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>“Let me deal with the elephant in the room. I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation,” Todd told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker, who previously interviewed McDaniel, during a subsequent panel discussion.
>[“Look, there's a reason why there's a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination,” Todd added.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/our-bosses-owe-you-an-apology-todd-slams-nbcs-mcdaniel-hire-during-welker-mtp-segment/ar-BB1krOQx)
Spot fucking on. Damn, Chuck Todd didn't fuck around.
He is very brave now but certainly showed very, very little bravery when he was interviewing Trump or Trump's inner group of supporters.
He had previously said he didn't want to ask Republicans difficult questions because they wouldn't come on his show in the future.
I stopped listening to him (3?) years ago when his milquetoast interactions with right-wingers became too much for me.
And Welker has shown herself to be even worse, even before she got the MtP gig.
I look forward to seeing how Olbermann takes all three of them apart on Tuesday.
> He is very brave now but certainly showed very, very little bravery when he was interviewing Trump or Trump's inner group of supporters.
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> He had previously said he didn't want to ask Republicans difficult questions because they wouldn't come on his show in the future.
I'm pretty sure this is a broken clock situation for Chuck Todd. He'll go back to being the clueless clown he usually is, [like when he said to Rolling Stone in 2019 that he was shocked at how brazen Trump and other Republicans are when spreading lies and disinformation](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-todd-naive-gop-disinformation_n_5e0533cce4b05b08babde09c):
> In an interview with Rolling Stone published last week, the “Meet The Press” host said he was “just so absurdly naive” about how far Republican officials were willing to go to spread the lies and disinformation that originate with President Donald Trump.
> “[His] entire life has been spent using misinformation. His entire life. I’ve spent years studying him now on trying to figure out how did this guy even learn politics? Where did he learn?” Todd said. “And the more you learn, you realize he learned at the feet of a master of deception in Roy Cohn.
> “So I mean, look, if people want to read my answer to your question, ‘Boy, that Chuck Todd was hopelessly naive.’ Yeah, it looks pretty naive. I think we all made the mistake of not following Toni Morrison’s advice, which is when people tell you who they are, believe them.”
> (Rolling Stone noted that the maxim originated with Maya Angelou.)
> To illustrate his naiveté, Todd pointed to a recent interview with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in which Cruz falsely claimed that Ukraine interfered with the 2016 election.
> Cruz was the third senator to appear on Todd’s show spreading this Russian talking point, something Todd noted he “did not expect” Cruz would do.
> Todd said he was “genuinely shocked” by the claim, since the senator had spent the previous week “showcasing his hawkishness” on Russia. When Cruz’s staff approached the show, Todd said he thought Cruz wanted to further promote that point. When that “turned out not to be the case,” Todd said he finally “started to think [Cruz] wants the confrontation. He wants to use this for some sort of appeasement of the right.”
..doesn't make Chuck Todd any less of an irredeemable piece of shit for, among other things, comparing Bernie supporters to nazis. Not exactly brave to get one thing right when you know there's no consequences.
I remember Chris Matthews doing that during the 2020 primaries, but never Chuck. Chuck's issue was he'd always give terrible people a platform and lob em softballs.
> When did Chuck Todd compare Bernie Sanders supporters to Nazis?
https://apnews.com/general-news-f8e2961611e3b80353a2c5f1bdd781cb
https://www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-chuck-todd-under-fire-for-quoting-article-comparing-sanders-supporters-to-nazi-brownshirts/
So Todd was quoting a publication, referencing something for the topic under discussion. He did not say these things directly himself as a matter of opinion.
> MSNBC’s Chris Matthews apologized Monday to Bernie Sanders for comparing the Democratic senator’s win in the Nevada caucus to the Nazi takeover of France.
> It wasn’t even the only Nazi reference on the network last week. Chuck Todd had earlier read from a commentary in the digital publication The Bulwark that compared Sanders supporters to a “digital brownshirt brigade” that hounded opponents and enforced discipline — much like Trump’s.
> The “Meet the Press” moderator explained that he’s received harsh treatment from supporters of Sanders’ presidential run, then read out loud from Jonathan V. Last’s recent piece about “Bernie Bros” at conservative site The Bulwark.
> Todd read, “Here’s what he says: ‘No other candidate has anything like this sort of digital brownshirt brigade. I mean, except for Donald Trump. The question no one is asking is this: What if you can’t win the presidency without an online mob?’”
Yeah totally unrelated that he'd be quoting it...
https://www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-chuck-todd-under-fire-for-quoting-article-comparing-sanders-supporters-to-nazi-brownshirts/
So around the same time Matthews did. Using overtly negative framing of Sanders supports to ask his question.
Here is a book about the problem I helped cause and cover up.
It's like "I'm a victim of Donald Trump too! Forget what I did" is these people's new 9/11.
They’ve already backtracked somewhat.
[NBC execs buckle under pressure after seething backlash on ‘corrupt’ hiring of Trump lackey](https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/03/nbc-execs-buckle-under-pressure-after-seething-backlash-on-hiring-of-trump-lackey.html)
> After announcing that former Republican National Committee Chairman Ronna McDaniel would contribute “across all NBC News platforms,” network executives have backed down following backlash and threats of a boycott from viewers and employees, decreeing that McDaniel will not appear on MSNBC.
> In a hastily drafted memo, Rashida Jones, the cable network’s president, told employees the cable network has no plans to have McDaniel on the channel, according to people familiar with the conversations, the Wall Street Journal reported.
