MSNBC Anchor Hit Parade Assails Ronna McDaniel Hire at NBC News; ‘Inexplicable,’ Says Rachel Maddow

variety.com:

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor A long line of MSNBC‘s most popular anchors spent Monday calling out the network’s corporate sibling, NBC News, for its hire of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel in a stunning display of internal rifts laid bare on the TV screen.

The hire of McDaniel as a contributor is “inexplicable,” Rachel Maddow said on MSNBC Monday night as part of a half-hour commercial-free monologue that painted the former politico as one in a line of fascists and would-be usurpers who have tried to take over America’s political process.

McDaniel, who during her time as RNC head helped former President Donald Trump in his efforts to nullify the 2020 presidential election, said Maddow, “is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government.” NBC News raised hackles late last week when it disclosed it had hired McDaniel as a political contributor.

Within days, prominent staffers at NBC News and MSNBC pushed back on the decision, charging that McDaniel’s efforts to assist Trump and cast aspersions on journalists made her unfit to serve at in a paid position at a journalism organization.