Overview
- OAN terminated producer Vish Burra on Monday, with TheWrap first reporting the decision and The Independent confirming it, while the network declined public comment.
- Burra shared an AI-made cartoon depicting a door labeled “Scheming Room” with Stars of David and portraying Jews as cockroaches, calling them “vermin,” and targeting donor Susan Lebovitz-Edelman.
- Matt Gaetz called the post “dumb,” said Burra deleted it, and acknowledged there would be consequences for his producer.
- OAN anchor Stella Escobedo publicly condemned the posts and flagged additional inflammatory messages from Burra, including defenses of a Nazi Halloween costume and dismissive comments about postwar World War II accounts.
- The Independent reports the video originated from Sora content shared by an extremist account and ties the episode to broader conservative infighting linked to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes and turmoil at the Heritage Foundation.