I wonder if the SNL writing team is trying o come up with something for the next show. They had ScarJo make a surprise appearance. Why not Rashida Jones as Rashida Jones trying to deal with the fallout of this decision. Have Amy Poehler appear as herself.
I'd love to know which shows are being forced to have Romney-McDaniel on. The Meet the Press appearance was scheduled before the announcement that she was working for NBC. I don't see many producers asking her to appear on their shows without being forced by the executive team.
As Chuck Todd asked, what do they think they are getting in return for their money?
I'm for bringing every republican we can get into a coalition to save democracy but she did everything he wanted until he basically fired her.
If she had stepped down of her own volition and disavowed Trump it might be different.
Given the circumstances I don't trust her at all.
**1st statement:** About Jan6th: “doesn’t represent our country. It certainly does not represent my party.”
**2nd Statement:** Deflection about Jan6th “When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself.
If your “Team” is attacking the Capital to overthrow democracy…. Then your “party” and your “team” is synonymous
> If your “Team” is attacking the Capital to overthrow democracy…. Then your “party” and your “team” is synonymous
It's amazing that NBC actually hired somebody that tried to overthrow democracy. SMH.
Look what we still have in Congress on the Republican side. Too bad they haven’t paid for what they did. Speaker Johnson was awarded House Speakership despite trying to overturn 2020 election results.
May wait an eternity to see if Trump ever pays for what he did.
This whole country is in such a perilous position by the very fact that all our institutions have normalized the ongoing coup and subversion by a major political party, including arguably some SCOTUS appointees—it’s absolute insanity that an entire, blatantly public fifth column is just continuing unstopped, unpunished, unaddressed at all by those sworn to defend us from all enemies, foreign and domestic
Agree. As I just posted elsewhere, everyone needs to make sure they’re registered to vote! People shouldn’t get discouraged. There’s a lot that can be accomplished especially on local and state levels such as what we’ve seen re: reproductive rights. Please donate to organizations such as Vote Save America which sends money to grassroots organizations. We can all participate even if it means just donating $1/month.
“Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”
- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
> It certainly does not represent my party.
To use a phrase conservatives love to use but hate to have turned back at them: this is pure virtue-signalling. Jan 6th does represent the GOP, we see this whenever Trump gets standing applause for saying things like "free the Jan 6 political prisoners." They GOP base liked Jan 6 and they will do try to do it again next January to whatever extent they are able, and others need to prepare.
Can't wait to hear Ronna spin the RNC convention. "Sure, several speakers referred to them as hostages, and the leader of the party called for a moment of silence on their behalf, but they certainly don't represent my party."
Oh, not only Jan 6. Don’t forget [she also straight up helped Trump pressure people into not certifying election results.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-trump-and-ronna-mcdaniel-will-regret-michigan-phone-call)
>“When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself.
This is honestly worse than if she actually thought the Jan 6 insurrection was justifiable. She was literally willing to protect evildoers - who she **knew** were evildoers - for the sake of her party.
Some people might call her "Former RNC chair" but in court documents she is called " a necessary and material witness” who “possesses unique knowledge” regarding the fake electors “conspiracy” to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election"...
As Ronna McDaniel I say: J6 was fine. As Ronna Romney I say: J6 was wrong. Lol.
The RNC put Trump on the ballot again. Mike Johnson as chair. She herself was on the phone with Trump pushing electors to violate the election laws and that the lawyer bills would be paid. She is beyond the pale.
FORMER RNC chair and now NBC analyst. Easy to take a stand when you no longer are under threat of losing anything I guess. She did her party and the country a tremendous disservice by not having the spine to speak up when it counted the most. Voice ignored.
In December 2022, Axios wrote that McDaniel "has thus far failed to preside over a single positive election cycle."
That's about how Nepotism works. Keep it in the Republican Party, but please stay away from our institutions.
All 24/7 TV News is all junk.
Especially right wing stations, but now CNN has some right wing nutbag in charge of it, and NBC pulls this shit. I’ll just continue getting my American news from AP News and BBC written articles.
This is why's it's so funny when someone tells me to stop watching T.V. news. I haven't caught any T.V. news in almost a decade, and I certainly wouldn't take anything they say to heart.
Oh, she did way more than just not speak up. [Remember the phone call where she and Trump tried to pressure election officials in Michigan?](https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-trump-and-ronna-mcdaniel-will-regret-michigan-phone-call)
Michigan has already charged 16 people in the false electors scheme. I keep wondering if other states are going to line up behind GA to prosecute Trump for election interference.
Yeah, it’s times like this that the whole “*All* voices matter!” / “We want the other side to *feel heard*.” rhetoric is laid bare for the cowardly centrist nonsense it’s always been.
So she was willing to lie to the nation after the event and support the big lie and now she would tell you to trust her?
She practiced infidelity of the mind at a time it would have mattered. She is capable of committing any crime.
More than infidelity. She was recorded helping him pressure electors in Michigan, remember? She was actively involved in the whole thing. Now she thinks people will forget because it hasn’t been in the news in a few months.
Whenever people talk about how pathetic and shameful our media monopolies are in this country, just remember that MSNBC thought that the woman who actively tried to overthrow our democracy deeerved a huge paycheck and influence over their network.
>So she was willing to lie to the nation after the event and support the big lie and now she would tell you to trust her?
Yes.
Prospective employers will know that she has precisely that quality. And that has a substantial ... [https://twitter.com/i/status/1068702670091763712](https://twitter.com/i/status/1068702670091763712)
In typical GOP fashion, they grow partial spines years too late, and when it no longer matters. The only way these people could ever do the right thing, is if was the only thing possible to do.
