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.
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I wonder if she knows she’s the next to go?
“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.
Fire the old lesbian.
MSNBC’s 25 million dollar propagandist...
“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.”
Chances are. Perhaps the President of MSNBC has found him a younger and prettier SYT.
But failed to resign in protest.
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.
They do now that the USAID money spigot has been turned off. Hence the firings.
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.
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.
LOL! This matters to the fifty whack jobs who actually watch MSNBC.
Or she can sacrifice her job and ask them to replace her with Reid. They’re both equally hateful.
WHO?!
Maddow called her employers racists. I wonder how tight her new contract is. Don’t most contracts address defaming an employers?
maddow DOES know she could just start her own network and hire who she wants to hire....right?
Damn straight. One of my employees publicly calls me out for something that’s above her pay grade, she’s gone.
That wouldn't be hard to do!
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