen,
you know, his name was tossed around because he's long
(05:18):
owned property in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Now not a Republican.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
But how about Stephen Colbert getting in there just to
sert things up a little bit, as he's a South
Carolina native.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Although I wouldn't think that happened.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
And what about Trey Gowdy, former congressman now Fox TV host.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
High name recognition from South Carolina. It certainly could be
at the mix too.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
There have been some pretty outrageous social media posts about
Lindsay Graham's death, people who didn't agree with him celebrating
his death. But Anna Navarro on The View, who says
she was friends with him, called on those people to stop.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
The first thing I.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Want to say is I saw a lot of posts
online this week kind of celebrating his death and rejoicing
and listen, I know that Trump does that. He did
it with Bob Muller, he did it with John McCain,
he did it with Rob Reiner. But it's in humane
and it's really lacking empathy. And the dead person is
dead and can't hear you and can't read your post.
(06:18):
But his family, his sister who he adopted when she
was thirteen because both their parents died, is alive and
is hearing it. And so I think that for the
benefit for humanity, for having you know, a normal decency towards.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
The family of the dead, that.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
That that just has to stop.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, she's one hundred percent right, I.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Mean absolutely, and a really good point about the family members.
They're the ones who have to deal with that outpouring
of hate. That they're inevitably going to see online. I
thought she made a really good point there, and and look,
we said it at the time in those instances when
Trump celebrated the depths of different people.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's just it's not right.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
No, it's not right. It's discovery.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
He does it.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's not right if a regular person does it like
this California nurse.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, this guy posted on Instagram wishing President Trump, Senator
Lindsay Graham, and Senator Mitch McConnell would all die. So
the image shows a picture of Mitch McConnell on the
left with a skull and a power plug emoji under
his picture with a text that says pull the plug.
Then Trump in the middle with a countdown underneath him,
and then it had Lindsay Graham on the right with
(07:30):
the tombstone that says rip and he said, if all
of these three bleepers die this week, I might become
religious again. Well, this guy did it on his you know,
personal Instagram account that has his real name on it,
So then you can go look at LinkedIn. People found
out who he was, and he's a nurse at Long
Beach Memorial Medical Center Children's Hospital, a Children's Hospital, and
(07:55):
so people have reached out to the hospital in an
effort to get him fire. The hospital has not responded yet,
so we don't know if they're looking into it or not.
But if you work in a hospital with kids, you
can not be posting stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's unprofessional, that's for sure. But I just I don't
understand people don't get it. You know, this comes with consequences. Now,
it's not that you can't say that you disagreed with
Lindsey Graham, but to celebrate his death and to hope
for the death of the president and you know another sense.
I mean, you can understand businesses, companies, they're not going
to want to be associated with people like that.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Look, and when somebody dies, even if you didn't like them,
or no matter who it is, you had a bad
experience with them, you don't have to post your thoughts
on social media.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Earlier this hour, Dana did the trending story about Ann
and to borrow on the view saying that for those
who are posting online celebratory remarks about the death of
Lindsey Graham, you know, Lindsey Graham is dead, but his
family members, including his sister. We were just talking about
(08:58):
they're still here and that's who that stuff really ends
up hurting, and she just I thought, put it really
well about how it's just very unbecoming to post that
kind of stuff. You can, but doesn't make it right.
This is what Donald listening to us on WFLA and
(09:20):
the Tampa Bay Area, had to say about our take,
especially on the other story that he did. Dana the
nurse I think it was California.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Yeah, California nurse posted on social media like wishing death
on not just Lindsey Grimm, but also Trump and Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
It was a really outrageous, nasty post.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, this is what Donald had to say about that.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Hey, WFLA Radio, I wish you guys would choose whether
you want free speech or not. I'm so tired of
this thought and speech police. It's in the UK now
if it comes here, you're all going to be out
of a job, and that would make me sad.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, I appreciate the fact that you'd be saying if
we were out of a job. So thank you, Donald,
and thank you for leaving us that comment. Look, I
am for free speech to me, this isn't a free
speech issue.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
To me.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
This comes down to free speech issue is if the
government starts cracking down.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, yeah, right right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
This is the fact that everything is out there now
on social media, and if you're a company, do you
want to be associated not with someone who posts their
political views or posts that they didn't appreciate, you know,
Lindsey Graham's foreign policy views or something like that, But
do you want to be associated with somebody who celebrates
(10:42):
the death of another person because they disagree with them.
That's the issue that we're dealing with here. I do think,
you know, there can be a chilling effect, but I
think if you do it in a more responsible way. Generally,
we haven't seen people who responsibly post about the deaths
(11:03):
of you know, whether it's Charlie Kirk or somebody else,
get in troubles just saying they had disagreements with them.