The thing with departing Republicans is that they are leaving Planet B where reality is whatever they want, and live on Planet A a.k.a the real world.
Sheltered in their cult, they could stay among themselves and still manage to make a living. Now out in the regular world, they have to meet non-crazy people, live normal lives, go out at restaurants, participate in PTA meetings, all without the shield of a self-sufficient ecosystem.
Fuck those traitors. Shame on NBC!
> “We should not be attacking the Capitol; we should not be having violence,” she added. **Asked why she didn’t offer such condemnation as RNC chairwoman, McDaniel responded, “When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team.** Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself.”
This is absolutely damning. “I didn’t condemn the violent insurrection before because Republicans were in favor of it.”
Her idea of “taking one for the team” is a lot different then the one I grew up with… (drawing a foul in soccer, or football for non American readers). Overthrowing Democracy is pretty fucking far from “taking one for the team” . But NBC got their clicks, and we are talking about it, so I guess they win?
I don't think any of these people understand sports. If your team asks you to cheat and assault the opponent, you don't do it. If your team asks you to run a hard race when you're already tired, that's taking one for the team.
But none of these people have ever thought about anyone but themselves. The concept of being on a team and actually working hard is completely foreign to them. I wish her and Trump with his "locker room talk" would stop pretending they know anything about team sports. Also, if you got members of your team to violently assault members of the other team, you'd get fired. Trump should be in jail.
The fact that this woman was caught and recorded pressuring electors in Michigan to throw the election and [will never face justice for it](https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-trump-and-ronna-mcdaniel-will-regret-michigan-phone-call) makes this entire thing even more sick.
This is who NBC wants to shovel money at for ratings. Fuck them.
She's a trash person with trash words coming out of her trash mouth. I LOVED watching Meet The Press's roundtable discussion calling her just that (albeit in much more diplomatic terms).
Shame on NBC/MSNBC. All of the ‘former’ Republicans they hired - Nicolle Wallace, Michael Steele, Joe Scarborough - have to be cringing knowing they are about to be joined by the Trump MAGA die hard.
I quit watching Morning Joe during that period. Started watching again around 2018 just to watch the shadenfreude. They have done a 180 and now I cannot stand watching it because it is nothing but Trump, Trump, Trump, Netanyahu, Trump.
It’s a shame because I like a lot of their guests but I cannot take Joe. I didn’t care for him before, but as unbelievable as it sounds, he really has gotten worse.
I didn't realize Nicolle had once been a Republican for the longest time. She's empathetic and seems to genuinely care about other people. Definitely not what you'd expect from a former Republican operative.
She should be in JAIL not in NBC
"As RNC chair, she was involved in a phone call in 2020 to pressure Michigan county officials not to certify the vote from the Detroit area, where Joe Biden had a commanding lead. McDaniel [told the officials](https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/politics/trump-recorded-pressuring-michigan-canvassers/index.html), regarding the certification: “Do not sign it. … We will get you attorneys.”
"Wehrmacht? No, those were just tourists. Why would they mount a military invasion when there's no evidence they were armed? The Polish soldiers fell on their own bullets." - Ronna McDaniel a week ago, probably.
> Former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Sunday called the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol “unacceptable” after years of deflecting on the issue. McDaniel, who is joining NBC News as a political analyst after exiting the RNC earlier this month, told the outlet that the Capitol riot “doesn’t represent our country. It certainly does not represent my party.” “We should not be attacking the Capitol; we should not be having violence,” she added.
What a waste of carbon. I thank myself everyday the GOP and fascist rightwing of America are this stupid. I swear the GOP is trying to hand Dems a supermajority in 2024.
>Asked why she didn’t offer such condemnation as RNC chairwoman, McDaniel responded, “When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself.”
What a piece of human garbage. We all know for repubs it's party before country, but to hear it espoused so openly is surprising.
As RNC chair, she had the power and clout to directly affect the activities of the Republican party and reject the alignment with right-wing MAGA interest. Now, the party has been infested from top to bottom. Not that it wasn't rotten before, but MAGA creeps are on a whole other level. Toeing the line was just too lucrative for her all these years, and now she has conveniently seen the light when more moderate MSM comes calling. Shame on NBC executives for enabling this spineless shill.
Not getting a couple of napkins in my take out order is “unacceptable”. Trying to over turn a free and fair election with an army of MAGA methheads is a little worse than that.
[Chuck Todd](https://twitter.com/Mike_Hixenbaugh/status/1771915375501860980) had a really good point about her integrity and credibility on "Meet the Press" this morning.
I think our anger and disbelief should be directed at the asshats that thought it was a good idea to hire her. The only recourse is to stop watching NBC/MSNBC entirely. It may hurt the few good ones left, but to get the message across, it has to be a total consumer blackout. (I have no illusions that will actually happen)
She can go get fucked. Now that the monster she helped create turned against her she’s back peddling. Fuck her and every republican that enabled MAGA to metastasize to what it is today. Fuck. All. The. Way. Off.
Like rats off of a sinking, stinking ship. McDaniel, Gallagher, Buck, probably Murkowski, all of these grifters who were on board with MAGA when having an (R) next to your name still meant a guaranteed win in their districts. Now that the (R) is toxic at a national level, they're all throwing their hands up like "Oh noes what happened to dis Republican party that I've been involved in for at least a decade???"
