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The Ronna McDaniels era at NBC News is over before it began. Pity.

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NBC’s Ronna McDaniel experiment has died before it ever really got started. After it was announced on Friday that NBC News had hired her, MSNBC personalities took to their shows on Monday to decry the decision, compare it to the creep of fascism, and promise their viewers that McDaniel would not appear on their shows. It was one of the most remarkable shows of dissent by news personalities against their bosses in TV history. By mid-day Tuesday, it had been confirmed that NBC had canceled her contract.

The critics of McDaniel’s hiring insisted that her status as a Republican was not the issue — MSNBC and NBC have hired plenty of Republicans: Nicole Wallace, Joe Scarborough, Michael Steele, Charlie Sykes, John Kasich — but the fact that McDaniel actively took part in trying to overthrow the election. She repeated lies about voting irregularities and “deceased voters” and on November 10, 2020, went on Fox News to complain about the “stealing” of the election. And then on November 17, 2020, McDaniel called Michigan election officials and urged them to not sign the state’s certification of the election.

During the call, Trump told the two GOP Wayne County canvassers that they’d look “terrible” if they signed the documents after they first voted in opposition and then later in the same meeting voted to approve certification of the county’s election results, according to the recordings.

“We’ve got to fight for our country,” said Trump, according to the recordings. “We can’t let these people take our country away from us.” 

McDaniel, a Northville resident and the leader of the Republican Party nationally at that time, said at another point in the call, “If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. … We will get you attorneys.”

To which Trump added: “We’ll take care of that.”

McDaniel has not just been dropped by NBC, but by her agency as well. She is reportedly interviewing attorneys to fight the network.

You’re going to be shocked by this, but Fox News is SO MAD about the whole thing.

Y’all hire her then … Except, you probably won’t, because you have 787 million reasons to not hire an election denier.

Additionally, the entire reason McDaniel was available to be hired by NBC was because she was ousted from her job as the head of the RNC by Former President Individual One. This, despite changing her last name per his request, and, as shown above, helped try to overthrow the election for him. She still wasn’t loyal enough for Former President Loyalty Only Goes One Direction, and I can’t imagine that Fox News will be willing to hire her lest they invoke his ire.

 

 
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