Ryan Girdusky made comments offensive enough Monday night to have potentially made his media career a “blink and you might miss it” media career. As such, you may be wondering: who exactly East he?

As a quick recap, Girdusky was ignominiously started of CNNIt is NewsNight with Abby Phillip yesterday after saying Muslim Medhi Hassan, co-panelist, said, “I hope your beep doesn’t go off” in response to Hassan’s oft-expressed support for Palestinian civilians amid the ongoing war against Gaza.

Hassan has not publicly addressed the incident since the show aired last night, but he republished on X, a statement from CNN confirming that Girdusky “will not be welcome on our network.”

For his part, Girdusky tweeted that “you can stay on CNN if you falsely call every person.” Republican A Nazi and I took money from Qatar-funded media. Apparently you can’t go on CNN if you make a joke. I’m glad America can see what CNN stands for.

This isn’t the first time Girdusky has made waves on Phillip’s show, having been pulled up by the CNN anchor earlier in October for suggesting that the 2020 George Floyd riots “led to the deaths of more than 15,000 black men in this country.”

Known as the “Ferguson Effect,” the right-wing pundit’s comments build on the idea, hotly contested among academics, that protests against police brutality naturally lead to a reduction in police enforcement. proactive order and therefore a sharp increase in violent crime.

Phillip and other panelists immediately hit back at Girdusky for “inventing a connection between two things, just because you want that connection to be there.”

A New York native and proud Catholic, Girdusky has worked in politics since 2007, contributing to the political campaigns of Republican figures like former Congressman Bob Turner and former New York City Councilwoman Helen Sears.

He also claims to have a close relationship with vice presidential candidate JD Vance, and was a founder of the 1776 Project Political Action Committee, a super PAC committed to campaigning against the teaching of critical race theory in American schools and installing conservative figures on local school boards.

As a journalist, he is broken stories on sexual harassment allegations against John Weaver, founder of the Lincoln Project, and published a book extolling the virtues of what he describes as a widespread “national-populist revolt” against the “liberal democratic order.”

In the past, Girdusky has further written stories for neo-Nazi Richard Spencer and made several appearances in a podcast hosted by Gavin McInnes, founder of the far-right Proud Boys movement, as well as Penning thinking pieces criticizing Trump’s former far-right adviser Stephen Miller for failing to work to more effectively implement an anti-Muslim legislative agenda.