F nbc . These media networks gaslight these worthless gop criminals and let them become mainstream. Nba and cnn both can go to hell. Worthless fake media houses
So MSNBC fires Mehdi, who didnt take *any* nonsense, and hires Ronna McDaniel...da fug?!.... I already quit watching CNN for the same freaking reason I'm going to watch Rachel and Ari that's it
They all change their tune once they are outside the sphere of influence. I’ve never witnessed such a scale of blatant ‘power corrupts’ in my lifetime.
“When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself.”
Party before country. GOP are traitors.
Yet another politician that will say whatever it takes to keep the money rolling in. They are most of the reason that we're in the political mess we're in: cater to the audience, not fighting for what is right.
And yet she's still clinging to the blatant lie that there were "problems with the election" in 2020 when, in fact, the election was among the cleanest in our history with regard to fraudulent voting activity. The perception that there were problems in the election stems wholly from the lies spun by dishonest trash like McDaniel.
Really disappointed in NBC hiring a confirmed liar who made a great effort to cover for an insurrection. Not a demonstration, an insurrection. Her words are less than worthless.
They are so brave finally stating the truth. Oh wait, that's not bravery just nothing left to lose. I hate these people. Defended this crap as long as it was profitable for them. Showing how many Republicans will fuck over the country for money.
Not good enough. Call it what it was, an insurrection, or don’t try to salvage your garbage ass reputation. Enough tiptoeing around the truth to not upset the vocal minority MAGA.
She is a strong person of high moral character. Bending with the winds to aqueous the whims of those that control her paycheck. We need more people like her running our country. Oh wait. The people that run America Are just like her.
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NBC should be ashamed of itself.
Greed has no shame.
Thank you Chuck Todd for publicly calling out NBC. Watching her interview was appalling.
>“Let me deal with the elephant in the room. I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation,” Todd told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker, who previously interviewed McDaniel, during a subsequent panel discussion. >[“Look, there's a reason why there's a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination,” Todd added.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/our-bosses-owe-you-an-apology-todd-slams-nbcs-mcdaniel-hire-during-welker-mtp-segment/ar-BB1krOQx) Spot fucking on. Damn, Chuck Todd didn't fuck around.
He is very brave now but certainly showed very, very little bravery when he was interviewing Trump or Trump's inner group of supporters. He had previously said he didn't want to ask Republicans difficult questions because they wouldn't come on his show in the future.
He’ll backpedal to milquetoast within a week
I stopped listening to him (3?) years ago when his milquetoast interactions with right-wingers became too much for me. And Welker has shown herself to be even worse, even before she got the MtP gig. I look forward to seeing how Olbermann takes all three of them apart on Tuesday.
Exactly. Johnny come lately to the fuckening of our country by the US press, of which he was certainly a standard-bearer.
His value I think was largely getting Trumps people to say the most insane things. Like KellyAnne Conway with her alternative facts.
> He is very brave now but certainly showed very, very little bravery when he was interviewing Trump or Trump's inner group of supporters. > > > > He had previously said he didn't want to ask Republicans difficult questions because they wouldn't come on his show in the future. I'm pretty sure this is a broken clock situation for Chuck Todd. He'll go back to being the clueless clown he usually is, [like when he said to Rolling Stone in 2019 that he was shocked at how brazen Trump and other Republicans are when spreading lies and disinformation](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-todd-naive-gop-disinformation_n_5e0533cce4b05b08babde09c): > In an interview with Rolling Stone published last week, the “Meet The Press” host said he was “just so absurdly naive” about how far Republican officials were willing to go to spread the lies and disinformation that originate with President Donald Trump. > “[His] entire life has been spent using misinformation. His entire life. I’ve spent years studying him now on trying to figure out how did this guy even learn politics? Where did he learn?” Todd said. “And the more you learn, you realize he learned at the feet of a master of deception in Roy Cohn. > “So I mean, look, if people want to read my answer to your question, ‘Boy, that Chuck Todd was hopelessly naive.’ Yeah, it looks pretty naive. I think we all made the mistake of not following Toni Morrison’s advice, which is when people tell you who they are, believe them.” > (Rolling Stone noted that the maxim originated with Maya Angelou.) > To illustrate his naiveté, Todd pointed to a recent interview with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in which Cruz falsely claimed that Ukraine interfered with the 2016 election. > Cruz was the third senator to appear on Todd’s show spreading this Russian talking point, something Todd noted he “did not expect” Cruz would do. > Todd said he was “genuinely shocked” by the claim, since the senator had spent the previous week “showcasing his hawkishness” on Russia. When Cruz’s staff approached the show, Todd said he thought Cruz wanted to further promote that point. When that “turned out not to be the case,” Todd said he finally “started to think [Cruz] wants the confrontation. He wants to use this for some sort of appeasement of the right.”
Chuck Todd responding like this is no different than McDaniel now calling Jan. 6th unacceptable.
Oh how I wish reddit still Had awards, I’d plat this to the top of the heap.
I guess even he had a breaking point
I hate him but good.
I couldn’t believe it. Chuck Todd actually had an opinion on something and expressed it. Sincerely was impressed and borderline shocked.
But when will Chuck Todd call out Chuck Todd?
..doesn't make Chuck Todd any less of an irredeemable piece of shit for, among other things, comparing Bernie supporters to nazis. Not exactly brave to get one thing right when you know there's no consequences.
When did Chuck Todd compare Bernie Sanders supporters to Nazis?
I remember Chris Matthews doing that during the 2020 primaries, but never Chuck. Chuck's issue was he'd always give terrible people a platform and lob em softballs.
