NBC News, under Chairman Cesar Conde, has ignited controversy by hiring former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst, despite backlash from the public and NBC's own staff. Initially, an NBC exec stated McDaniel would appear as a paid commentator on MSNBC. However, MSNBC President Rashida Jones later clarified that McDaniel would not be featured on MSNBC airwaves but will still appear on NBC News and 'Meet the Press.' In her first paid NBC interview, McDaniel distanced herself from Trump's plan to free those charged and convicted of crimes from the Jan. 6 attack and admitted that Biden won the 2020 election 'fair and square.' The decision has sparked intense debate over NBC News's journalistic integrity and its commitment to truth.
NBC: Our viewers deserve to be warned there is *an actual Republican* in the next segment. https://t.co/erDxbBLnCu
Former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel defended her successor’s decision to funnel donations through a PAC that pays former President Trump’s legal bills. “If [supporters] feel strongly to support his legal bills, then they have every right to do so,” she said. https://t.co/w8Pv39M4yv
By, our Liberal Media Scream partner @BrentHBaker has a field day with all the bias on the DNC's Sunday joke shows... https://t.co/6XfcvNYqsq
Good interview by Kristen Welker. Respectfully, Ronna McDaniel fails to acknowledge the countless individuals who have been threatened & intimidated for years for refusing to amplify the election lies she was instrumental in promoting. https://t.co/gvocXeVE3p
“There’s a reason why there’s a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this,” Todd said on “Meet the Press.” https://t.co/pZLnPZEz20
I wouldn't have hired McDaniel but I also wouldn't have hired half the Biden comms team, so I think the horse was a little out of the barn on this one already https://t.co/2ZIYPlqz8b
Ronna McDaniel on previous RNC positions: ‘You kind of take one for the whole team’ https://t.co/KjICZ1fAlD
‘Our bosses owe you an apology’: Todd slams NBC's McDaniel hire during Welker MTP segment https://t.co/SvS49LwLvA
Former NBC host Chuck Todd just apologized to his replacement Kristin Welker for having to interview former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel because the execs at NBC hired her as a paid contributor Did he ever show concern about Jen Psaki joining the left wing network? Symone Sanders?…
Ronna Romney is a cunt. She is beyond evil, and she is why Republicans lost as much as they did. Donald Trump needs to condemn this witch. He needs to strongly rebuke this absolute cunt of a woman @RonnaMcDaniel for the sake of the GOP base and the J6 political prisoners. https://t.co/DCgO5EMHmG
Ronna McDaniel is a “necessary and material witness” who “possesses unique knowledge” regarding the fake electors “conspiracy” to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. https://t.co/4KnoINdPkk https://t.co/jYj09eISG7
The big news coming out of Ronna McDaniel's first paid NBC interview: That Joe Biden was actually elected President of the United States in 2016, and that McDaniel actually shops in a "supermarket."
Ronna Romney on NBC: “Biden is the Legitimate President, He Won Fair and Square”…ALL NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT SUPPORTED AND VOTED FOR HER SHOULD RESIGN IMMEDIATELY Ronna McDaniel disagrees with Trump’s plan to free some Jan. 6 prisoners - NBC News,https://t.co/g9a1WaPsAI https://t.co/7t1ElEKB00
Amy Klobuchar’s former landlord has thoughts about Jen Psaki’s new colleague: https://t.co/f5rbdzizeC
Now that the internal backlash to the Ronna McDaniel hiring has made its way to the airwaves, one has to wonder if we've already seen McDaniel's last appearance as an NBC News commentator. https://t.co/NtVIqChMy1
Chuck Todd is insufferable. NBC News currently employs two former mouthpieces for the Biden Administration; Jen Psaki and Symone Sanders. Did he object to that? But God forbid they hire a Republican in @RonnaMcDaniel? This is bigger than Ronna. Why do so many beltway… https://t.co/KedJ8xQEcz
MSNBC’s president has reportedly quashed concerns that former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel will be turning up on the liberal cable network. https://t.co/G2AQhUqRH7 https://t.co/X8yWflyZlx
.@chucktodd, why was it okay for NBC to hire Jen Psaki but not Ronna McDaniel? https://t.co/xafbkGwtEu
NBC News execs should absolutely be ashamed. And more journalists at NBC News should openly say so. https://t.co/xnDQoVwsIq
All else aside, I've literally never heard anyone, even on the right, praise Ronna McDaniel for being charismatic or compelling or great at articulating a message. She's a quintessential apparatchik. So why hire her, of all the right-wingers out there?
