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https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/24/politics/ronna-mcdaniel-january-6-donald-trump-rnc/index.html
 

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Former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Sunday called the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol “unacceptable” after years of deflecting on the issue.

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McDaniel, who is joining NBC News as a political analyst after exiting the RNC earlier this month, told the outlet that the Capitol riot “doesn’t represent our country. It certainly does not represent my party.”

“We should not be attacking the Capitol; we should not be having violence,” she added. Asked why she didn’t offer such condemnation as RNC chairwoman, McDaniel responded, “When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself.”

 

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7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

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McDaniel, who is joining NBC News as a political analyst after exiting the RNC earlier this month, told the outlet that the Capitol riot “doesn’t represent our country. It certainly does not represent my party.”

“We should not be attacking the Capitol; we should not be having violence,” she added. Asked why she didn’t offer such condemnation as RNC chairwoman, McDaniel responded, “When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself.”

NBC may believe that they are offering sanity in lieu of the bsc lunacy of the rank and file GOP by hiring McDaniel but they are craven for doing so, IMO. she needs to be a little bit more BY HERSELF i.e. ALONE instead of "be a little bit more myself." Bitch, please.

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1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

NBC may believe that they are offering sanity in lieu of the bsc lunacy of the rank and file GOP by hiring McDaniel but they are craven for doing so, IMO. she needs to be a little bit more BY HERSELF i.e. ALONE instead of "be a little bit more myself." Bitch, please.

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On 3/23/2024 at 6:06 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

 

 

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1.  MAGA types hate Rona McDaniel.  She isn't viewed as one of them.

2.  As the Venn diagram of "Republican", "Conservative" and "MAGA" condense to a single circle, "RINOs" like Rona are going to be hard up, especially if they are blacklisted everywhere outside of that.  Probably deserved, leopards eating faces, etc.... but...

3. If someone formerly enabled Trump and MAGA but now feels compelled to work against them, it is in my family's best interests for them to find a place to do that.  I have no idea if that is what Rona was going to do, but we are in an immediate existential crisis for the country as we have known it.  If she's willing to help prevent a complete Trump takeover and establishment of a MAGA federal government, then I don't care what she did two, four, six years ago.  I want her help to keep Trump out of the White House now.

4.  A whole lot of people benefit from citizen outrage our country's internal strife, and they are not all part of the MAGA movement.  Media across the political spectrum has a particularly strong profit motive in promoting war vs peace.

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1.  MAGA types hate Rona McDaniel.  She isn't viewed as one of them.

2.  As the Venn diagram of "Republican", "Conservative" and "MAGA" condense to a single circle, "RINOs" like Rona are going to be hard up, especially if they are blacklisted everywhere outside of that.  Probably deserved, leopards eating faces, etc.... but...

3. If someone formerly enabled Trump and MAGA but now feels compelled to work against them, it is in my family's best interests for them to find a place to do that.  I have no idea if that is what Rona was going to do, but we are in an immediate existential crisis for the country as we have known it.  If she's willing to help prevent a complete Trump takeover and establishment of a MAGA federal government, then I don't care what she did two, four, six years ago.  I want her help to keep Trump out of the White House now.

4.  A whole lot of people benefit from citizen outrage our country's internal strife, and they are not all part of the MAGA movement.  Media across the political spectrum has a particularly strong profit motive in promoting war vs peace.

 

Counterpoint:  bitch quit using her fucking name just because Trump hated her uncle.

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/media/nbc-news-ousts-ronna-mcdaniel/index.html

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NBC News on Tuesday ousted former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, just days after her hiring as a paid political analyst sparked intense backlash from the network’s top television anchors over McDaniel’s role in subverting the 2020 election and attacks on the press.

“There is no doubt that the last several days have been difficult for the News Group,” NBCUniversal News Group President Cesar Conde said in a memo to staff. “After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC News contributor.”

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“I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down,” Conde continued. “While this was a collective recommendation by some members of our leadership team, I approved it and take full responsibility for it.”

Ahead of the network’s decision, McDaniel spent the day Tuesday interviewing attorneys in preparation for a potential legal battle with NBC, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. Creative Artists Agency, the talent agency that brokered McDaniel’s deal with NBC, also parted ways with her, the person said.

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The reversal comes after journalists and anchors at both NBC and its cable news sibling MSNBC publicly denounced the decision to hire McDaniel as a paid analyst in a stunning and unprecedented on-air rebuke of network brass that has embarrassed the Peacock Network.

The agency that represented her also dropped her.

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Here's what I learned from the Ronna McDaniel hiring/firing. 

NBC has some MAGA-fascists in top management ... and they tried to see what they could get away with hiring McDaniel, a known fascist election denier.

Expert more NBC-MAGA efforts in the future. And elsewhere in the mainstream media, in the name of being "objective" and #bothsides. Hell, CAA, the top-shelf Hollywood-celeb talent agency was repping McDaniel! A known fascist election denier! 

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Here's what I learned from the Ronna McDaniel hiring/firing. 

NBC has some MAGA-fascists in top management ... and they tried to see what they could get away with hiring McDaniel, a known fascist election denier.

Expert more NBC-MAGA efforts in the future. And elsewhere in the media, in the name of #bothsides. Hell, CAA, the top-shelf Hollywood talent agency was repping McDaniel! 

This article discusses that a little: https://www.yahoo.com/news/led-nbc-u-corporate-media-005621422.html

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1 hour ago, BevoAbyss said:

Here's what I learned from the Ronna McDaniel hiring/firing. 

NBC has some MAGA-fascists in top management ... and they tried to see what they could get away with hiring McDaniel, a known fascist election denier.

I thought MAGA and Trump hated her.

