Rachel Maddow called NBC’s decision to hire Ronna McDaniel “inexplicable” and compared the former RNC Chairman to “a mobster.”
Maddow on her MSNBC show called for NBC to re-think their decision.
This came as part of a brilliant almost 25 minute speech Maddow gave, uninterrupted, about the threat of fascism, the importance of elections, and why McDaniel had repeatedly tried to undermine the 2020 election by calling its results into doubt.
For Maddow, the speech was a tour de force. But it was also obvious that she is angered by NBC. She repeatedly said that MSNBC had guaranteed that McDaniel would never appear on their channel.
But that’s not enough. Maddow is clearly incensed by what’s happened, and will not remain silent about it.
She compared McDaniel to a “mobster,” in her denunciation. It comes in the last 20 seconds of this video: “You wouldn’t hire a mobster to work in a DA’s office. You wouldn’t hire a pickpocket to work as a TSA screener.”
full video"We are contending with this now, not from William Dudley Pelley's brownshirt militias, but from the multi-billion dollar, massive political operation of one of the two governing parties of the United States of America."@maddow tonight on Ronna McDaniel's hiring by @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/1rElyhRwGC
— Christian Rincon (@cr_progress) March 26, 2024
