In yet more entertaining but infuriating news out of the far left in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s horrible assassination in Utah, the MSNBC personality who was fired for making utterly vile comments about Kirk’s assassination right after it happened, Matthew Dowd, has kept freaking out about his facing consequences for what he said.
As a reminder, Dowd was the vile pundit who said, in the wake of the news that Charlie Kirk had been murdered by an assassin during an event at Utah Valley University, that Charlie had brought his assassination upon himself because he pushed his “hateful thoughts” in public. Dowd was fired nearly immediately by MSNBC over his comments.
Dowd then whined about the matter of his facing consequences for his commentary when he appeared on journalist Katie Couric’s podcast to recount what happened, insisting that the company made a “huge mistake” in firing him because his comments had been “misconstrued.” He began, recounting that discussion, “I said: ‘I think you guys are making a huge mistake.’”
Continuing, Dowd insisted that he told them that his comments had been misconstrued and that the network agreed, but decided he had to be fired anyway. “I said: ‘You know and I know that’s not anything what I meant. You know it’s been misconstrued,’ and they agreed with that. They agreed it had been misconstrued. But they said it didn’t matter. The decision’s been made.”
Entertainingly, Dowd also angrily noted that the leftist public cares much more about the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel than it did about his firing, saying, “All the shows are talking about how this is awful for America that Jimmy Kimmel was indefinitely suspended. And now … they’re talking … not an iota about what their employer just did to another employee.”
For reference, Dowd’s comments were not misconstrued or taken out of context: he was very direct in saying that Charlie Kirk’s death was his own fault because of “hateful” rhetoric. That came when Dowd spoke to MSNBC’s Katy Tur on her show “Katy Tur Reports,” and was sparked by Tur asking, “Matthew, I’m going to bring you in on this. Talk to me about the environment. You know, we are, there are-, reports of exactly what happened are not confirmed yet. But talk to me about the environment in which a shooting like this happens.”
Responding, Dowd first suggested that what might have happened is a supporter fired a gun in celebration, saying, “Yeah. And again, I emphasize what you just emphasized, we don’t know any full details of this. We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration, so we have no idea about this.”
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Continuing, he then argued that Kirk’s “hateful” commentary was responsible, saying, “But following up with what was just said, he’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech, or sort of aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to hateful thoughts, lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.”
Still not done, Dowd then doubled down on that, telling Tur, “And I think that’s the environment we’re in, that people just-, you can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awful words, and then not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”
Watch him here:
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