MSNBC faced a firestorm this week after former political analyst Matthew Dowd was fired for comments about Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist killed earlier this month.
Dowd, 64, a former George W. Bush advisor turned liberal network contributor, had suggested that Kirk’s rhetoric contributed to his own death.
“All the shows, they’re talking about like, how awful it is, how awful for America that Jimmy Kimmel was, you know, was indefinitely suspended, and — they’re saying that on every platform,” Dowd told Katie Couric in an interview following his termination.
“Not one person has said anything about me! Not one person on that network has said– they’ve all gone out of their way to say ‘isn’t this horrible what happened to Jimmy Kimmel’ — isn’t even including ‘Morning Joe’ and Mika [Brzezinski] who went after me after the show, basically saying how great it was that I was terminated,” he added.
Dowd had joined MSNBC as part of the network’s roster of Republican defectors who turned on their party, including Steve Schmidt and Stuart Stevens. His fall illustrates the network’s increasingly selective outrage in the wake of Kirk’s assassination.
Hours after Kirk was shot, Dowd commented on the conservative activist’s