And? Considering the incredible gravitational pull that a paycheck from MSNBC has to produce 180s in its on-air talent and airbrush away their past sins, I’m pretty sure that each new hire has a moment like this classic scene in the first season of Mad Men, when Pete Campbell tries to inform Don Draper’s boss of his desertion during the Korean War:
UPDATE: The Left Has a Meltdown Over NBC Hiring McDaniel, So MSNBC Says No to Ronna.
According to the Wall Street Journal, this resulted in “turmoil among several of the network’s on-air hosts and staffers, people familiar with the matter said,” and “a number of MSNBC anchors and producers have voiced concern.”
So it sounds like someone at MSNBC caved to the backlash.
It’s pretty hilarious that any of these folks are upset about McDaniel, but they’re cool with the things like Russia collusion that MSNBC has spewed out over the years.
Now, MSNBC president Rashida Jones is saying that “according to people familiar with the conversations,” they don’t expect McDaniel to provide commentary on MSNBC.
NBC doesn’t seem to have backed out yet. They’re still planning on having her on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, so the backlash doesn’t seem to have affected her position there yet. We’ll have to see how it shakes out.
They’ll always have Al, though:
Watching liberals melt down over Ronna McDaniel’s NBC gig while they do not care that MSNBC staple Al Sharpton helped create a riot against a “white interloper”—that led to a man taking hostages and killing 8 in a fire in 1995 is just…perfection. https://t.co/4BBPZ4VrfW
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 23, 2024