McDaniel goes to NBC.. hadn’t heard about this Big wonder @GOP fell apart when the @RNCResearch chairwoman runs to NBC for a few shekels Hedge called to 🪓 her a long time ago https://t.co/CdrfhIyXuI
NBC News Keeps Chasing Conservatives With Controversial Talent Moves https://t.co/9oPWtA2ZZT
WATCH: “This will be a news interview and I was not involved in her hiring," NBC’s @kwelkernbc tells viewers before her Ronna McDaniel sit-down, her first since stepping down as RNC chair. "In full disclosure.. this interview was scheduled weeks before it was announced that… https://t.co/p9j8qrjWAk
#MSNBC boss rejects plans to have ex-RNC chair #RonnaMcDaniel on network amid calls to boycott NBC https://t.co/VkbrSIg9Xc https://t.co/m01ph6WLc7
Ronna McDaniel admits Joe Biden won 'fair and square' https://t.co/Oh0hHq9xce https://t.co/06sX9Z42ns
Kudos to @MeetThePress for discussing the interview with former RNC head Ronna McDaniel and how @kwelkernbc was blindsided when she learned that she's now an NBC News correspondent. That's why I love this show.
This is going swell, NBC. LOL Brian Stelter's Play-By-Play of Ronna McDaniel's BIG NBC Interview Pisses Lefties Off Even MORE (Watch) https://t.co/Q7USV8Ckhj
I am glad Kristen Welker interviewed Ronna Romney McDaniel today on @MeetThePress b/c she got her on the record on a lot. Today it was confirmed: - Ronna is a Trump supporter who thinks J6 was not a good day - she thinks Trump didn’t want J6 to happen (even though he told them…
NBC’s @ChuckTodd upset about Ronna McDaniel, a new paid NBC News contributor. To @kwelkernbc on #MTP: “I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation....There’s a reason why a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this.” Heard of @jrpsaki? https://t.co/gg5lp8Amlo
WATCH: Ronna McDaniel Insists 'There Were Problems' With the 2020 Election in Trainwreck Soft-Launch of Her NBC News Gig https://t.co/ROU2wfZNAd
On Meet the Press host Kristin Welker tells viewers she wasn't involved in NBC News' hiring of Ronna McDaniel. Between that and MSNBC brass saying they have no plans to put her on network that's quite a welcome wagon. https://t.co/erZ0iYSnQm
.@RonnaMcDaniel, translated: “When you’re the RNC Chair, you lie. Now I get to be a little bit more truthful.”👇 https://t.co/f4HKQNVnhp
Everyone knows Ronna Romney deliberately worked to sabotage President Trump. The woman also fed false information about candidates to @TeamTrump in an effort to drain GOP resources. On her way out, I know for a fact that she also lied and said Mazi Pilip was a Republican in an… https://t.co/mWPIhWB98M
"What an awful moment. The wretchedness of the decision simply beggars belief. In an instant, NBC News immolated its core values. Call it whatever you want, but it’s not journalism." NBC News' hiring of Ronna McDaniel is a betrayal of truth & its viewers: https://t.co/0HL1bMgXVp https://t.co/mNcyEIEDro
When it would have been at least somewhat impactful for Ronna to speak out against Trump’s remarks about J6 as RNC Chair, she went along with him instead. Now, when it has zero impact, she is willing to disagree to repair her shattered reputation, and NBC is paying her to do it.
