Posted on 03/23/2025 8:01:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
In a powerful podcast interview, seasoned journalist Greta Van Susteren, who is now a host with conservative-leaning cable network Newsmax, spoke with independent journalist Tara Palmeri and, during the interview on Palmeri’s podcast, exposed how MSNBC was falling apart, as shown by its attempts to silence its journalists.
As background, Van Susteren is a career journalist who has worked for CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and Newsmax. She worked for Comcast-owned MSNBC for merely five and a half months in 2016, and was then let go in a decision that reportedly surprised her. Speaking about the matter on Palmeri’s podcast in an interview that was released on March 17, Van Susteren explained how MSNBC was the only network that tried to direct what she could and couldn’t say.
Van Susteren’s comments on the matter came when Palmeri asked her about why she believes there is a persistent leftist bias inside newsrooms, at least from her experience in cable news. Palmeri asked, “So, from your experience being inside, do you think that there was a leftist bias inside the newsroom?”
Responding, Van Susteren explained that both the somewhat conservative-leaning FNC and the left-leaning CNN never tried to control what she said. Explaining as much, she told Palmeri: “Well, first of all, I only knew the one narrow niche, which was the English. I have no idea what everybody else was saying. Nobody told me what to say or do while I was there. Nobody told me what to say or do at CNN, Fox.”
Joking with her, Palmeri said that they “wouldn’t dare.” Doing so, she interjected, “They wouldn’t dare. Come on, Greta. What? They wouldn’t dare with you.” Responding, Van Susteren explained that while those outlets didn’t dare, MSNBC did, and that’s why she got fired. Beginning that explanation, she said, “Well, no, but that’s why I got fired at MSNBC.”
Continuing, she noted that MSNBC was very different in doing that, as over the other nearly two decades she spent in the news business, no one else acted like that. She said, “After I’d been at CNN and Fox and then MSNBC tried to tell me what to do, I almost thought they were joking because … I had like a 15- or 18-year career in the news business and nobody ever told me [what to do].”
Concluding on that point, Van Susteren noted that her firing came because she wouldn’t “play ball” with MSNBC on saying things she didn’t think or believe, as the network wanted her to do. She said, “So that’s why I got fired at MSNBC because they said I needed to play ball and I thought, you know, that didn’t work.”
WATCH her:
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Posting on X about her experience at MSNBC and her interaction with notoriously far-left actor Mark Ruffalo on March 21, a few after the interview with Palmeri and around when that interview started taking off online, Van Susteren noted that Ruffalo had tried to get her fired from the woke network. She explained, “These are sort of fun….this Hollywood actor wanted MSNBC to fire me…in the end, all is good for me, but he should have had the courage to meet with me and have coffee. I would have been polite. We might even have ended up enjoying each other’s company.”
That came as a caption on a picture of an old tweet from February of 2019 in which she called out Ruffalo, saying, “When is @MarkRuffalo who has said nasty things about me going to sit down with me over coffee or a beer and talk about our respective civil rights work and humanitarian work? I keep asking…”
There’s something very suspicious about all these DemComs and hardcore libs that are suddenly claiming to have seen the light.
If it’s valid, I welcome them. But it seems a bit too much to be believed. And it seems that perhaps what they are trying to do is create a new ‘centrist appearing’ DemCom party...just to get back into power.
Here’s a good example of one to be suspicious of:
Trust but verify.
Let’s not forget the verify part. Goodness knows we have enough RINOs that pretend to love America, etc., who are doing everything they can to destroy this country.
Why did she leave Fox?
More money most likely..................
When I had TV, could not listen or even watch who I nicknamed “Clutch Cargo”
i am weird that way, can’t hear for crap, so visual stuff means more.
Going deaf has a few advantages.
The author clearly gets paid by the word.
Over long for a simple explanation.
Like me.
When stuff comes on the TV I just click my Hearing aids switch.........
Here's what Brave's AI robot states:
"Greta Van Susteren left Fox News in September 2016 after 14 years with the network. She cited that Fox "has not felt like home to me for a few years" and took advantage of a clause in her contract that allowed her to leave if Roger Ailes, the former CEO of Fox News, left the company. She also mentioned a financial disagreement with Fox News over her contract. Van Susteren's departure was announced the same day Fox News settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with former anchor Gretchen Carlson."
Useful sometimes when the younger grandkids are here, too.
As usual, they will see which way the wind blows to keep staying employed.
Ruffalo is the bad guy in the movie Mickey 17. It was a fun movie to watch. I would not recommend it for kids though.
“There’s something very suspicious about all these DemComs and hardcore libs that are suddenly claiming to have seen the light.”
You mean Greta? I’ve followed her over the years and never thought her to be a DemCom at all. She’s a Scientologist, I believe, and THAT’s weird, but she always seems extremely honest, and right leaning.
Mine are too!..................
“When I had TV, could not listen or even watch who I nicknamed “Clutch Cargo”
Lol! I get the reference. Strangest animation ever.
“”Why did she leave Fox?”””
Maybe people, like me, stopped watching her when she spent every single night for about a year discussing the Scott Peterson murder case and the Natalie Holloway deal.
Gosh, yes, I forgot how consumed she was with those cases! Thank you.
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