Star talent at NBC openly rebelled against the network for hiring the controversial former RNC chair who previously backed 2020 election conspiracy theories. The network has since parted ways with McDaniel, but the damage is done..
“I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down,” NBC chairman Cesar Conde said in an email to staff on Tuesday. “While this was a collective recommendation by some members of our leadership team, I approved it and take full responsibility for it.” On-air talent seems to have.
The irony of Trump complaining about Ronna McDaniel being out of work is that he’s the reason she was out of work in the first placeof McDaniel’s termination: “I have never seen anything this brutal since I got started in media in 1990. Ronna is going to sue everyone who defamed her, for breach of contract, for intentional infliction of mental distress. They are going to sue for the destruction of her business opportunities that come from being on TV,” he said.
Maddow delivered the kill shot in her monologue on Tuesday night: “The fact that Ms. McDaniel is on the payroll at NBC News, to me that is inexplicable,” she said, calling McDaniel “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 concluded, “You wouldn’t hire a made man like a mobster to work at a DA’s office, right? You wouldn’t hire a pickpocket to work as a TSA screener.
Welp, now here we are: NBC seems poised to face a burdensome lawsuit from McDaniel, its on-air talent is still railing from the betrayal, the right has new ammo to attack NBC as a radical-left perpetrator of cancel culture, and liberal audiences are probably still miffed that McDaniel was ever hired.