Very true.
She didn’t even last a Scarramucci, did she?
Good news there.
I would rather they had kept her on and eviscerated her every time she lied. I think by firing her they just played into the RW story that we don’t want to hear different opinions.
I would love to watch her try and defend the nonsense that trump spews at his rallies.
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I saw the Rachel Maddow reaction last night. I’m not surprised they’ve dumped McDaniel.
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Reporters at NBC were in open rebellion over the hire.
Chuck Todd (who i like, but who gets criticized often for cowtowing to republicans for access) eviscerated her on Meet The Press. It was pretty impressive.
Chris Hayes on MSNBC (who I watch) also lodged a direct attack.
I would not be surprized to hear that a “we will walk” may have been in the works.
She apparently planned to reduce the level of lying while continuing to mislead. That’s what I get from this:
If the difference between 260,000 and 2.6 million tells us something significant in terms of the Republicans having been cheated, than Biden didn’t win “fair and square.”
Would she have kept on with a makes-no-sense Trump-slightly-light approach as an opinion journalist? I do not know. I kindda guess that she would have pivoted to not lying if given a bit of transition time.
It had to have been a mistake was for her to have been interviewed on Meet with Press when she was in transition from being a GOP flak to being an opinion journalist. Everyone involved, including viewers, has to clearly know which you currently are.
I guess the most likely thing is that she sees herself as a public relations professional who does what her boss wants. So if the RNC wanted far right, she gave them far right, and if CNN starts wanting center-right, or centrism, or anything else, she would have given that to them. However, I find it impossible to believe that the highly legitimate mid-level journalist/producers who hired her, looked at the hire that way.
Frankly, I don’t see much difference between McDaniel’s hiring and when ABC hired George Stephanopoulos straight from the Clinton administration in 1997. Stephanopoulos was not a paragon of virtue while serving Clinton, and played a lead role in trashing Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones. He went on to host This Week (not just serve as a commentator) and then Good Morning America, and is arguably the most recognized face at ABC NNews.
AKA a paid liar. Why would a news organization want a paid liar on staff?
One Ronna = 0.4545 Scaramuccis.
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, used to measure a fiasco…
In the video I linked to above, Chuck Todd had said that hiring her as a political consultant to the RNC convention could be defensible. He also suggested having her vetted by their reporters; let her ease in to a role.
From what I see of contemporary reporting of Stephanopholous’ hire, that’s what ABC did.
Well, one did try to steal an election and destroy democracy in this country.
Suggest you read Stephanopoulos’ memoir All Too Human about his work with Clinton, and keep in mind this quote from him about whether Clinton set him up to go out and lie to reporters.
I can’t always tell the difference. I’m agnostic on whether it was forgetting, deliberately omitting or at times deliberately deceiving. I can’t always tell the difference.
Well done, sir/ma’am.