He violated MSNBC policy by speaking the truth.
What I just read in that article was a very tactful response. Certainly didn’t justify firing.
During MSNBC’s coverage of Kirk’s shooting, anchor Katy Tur asked Dowd about “the environment in which a shooting like this happens.” Dowd responded with the following about Kirk: “He’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that is the environment we are in. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”
They fired him for that? What did he have to do to keep his job in that situation, pull out Kirk’s corpse and fellate it? A fascist got what he spent his life working to deserve. It’s the crowning achievement of his life work to build a stochastically terrorized society that can be bent to the whim of billionaires and autocrats. There’s no need to pussyfoot around like this is a national tragedy unless you are more interested in upholding the status quo than you are in reporting. Oh. Right…
Good, no room for people like that in the news.
