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This week, I look at the Ronna McDaniel debacle, pick the distinguished person of the week and share a magnificent theatrical experience.
NBC News figured out the easy part within a few days. (Disclosure: I am an MSNBC contributor.) After a firestorm of criticism from Democrats, the “Meet the Press” host and guests, MSNBC hosts and outside journalists, NBC executives dumped former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a contributor reportedly set to be paid $300,000 annually. MSNBC journalists found her hiring “inexplicable,” as Rachel Maddow put it, given her alleged facilitation of the 2020 phony elector scheme to overthrow the election, her past performance as the “team” mouthpiece (describing Jan. 6, 2021, as “legitimate civil discourse”) and her nonstop attacks on the press.