It's been the celebratory aspect that companies have been like, yeah,
I don't want that person working for me.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Right, because it reflects poorly on whether it's a whether
it's a private company or a school. We've had teachers
posting really outrageous stuff which reflects poorly on the school,
upsets the parents and all of that. But I think
it's fine to privately, you know, talk about a complicated
person in their life and how you didn't agree with them,
But why do you have to put it on social media?
It only it just makes you look really bad and
(11:37):
kind of crazy. Yeah, when you put that kind of
stuff on social media like that nurse's post is outrageous.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, it's it's insane.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And I said, it's it's unbecoming the president to celebrate
the deaths of people who he didn't like it. I
think it diminishes the presidency. So you know, I'm consistent
on that, and I don't think it's infringing on speech
free Earlier in the show, Dana did a story about
a California nurse who's facing backlash and calls for the
(12:08):
nurse's job after the nurse posted stuff on social media
appearing to wish death on President Trump and the nurse
celebrated Lindsey Graham's death, And so this has become a
big topic now about whether or not that's the right
thing to do, the push for someone's job or consequences
(12:34):
based on their social media posts. In the aftermath, of
someone's death, and like, we had this debate in the
aftermath of Charlie Kirk's death as well, and then when
the President celebrated the death of Rob Reiner and Robert Mueller,
and we're getting lots of reaction. This is what a
listener in the Tampa Bay area had to say.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
As a nurse, there's a code of ethics that you
really should abide by, and posting awful things like that
on social media an appropriate hit.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
This is what John listening in South Florida say, Hey,
to the.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Nurse in California who was gleeing in the death and
hoping for two more deaths, how do you square that
with the hippocratic oath?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Can you tell me?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I just think you know, even if you're let's say
an accountant, if you post that publicly something along those lines,
that doesn't mean that ear just protected, that you're immune
from consequences. And I don't view that as a free
speech issue. That does a business want to associate with
(13:37):
someone like that? Doesn't mean you can't spout your political views,
but you can go too far.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah, it's totally unhinged what that guy posted. I mean,
just you know, wishing death on people is crazy.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
No matter who it is, it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
But I think especially it's especially outrageous when it's somebody
who the health of other people is in their hands.
You can't be wishing death on people when you're responsible for,
you know, taking care of people's health.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It's not the first time we've seen like people in
that profession get in trouble for this kind of stuff.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Yeah, it seems to be a lot of healthcare people
that do it, and I don't know if it's just
because they're healthcare people that then the story tends to.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Go viral more often.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
But we also see it with teachers too, public school teachers,
private school teachers spouting off about politics and these really angry,
outrageous posts and it's not okay.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Late Senator Lindsey Graham's sister, Darlene Graham Nordone, is going
to finish Graham's Senate term after South Carolina Governor Henry
McMaster appointed her yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Here's McMaster making that announcement.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Is my honor to ask his little sister, Darlene Graham
to finish his work for him now.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Nordone, who's never held public office, going to serve until
January third of next year, unless she runs for and
wins the open Senate seat in November. She previously worked
to help people with disabilities find jobs. This is what
she had to say about her late brother during the
press conference.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Bob brother was the most amazing person, outstanding later and
just a genuinely good man. He was kind and considerate
and loved by his family.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Dearly Graham can considered nor Done his closest family member
after their parents died within fifteen months of each other
back in the seventies. He would go on to become
her legal guardian and later legally adopted her, which allowed
him to provide for her financially, including making her eligible
for military benefits while he was serving in the Air Force.
(01:19):
And remember Lindsey Graham, he was never married, didn't have
any kids, anything like that. It seems like he was
really close and protective and took care of his younger sister.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm going to hold a special election next month to
select a new Republican nominee because Graham was running for
reelection when he died. South Carolina representatives Nancy Mace and
Ralph Norman reportedly planning Senate campaigns. I mean, I can't
see Nancy Mace not getting into the race. She was
ready to get into the race, I think before Graham
(01:49):
was officially announced dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just I mean
a little much. There've also been a few reports that
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen might be interested. And the problem
with his younger sister, Darlene running is that she's too young.
