Matthew Dowd — a political analyst who was fired by MSNBC over his comments about Charlie Kirk — slammed his old network on Friday over its coverage of ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel’s show, claiming that his former colleagues didn’t give his ouster the same energy.
Dowd — in an appearance on Katie Couric’s podcast — alleged that “not one person” at MSNBC has said “anything” about him on air since his firing while describing Kimmel’s suspension as “awful for America” and a “chilling thing for the First Amendment.”
“They’ve all gone out of their way to say, ‘Isn’t it horrible what happened to Jimmy Kimmel?’” said Dowd, the chief strategist of George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign.
Dowd later accused “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of “basically saying they were glad” he was terminated on their show the day after his ouster.
“And now today, they’re talking about how awful it is for our country that somebody like Jimmy Kimmel can’t say what he said and he is indefinitely suspended and not an iota about what their employer just did to another employee,” he continued.
