Fired MSNBC Analyst Slams Network Stars For Showing More Outrage Over Kimmel

Matthew Dowd — a political analyst who was fired by MSNBC over his feedback about Charlie Kirk — slammed his outdated community on Friday over its protection of ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel’s present, claiming that his former colleagues didn’t give his ouster the identical power.

Dowd, in an appearance on Katie Couric’s podcast, alleged that “not one particular person” at MSNBC has mentioned “something” about him on air since his firing whereas describing Kimmel’s suspension as “terrible for America” and a “chilling factor for the First Modification.”

“They’ve all gone out of their approach to say, ‘Isn’t it horrible what occurred to Jimmy Kimmel?’” mentioned Dowd, the chief strategist of George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection marketing campaign.

Dowd later accused “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of “mainly saying they have been glad” he was terminated on their show the day after he received the boot.

“And now at this time, they’re speaking about how terrible it’s for our nation that someone like Jimmy Kimmel can’t say what he mentioned, and he’s indefinitely suspended, and never an iota about what their employer simply did to a different worker,” he continued.

Following threats from President Donald Trump’s administration, ABC’s resolution to drag Kimmel’s showcase the air has sparked outrage from late night time hosts outdated and new in addition to others who’ve sounded the alarm over the transfer, calling it an assault on free speech.

Dowd was fired within the wake of feedback he made after Kirk’s taking pictures however previous to studies that he had died. Referring to Kirk as a “divisive” determine, he informed MSNBC’s Katy Tur, “You’ll be able to’t cease with these type of terrible ideas you’ve, after which saying these terrible phrases, and never anticipate terrible actions to happen. And that’s the unlucky setting we’re in.”

Dowd, in a post to social media on Thursday, wrote that MSNBC “has zero ethical authority to speak about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA once they did the precise factor” in firing him and others.

“They’re doing the precise factor they complain about others doing,” he added.

JS has reached out to MSNBC for remark.