{"id":1801739,"date":"2023-01-11T06:34:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801739"},"modified":"2023-01-11T06:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T11:35:47","slug":"hack-politico-reporter-who-smeared-pope-benedict-after-his-death-is-out-of-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hack-politico-reporter-who-smeared-pope-benedict-after-his-death-is-out-of-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack Politico Reporter Who Smeared Pope Benedict After His Death Is Out of a Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhack-politico-reporter-who-smeared-pope-benedict-after-his-death-is-out-of-a-job%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801739&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/original_GellerPope.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The day after the former, December 31, 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-former-pope-benedict-xvi-has-died-at-the-age-of-95\">Pope Benedict XVI died<\/a>Eric Geller, then-Politico journalist, wrote the following in a now-deleted Tweet &#8220;Homophobic pedophile protector and Hitler Youth alumnus dead at 95.&#8221; Geller now appears to have been fired or left his job in Politico.<\/p>\n<p>John Hasson tweeted Wednesday, &#8220;Did Politico fire Eric Geller for smearing Benedict XVI? His Twitter bio no longer references Politico.&#8221; Hasson attached screengrabs from Geller&#8217;s bio, before and after his Pope tweet. Afterward, any mention of Politico was removed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Geller&#8217;s bio had previously stated that he was &#8220;a cybersecurity reporter at Politico&#8221; Then it was a &#8220;cybersecurity journalist in Washington, D.C.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later, Hasson wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Update: It appears Eric Geller either left Politico or he was fired. In either event, I&#8217;m glad to hear he&#8217;s gone and hope he does some soul-searching in the meantime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ericjgeller\/\">LinkedIn profile of Geller<\/a> His job at Politico was terminated in January 2023, as reflected by the inscription.<\/p>\n<p>Geller wrote after the backlash that he had deleted his December 31 tweet and that he was now deleting it. &#8220;I deleted the tweet about Pope Benedict that was offensive and in poor judgment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11619113\/Politco-fired-reporter-called-late-Pope-pedophile-protector-Hitler-Youth-alumnus.html\">The Daily Mail has the following reports<\/a> Brad Dayspring was Politico&#8217;s vice-president of marketing and communications. He declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Dayspring responded via Twitter on December 31 and mentioned Geller&#8217;s tweet. &#8220;Yes. The tweet is a clear violation of our social media policy and was both inaccurate and offensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dayspring was added &#8220;Violations of company policy\u2014including the social media policy\u2014are subject to an internal review process&#8221;  &#8220;Without commenting further on this specific matter (as it is under review), violations of company policy could result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ellen Carmichael tweeted, &#8220;Just here to correct the record as Mr. Geller goes on a smearing spree,&#8221; A screengrab was posted that clarifies the Pope&#8217;s biography.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger&#8217;s family opposed the Nazis, which led to prolonged harassment. Ratzinger, then 14, was conscripted into Hitler youth as it was required by the regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day after the former, December 31, 2022 Pope Benedict XVI diedEric Geller, then-Politico journalist, wrote the following in a now-deleted Tweet &#8220;Homophobic pedophile protector and Hitler Youth alumnus dead at 95.&#8221; Geller now appears to have been fired or left his job in Politico. John Hasson tweeted Wednesday, &#8220;Did Politico fire Eric Geller for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1801742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[12174,5458,6499,3749,7819,12387,9592,3819,5046,9888],"class_list":["post-1801739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-benedict","tag-bongino","tag-death","tag-hack","tag-job","tag-politico","tag-pope","tag-report","tag-reporter","tag-smeared"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}