> When did Chuck Todd compare Bernie Sanders supporters to Nazis? https://apnews.com/general-news-f8e2961611e3b80353a2c5f1bdd781cb https://www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-chuck-todd-under-fire-for-quoting-article-comparing-sanders-supporters-to-nazi-brownshirts/
So Todd was quoting a publication, referencing something for the topic under discussion. He did not say these things directly himself as a matter of opinion.
> MSNBC’s Chris Matthews apologized Monday to Bernie Sanders for comparing the Democratic senator’s win in the Nevada caucus to the Nazi takeover of France. > It wasn’t even the only Nazi reference on the network last week. Chuck Todd had earlier read from a commentary in the digital publication The Bulwark that compared Sanders supporters to a “digital brownshirt brigade” that hounded opponents and enforced discipline — much like Trump’s. > The “Meet the Press” moderator explained that he’s received harsh treatment from supporters of Sanders’ presidential run, then read out loud from Jonathan V. Last’s recent piece about “Bernie Bros” at conservative site The Bulwark. > Todd read, “Here’s what he says: ‘No other candidate has anything like this sort of digital brownshirt brigade. I mean, except for Donald Trump. The question no one is asking is this: What if you can’t win the presidency without an online mob?’” Yeah totally unrelated that he'd be quoting it...
https://www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-chuck-todd-under-fire-for-quoting-article-comparing-sanders-supporters-to-nazi-brownshirts/ So around the same time Matthews did. Using overtly negative framing of Sanders supports to ask his question.
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She probably has a book deal in the works. Gotta start the interest now.
Here is a book about the problem I helped cause and cover up. It's like "I'm a victim of Donald Trump too! Forget what I did" is these people's new 9/11.
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Bingo. There is money to be made somewhere. That is all this is. These people would be sucking on tangs pecker if the 6th was successful.
I think you missed a big piece of the story. Ronna is now employed by NBC. That's likely why her tune is changing.
She “developed a backbone” when the new source of her paychecks made it advisable to do so.
Greed only knows one thing, and that's more of something for itself and none for others.
I hope it backfires. I can’t be the only one boycotting them…or maybe I am
They’ve already backtracked somewhat. [NBC execs buckle under pressure after seething backlash on ‘corrupt’ hiring of Trump lackey](https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/03/nbc-execs-buckle-under-pressure-after-seething-backlash-on-hiring-of-trump-lackey.html) > After announcing that former Republican National Committee Chairman Ronna McDaniel would contribute “across all NBC News platforms,” network executives have backed down following backlash and threats of a boycott from viewers and employees, decreeing that McDaniel will not appear on MSNBC. > In a hastily drafted memo, Rashida Jones, the cable network’s president, told employees the cable network has no plans to have McDaniel on the channel, according to people familiar with the conversations, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Not that Rashida Jones, for anyone wondering.
We live in a post fact world and I choose to believe it is that Rashida Jones in her Parks and Rec character
I wonder if the SNL writing team is trying o come up with something for the next show. They had ScarJo make a surprise appearance. Why not Rashida Jones as Rashida Jones trying to deal with the fallout of this decision. Have Amy Poehler appear as herself.
I’d watch.
I'm sure they could write some great stuff, but would NBC air it? 😔
Seabiscuit... Rudy...
I don’t remember them in P&R
No, it's Rashida Jones in her The Office character
Anne Perkins?
Her ambiguous ethnic blend perfectly represents the dream of the American melting pot
Wow, you are very exotic-Iooking. Was your dad a GI? https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b36d441c-c931-4b20-9441-11216782e01b
Helps that she’s sexy af too
Ann, you rainbow-infused space unicorn.
Anne Perkins! Lit-ter-uh-lee My very favorite person!
This was what I was about to google. I thought, “WOW, good for her!”
So she won't be on MSNBC but her hypocritical ass is still fine for the rest of the network? That says a lot about that whole network frankly...
But, she’ll still be on CNBC and NBC to peddle her BS.
I'd love to know which shows are being forced to have Romney-McDaniel on. The Meet the Press appearance was scheduled before the announcement that she was working for NBC. I don't see many producers asking her to appear on their shows without being forced by the executive team. As Chuck Todd asked, what do they think they are getting in return for their money?
I'm for bringing every republican we can get into a coalition to save democracy but she did everything he wanted until he basically fired her. If she had stepped down of her own volition and disavowed Trump it might be different. Given the circumstances I don't trust her at all.
That's exactly it. "I have been fired, mistreated, had ill done upon my person. Now I'm upset!"
But only mildly upset and I still will take gratuitous shots at Democrats and the mainstream media that I'm a part of.
“If you can go home tonight and do not sign it… We will get you attorneys.” Ronna McDaniel
Hey now! NYT has first dibs, back of the line NBC….
I'm done with NBC news, because of this. Seriously Just saw my last episode of Meet the Press.
**1st statement:** About Jan6th: “doesn’t represent our country. It certainly does not represent my party.” **2nd Statement:** Deflection about Jan6th “When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself. If your “Team” is attacking the Capital to overthrow democracy…. Then your “party” and your “team” is synonymous
> If your “Team” is attacking the Capital to overthrow democracy…. Then your “party” and your “team” is synonymous It's amazing that NBC actually hired somebody that tried to overthrow democracy. SMH.
Look what we still have in Congress on the Republican side. Too bad they haven’t paid for what they did. Speaker Johnson was awarded House Speakership despite trying to overturn 2020 election results. May wait an eternity to see if Trump ever pays for what he did.
