Commentator Matthew Dowd Fired By MSNBC Over Truthful Comments on Kirk

Matthew Dowd on “Good Morning America” in 2017. He said that he did not intend for his comments “to blame Kirk for this horrendous attack.”Credit...Lorenzo Bevilaqua/Disney General Entertainment Content, via Getty

Analysis by Adam Gonzalez 

So Commentators  can't tell the truth now if it touches the Girl Rapist in the White House. Go Sue Matthew!! We know the News people can't and never the Correspondents. This is the media this nation has and even though we pay those salaries people take it laying down like the power comes from other place than their wallets and what they buy. How about not buying anything MSNBC Advertises!

I was just suspended by META two days because a comment in Spanish(Cerdito-Piglet) that offended their ai and latter, they went from indefinitely to 24 hrs. I don't care but my readers reach my news piped to Facebook and others. I guess a human, took it back., I mean there are no humans in META starting from the top and Where The Taco is META's head is right behind it.

By Benjamin Mullin(New York Times)

 

MSNBC has fired Matthew Dowd, a political analyst whose on-air comments after Charlie Kirk’s death drew criticism, according to a person at the network briefed on the decision.

During a back-and-forth with the MSNBC anchor Katy Tur on Wednesday, Mr. Dowd remarked that Mr. Kirk had been pushing hate speech, adding that “hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.”

Rebecca Kutler, MSNBC’s president, apologized for Mr. Dowd’s remarks, calling them “inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable.”

“There is no place for violence in America, political or otherwise,” she said.

Mr. Dowd issued an apology on social media, saying that he did not intend for his comments “to blame Kirk for this horrendous attack.”

Mr. Dowd wasn’t the only person facing professional repercussions for statements following Mr. Kirk’s death. Sidney A. McPhee, the president of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, said that the university had fired an employee who made “inappropriate and callous comments on social media” after the shooting.

Benjamin Mullin reports for The Times on the major companies behind news and entertainment. Contact him securely on Signal at +1 530-961-3223 or at benjamin.mullin@nytimes.com.