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Recently ousted MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd lamented on Katie Couric’s podcast that persons are publicly mourning the suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” however not his personal firing.
Kimmel’s present was suspended by ABC this week after the host’s controversial remarks concerning the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk that prompt he was a MAGA supporter somewhat than a leftist. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr hinted the FCC may take motion earlier than two main native ABC affiliate house owners introduced they have been preempting Kimmel’s program.
“All the exhibits are speaking about how, like, ‘This is terrible for America that Jimmy Kimmel was, you recognize, indefinitely suspended’ and ’is not this terrible for America’ and ‘it is a chilling factor for the First Amendment’ and so they’re saying that on each platform,” Dowd complained to Couric on Friday, in a clip flagged by The Daily Caller’s Jason Cohen. “Not one particular person has stated something about me.”
MSNBC fired political analyst Matthew Dowd for suggesting “hateful” rhetoric from Charlie Kirk led to his personal assassination. (Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC by way of Getty Images)
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Dowd, a former Republican strategist who turned an unbiased and is now a Democrat, was booted from MSNBC after his controversial response to the taking pictures of Kirk on Sept. 10. Dowd slammed him as “some of the divisive, particularly divisive youthful figures on this, who is consistently kind of pushing this kind of hate speech or kind of geared toward sure teams. And I at all times return to, hateful ideas result in hateful phrases, which then result in hateful actions.”
He went on to argue, “You can’t cease with these kind of terrible ideas you will have, after which saying these terrible phrases, and never anticipate terrible actions to happen.”
The community was fast to denounce him, declaring his phrases have been “inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable,” earlier than firing him that very same night.
On Friday, Dowd complained that “not one particular person on that community” has spoken in his protection since he was ousted, however “they’ve all gone out of their solution to say, ‘Isn’t this horrible what occurred to Jimmy Kimmel?’”
Dowd is a former Republican strategist who turned a Democrat after which an Independent. He was booted from MSNBC after his widely-condemned response to the taking pictures of Charlie Kirk (Screenshot/MSNBC)
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He additionally criticized “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, saying they “went after me after the present, principally saying they have been glad I used to be terminated, and now as we speak they’re speaking about how terrible it’s for our nation that someone like Jimmy Kimmel cannot say what he stated, and he’s indefinitely suspended, and never an iota about what their employer simply did to an worker.”
Fox News Digital reached out to MSNBC for remark and didn’t obtain a direct reply.
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Charlie Kirk memorial Jimmy Kimmel (Melissa Majchrzak/AFP by way of Getty Images; Michael Le Brecht/Disney by way of Getty Images)
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Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
