Posted on 09/12/2025 8:20:04 PM PDT by Libloather
Former MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd tried to defend the controversial comments he made about Charlie Kirk this week and took a swipe at his former employer Friday for caving to a "mob."
Dowd was dropped by the progressive network after suggesting the conservative activist's "hateful" rhetoric had prompted the shooting in Utah that ultimately claimed his life, but he insisted he didn't know Kirk was the victim at the time of his remarks.
"At MSNBC I have made nearly 1,000 appearances, speaking on a diverse range of topics and always consistently condemned gun violence and political violence of any kind no matter where it came from. This past Wednesday I was asked to come on to talk about a range of topics, and as I was about to go on air, breaking news happened of gun shots being fired at a Kirk event in Utah," the fired pundit wrote in a Substack post.
"Keep in mind when the anchor came to me to comment on the ‘national environment,’ the only thing known at the time was shots were fired and there was no reporting yet that Kirk was the target or had been shot at. I said in the moment that we needed to get the facts because we have no idea what this could be and that it could easily be someone firing a gun in the air to celebrate the event. Remember Kirk is a diehard advocate of the 2nd amendment."
Dowd attempted to link his comments accusing Kirk of spewing "hateful" rhetoric to wisdom handed down by Holocaust survivors describing 1930s Germany and how "#ItStartedWithWords" came to mind.
"And I said my now legendary line ‘hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which ultimately lead to hateful actions.’ I thought to myself how could anyone disagree with this...
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What “Mob” seriously NO ONE watches MSDNC except mental patients
Get out Dowd, and take the dark with you.
His “legendary” line described himself. He is just too blind to see it.
Love it. A little bitter? Stings a little?
Good.
Pride goeth before a fall.
Who is this “Matthew Dowd,” anyway? The only time I even TRIED to watch [P]MSNBC was during the brief period in 2003 when Michael Savage had a show on that network. And no, I don’t know what the network was thinking at that time.
You’re outside looking in ya spaz!
Not only is he crude,unsympathetic and just lousy he is also too stupid to know when to keep his trap shut.
I thought MSNBC changed their callsign to MS NOW.
Keep in mind when the anchor came to me to comment on the ‘national environment,’ the only thing known at the time was shots were fired and there was no reporting yet that Kirk was the target or had been shot at. LIAR!
No, no - it’s the responsibilities of speech asshole. :)
In summary...Dowd is an asshole.
He doesn't like "democracy" now, does he.
“ I have… always consistently condemned gun violence and political violence of any kind…”
Em. Apparently Not
I’d say it wasn’t biased if they ever took the same position on any libsoc/woke person that got killed because of their “hate speech”, snd deserved it
But that has never, ever happened. Libsoc media never says the same crap about those on the left. It also happens almost never because we don’t go around assassinating their side.
That statement is completely inconsistent with his "we have no idea what happened" excuse for speculating that the rounds may have been fired by Kirk supporters. He was clearly assuming that Kirk was targeted deliberately because of his allegedly "hateful" words.
Are ya still fired? Dumbass!
Acrually other libsocs murder or try to, other libsocs, because they aren’t radical enough. Gabby Giffords is the clear example. They tried painting the gunman as a right wing gun pover, he was a total leftist crazy law enforcement was aware of, who threatened her awhile because she wasn’t liberal enough for him.
All they do is project because it works very well with their vaccum chamber of idiocy.
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