"NBC News is, either wittingly or unwittingly, teaching election deniers that what they can do stretches well beyond appearing on our air and interviews to peddle lies about the sanctity and integrity of our elections," Wallace said on her show Monday afternoon.

"Our democracy is in danger because of the lies that people like Ronna McDaniel have pushed on this country," Psaki said during MSNBC's 8 p.m. hour.

Maddow, MSNBC's top-rated star, devoted the first block of her show to addressing the "inexplicable" hiring. She described McDaniel as "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."

In offering her own critique, Scarborough's "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski on Monday morning emphasized that she doesn't object to McDaniel's political ideologies - but to her actions as a party chief who sided with a president and candidate who sought to overturn the election.

"To be clear, we believe NBC News should seek out conservative Republican voices to provide balance in their election coverage," said Brzezinski, whose co-host husband is a former GOP congressman. "But it should be conservative Republicans, not a person who used her position of power to be an anti-democracy election denier."

And they also need to fire whomever thought that hiring her was a good decision. NBC was trying to insulate itself in case Trump wins this fall, but their logic was severely flawed.

Lawrence O'Donnell mentioned that most of those helming NBC News today were either babies or not born when Nixon was forced from office and many of his fellow staff were charged with crimes. None of those who participated in Watergate went on to paid network jobs until John Dean 20+ years later during the Clinton scandal and impeachment.

I'm sure a right wing outlet will offer McDaniel a job if she doesn't have a non-compete. And I don't know if NBC has to pay her in full right now. She simply has a job where her employer pays her through the length of her contract while she's relieved of having actually duties outside of staying at home.

Well, that was quick:

Aint censorship beautiful

"You want to suppress the voices of anyone who doesn't agree with you."

NBC is under no obligation to give McDaniel a platform for her lies or whatever she decides to say in any given moment. There is no suppression, idiot. You spout lunacy with no comprehension of reality.

Take your tired act back to some right wing blog where everybody gives you attaboys for the ignorance you spew.

This - nor evidently NBC - ain't the place to promote anti-constitutional liars.

#39

It wasn't Psaki who made that tweet, it was Jean-Pierre.

So now you've lied about someone else's integrity with zero acknowledgement that any single tweet is not equivalent to the candidate his/herself continuously making such a claim for years after said election is over - without a shred of evidence supporting the claim.

The two aren't even in the same universe.

#57

Sorry, I didn't mean to copy your post #, it was meant for Ignatz' #37, as was my commentary directed toward it and not you.