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Rachel Maddow throws down gauntlet with blistering rant on 'indefensible' moves by ruthless new MSNBC president
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 25, 2025 | Stephen M. Lepore

Posted on 02/25/2025 7:00:56 AM PST by Morgana

MSNBC's $25 million liberal icon Rachel Maddow torched new president Rebecca Kutler and the network brass Monday after they canceled Joy Reid's show.

The anchor appeared on the last episode of The ReidOut earlier in the evening, where she declared herself 'bereft' that Reid had been fired but didn't initially criticize the network.

When Maddow - who was rumored to have taken a pay cut when signing her new contract at MSNBC - took to the airwaves later on, it was no-holds barred, with Maddow slamming the network for firing Reid and a slew of other 'non-white' anchors.

'I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call and I understand that. But that's what I think,' Maddow said.

She added: 'I will tell you. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two – count them – two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible. And I do not defend it.'

Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin have also been given the boot from their current timeslots by ruthless new boss Kutler.

Maddow did praise whomever would replace Reid, which is reported to be Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders Townsend and Michael Steele in the interim.

'Everybody who's going to be in anchor chairs from here on out are great colleagues and great at what they do. And you are not going to be disappointed in who's on our air and what you're going to be seeing,' she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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PMSNBC needs raitings to make money yet these mornons don't understand this.
1 posted on 02/25/2025 7:00:56 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Chode; sport; Steely Tom; All

I wonder if she knows she’s the next to go?


2 posted on 02/25/2025 7:02:08 AM PST by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul )
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“PMSNBC needs raitings to make money yet these mornons don’t understand this.”

DOGE.

MSNBC was likely getting taxpayer money through things like USAID. The gravy train has been slowed to the point where the likes of MSNBC now have to worry about being profitable.


3 posted on 02/25/2025 7:03:14 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Morgana

Fire the old lesbian.


4 posted on 02/25/2025 7:03:36 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Government was not created to be a jobs program. )
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The next logical step...


5 posted on 02/25/2025 7:04:43 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Morgana

MSNBC’s 25 million dollar propagandist...


6 posted on 02/25/2025 7:04:51 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: dfwgator

“That should give the public relations people a week to promote the show. You ought to get a hell of a rating out of that. 50 share, easy.”


7 posted on 02/25/2025 7:05:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Morgana

Chances are. Perhaps the President of MSNBC has found him a younger and prettier SYT.


8 posted on 02/25/2025 7:05:53 AM PST by sport
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"with Maddow slamming the network for firing Reid and a slew of other 'non-white' anchors"

But failed to resign in protest.

9 posted on 02/25/2025 7:06:40 AM PST by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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Shut it all down. They are clowns. People only watch to make fun of them on other networks.

CNN and MSNBC will need to come clean about their lies to move forward. They will not, so they continue to circle the drain.


10 posted on 02/25/2025 7:07:30 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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PMSNBC needs raitings to make money

They do now that the USAID money spigot has been turned off. Hence the firings.

11 posted on 02/25/2025 7:07:50 AM PST by rhinohunter (Free at last, free at least! Thank Almighty God, we're free at last!)
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To: Morgana

She’s welcome to leave. What’s stopping her? When an employee loudly and publicly criticizes the management of their own employer it’s time to go.


12 posted on 02/25/2025 7:07:54 AM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Morgana

Joy Reid has a documented history of making homophobic comments. Someone should tell Rachel Maddow about that.

But maybe Maddow already knows, and has given Reid a pass. Because only conservatives are berated for such things.


13 posted on 02/25/2025 7:08:35 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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'Everybody who's going to be in anchor chairs from here on out are great colleagues and great at what they do. And you are not going to be disappointed in who's on our air and what you're going to be seeing,' she said.

LOL! This matters to the fifty whack jobs who actually watch MSNBC.

14 posted on 02/25/2025 7:08:49 AM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Or she can sacrifice her job and ask them to replace her with Reid. They’re both equally hateful.


15 posted on 02/25/2025 7:09:20 AM PST by AmericanMermaid
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Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin have also been given the boot from their current timeslots by ruthless new boss Kutler.

WHO?!

16 posted on 02/25/2025 7:09:47 AM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: rhinohunter

Maddow called her employers racists. I wonder how tight her new contract is. Don’t most contracts address defaming an employers?


17 posted on 02/25/2025 7:10:51 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Morgana

maddow DOES know she could just start her own network and hire who she wants to hire....right?


18 posted on 02/25/2025 7:10:51 AM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Damn straight. One of my employees publicly calls me out for something that’s above her pay grade, she’s gone.


19 posted on 02/25/2025 7:11:05 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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Perhaps the President of MSNBC has found him a younger and prettier SYT.

That wouldn't be hard to do!

20 posted on 02/25/2025 7:11:38 AM PST by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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