Typical MSNBC

I've not watched MSNBC in a few years.

Between firing Olbermann, being in the tank for Clinton in the primaries, and Rachael Maddow's Mort Sahl style conspiracy theory meltdown, I've given up on them.

Really, the only time I notice them these days is when the unresolved mommy issues that Joy Reid addresses with her boosterism of Hillary Clinton make the Twitter machine explode.

Well, now MSNBC has fired Sam Seder because of a Tweet mocking people who wanted Roman Polanski to avoid prosecution for rape because he is a marvelous director:^*

MSNBC has decided not to renew its contract with contributor Sam Seder after an old tweet emerged in which Seder joked about Roman Polanski raping his daughter, TheWrap has learned.

Seder’s contract ends in February and he has no scheduled appearances between now and then, a spokesperson for MSNBC told TheWrap.

“Don’t care re Polanski, but I hope if my daughter is ever raped it is by an older truly talented man w/a great sense of mise en scene,” wrote Seder in the now deleted tweet from 2009.

(emphasis mine)

It appears that alt-right bro-blogger Mike Cernovich, promulgator of the Pizzagate fraud, came across the tweet, and the Right wing rent a crowd swung into action, and MSNBC fired Seder.

By comparison, Joy "Mommy Issues" Reid was was found to use bigoted homophobic terms in an attempt to out former Florida Governor Charlie Crist, and management is still cool with her:

Recently resurfaced internet archives show political commentator Joy Reid wrote a dozen blog posts in 2007, 2008, and 2009 that contained homophobic conspiracies and anti-gay jokes.

The MSNBC weekend host ran a blog called The Reid Report — which is the same name as her now-defunct cable news show — a decade ago while she wrote for the Miami Herald. As first resurfaced by Twitter user Jamie_Maz, Reid wrote numerous bigoted blog posts smearing, mocking, and attacking former Florida governor Charlie Crist. These rants included calling Crist “Miss Charlie” and sarcastically using the tags “gay politicians” and “not gay politicians” — despite the fact that the twice-married, heterosexual man has never come-out as gay.

Reid went on to spread the crackpot conspiracy theory that Crist was actually a closeted gay man who refused to come out for fear that his sexual orientation would hurt his political career. Additionally, the AM Joy host claims Crist’s marriages to women are part of this elaborate cover up.

As bad as the conspiracy theory is in itself, Reid doesn’t just suggest Cris is gay — she assumes he is gay and proceeds to attack him for it. “Miss Charlie, Miss Charlie. Stop pretending, brother. It’s okay that you don’t go for the ladies,” wrote Reid in a 2007 post.

Casting homophobic slurs and attempting to out someone is OK, but showing the hypocrisy of people who think that the movie Chinatown is good enough to justify rape is somehow beyond the pale.

MSNBC has become a very f%$#ed up place.

^*Actually, I do support an end to his prosecution, but not because of the quality of his movies.  I object to further prosecution because the misbehavior of the prosecutor(s) and judge(s) in this matter are so egregious to demand such an action. Sometimes why matters.