I Heart Radio host Jay Weber was pulled off the air after his attack on Gov. Tim Walz's (D-MN) neurodivergent son, his website revealed on Friday. Ben Yount was filling in, the site says.
Critics pressured I Heart Radio to fire Weber after he made fun of the youngster's emotional response to his father's shoutout on the Democratic Convention stage on Wednesday night.
Healthcare advocate Kendall Brown posted the since-deleted tweet from Weber calling Gus Walz "a blubbering b---- boy" and saying it was "embarrassing for both father and son." In an X post, she tagged I Heart Radio and Wisconsin News Talk 1130, asking how their advertisers feel about the comments. The post had over 18,000 retweets and 69,000 likes.
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Weber deleted the tweet and posted what some criticized as a "non-apology," saying, "I didn't realize the kid was disabled, and have taken the post down. But, I've been challenging Walz on substance AND character ever since he was named as the VP candidate. He's a congenital liar who's destroyed Minn in a number of ways."
Weber then deleted the apology statement.
Right-wing firebrand Ann Coulter also attacked Walz's son, calling him "weird." She, too, deleted the comment but has faced backlash in the days that followed.
Right-wing streaming host and failed New Jersey Republican candidate Mike Crispi also attacked the "stupid crying son" he called a "puffy beta male."
The Nation's national affairs correspondent Jeet Heer wrote in a column Friday that the "vile" comments are part of the "continued war on the young."