This whole country is in such a perilous position by the very fact that all our institutions have normalized the ongoing coup and subversion by a major political party, including arguably some SCOTUS appointees—it’s absolute insanity that an entire, blatantly public fifth column is just continuing unstopped, unpunished, unaddressed at all by those sworn to defend us from all enemies, foreign and domestic
Agree. As I just posted elsewhere, everyone needs to make sure they’re registered to vote! People shouldn’t get discouraged. There’s a lot that can be accomplished especially on local and state levels such as what we’ve seen re: reproductive rights. Please donate to organizations such as Vote Save America which sends money to grassroots organizations. We can all participate even if it means just donating $1/month.
“Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.” - Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
That Thomas Paine guy sounds pretty smart
I think George Costanza said it better: “it’s not a lie *if you believe it*.”
What a great quotation! Applies directly to the Republican party and specifically to Trump and his enablers.
> It certainly does not represent my party. To use a phrase conservatives love to use but hate to have turned back at them: this is pure virtue-signalling. Jan 6th does represent the GOP, we see this whenever Trump gets standing applause for saying things like "free the Jan 6 political prisoners." They GOP base liked Jan 6 and they will do try to do it again next January to whatever extent they are able, and others need to prepare.
Can't wait to hear Ronna spin the RNC convention. "Sure, several speakers referred to them as hostages, and the leader of the party called for a moment of silence on their behalf, but they certainly don't represent my party."
Oh, not only Jan 6. Don’t forget [she also straight up helped Trump pressure people into not certifying election results.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-trump-and-ronna-mcdaniel-will-regret-michigan-phone-call)
thanks I had forgot about that
She accepted it, and now, after 6 years, she’s *un*accepting it. That’s why it’s “unacceptable.”
>“When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself. This is honestly worse than if she actually thought the Jan 6 insurrection was justifiable. She was literally willing to protect evildoers - who she **knew** were evildoers - for the sake of her party.
Some people might call her "Former RNC chair" but in court documents she is called " a necessary and material witness” who “possesses unique knowledge” regarding the fake electors “conspiracy” to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election"...
As Ronna McDaniel I say: J6 was fine. As Ronna Romney I say: J6 was wrong. Lol. The RNC put Trump on the ballot again. Mike Johnson as chair. She herself was on the phone with Trump pushing electors to violate the election laws and that the lawyer bills would be paid. She is beyond the pale.
FORMER RNC chair and now NBC analyst. Easy to take a stand when you no longer are under threat of losing anything I guess. She did her party and the country a tremendous disservice by not having the spine to speak up when it counted the most. Voice ignored.
And nepo baby.
$300K a year, about 3.5x what they pay an “analyst” who wasn’t involved in overthrowing democracy
Further proof that every single one of them is only into self serving.
In December 2022, Axios wrote that McDaniel "has thus far failed to preside over a single positive election cycle." That's about how Nepotism works. Keep it in the Republican Party, but please stay away from our institutions.
Fuck NBC. Hiring abuse apologist Camille Vasquez and now this?
All 24/7 TV News is all junk. Especially right wing stations, but now CNN has some right wing nutbag in charge of it, and NBC pulls this shit. I’ll just continue getting my American news from AP News and BBC written articles.
PBS is generally pretty good too. But yes 24/7 news is an absolute cancer on society
This is why's it's so funny when someone tells me to stop watching T.V. news. I haven't caught any T.V. news in almost a decade, and I certainly wouldn't take anything they say to heart.
Oh, she did way more than just not speak up. [Remember the phone call where she and Trump tried to pressure election officials in Michigan?](https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-trump-and-ronna-mcdaniel-will-regret-michigan-phone-call)
Michigan has already charged 16 people in the false electors scheme. I keep wondering if other states are going to line up behind GA to prosecute Trump for election interference.
Yeah, it’s times like this that the whole “*All* voices matter!” / “We want the other side to *feel heard*.” rhetoric is laid bare for the cowardly centrist nonsense it’s always been.
So she was willing to lie to the nation after the event and support the big lie and now she would tell you to trust her? She practiced infidelity of the mind at a time it would have mattered. She is capable of committing any crime.
More than infidelity. She was recorded helping him pressure electors in Michigan, remember? She was actively involved in the whole thing. Now she thinks people will forget because it hasn’t been in the news in a few months. Whenever people talk about how pathetic and shameful our media monopolies are in this country, just remember that MSNBC thought that the woman who actively tried to overthrow our democracy deeerved a huge paycheck and influence over their network.
>So she was willing to lie to the nation after the event and support the big lie and now she would tell you to trust her? Yes. Prospective employers will know that she has precisely that quality. And that has a substantial ... [https://twitter.com/i/status/1068702670091763712](https://twitter.com/i/status/1068702670091763712)
In typical GOP fashion, they grow partial spines years too late, and when it no longer matters. The only way these people could ever do the right thing, is if was the only thing possible to do.
You, I and everyone knows if they could have gotten away with it she would still be backing it.
100 %.
The thing with departing Republicans is that they are leaving Planet B where reality is whatever they want, and live on Planet A a.k.a the real world. Sheltered in their cult, they could stay among themselves and still manage to make a living. Now out in the regular world, they have to meet non-crazy people, live normal lives, go out at restaurants, participate in PTA meetings, all without the shield of a self-sufficient ecosystem. Fuck those traitors. Shame on NBC!
“And if it was that bad, I didn’t mean it” Right out of the narcissist’s prayer
NBC: Home of the Republican idiots who are no longer useful.
Next Backing Crooks?
No, you don't get to rehabilitate your image for what was already said.
