Conservative Host Walks Off Set After Leftist Host Calls Her ‘Nazi’
Charlie Kirk Staff
10/30/2024

The Hill’s “Rising” co-host Amber Duke walked off set after her co-host Nomiki Konst said Duke “made Nazi comments in the past.”
“Rising is shorter than usual today because I chose not to continue sitting at a desk with someone who falsely accused me of ‘Nazi writings’ because they were losing an argument,” Duke, who previously served as the Daily Caller’s White House correspondent, tweeted Tuesday.
“I think I have been unfathomably patient with my cohost but everyone has a line,” she wrote.
The two were discussing the controversy surrounding former CNN contributor Ryan Gidursky’s dismissal from the network when Konst remarked, “You’ve made Nazi comments in the past, I’m not going to bring that up.”
“I haven’t made Nazi comments,” Duke responded.
“After the segment was over my cohost started screaming and insisting I had done Nazi writings while working for the Daily Caller. We got into it once before off air but nothing like this. It was incredibly toxic,” Duke told her former employer.
“I left because I won’t sit at a desk with someone who would seriously accuse me of Nazism. Oddly enough, I took my rosary with me to the studio and set it next to my computer this morning because I had a feeling something bad was going to happen. I think it’s the only way I was able to stay relatively calm throughout the ordeal,” she added.
The spat originated from their discussion about Gidursky, who jokingly told pro-Palestinian commentator Mehdi Hasan that he hopes his “beeper doesn’t go off” during a Monday episode of CNN’s “News Night With Abby Phillip.”
The joke likely referenced the mass pager explosions that Israel allegedly orchestrated against members of the terrorist organization Hezbollah based in Lebanon. Gidursky made the comment after Hasan remarked, “If you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop… saying things.”