'When you're working for Donald Trump and building a career off of his lies, you just kinda roll with it, right? Now that I've been cast off by him I can, you know, actually tell the truth.' Real profiles in courage kinds of stuff from @RonnaMcDaniel right here. https://t.co/yjEf2HdQ5k
Ronna McDaniel Suggests She Was Fake As RNC Chair "I do not believe people who committed violent acts on January 6th should be freed...When you're the RNC chair you kind of have to take one for the whole team. Now I get to be a little bit more myself." https://t.co/7W1epNjHLK
Putting Ronna Romney on @NBCNews is one of the most head scratching things. She led the censure for Liz Cheney and I (which we could care less about) and empowered Trump and neutered everyone else in the primary. Insane choice. Lies lies lies for NBC viewers https://t.co/Ygztc9sYJL
Ronna on why she is saying now for the first time that she disagrees with Trump on pardoning J6ers: “When you’re the RNC Chair, you kind of take one for the whole team, right? Now I get to be a little bit more myself.” https://t.co/28a5DexcsY
Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says she disagrees with former President Trump's plan to free those charged and convicted of crimes from the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol. - @MeetThePress https://t.co/1HCCQQWuLo
NBC hiring an insurrectionist https://t.co/2fh7YdpVwT
WATCH: Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says she doesn’t support freeing those charged and convicted with crimes related to January 6th — something Donald Trump has promised to do if re-elected. @kwelkernbc: “Why not speak out earlier?” @RonnaMcDaniel: “When you’re the RNC… https://t.co/9wqOoKnUdR
Ronna McDaniel Will Not Appear on MSNBC Amid 'Internal Backlash' Over Her Hire at NBC News: Report https://t.co/U3ZIKrdbtU
"Trump betrayed the American people and his constitutional oath. Ronna McDaniel betrayed the United States for Trump. NBC News betrayed its standards, credibility, and truth for Ronna McDaniel." 'Fake News' may be spot on for NBC News after all: https://t.co/0HL1bMhvKX https://t.co/PWKP4G6LGK
The Left Has a Meltdown Over NBC Hiring McDaniel, So MSNBC Says No to Ronna https://t.co/tVNDc4qpIi
Ronna McDaniel OUT at MSNBC As NBC News Attempts Democrat Damage Control https://t.co/fSQNnhLVbX
She wouldn't be the first recent former RNC chair on MSNBC! https://t.co/Xt41N5knh9
Oh, Ronna won’t be propagandizing to the Democratic base on MSNBC, she will only be doing that to low-information swing voters on NBC. Much better. I guess they think we are as dopey as Fox viewers to fall for that.
.@RonnaMcDaniel lasted 0.1 Scaramuccis as an MSNBC contributor.
NBC can’t even report factually about itself. Yesterday an NBC exec said RNC ex-chief Ronna McDaniel would appear as a paid commentator on MSNBC. Today we hear they have “no plans” to do that. What a mess. https://t.co/XICAwzCwCs
BREAKING: NBC News is taking half measures to try to mitigate damage caused by their hiring of Ronna McDaniel. McDaniel will no longer appear as a contributor on MSNBC, but will still appear on NBC News and on tomorrow's "Meet The Press." https://t.co/5Wxap8srma
MSNBC President Rashida Jones assured staffers that a certain ex-RNC chair won’t be appearing on their shows, despite her contributor deal with the mothership. https://t.co/UaIvoqY0aJ
The Wall Street Journal reports that MSNBC president Rashida Jones, in an effort to quell employee outrage over NBC's hiring of Ronna McDaniel, has told staffers that the cable news network has no plans of using McDaniel on its airwaves. https://t.co/7zhThHU6rO https://t.co/nvakZSWezh
MSNBC Staff Join Flood of Complaints Over NBC Hiring GOP's Ronna McDaniel: https://t.co/opWY9g3PDQ
THIS JUST IN: The WSJ reports that Rashida Jones, the president of MSNBC, is telling MSNBCers that the cable network has no plans to use Ronna McDaniel on air. https://t.co/pGFgXinlFX https://t.co/GoK9NKga8D
I was an employee of NBCUniversal for 30 years, and I am urging you to boycott NBC’s “Meet the Press” tomorrow. Former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel is scheduled to make her debut as NBC’s newly hired political analyst. McDaniel took part in Trump’s plot to assemble a fake slate of… https://t.co/OUVTazyGFm
Don't look for former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and new NBC News contributor to pop up on MSNBC. W/@thesimonetti https://t.co/yTG8ggqWPV
At least now, Ronna Romney will be openly working against Republicans. https://t.co/9zb0WIACEP
Our elitist, corrupt, arrogant, DC/NYC insider political “club,” in a nutshell: @RonnaMcDaniel deletes all her old tweets as she gets hired by @NBCNews/@MSNBC.
