Fox Hosts Drill MSNBC Anchors, Management Over Ronna McDaniel Dismissal: ‘What Terrible Colleagues They Are!’
The hosts of Fox & Friends tore into MSNBC and NBC anchors following news former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel is out at the network just days after news broke that she was hired as a contributor.
NBCU News Group Chairman Cesar Conde confirmed the news of McDaniel’s dismissal in a company-wide note. This decision followed anchors like Joe Scarborough, Chuck Todd, Jen Psaki, and others publicly objecting to McDaniel’s hiring, accusing her of being an election denier who did not belong on the network.
On Wednesday morning, Carley Shimkus reacted to Nicolle Wallace describing NBC’s airwaves as “sacred” when declaring election deniers did not belong.
“Do you know how pretentious that sounds?” Shimkus asked.
Lawrence Jones accused the network of a double standard, arguing left-leaning contributors are not given the same treatment.
“At the core, I hope it’s a message to Republicans that no matter what you do, it will be never enough until you say you are never trump. That is the red line for the people there because Ronna McDaniel, as you saw in the interview, changed her position on some things and tried to be more palatable for NBC, but it was never enough. And she was asked to apologize to the country on air,” he said.
Steve Doocy noted a Semafor report on how many NBC journalists have seen their jobs become more “complicated” with sources and gathering news after their network hired and dropped McDaniel in a matter of days.
“Suddenly, their job as an actual journalist out in the field gathering actual news gets complicated,” Doocy said.
Jones blasted MSNBC anchors who publicly objected to McDaniel’s hiring as “terrible colleagues” and said he’d never work with any of them.
“I hate when family business is just aired out for the public. What terrible colleagues they are! When we have disputes, in every business, every family has disputes; you never bring the audience into that. You handle that behind closed doors. You talk as a family and come out with a unified front,” he said. “Apparently, these people can’t do that. I wouldn’t trust any one of them to work with them on a day-to-day basis if they conduct themselves that way.”
“She did nothing wrong,” Brian Kilmeade added. “She gets her contract terminated, and her agency dropped her. She was the same person when she got the $300,000 contract.”
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