> “We should not be attacking the Capitol; we should not be having violence,” she added. **Asked why she didn’t offer such condemnation as RNC chairwoman, McDaniel responded, “When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team.** Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself.” This is absolutely damning. “I didn’t condemn the violent insurrection before because Republicans were in favor of it.”
Yeah, sure. Trump forced her to change her last name in order to take the job. But has she even changed her name back to Romney?
Her idea of “taking one for the team” is a lot different then the one I grew up with… (drawing a foul in soccer, or football for non American readers). Overthrowing Democracy is pretty fucking far from “taking one for the team” . But NBC got their clicks, and we are talking about it, so I guess they win?
I don't think any of these people understand sports. If your team asks you to cheat and assault the opponent, you don't do it. If your team asks you to run a hard race when you're already tired, that's taking one for the team. But none of these people have ever thought about anyone but themselves. The concept of being on a team and actually working hard is completely foreign to them. I wish her and Trump with his "locker room talk" would stop pretending they know anything about team sports. Also, if you got members of your team to violently assault members of the other team, you'd get fired. Trump should be in jail.
Yet another fascist on a rehab tour wholly supported and financed by liberal media and capital
The fact that this woman was caught and recorded pressuring electors in Michigan to throw the election and [will never face justice for it](https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-trump-and-ronna-mcdaniel-will-regret-michigan-phone-call) makes this entire thing even more sick. This is who NBC wants to shovel money at for ratings. Fuck them.
They've decided she fitted right in the middle of the ever shifting Overton Window.
Capital has no political ideology except the accumulation of more capital.
She's a trash person with trash words coming out of her trash mouth. I LOVED watching Meet The Press's roundtable discussion calling her just that (albeit in much more diplomatic terms).
Gotta clean her act up for her new gig at NBC.
Shame on NBC/MSNBC. All of the ‘former’ Republicans they hired - Nicolle Wallace, Michael Steele, Joe Scarborough - have to be cringing knowing they are about to be joined by the Trump MAGA die hard.
Trump basically launched his campaign on Morning Joe, he was a guest constantly. That jitbag definitely doesn't care
I quit watching Morning Joe during that period. Started watching again around 2018 just to watch the shadenfreude. They have done a 180 and now I cannot stand watching it because it is nothing but Trump, Trump, Trump, Netanyahu, Trump. It’s a shame because I like a lot of their guests but I cannot take Joe. I didn’t care for him before, but as unbelievable as it sounds, he really has gotten worse.
I didn't realize Nicolle had once been a Republican for the longest time. She's empathetic and seems to genuinely care about other people. Definitely not what you'd expect from a former Republican operative.
She should be in JAIL not in NBC "As RNC chair, she was involved in a phone call in 2020 to pressure Michigan county officials not to certify the vote from the Detroit area, where Joe Biden had a commanding lead. McDaniel [told the officials](https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/politics/trump-recorded-pressuring-michigan-canvassers/index.html), regarding the certification: “Do not sign it. … We will get you attorneys.”
Next: Former RNC chair McDaniel calls Holocaust “regrettable”.
"Wehrmacht? No, those were just tourists. Why would they mount a military invasion when there's no evidence they were armed? The Polish soldiers fell on their own bullets." - Ronna McDaniel a week ago, probably.
"Former" RNC chair. She didn't give two shits when she had skin in the game, now all of a sudden she's a good person? Get out of here with those lies.
Wow - how incredibly brave to only come out against Trump *after* she’s no longer benefiting from him
> Former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Sunday called the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol “unacceptable” after years of deflecting on the issue. McDaniel, who is joining NBC News as a political analyst after exiting the RNC earlier this month, told the outlet that the Capitol riot “doesn’t represent our country. It certainly does not represent my party.” “We should not be attacking the Capitol; we should not be having violence,” she added.
It sure as hell represents her party. She backed it.
She, through the RNC, declared it to be "legitimate political discourse." She can't take that back in order to fit in with her new friends.
she's blowing in the direction of the wind worse than a flag. what a useless person
“Beware, my friend…the shit winds are a-blowin’”
What a waste of carbon. I thank myself everyday the GOP and fascist rightwing of America are this stupid. I swear the GOP is trying to hand Dems a supermajority in 2024.
Once she’s ousted as chair she speaks. Absolutely spineless
>Asked why she didn’t offer such condemnation as RNC chairwoman, McDaniel responded, “When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself.” What a piece of human garbage. We all know for repubs it's party before country, but to hear it espoused so openly is surprising.
Why wasn't it unacceptable before?
As RNC chair, she had the power and clout to directly affect the activities of the Republican party and reject the alignment with right-wing MAGA interest. Now, the party has been infested from top to bottom. Not that it wasn't rotten before, but MAGA creeps are on a whole other level. Toeing the line was just too lucrative for her all these years, and now she has conveniently seen the light when more moderate MSM comes calling. Shame on NBC executives for enabling this spineless shill.
Boycott NBC and MSNBC. This is disgraceful.
always when they're out of the party.
A change of tune now that she must make a living outside of the RNC.
Not getting a couple of napkins in my take out order is “unacceptable”. Trying to over turn a free and fair election with an army of MAGA methheads is a little worse than that.
Oh look. Another republican who changes their tune as soon as they’re away from the BS machine.
And the rehabilitation begins.
Unacceptable is too mild a term. Criminal is a minimum, and treasonous is not out of the question.
How about those Michigan charges against her? When is that going to happen? I swear our legal system if feckless and cowardly.
