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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If she would pro-rate her salary to one day per week, then MSNBC would be closer to making a profit.
That would improve its ratings.
She doesn’t have a gauntlet to throw
DEI is DEAD.
Joy Reid is the OJ Simpson of pundits although less likeable.
Is that the same as a resignation for Rachel Mad-cow?
That isn’t a gauntlet, THAT’S A DEAD SKUNK!
Butthurt is strong in this one.
Mornons…like Romney. I like it!
I expect every day to see that Rachel Maddow is canceled. And it will happen.
She can rant and rave all she wants - no one is listening.
Maddow is a "1" on a good day. On all the other days she is a 0.
"Lesbians, it's not like in the movies …"
Exactly. That is how all the activist democrat mainstream media stayed in business. They were secretly funded by the taxpayers without our consent.
They didn’t need to put out real news or court viewers to survive.
Ok Rachel, go for it. Resign from MSNBC and go independent on Substack. Let the market pay you what you are worth.
She has to know that she's the highest-paid of the remaining underperformers. Chill Hand o' Death!
I expect Maddow will be next to go. Wasn’t she recently demoted?
If Madcow resigned who would give a voice o the dearly departed race baiters?😅😂🤣
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