She's only sixty.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Two, all right, Yeah, she could have a nice thirty
five year run. Well, the other thing I was wondering about,
and I guess, there used to be a thing where
the widow, like if a senator died, the widow would
take over. But how like for a grieving family member
to have all that responsibility on them. That's what I
was kind of thinking about with all of this, is like,
you know, her brother who she was so close to,
just died, and now she's going to be, you know,
(02:27):
doing all this work.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I'm sure she wants to carry it on.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
But all this, you say, doing all this work, it's.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Really not a lot of work. Yeah, it was really
not all that much.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The last thing I wanted to know, and I thought
this was great senators from both parties, they're looking to
revive a Russia sanctions package to honor the legacy of
Lindsay Grant.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
So that's the way to do it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That is the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Honestly, I can't think of something that he would love
more than that. Maybe dropping a bomb on Vladimir Putin's
head with his name, yeah, with his name on That
might be the only thing he would love more than
reviving that sanctions package and passing it. And right now,
let's bring in our national correspondent, Rory O'Neill, whose reports
brought to you by Mark Spain Real Estate. So, Rory,
(03:13):
let's start with Lindsey Graham's sister being appointed to his
Senate seat. Now, of course there is going to be
an election in November because Graham was running for re election.
We don't know if she'd be interested in doing that.
But the one thing that stood out to me is
her age sixty two. I mean, I would have thought
(03:33):
there would have with somebody who was at least eighty, what.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Doing She's going to be the whipper snapper there at
that age.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, And I think she's going to take.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
The role of caretaker of the seat, right, just fill
out the term and that's it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
We're not expecting her to throw her hat in the ring.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
She doesn't have any other political experience, not that there's
anything wrong with it, but it didn't seem that she
didn't have those kinds of aspirations. And that was the question, right,
would Governor McMaster name this seat filler for the rest
of the term or would he name someone who's going
to campaign for that Senate seat in the upcoming primary,
sort of giving that person a blessing, you know, and
(04:14):
an upper hand against anyone who wants to run for
that seat.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And one Lindsey Graham's sister Darlene, once she got Trump's endorsement,
that was it. She was going to be appointed. And
now we'll see who enters the race for the Senate seat.
We know Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman are planning on
doing so. Nancy Mace is as thirsty as anyone could
(04:43):
be to get back in office, and she's not going
to because she's right when she said I think she
said yesterday, Trump ended her political career. Yeah, and if
you try to run for this seat, you're not gonna
get his endorsement either.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
And what she came in fifth in that primary, so so, yeah,
it seems unlikely. The Lieutenant Governor Pamela Eve also considered
one of the likely candidates for this seat, although she
is certainly a divisive figure among Republicans there. To put
it politely, but we could see the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen,
you know, his name was tossed around because he's long
(05:18):
owned property in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Now not a Republican.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
But how about Stephen Colbert getting in there just to
sert things up a little bit, as he's a South
Carolina native.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Although I wouldn't think that happened.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
And what about Trey Gowdy, former congressman now Fox TV host.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
High name recognition from South Carolina. It certainly could be
at the mix too.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
There have been some pretty outrageous social media posts about
Lindsay Graham's death, people who didn't agree with him celebrating
his death. But Anna Navarro on The View, who says
she was friends with him, called on those people to stop.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
The first thing I.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Want to say is I saw a lot of posts
online this week kind of celebrating his death and rejoicing
and listen, I know that Trump does that. He did
it with Bob Muller, he did it with John McCain,
he did it with Rob Reiner. But it's in humane
and it's really lacking empathy. And the dead person is
dead and can't hear you and can't read your post.
(06:18):
But his family, his sister who he adopted when she
was thirteen because both their parents died, is alive and
is hearing it. And so I think that for the
benefit for humanity, for having you know, a normal decency towards.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
The family of the dead, that.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
That that just has to stop.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, she's one hundred percent right, I.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Mean absolutely, and a really good point about the family members.
They're the ones who have to deal with that outpouring
of hate. That they're inevitably going to see online. I
thought she made a really good point there, and and look,
we said it at the time in those instances when
Trump celebrated the depths of different people.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's just it's not right.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
No, it's not right. It's discovery.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
He does it.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's not right if a regular person does it like
this California nurse.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, this guy posted on Instagram wishing President Trump, Senator
Lindsay Graham, and Senator Mitch McConnell would all die. So
the image shows a picture of Mitch McConnell on the
left with a skull and a power plug emoji under
his picture with a text that says pull the plug.
Then Trump in the middle with a countdown underneath him,
and then it had Lindsay Graham on the right with
(07:30):
the tombstone that says rip and he said, if all
of these three bleepers die this week, I might become
religious again. Well, this guy did it on his you know,
personal Instagram account that has his real name on it,
So then you can go look at LinkedIn. People found
out who he was, and he's a nurse at Long
Beach Memorial Medical Center Children's Hospital, a Children's Hospital, and
(07:55):
so people have reached out to the hospital in an
effort to get him fire. The hospital has not responded yet,
so we don't know if they're looking into it or not.
But if you work in a hospital with kids, you
can not be posting stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's unprofessional, that's for sure. But I just I don't
understand people don't get it. You know, this comes with consequences. Now,
it's not that you can't say that you disagreed with
Lindsey Graham, but to celebrate his death and to hope
for the death of the president and you know another sense.
