NBC News parted ways with former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday, sparking a parade of celebration and criticism.
“NBC takes one of its new conservative hires and tries to ruin her with an internal pile-on from sanctimonious anchors trying to act like they are deeply offended by her, all while hoping no one digs too deeply into their own terrible pasts,” Megyn Kelly, host of Sirius XM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, said in reaction. “Trigger!”
“Why? Because the children over at Dem-SNBC are mad,” Kelly added.
Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said McDaniel’s firing showed NBC News has a “spine made of jelly.”
“I think it is unconscionable that NBC, without even hearing what she has to say, cuts her off in that way? It’s just in another embodiment of this cancel culture that has spread across, not only media, but every sphere of our life,” Ramaswamy told Jesse Watters Primetime. “I think we need more open debate in our country not more silos. And I think it was a pathetic decision by senior management that apparently had a spine made of jelly at NBC, and they deserve to be criticized for it.”
Ramaswamy also said he thought McDaniel’s decision to join NBC News was “poor optics and maybe poor substance.”
Former President Donald Trump also criticized McDaniel’s firing.
“Wow! Ronna McDaniel got fired by Fake News NBC,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “She only lasted two days, and this after McDaniel went out of her way to say what they wanted to hear. It leaves her in a very strange place, it’s called NEVER NEVERLAND, and it’s not a place you want to be.”
“These Radical Left Lunatics are CRAZY, and the top people at NBC ARE WEAK,” he continued. “They were BROKEN and EMBARRASSED by LOW RATINGS, HIGHLY OVERPAID, “TALENT.” BRING BACK FREE AND FAIR PRESS – MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN 2024!”
Throughout MSNBC’s prime-time lineup on Tuesday, several anchors and hosts praised the move after speaking out the day prior.
“To see the executives and the leadership hear that and respond to it and be willing to change course based on it, based on their respect for us and hearing what we argued, I have deep respect for that,” MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said while joining The ReidOut. “I mean what I said on the air last night in my show, that I think acknowledging that you might have gotten something wrong is a real sign of strength, a real show of strength.”
“When somebody does the right thing, I feel like it should be acknowledged as publicly as we acknowledge our outrage. I know how I feel about it,” The ReidOut host Joy Reid said, adding that she is “grateful” that the “right decision” was made.
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McDaniel was fired less than a week after hiring her as a paid NBC News contributor. Her hiring was announced last week in a memo that led to an uproar among several on-air personalities decrying the addition of the former RNC leader. On Tuesday, NBC News Chairman Cesar Conde responded, telling staffers in a memo that he took accountability for the hiring.
“No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned,” Conde wrote. “Over the last few days, it has become clear that this appointment undermines that goal.”
