Former CNN pundit Jeffery Lord said CNN's decision to fire him Thursday was "wrong," adding that his firing "proved his point" that the network has limited free speech.

CNN abruptly severed ties with the 61-year-old Lord after he tweeted “Sieg Heil!” at a liberal activist on Twitter.



Lord, a columnist for conservative magazine The American Spectator, tweeted the Nazi victory salute at Angelo Carusone, president of the liberal group Media Matters for America.

Lord was defending fellow conservative Sean Hannity against Media Matters, which launched a campaign in July to create public pressure to fire Hannity over his coverage of the Seth Rich murder conspiracy theory, by listing his Fox New advertisers.



“Nazi salutes are indefensible,” a CNN spokesperson said, according to the network. “Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.”

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