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https://www.politico.com/playbook

 

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WHAT SHE SAID — Will it be the $600,000 interview?

The ramifications of NBC’s decision yesterday to part ways with contributor RONNA McDANIEL just two days after her paid network debut on “Meet the Press” are just starting to shake out. But they could be expensive.

McDaniel expects to be fully paid out for her contract, two years at $300,000 annually, since she did not breach its terms, we’re told — meaning that her single, not-quite-20-minute interview Sunday could cost the Peacock more than $30,000 per minute, or $500 per second.

That’s just one tidbit we’ve picked up from McDaniel’s side of things following yesterday’s announcement from NBCUniversal News Group Chair CESAR CONDE, and it might be just the beginning of the fallout. McDaniel spoke yesterday with BRYAN FREEDMAN,renowned lawyer to the estranged cable-news stars, to discuss legal options even beyond recouping the dollar value of her original contract.

 

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While no arrangement is final, a person close to McDaniel tells us, Freedman would be an obvious choice: He represented MEGYN KELLY in her own acrimonious parting with NBC, as well as ousted anchors CHRIS CUOMO, DON LEMON and TUCKER CARLSON in disputes with their respective former networks.

McDaniel, we’re told, is exploring potential defamation and hostile work environment torts after MSNBC’s top talent — momentarily her colleagues — took turns Monday blasting her on air. (NBC declined to comment about the $600,000 figure or her potential claims.)

McDaniel was silent yesterday as the fallout from the internal network revolt mounted, and her perspective and role in the deal was largely lost as it unraveled in real time. She and her allies are, unsurprisingly, furious about how everything went down, believing she was misled about how much she’d be welcomed into the fold by executives who had aggressively recruited her. They blame the same NBC brass for botching the situation by not having her meet with top network talent ahead of the rollout, then caving to internal pressure from liberal-leaning hosts.

 

 

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Most of all, they’re furious that the network did little to push back on a multi-day campaign against their new hire on their own airwaves. Host after host cast McDaniel as an enemy of democracy for, among other things, participating in a November 2020 phone callwhere then-President DONALD TRUMP sought to convince Michigan GOP elections officials not to certify election results.

“The part that pisses me off most about this is not necessarily that they folded; it’s [that] they allowed their talent to drag Ronna through the mud and make it seem like they were innocent bystanders,” the person close to McDaniel said.

We’ll set aside for a moment whether the well-documented “stop the steal” claims could be considered defamation against a prominent party official. McDaniel’s camp is similarly aghast at the finger-pointing that has unfolded inside the network over the past few days.

 

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We’ve already reported that MSNBC President RASHIDA JONES was among those who did an about-face after blessing the initial contract agreement. We’re also told that Conde himself reached out to McDaniel last week after the ink was dry to welcome her into the NBC family with a message that said he was excited to work with her and that her perspective would be valuable to the network’s viewers. (NBC declined to comment.)

McDaniel’s camp is also particularly peeved at “Meet the Press” host KRISTEN WELKER, who said at the top of Sunday’s broadcast that her interview was “scheduled weeks before it was announced that McDaniel had become a paid NBC News contributor,” and declared, “I was not involved in her hiring.”

The person close to McDaniel said those words were misleading, at best. Playbook reviewed text messages showing that Welker and CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN, NBC’s SVP of politics, met with McDaniel in mid-February — a few days after Budoff Brown initially reached out to McDaniel’s team to gauge her interest in joining as a paid contributor.

We’re told by that person that a potential NBC contract was mentioned in what was otherwise mostly a get-to-know-you, off-the-record chat between McDaniel and Welker that day.

An NBC insider familiar with the situation strongly disputed the suggestion that Welker was part of any contract discussions, arguing that “the meeting was set up to discuss the potential first interview” and “not about any potential contract.”

“Kristen was not part of those talks,” said the insider. “She was fenced off and insulated from discussions about a potential contributor agreement.”

Even after the backlash went public Sunday, when NBC’s CHUCK TODD publicly teed off on network execs for the arrangement, McDaniel heard directly from Budoff Brown and REBECCA BLUMENSTEIN, NBC News’ president of editorial, that they’d have her back and the controversy would pass, according to the McDaniel ally. The NBC insider familiar with the situation said their comments were more along the lines of “stand firm.”

But yesterday, as the fallout mounted, McDaniel heard nothing further from top NBC brass about getting the boot, we’re told — even as Conde announced her firing in a note to employees that included a personal apology to employees and a mention of “our deep commitment to presenting our audiences with a widely diverse set of viewpoints and experiences.”

Related read: “NBC braces for the backlash to the backlash after hiring and firing top Republican,” by Semafor’s Max Tani, Shelby Talcott and Kadia Goba: “[W]hile the abrupt reversal was cheered by some MSNBC staff, other NBC News journalists said they believe the move will only continue to strengthen complaints by Republicans that the network doesn’t want to hear their perspectives.”

 

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On 3/26/2024 at 6:31 PM, BevoAbyss said:

Here's what I learned from the Ronna McDaniel hiring/firing. 

NBC has some MAGA-fascists in top management ... and they tried to see what they could get away with hiring McDaniel, a known fascist election denier.

Expert more NBC-MAGA efforts in the future. And elsewhere in the mainstream media, in the name of being "objective" and #bothsides. Hell, CAA, the top-shelf Hollywood-celeb talent agency was repping McDaniel! A known fascist election denier! 

Next you will tell me that the top folks at nbc and universal are predominately old, rich, white men. 

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Is it truly deeply divided?   Or is it just that one side has decided to be the biggest fucking assholes  in the last 50 years and try to cause problems for everybody?  Because the Dems aren’t trying to force people to get abortions, watch porn, get gay married, become vegetarians, etc.

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