MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tore into NBC News’ controversial decision to hire former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Ronna McDaniel on Monday and urged her bosses to “reverse their decision.”
During her weekly monologue on Monday evening, Maddow declared:
I want to associate myself with all my colleagues, both at MSNBC and at NBC News, who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll someone who hasn’t just attacked us as journalists, but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government. Someone who still is trying to convince Americans that this election stuff, it doesn’t really work. That this last election, it wasn’t a real result. That American elections are fraudulent.
The MSNBC host added:
It’s my understanding that MSNBC’s leadership did not object to Ronna McDaniel being hiredby NBC News when the matter first arose, but when the hiring was announced, and MSNBC …