MSNBC can hire all the conservatives and contrarians they want. An election denying insurrection enabler is a bridge too far. Way too far. Don’t feed us dipshittery and tell us it’s discourse. #NoRonna
And NBC News just hired this numbskull. What in the world. She can be host of their new show "The Liars Club." https://t.co/MPeEfIbK0x
“It couldn't be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna's on the team." NBC News' Carrie Budoff Brown, who oversees political coverage” https://t.co/1VgNLiB4Ae
NBC News shouldn’t just fire Ronna McDaniel—who it just hired—it should fire the person who thought it was acceptable to hire her. Actually, given how deep institutional rot runs, NBC News needs to not just fire whoever hired McDaniel but the whole unit that person works in.
The journalism disgrace at NBC/MSNBC is historic. Do not doubt that. The hiring of a fascist, Ronna McDaniel, who is an election denier and serial liar who conspired to overthrow democracy in America is as cynical and corrupt as it gets. Here is an excerpt from a speech by… https://t.co/KCWWTegJEq
Ronna McDaniel’s first hours at NBC News have been spent sanitizing her X/Twitter feed. It’s all disappearing — just like the truth, democracy, and the American way of life. Heil Trump! https://t.co/4kCU5oyQ1U
Ronna McDaniel will be on Meet the Press tomorrow for her first appearance since NBC announced her gig as a contributor https://t.co/WSwWVZkkTC
But just think of all the new viewers MSNBC is going to get when Ronna’s fans start watching.
It’s all such a fucking game. So in her job with the RNC, @RonnaMcDaniel lies for Trump, echoes his refrain that the media is “the enemy of the people,” and helps Trump try to overthrow an American election. Then she leaves the RNC, and the very same media (congratulations… https://t.co/YV0vdorHIt
Sad when profits & criminal co-conspirators take the place of search & discussion of truth, accuracy, access to reliable infor, morals, honesty & ethics. Shame on @NBCnews @MSNBC for shamelessly paying & platforming a coup co-conspirator & known liar. Vile. #TurnoffMSNBC https://t.co/3N2nqS81q3
Will Saturday Night Live ridicule NBC News’s hiring of Ronna McDaniel tonight?
Shame on @NBCNews and @MSNBC https://t.co/ZfCQ4g4wFl
Analysis | With Ronna McDaniel snatched off the market by NBC News, ABC and CBS must now enter a bidding war for Catturd.
BREAKING: We just caught new NBC analyst and election denier Ronna McDaniel scrubbing her past tweets that attack MSNBC, Democrats and more. But the Internet is forever — and we keep receipts. https://t.co/FQle3omgIm
The first question Ronna McDaniel should be asked on Meet the Press is: Why have you been deleting your most offensive tweets?, each of which should be put up on the screen for the viewers to review and McDaniel to explain. https://t.co/iZ6AS9NT1J
The first question Ronna McDaniel should be asked on Meet the Press is: Why have you been deleting your most offensive tweets, each of which should be put up on the screen for the viewers to review and McDaniel to explain. https://t.co/iZ6AS9NT1J
The first question Ronna McDaniel should be asked on Meet the Press is: Why have you been deleting your most offensive tweets! https://t.co/iZ6AS9NT1J
It seems that multiple media networks were interested in hiring Ronna McDaniel - whose RNC referred to a violent insurrection as ‘legitimate political discourse’ - which tells us that our media is broken & 2024 election coverage will be 2016 on steroids. https://t.co/20UUcW06TK https://t.co/CYP8RYajxS
MSNBC introduces its new contributor … Ronna Romney
Fail to understand how the anchors and reporters of said network who ran segments about the overt lies that came from Ronna can pivot to “And now let’s hear from former RNC head, Ronna McDaniel” with a straight face & think their core audiences will trust them https://t.co/IJuzEhHNgG
"What would Tim Russert have done? What would Tom Brokaw have done? Without question they would have said, 'NO!' That is what Kristen Welker should do." My reaction to NBC's shameful hiring of Ronna McDaniel: https://t.co/gK7cHD2dIP https://t.co/qKOTmcqlqR
Ronna on NBC to propagandize for Trump from now until the election is a multi-million dollar in-kind contribution to the Trump campaign.
I guess what the Ronna McDaniel hire shows us is that anyone can go all in on Trump’s corruption and lies, say and do anything in service to the cult master, and TV media will still welcome them with open arms and reward them for it. You are a lost and broken enterprise.