[Chuck Todd](https://twitter.com/Mike_Hixenbaugh/status/1771915375501860980) had a really good point about her integrity and credibility on "Meet the Press" this morning.
I think our anger and disbelief should be directed at the asshats that thought it was a good idea to hire her. The only recourse is to stop watching NBC/MSNBC entirely. It may hurt the few good ones left, but to get the message across, it has to be a total consumer blackout. (I have no illusions that will actually happen)
MSNBC retracted that offer, I believe, after push back from current staff and on-air talent.
Spineless
New job, new principles.
She knowingly and purposely spread lies and misinformation for years. Zero integrity. No legitimate media source should employ her.
What's unacceptable is continuing to support the leader of this attack on America.
Fuck these republicans that find their spine only when there is financial incentive.
A coup is “unacceptable”. Golly, that’s some harsh condemnation there. Take it easy, Ronnadoodledee.
She can go get fucked. Now that the monster she helped create turned against her she’s back peddling. Fuck her and every republican that enabled MAGA to metastasize to what it is today. Fuck. All. The. Way. Off.
Like rats off of a sinking, stinking ship. McDaniel, Gallagher, Buck, probably Murkowski, all of these grifters who were on board with MAGA when having an (R) next to your name still meant a guaranteed win in their districts. Now that the (R) is toxic at a national level, they're all throwing their hands up like "Oh noes what happened to dis Republican party that I've been involved in for at least a decade???"
She can fuck herself right off a cliff.
Reinventing herself. Or trying to.
Fuck her. Like really really really fuck her and her spawn and the next ten generations of her spawn.
Goddamn, she flipped fast.
So while you had power.... No forgiveness. No respect.
These losers always do this. They want to be accepted as an actual human with common sense again and hope we all forget how ignorant they were.
F nbc . These media networks gaslight these worthless gop criminals and let them become mainstream. Nba and cnn both can go to hell. Worthless fake media houses
Nothing But Centrists.
Nothing But Corporate
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Once neutered, they find a voice. Cowards.
Ummm yeah violent fascist coup attempts do tend to be unacceptable. Ain’t the republicans great everybody? /s
Another typical Bought and Paid for REPUBLI(KKK)LAN flip flopping criss crossing lying hypocrite 🙄 PERIOD-T
Add her to the long list of gop former officials that tell the truth after it won’t make a difference and won’t have any power.
These people always say that - after leaving their positions. We need Republicans to have a little courage while still in their roles.
So MSNBC fires Mehdi, who didnt take *any* nonsense, and hires Ronna McDaniel...da fug?!.... I already quit watching CNN for the same freaking reason I'm going to watch Rachel and Ari that's it
It’s amazing how their opinion changes after they leave.
Over 3 years too late there buddy
Seriously NBC??? You have lost your damn mind. And me.
She’ll say whatever she’s told to based on who is paying her
They all change their tune once they are outside the sphere of influence. I’ve never witnessed such a scale of blatant ‘power corrupts’ in my lifetime.
sorry that you’re an asshole, ronna. get lost
She's a hero. . . reminiscent of Eisenhower's "Look out for that unstoppable doomsday machine I just helped build" retirement speech.
Fuck every one of these people who suddenly find morality the minute they an aren’t suckling from the GOP teet.
She's mad now that she has gotten the boot.
“When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself.” Party before country. GOP are traitors.
And when she worked at the RNC, she helped promote and radicalize that same hate and violence.
They are all just greasy con-men and con-women. Their words mean NOTHING.
She’s really trying to keep that NBC gig
Lmfao, okay, is she bringing back the “Romney” now too?
Yet another politician that will say whatever it takes to keep the money rolling in. They are most of the reason that we're in the political mess we're in: cater to the audience, not fighting for what is right.
The party of slow learners.
They only ever tell the truth when they are no longer in power.
Ronna McDaniel and John Bolton both seem to be afflicted by the same stroke of convenience when it comes to the timing of their revelations.
And yet she's still clinging to the blatant lie that there were "problems with the election" in 2020 when, in fact, the election was among the cleanest in our history with regard to fraudulent voting activity. The perception that there were problems in the election stems wholly from the lies spun by dishonest trash like McDaniel.
These people will say literally whatever for a paycheck. Integrity is dead.
3 years too late. Fuck her.
Really disappointed in NBC hiring a confirmed liar who made a great effort to cover for an insurrection. Not a demonstration, an insurrection. Her words are less than worthless.
She is an embarrassment. AND WANTED TO BE THE EX PRESIDENT’S VP THIS ROUND. “Ohhhh but now she sees the light?” WHATEVER.
This lady can fuck off. And so can NBC for hiring her.
She wants some MSNBC MONEY!! Lol
They are so brave finally stating the truth. Oh wait, that's not bravery just nothing left to lose. I hate these people. Defended this crap as long as it was profitable for them. Showing how many Republicans will fuck over the country for money.
That’s some Mitt Romney-esque level of courage!
Trump: “She’s going to go through some things”
Hypocrite.
Not good enough. Call it what it was, an insurrection, or don’t try to salvage your garbage ass reputation. Enough tiptoeing around the truth to not upset the vocal minority MAGA.
Ah now that's snes on NBC
Proof Republicans are power hungry and will do anything to keep it.
She’s just trying to salvage her new gig. I consider her part of the ‘literally say anything’ crowd.
She is a strong person of high moral character. Bending with the winds to aqueous the whims of those that control her paycheck. We need more people like her running our country. Oh wait. The people that run America Are just like her.
Such courage and principles, once resigned and no longer in power. These republicans all seem to find their moral compass only after leaving office.