Ronna McDaniel joins NBC News as contributor

[demmiblue]

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 network’s sister cable channel, MSNBC.

“It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s 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]

1. They need to fire the person that hired her.

[NJCher]

2. see other posts on this topic

and link to NY Times story:

https://democraticunderground.com/100218800052

[Botany]

3. Liberal Media

She might do more damage @ NBC then @ the RNC pushing lies and Russian
misinformation. Didn’t she push Trump’s big lie about the 2000 election?

[GreenWave]

4. Holy shit! They have enough center right on the payroll already.

[SouthernDem4ever]

5. Gives me good reason not to start watching MTP again

I haven't for at least a decade.

[SamKnause]

6. Couldn't they get Trump, Bannon, MTG, or Boebert ???

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Oh ewww

She’ll never be a Michael Steel or David Jolly, etc., and a Nicole is far beyond her mental capacity.

[ificandream]

16. I still wonder, though, if she'll be faithful to Trump.

Why would she take an NBC job instead of a Fox one (outside of the money)?

[BumRushDaShow]

19. I don't know how much they use "contributors" on Faux

but we know they are all over the other cable news stations. She certainly wasn't going to be a "host".

[ificandream]

20. I don't watch Fox, but they use contributors.

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]

32. Money and only money!

[Pas-de-Calais]

8. Such BS NBC!!

[Comfortably_Numb]

9. Thank goodness there's finally a forum for republicans to tell democrats what they are doing wrong. I'll be sure not to

tune in. NBC giving the magats and right wing nut jobs a safe space to spew their bile.…

[dlk]

10. She's too divisive and hateful to be an effective contributor

This was a truly bad call by MSNBC.

[Mr. Sparkle]

11. I cant think of anyone in politics who likes her,either side or thinks shes competent.

This is a really strange hire.

[jvill]

12. In NBC's defense, Goebbles is dead

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[Dem2theMax]

31. That made me 'snort' laugh!

[JustAnotherGen]

13. JHFC

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]

14. They are a news organization

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]

15. The first thing I thought of is whether she'll turn against Trump.

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]

17. She won't last long

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]

18. Yet another reason for me to never view "news" programs on NBC.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

22. Me, neither

[4lbs]

21. Looks like Press the Meat (Yes, I said that the way I wanted) is going to the right, instead of the light.

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]

28. I don't know why people glorify Tim Russert

He was a right wing shill and a mediocre interviewer. MTP was just as unwatchable on his watch as it ever was.

[prodigitalson]

23. gross

[iluvtennis]

24. uggh.

[Ray Bruns]

25. Why?

[claudette]

26. Well, good

thing there is a channel changer when she’s on. What is WRONG with MSNBC?

[badhair77]

27. She has lied repeatedly these past few years.

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]

29. Well I won't be watching that shit

If her ratings tank, she won't be working for NBC for long....

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. NBC didn't learn a damn thing from hiring Megyn Kelly.

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[marble falls]

33. I am not watching her. She's already demonstrated her integrity. Rather a general lack of it.

[C_U_L8R]

34. Even republicans can't stand her.

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.