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When former Republican National Commitee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel landed a paid contributor gig at NBC News and its affiliated platforms on Friday, the uproar was predictable and immediate. And it hardly died out over the weekend. If anything, it got worse.
Chuck Todd demanded an apology from network honchos while on NBC’s crown jewel Sunday news program, “Meet the Press.” Current MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend – a Democratic political operative herself – taunted McDaniel on social media for her first interview where she was pressed by her new colleague, “MTP” host Kristen Welker. Welker was forced to explain at the start of the show that she had nothing to do with McDaniel’s hiring and openly questioned the analyst’s integrity. MSNBC president Rashida Jones assured furious staffers that McDaniel wouldn’t appear on the airwaves of NBC’s left-leaning cable affiliate.
“So far, it’s been a debacle for NBC News all the way around to bring in McDaniel, a Donald Trump acolyte besmirched in liberal eyes by her association with his stolen election rhetoric and efforts to overturn President Biden’s 2020 victory,” Fox News wrote.
“I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation, because I don’t know what to believe,” Todd fumed, speaking Welker about her interview with McDaniel.
“Booking this interview and then all of the sudden, the rug’s pulled out from under you, you find out she’s being paid to show up? That’s unfortunate for this program, but I am glad you did the best that you could,” he added.
Below is Chuck Todd’s full meltdown over McDaniel’s hiring.
“I think our bosses owe you an apology.” Chuck Todd absolutely rips NBC for hiring Ronna McDaniel, while on NBC. (Video: NBC) pic.twitter.com/ojvz7nqqEE
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) March 24, 2024
“Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski also publicly blasted NBC’s decision to hire McDaniel, and declared they will not have her on their show.
“We hope NBC will reconsider its decision. It goes without saying that she will not be a guest on Morning Joe in her capacity as a paid contributor,” Scarborough spat out.
“To be clear, we believe NBC News should seek out conservative Republican voices to provide balance in their election coverage. But it should be conservative Republicans, not a person who used her position of power to be an anti-democracy election denier,” Brzezinski fumed.
They also played video of McDaniel’s interview with Welker, in which she declared that those imprisoned over the January 6, 2021 Capitol protest should be held in jail. McDaniel was asked why se didn’t voice that opinion earlier, and she implied she had to keep quiet due to her role at Republican National Committee, but said, “Now I get to be a little more myself.”
WATCH:
This Is Hilarious!
MSNBC ‘Morning Joe’ hosts turn on their own employer, enraged by NBC hiring former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
Watch:#RonnaMcDaniel #MSNBC #MorningJoe pic.twitter.com/uQHTcoJrba
— Conservative Brief (@ConservBrief) March 25, 2024
Retired NBC executive Mike Sington also slammed the network for hiring McDaniel. He wrote:
I was an employee of NBCUniversal for 30 years, and I am urging you to boycott NBC’s “Meet the Press” tomorrow.
Former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel is scheduled to make her debut as NBC’s newly hired political analyst. McDaniel took part in Trump’s plot to assemble a fake slate of electors to overturn the results of the 2020 election. She was also involved in pressuring Michigan officials to not certify the vote. McDaniel is an ultra MAGA Trump sycophant who has constantly lied about the 2020 election results. She does not deserve a platform on NBC.
As Victor Pickard, Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania says, the hiring of McDaniel was a “crass commercial decision”. I couldn’t agree more.
I was an employee of NBCUniversal for 30 years, and I am urging you to boycott NBC’s “Meet the Press” tomorrow.
Former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel is scheduled to make her debut as NBC’s newly hired political analyst. McDaniel took part in Trump’s plot to assemble a fake slate of… pic.twitter.com/OUVTazyGFm
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) March 24, 2024
At the beginning of Welker’s interview with McDaniel on Sunday, she announced, “In full disclosure to our viewers, this interview was scheduled weeks before it was announced that McDaniel would become a paid NBC News contributor. This will be a news interview, and I was not involved in her hiring.”
Far-left MSNBC host Symone D. Sanders-Townsend also fumed over McDaniel’s hiring by the network. In one social media post, she wrote:
Idk if this matters to folks, but my understanding is Welker nor MTP knew when they booked the interview with the former Republican National Committee chair she was in the midst of being hired.
When the news finally did come out she was now being paid by the network, MTP and Welker had a choice to make. Either:
1) cancel the interview and take the external backlash
or
2) keep it, ask real ?s and take the internal backlash from the peeps in chargeThey clearly chose option 2
Idk if this matters to folks, but my understanding is Welker nor MTP knew when they booked the interview with the former Republican National Committee chair she was in the midst of being hired.
When the news finally did come out she was now being paid by the network, MTP and Welker had a choice to make.… https://t.co/bDvL18LqLA
— Symone D. Sanders Townsend (@SymoneDSanders) March 24, 2024
Former MSNBC figure Keith Olbermann is also throwing a fit over McDaniel being hired by NBC.
This is the utterly dishonest fascist @nbcnews just hired and placed into rotation on @msnbc
And @maddow @lawrence and @chrislhayes are not only going to take the hiring of @RonnaMcDaniel – they’re going to take it quietly
I’m utterly ashamed of them pic.twitter.com/lXsxq9JDSZ
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 23, 2024
Democratic National Committee Chair Jamie Harrison also raged against NBC News hiring McDaniel, posting a scathing statement on social media:
There should be no debate about the truth in our political discourse. Ronna McDaniel is a proven liar, and has no place in an honest and objective conversation about the future of this country. pic.twitter.com/04r7p7deFu
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) March 24, 2024
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