Matthew Dowd Fired from MSNBC For Vile Comments Blaming Charlie Kirk For Assassination

[Pommer]

BREAKING: Matthew Dowd Fired from MSNBC For Vile Comments Blaming Charlie Kirk For Assassination | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

MSNBC fired far-left political commentator Matthew Dowd on Wednesday evening for his vile comments about Charlie Kirk.

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MSNBC did the right thing here, this is a good sign. Conservatives have been urging people to pull back on the hatred and violent rhetoric.

“Bad thing” happens to person who said unpopular thing?

 

[ralliann]

I agree. Did you think I didn't?

I think they are drawing Charley Kirk into accusations that are false. He was all about free speech, and exchange of ideas.

 

[Valletta]

I think they are drawing Charley Kirk into accusations that are false. He was all about free speech, and exchange of ideas.

Yes. Here's an op-ed:

“‘What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option”: Charlie Kirk spoke, lived and died according to those words.
He welcomed the chance to argue — civilly — with random people whose opinions differed completely; exemplified the spirit of liberal (in the old-school sense of espousing liberty and generosity of spirit) give-and-take.

POST OP-ED: Charlie Kirk Was All About DEBATE — This Killing is an Attack on Free Speech Itself

What makes this assassination so especially heinous is that Charlie Kirk was the furthest thing from a demagogue or firebrand.

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[Zaha Torte]

I think they are drawing Charley Kirk into accusations that are false. He was all about free speech, and exchange of ideas.

Of course that is what they are doing.

 

[Tropical Wilds]

Of course that is what they are doing.

I blame the witches.

Update to the Jezebel Charlie Kirk Story

A note from our editor.

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[ThatRobGuy]

Who's Matthew Dowd?

Never heard of him...

This seems like an extremely lame "CYA" move by that network after their abysmal covering of the incident.

 

[essentialsaltes]

A number of other people are also losing their jobs for their free speech on social media.

Carolina Panthers staffer, several educators fired over insensitive comments after shooting​

Fired:

• Arizona: A Suns writer at PHNX Sports
• North Carolina: A Carolina Panthers communications staffer
• Oklahoma: An employee at Heritage Hall, a private prep school in Oklahoma City
• Tennessee: An assistant dean at Middle Tennessee State University

Placed on administrative leave:

• South Carolina: A teacher at Southside High School in Greenville County

Under investigation:

• Iowa: A teacher in the Creston Community School District
• Florida: A teacher at Ridgeview Elementary School
• Oklahoma: A Sand Springs middle school teacher

 

[ralliann]

A number of other people are also losing their jobs for their free speech on social media.

Carolina Panthers staffer, several educators fired over insensitive comments after shooting​

Fired:

• Arizona: A Suns writer at PHNX Sports
• North Carolina: A Carolina Panthers communications staffer
• Oklahoma: An employee at Heritage Hall, a private prep school in Oklahoma City
• Tennessee: An assistant dean at Middle Tennessee State University

Placed on administrative leave:

• South Carolina: A teacher at Southside High School in Greenville County

Under investigation:

• Iowa: A teacher in the Creston Community School District
• Florida: A teacher at Ridgeview Elementary School
• Oklahoma: A Sand Springs middle school teacher

Not this either....

 

[ThatRobGuy]

A number of other people are also losing their jobs for their free speech on social media.

Carolina Panthers staffer, several educators fired over insensitive comments after shooting​

Fired:

• Arizona: A Suns writer at PHNX Sports
• North Carolina: A Carolina Panthers communications staffer
• Oklahoma: An employee at Heritage Hall, a private prep school in Oklahoma City
• Tennessee: An assistant dean at Middle Tennessee State University

Placed on administrative leave:

• South Carolina: A teacher at Southside High School in Greenville County

Under investigation:

• Iowa: A teacher in the Creston Community School District
• Florida: A teacher at Ridgeview Elementary School
• Oklahoma: A Sand Springs middle school teacher

Yep... it stings when the boomerang changes directions and comes back the other way doesn't it?

To anyone who was okay with a person losing their job over a controversial position on covid, jokes, gay stuff, etc... who's now suffering "job loss" consequences due to them expressing controversial positions on this story, I have no sympathy for them.

They've had the opportunity to be "die hard free speech absolutists" for the last 5-10 years, and declined... they can't expect the faction that they vilified the whole time to come to their defense now.

