Bye Felicia

And by, "Felicia," I mean Ronna Romney McDaniel, who was hired a few days ago by NBC as a pundit was fired by NBC following massive internal protests.

Also, her agent, CAA, has dumped her.

Needless to say, Republicans are claiming that she was fired because she was a Republican, but they are completely full of crap on this.

She was alibiing for insurrection and blatantly and egregiously lying to reporters in her role as RNC chair.

This is different from, for example, Donna Brazile who spent a career spinning reporters, but in a way that has been done by partisan actors for decades.

The former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel is on her way out of NBC less than a week after joining the network, NBC announced in a memo from NBCUniversal News Group chair Cesar Conde.

Conde said he had listened to “the legitimate concerns” of many network employees. “No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned,” he wrote. “Over the last few days, it has become clear that this appointment undermines that goal.”

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But she also claimed it was “fair to say there were problems [in elections in battleground states] in 2020” and said that while she did “not think violence should be in our political discourse”, she supported Donald Trump’s election fraud lie, which ultimately stoked the deadly January 6 attack on Congress, as a way of “taking one for the whole team” .

That interview prompted an angry on-air response from Chuck Todd, a former host.

When complete tool Chuck Todd unloads a can of whup ass on a Republican, someone has screwed up.

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A procession of senior NBC and MSNBC hosts followed Todd in protesting the McDaniel hire on air, from the popular husband-and-wife morning show team of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to Jen Psaki, Nicolle Wallace, Joy-Ann Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow.

One hopes that senior management will be flipping burgers in the near future.