Ronna McDaniel joins NBC News as contributor
Source: The Hill
Ronna McDaniel, the former head of the Republican National Committee (RNC), will join NBC News as a contributor.
McDaniel will appear on Meet The Press this Sunday, giving her first interview since resigning as head of the RNC earlier this year.
McDaniel is expected to be featured as part of election coverage on NBC and on the networks sister cable channel, MSNBC.
It couldnt be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronnas on the team, Carrie Budoff Brown, who leads political coverage at NBC, wrote in a memo shared with The New York Times.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4549564-ronna-mcdaniel-nbc-news-contributor/
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LiberalFighter
(50,943 posts)NJCher
(35,684 posts)and link to NY Times story:
https://democraticunderground.com/100218800052
Botany
(70,516 posts)She might do more damage @ NBC then @ the RNC pushing lies and Russian
misinformation. Didnt she push Trumps big lie about the 2000 election?
GreenWave
(6,759 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)I haven't for at least a decade.
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,080 posts)Shell never be a Michael Steel or David Jolly, etc., and a Nicole is far beyond her mental capacity.
ificandream
(9,373 posts)Why would she take an NBC job instead of a Fox one (outside of the money)?
BumRushDaShow
(129,080 posts)but we know they are all over the other cable news stations. She certainly wasn't going to be a "host".
ificandream
(9,373 posts)In fact, they rely on pundits more than MSNBC does. If you look at the Fox website, they have daily "news" stories dredged from pundits just to make a story out of it. Another reason why Fox isn't journalism.
machoneman
(4,007 posts)Pas-de-Calais
(9,904 posts)Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)tune in. NBC giving the magats and right wing nut jobs a safe space to spew their bile.
dlk
(11,567 posts)This was a truly bad call by MSNBC.
Mr. Sparkle
(2,935 posts)This is a really strange hire.
jvill
(218 posts)
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)Seriously? She's a part of the Christo Fascist problem. It's just giving more air to the political movement which seeks to destroy America as we know it.
BaronChocula
(1,559 posts)They're supposed to have a bias for truth.
They are hiring someone known for supporting distortions and lies.
They are complicit.
Reminds me of when CNN hired republican Rick Santorum who was KNOWN for making denigrating statements and lying who CNN then fired for making denigrating statements. It. Makes. No. Sense!
ificandream
(9,373 posts)If she does, that would be something. The fact he ousted her from the RNC would be a great motive. But then, too many Repughs have been Donald mouthpieces. But I'm waiting to see what happens here.
Warpy
(111,270 posts)She's a rich kid who grew up without any reson to question any of the Republican boilerplate she heard during her childhood.
In fact, I doubt the woman has ever questioned anything or anyone in her whole life. Daddy knew best, you know, he had all the money.
She's only going to be useful as the mouthpiece of the plutocray and increasing numbers of American workers are not going to give a shit about what the plutocracy wants. They're starting to ask "where's mine?" and that's a healthy thing.
She won't be a draw, she won't have any insights, and people will start to swich the channel when she turns up. That's why she won't last long.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,198 posts)4lbs
(6,858 posts)Ever since Tim Russert died, it has gone downhill fast. I haven't watched it in several years, and only barely watched when Chuck Toad (again, I did that intentionally) was the host. When Russert did it, I was a regular viewer, but not anymore.
NanaCat
(1,161 posts)He was a right wing shill and a mediocre interviewer. MTP was just as unwatchable on his watch as it ever was.
prodigitalson
(2,423 posts)iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,098 posts)claudette
(3,577 posts)thing there is a channel changer when shes on. What is WRONG with MSNBC?
badhair77
(4,218 posts)My god, there are videos. What do they see in her? If they wanted someone to give a conservative viewpoint there are better people out there.
Blue Owl
(50,402 posts)If her ratings tank, she won't be working for NBC for long....
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,293 posts)marble falls
(57,099 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Is NBC trying to lose viewers on purpose? This dopey hire deserve all the ridicule it's receiving and then some. Sorry NBC, we vote every day with our clickers.