And the "have their cake and eat it too" expectation with "oh, I thought you guys were about free speech" is hollow. The "I'll laugh at your standard and say it's stupid, until your standard would've benefitted me, then I expect you to uphold it otherwise I'll call you a hypocrite" isn't going to play either.

 

[DaisyDay]

Yep... it stings when the boomerang changes directions and comes back the other way doesn't it?

To anyone who was okay with a person losing their job over a controversial position on covid, jokes, gay stuff, etc... who's now suffering "job loss" consequences due to them expressing controversial positions on this story, I have no sympathy for them.

They've had the opportunity to be "die hard free speech absolutists" for the last 5-10 years, and declined... they can't expect the faction that they vilified the whole time to come to their defense now.

And the "have their cake and eat it too" expectation with "oh, I thought you guys were about free speech" is hollow. The "I'll laugh at your standard and say it's stupid, until your standard would've benefitted me, then I expect you to uphold it otherwise I'll call you a hypocrite" isn't going to play either.

It is particularly ironic that people are getting fired for being insensitive towards the late beacon of free speech.

 

[essentialsaltes]

It is particularly ironic that people are getting fired for being insensitive towards the late beacon of free speech.

The guy who started the Professor Watchlist is not necessarily the brightest beacon in the lighthouse.

Responses to the site include the American Association of University Professors and The New York Times raising fears that it threatens academic freedoms by harassing and intimidating staff, conservative magazine National Review describing it as an "irritable gesture" of victimhood by conservatives, and concerns about the safety and welfare of staff following a trend of threatening behavior and communication, including rape and death threats, being sent to listed faculty.

 

[DaisyDay]

The guy who started the Professor Watchlist is not necessarily the brightest beacon in the lighthouse.

Responses to the site include the American Association of University Professors and The New York Times raising fears that it threatens academic freedoms by harassing and intimidating staff, conservative magazine National Review describing it as an "irritable gesture" of victimhood by conservatives, and concerns about the safety and welfare of staff following a trend of threatening behavior and communication, including rape and death threats, being sent to listed faculty.

I should’ve said “self proclaimed beacon of free speech “.

 

[essentialsaltes]

A number of other people are also losing their jobs for their free speech on social media.

Private companies can do more or less as they like, but the government is constrained by the First Amendment as to what it can do to employees for their speech.

State employees fired over Charlie Kirk posts inundate courts​

State government employees are taking to the courts after being fired over social media posts criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk upon his assassination.

More than a dozen employees, from a Tennessee high school science teacher to a landscape supervisor at Auburn University, have sued over allegations their punishments violate the First Amendment.

many of the other lawsuits remain in early stages. But one has already been resolved.

The University of South Dakota dropped its bid to terminate art professor Michael Hook for writing on Facebook, “I don’t give a flying ... about this Kirk person,” after a judge temporarily reinstated him.

“I hope the State now understands that the First Amendment prohibits it from punishing anyone for speech about public issues — no matter how much State or national leaders or others disagree with it,” Hook said in a statement.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

From the video, Mathew Dowd told the truth. Hateful words does come right back at you. What ever happened to that Fox news person, that was thought executing the homeless was good.Was he fired?

 

[ralliann]

Private companies can do more or less as they like, but the government is constrained by the First Amendment as to what it can do to employees for their speech.

State employees fired over Charlie Kirk posts inundate courts​

State government employees are taking to the courts after being fired over social media posts criticizing conservative activist Charlie Kirk upon his assassination.

More than a dozen employees, from a Tennessee high school science teacher to a landscape supervisor at Auburn University, have sued over allegations their punishments violate the First Amendment.

many of the other lawsuits remain in early stages. But one has already been resolved.

The University of South Dakota dropped its bid to terminate art professor Michael Hook for writing on Facebook, “I don’t give a flying ... about this Kirk person,” after a judge temporarily reinstated him.

“I hope the State now understands that the First Amendment prohibits it from punishing anyone for speech about public issues — no matter how much State or national leaders or others disagree with it,” Hook said in a statement.

Oh Yeah, a judge defends murder. Wow.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Oh Yeah, a judge defends murder. Wow.

That’s some spectacularly bad reading comprehension. Wow.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Oh Yeah, a judge defends murder. Wow.

The judge was not deciding a murder case, but a case of wrongful termination for protected speech.

 

[NxNW]

Oh Yeah, a judge defends murder. Wow.

Judge defends speech!

 

[ralliann]

Judge defends speech!

Judge defends murder...

 

[NxNW]

Judge defends murder...

How? The case did not involve a murder.