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The Republican National Committee chair turned NBC politics analyst Ronna McDaniel “tried to disassemble our democracy” by supporting Donald Trump’s electoral fraud lies and should not be given such a media role, a leading historian said amid uproar over the appointment.

“What NBC has done is they’ve invited into what should be a normal framework someone who doesn’t believe that framework should exist at all,” Timothy Snyder, a Yale professor and author of On Tyrannytold MSNBC, part of the network now employing McDaniel.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Call her by her full name: Ronna ROMNEY McDaniel.

Don't try to hide the nepotism that likely got her foot in the door to begin with just because you now pretend that her uncle Mitt is "one of the good ones" for not COMPLETELY going along with fascism 🤦

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My brain can't not say Ronald McDonald.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

She’s Mac in drag or did Mac transition?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for adding this context. I had no idea.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You're very welcome 🙂

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I’m not surprised that a major news corporation would do something like this, but I admit I’m a little surprised it was NBC that did it.

Edit (t+19h):

lol

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why? If there's one thing coporate media always does its whore itself out for ratings by any means necessary.

NBC generally doesn’t hire full-throated Trump supporters. But in a broader sense, you’re not wrong.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Agree - NBC tended to be more professional than this bottom-feeding NüCNN stuff of hiring fox news to pretend to be informed thinkers.

Actually, just on typing that out I had to go look - they were also the ones who hired Megyn Kelly. so.

NBC you've already danced with this devil and it worked out about how anyone who wasn't an idiot corporate news producer would have expected. Going for it again eh. Hey, it's your legacy. Trash away.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🦚

Nazi

Broadcasting

Corporation

[–] DABDA@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

"Look, me and the McDonald's people, got this little misunderstanding. They have a clown named Ronald McDonald..."

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The Republican National Committee chair turned NBC politics analyst Ronna McDaniel “tried to disassemble our democracy” by supporting Donald Trump’s electoral fraud lies and should not be given such a media role, a leading historian said amid uproar over the appointment.

On Sunday, days after joining the network, McDaniel said on the Meet the Press that Biden won “fair and square” and said she did “not think violence should be in our political discourse”.

On Monday, MSNBC hosts including Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Nicole Wallace, to whom Snyder spoke, also condemned the McDaniel hire.

Describing such work by McDaniel, the anti-Trump conservative ex-congresswoman Liz Cheney said that as RNC chair, McDaniel “facilitated Trump’s corrupt fake elector plot and his effort to pressure Michigan officials not to certify the legitimate election outcome.

In that role, she defended Trump through his scandal-ridden presidency; his refusal to accept his 2020 defeat by Joe Biden, culminating in his incitement of the deadly January 6 attack on Congress; and through his surge to another presidential nomination despite facing 88 criminal charges and multimillion-dollar civil penalties and regularly admitting to authoritarian ambitions.

Snyder said: “If we’re going to be putting people on the news who have participated in an attempt to overthrow the system, then we have to ask at the very beginning, ‘Why did you do that?


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