Political analyst Matthew Dod is outside a job in MSNBC after his comment on the air after the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed About “hateful words” that lead to “hateful actions”.
MSNBC said on Thursday that DowD, a paid political analyst, “is no longer with the network.” MSNBC President Rebecca Kotler has released a friendly apology after his comment, which attracted a hot reaction online.
Dodd shortly after the shooting on Wednesday that Kirk was a divisive figure “of a kind of pushing this type of hate speech that targets certain groups. I always return to hateful ideas to hateful words that lead to hateful actions. I think this is the environment in which we are.”
Celebrations Publish an online apology To comment Dodd, which she described “inappropriate, unacceptable.”
“There is no place for violence in America, politician or otherwise,” she said.
Dodd, at his account in Bluesky, indicated that he was asked a question from anchor Katie Tour about the nation’s political environment.
“I apologize for my dialect and my words,” Dod said. “Let me be clear, I do not mean in any way my comments to blame Kirk for this attack. Let us all gather and condemn violence of any kind.”
Dowd, who was once a political expert for President George W. Bush, joined MSNBC in 2022 after that A failed campaign for the ruler of the Lieutenant In Texas as a democratic. He spent nearly 15 years as an analyst at ABC News.
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