I mean, you can understand businesses, companies, they're not going
to want to be associated with people like that.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Look, and when somebody dies, even if you didn't like them,
or no matter who it is, you had a bad
experience with them, you don't have to post your thoughts
on social media.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Earlier this hour, Dana did the trending story about Ann
and to borrow on the view saying that for those
who are posting online celebratory remarks about the death of
Lindsey Graham, you know, Lindsey Graham is dead, but his
family members, including his sister. We were just talking about
(08:58):
they're still here and that's who that stuff really ends
up hurting, and she just I thought, put it really
well about how it's just very unbecoming to post that
kind of stuff. You can, but doesn't make it right.
This is what Donald listening to us on WFLA and
(09:20):
the Tampa Bay Area, had to say about our take,
especially on the other story that he did. Dana the
nurse I think it was California.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Yeah, California nurse posted on social media like wishing death
on not just Lindsey Grimm, but also Trump and Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
It was a really outrageous, nasty post.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah, this is what Donald had to say about that.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Hey, WFLA Radio, I wish you guys would choose whether
you want free speech or not. I'm so tired of
this thought and speech police. It's in the UK now
if it comes here, you're all going to be out
of a job, and that would make me sad.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, I appreciate the fact that you'd be saying if
we were out of a job. So thank you, Donald,
and thank you for leaving us that comment. Look, I
am for free speech to me, this isn't a free
speech issue.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
To me.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
This comes down to free speech issue is if the
government starts cracking down.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, yeah, right right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
This is the fact that everything is out there now
on social media, and if you're a company, do you
want to be associated not with someone who posts their
political views or posts that they didn't appreciate, you know,
Lindsey Graham's foreign policy views or something like that, But
do you want to be associated with somebody who celebrates
(10:42):
the death of another person because they disagree with them.
That's the issue that we're dealing with here. I do think,
you know, there can be a chilling effect, but I
think if you do it in a more responsible way. Generally,
we haven't seen people who responsibly post about the deaths
(11:03):
of you know, whether it's Charlie Kirk or somebody else,
get in troubles just saying they had disagreements with them.
It's been the celebratory aspect that companies have been like, yeah,
I don't want that person working for me.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Right, because it reflects poorly on whether it's a whether
it's a private company or a school. We've had teachers
posting really outrageous stuff which reflects poorly on the school,
upsets the parents and all of that. But I think
it's fine to privately, you know, talk about a complicated
person in their life and how you didn't agree with them,
But why do you have to put it on social media?
It only it just makes you look really bad and
(11:37):
kind of crazy. Yeah, when you put that kind of
stuff on social media like that nurse's post is outrageous.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, it's it's insane.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And I said, it's it's unbecoming the president to celebrate
the deaths of people who he didn't like it. I
think it diminishes the presidency. So you know, I'm consistent
on that, and I don't think it's infringing on speech
free Earlier in the show, Dana did a story about
a California nurse who's facing backlash and calls for the
(12:08):
nurse's job after the nurse posted stuff on social media
appearing to wish death on President Trump and the nurse
celebrated Lindsey Graham's death, And so this has become a
big topic now about whether or not that's the right
thing to do, the push for someone's job or consequences
(12:34):
based on their social media posts. In the aftermath, of
someone's death, and like, we had this debate in the
aftermath of Charlie Kirk's death as well, and then when
the President celebrated the death of Rob Reiner and Robert Mueller,
and we're getting lots of reaction. This is what a
listener in the Tampa Bay area had to say.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
As a nurse, there's a code of ethics that you
really should abide by, and posting awful things like that
on social media an appropriate hit.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
This is what John listening in South Florida say, Hey,
to the.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Nurse in California who was gleeing in the death and
hoping for two more deaths, how do you square that
with the hippocratic oath?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Can you tell me?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I just think you know, even if you're let's say
an accountant, if you post that publicly something along those lines,
that doesn't mean that ear just protected, that you're immune
from consequences. And I don't view that as a free
speech issue. That does a business want to associate with
(13:37):
someone like that? Doesn't mean you can't spout your political views,
but you can go too far.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah, it's totally unhinged what that guy posted. I mean,
just you know, wishing death on people is crazy.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
No matter who it is, it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
But I think especially it's especially outrageous when it's somebody
who the health of other people is in their hands.
You can't be wishing death on people when you're responsible for,
you know, taking care of people's health.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It's not the first time we've seen like people in
that profession get in trouble for this kind of stuff.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Yeah, it seems to be a lot of healthcare people
that do it, and I don't know if it's just
because they're healthcare people that then the story tends to.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Go viral more often.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
But we also see it with teachers too, public school teachers,
private school teachers spouting off about politics and these really angry,
outrageous posts and it's not okay.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
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