re: Fired MSNBC Analyst Matthew Dowd apologizes for Charlie Kirk comments

Well you might want to update the thread title, because he doesn’t actually apologize, says his colleagues at MSNBC actually agree with him (which all these people should be fired), and that he’s the real victim here: Click 2 Houston

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Political analyst Matthew Dowd says MSNBC reacted to a “right wing media mob” in firing him for commentary about hateful rhetoric that aired on the network shortly after early reports this week that conservative activist Charlie Kirk had been shot. In a Substack post Friday, Dowd admitted to being “down and a bit disheartened."

The former aide to George W. Bush, who was a political analyst at ABC News for nearly 15 years before joining MSNBC in 2022, detailed a long-running grudge that President Donald Trump had against him since his first term.

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“The right wing media mob ginned up, went after me on a plethora of platforms, and MSNBC reacted to that mob,” Dowd wrote on Substack. “Even though most at MSNBC knew my words were being misconstrued, the timing of my words forgotten ... and that I apologized for any miscommunication on my part, I was terminated by the end of the day."

But people at MSNBC knew right away that his words were inappropriate, and the decision to fire Dowd was not the result of outside pressure, said an executive at the network, who spoke under condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to talk about personnel issues.

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This is what these fricking weasels do.

They insinuate something thinking people are too dumb to know what they’re really saying and then use the vagueness of their words for plausible deniability

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Also these scum fricks have not spoken to anyone to the remote right of them outside of an interview for well over 15 years at this point and think that everyone else is as evil and foul as they are. They’re completely oblivious to what demons they are.

frick Matthew Dowd

Yea that is a forced apology if I’ve ever heard one. Nothing genuine about that