Ex-RNC chair sacked from NBC News

[Bob Jersey]

Just days after Ronna (Romney) McDaniel became a paid analyst there... even her reps gave her the Ziggy...

https://deadline.com/2024/03/ronna-mcdaniel-out-nbc-news-caa-1235868701/ (link)

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[PGage]

This sad episode really illustrates what is wrong with TV News. The problem with hiring McDaniel was not that she is a conservative voice incompatible with the liberal lean of the MSNBC side of the family, which is how Conde is spinning it. The problem is that she is an election denier (recently unconvincingly reformed) and supporter and apologist for insurrectionists. It is harder to put balanced voices on your opinion page when so many on one side are now hostile to constitutional democracy, but that is due to the weaknesses and lack of courage of a majority of the Republican Party,  not liberal intolerance. 

If NBC had offered a job to Nikki Haley or Mike Pence, they may have been criticized by the Chris Hayeses of the world, but could also have safely ignored them. They are hyper conservatives who enabled Trump and advocate many policies that I find horrific and immoral, but have not disqualified themselves from participation in public discourse with polite society by betraying the fundamentals of our Republic. McDaniel has.

If NBC was covering the last year of WW2 would they have hired Joseph Goebbels as a paid consultant, just so they could claim to be giving equal time to all views?

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[Dave Sikula]

It drives me crazy when people call MSNBC either overwhelmingly liberal or the equivalent of Fox. I can't think of a single liberal or moderate on Fox, but MSNBC is lousy with Republicans, former Republicans, and overly "moderate" hosts and commentators, what with the Scarboroughs, Andrea Mitchell, Katy Tur, Nicolle Wallace, Michael Steele, Tim Miller, and a dozen more. Other than the 4:00-7:00 PM slots (7:00-10:00 ET), it's hard to find an actual liberal on the channel. Plenty of anti-Trump voices, but few advocating for actual liberal policies.

--Dave Sikula

[Doug Eastick]

Maddow and joy Reid spent significant air time ripping the {MS}NBC announcement last week.  On Monday Maddow spent her whole A-block on specific fascists, fascist-enablers (a fav topic of hers) and wrapping with the ultimate MSNBC decision on the weekend to Not have Ronna on MSNBC.

I was kinda impressed that the shows were allowed to speak against the top.  But maybe that only happens at Fox.

/Doug
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[Kevin M.]

Firing the election denying insurrectionist doesn’t fix the root problem. Firing whoever hired her would be an admission of wrongdoing. Begs the question: Specifically who hired her?

Kevin M. (RPCV)

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