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Matthew Dowd Fired From MSNBC for Charlie Kirk Comments (variety.com)

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[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 62 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.”

[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 52 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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...

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There was a school shooting yesterday and we're supposed to feel bad about a fascist?

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Fascist propagana channel Fox will run 800 stories about the nazi getting a long distance neck piercing, but will never, ever show the school shooting.

They don't expect you to feel anything, since you have a brain.

They expect their followers to follow their very plainly stated and very often repeated fictional stories. They know exactly what bullshit they can sell and what they can't, because they monitor it all day long. Every day. It's their job, and their billionaire overlord demands results.

You're not the target audience of their bullshit.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

No lie detected.