New NBC hire Ronna McDaniel hosted Sidney Powell to spout lies two weeks after the election. https://t.co/ypLiaFpsO6
New MSNBC political commentator Ronna McDaniel endorses and supports this person. https://t.co/glnQP4dju0
🇺🇸LEFT BOYCOTTS MSNBC NBC's hiring of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel sent liberals running. Considering MSNBC is one of the least watched major news networks - that’s what, like 20 people who won’t be watching? Source: Deadline https://t.co/N2zl9tVDeQ
Dear @NBCNews, Ronna McDaniel is hideous. I refuse to watch her. Big mistake. Megan Kelly 2.0
That @nbc and @msnbc has brought her on as a paid commentator is a disgrace. https://t.co/qheAPQPOSb
Apparently, Sidney Powell was unavailable so MSNBC had to settle for Ronna McDaniel.
Ronna McDaniel goes to MSNBC. Here's what populist on the right and left can agree on - cable news is the epicenter of the uniparty. Half of the supposedly left-wing MSNBC hosts are corporate Republicans. But they are indistinguishable from corporate Democrats on same channel.
NEW @PuckNews: Ronna Maddow: In her post-R.N.C. reality, Ronna McDaniel will take her talents to NBC News for a post-peak cable contract that reflects both the stain of Trump and the humbling of the industry itself. https://t.co/b6FgKJhwJM
MSNBC Programming Update: Out - Mehdi Hasan In - Ronna McDaniel
MSNBC often has grifter George Conway on so it is no surprise to me that NBC News has hired liar and election denier Ronna McDaniel.
The hiring of McDaniel — a serial liar, fraudster, Trump enabler & coup plotter — disrespects its viewers & further impugns the integrity of every journalist & on-air host affiliated with @MSNBC & @NBCNews. Democracy is on the line & network management clearly DGAF. https://t.co/tOibDDntEC
It’s a free country, and NBC/MSNBC can hire who they want, but why would they hire someone who played a part in trying to overthrow an American election? Someone who made a career out of lying for Donald Trump? Why?
Real journalists are losing their jobs, but the handmaids of American fascism are getting plum spots in legacy American media organizations. Shame on you, @NBCNews https://t.co/9fWGkheGJ2
What a disgusting and cynical decision by @NBCNews and @msnbc for hiring this wretched and lying woman who subverted the Republic by denying an election result in 2020. NBC News and MSNBC just immolated their journalistic credibility. I spent 10 years as an analyst at MSNBC.…
MSNBC commentator @RonnaMcDaniel's Twitter feed is chock full of paranoid claims about "migrant crime". https://t.co/0yeyw6BIb4
Shame on him https://t.co/YZOdnBA2Dd
What a lovely decision by Republican NBC News Chairman Cesar Conde. 🙄 Trump apologist Ronna McDaniel was hired by NBC and MSNBC to join Andrea Mitchell and Katy Tur for what will be an utterly UNWATCHABLE clusterfuck of false equivalencies and far-right ass-vomit.
Old enough to remember when @NBCNews fired Brian Williams because viewers couldn’t trust him after his embellished war correspondent stories. Today they announced hiring Ronna McDaniel who aided and abetted a plot to steal the 2020 election that ended in an insurrection.
Hey @MSNBC, I’m giving you fair warning that I’ll change the channel the second I see Ronna McDaniel appear on any of your broadcasts. And I bet I’m not the only viewer who feels that way. https://t.co/1QGlP7lj6w
Setting aside just for second all the reprehensible attacks Ronna has made on the MSNBC hosts, contributors and audience, she has never offered any insightful opinions or analysis on any topic. Only propaganda - and not even good propaganda. Hired because of a title, that’s it.
Disgraceful, embarrassing hire by @NBCNews & @MSNBC. https://t.co/qeUd727kZP https://t.co/ZvyBc3hhx2
Ronna McDaniel Has a New Gig https://t.co/QpQi7Vh973
I cannot fucking believe @NBCNews hired Ronna McDaniel. Your network got rid of @mehdirhasan and hired that traitor trash? Are you fucking kidding me?!?
Here is new MSNBC contributor Ronna McDaniel hyping Hunter Biden’s laptop. https://t.co/cRoarqUK2s
Here is new MSNBC commentator Ronna McDaniel defending her ad that used AI to generate hordes of black and brown migrants. https://t.co/yqzocMzPGF