“I want to associate myself with all my colleagues both at MSNBC and at NBC News who have voiced loud and principled objections,” the MSNBC anchor declared.
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MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow has joined a growing list of NBC journalists and on-air personalities who have criticized their network’s decision to employ former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, and has urged NBC to reverse its “inexplicable” hiring.
In her opening monologue on Monday, Maddow first excoriated McDaniel for aiding Donald Trump’s “strongman” ambitions, including by telling GOP canvassers in Michigan to not sign a certification of the 2020 election results, as The Detroit News reported late last year.
“We have had a lot of these guys, but our generation’s version of this guy has gotten a lot farther than all the rest of them,” Maddow said, in reference to the former president.
“And why is that? He would have been as forgotten as all the rest of them had he not been able to attach himself to an institution like the Republican Party and had the leader of that party…decide that she would not just abide him, she would help. She would help with the worst of it,” Maddow said.
“And so I want to associate myself with all my colleagues both at MSNBC and at NBC News who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll someone who hasn’t just attacked us as journalists, but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government,” she made clear.
McDaniel’s hiring was “inexplicable,” Maddow went on, comparing it to a member of the mafia working in a district attorney’s office or a pickpocket being hired as a TSA screener at the airport. “I hope they will reverse their decision.”
