#MatthewDowd responded: “He’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly…pushing this sort of hate speech…aimed at certain groups. I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. I think that is the environment we are in. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have & then saying these awful words & not expect awful actions to take place. That’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”
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Ridiculous. He didn’t say anything untrue or offensive, & certainly wasn’t a fireable offense.
Political analyst #MatthewDowd has been fired from #MSNBC after his comments about the death* of conservative activist #CharlieKirk, acc/to a network source. [*Dowd’s comments were made prior to the news of Kirk’s death]
During MSNBC’s coverage of Kirk’s shooting, anchor Katy Tur asked Dowd about “the environment in which a shooting like this happens.”
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/matthew-dowd-fired-msnbc-charlie-kirk-death-1236514875/
#MatthewDowd responded: “He’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly…pushing this sort of hate speech…aimed at certain groups. I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. I think that is the environment we are in. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have & then saying these awful words & not expect awful actions to take place. That’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”
While the shooter’s identity & political beliefs remained unknown in the hours after the shooting, that didn’t stop many on the #right from framing the #CharleKirk killing as an indictment of the #left.
“No more mercy for leftists,” wrote the Malaysian MAGA influencer Ian Miles Cheong. “They want you dead. They truly want to kill you and desecrate your body and erase your memory.”
“THIS IS WAR,” wrote Chaya Raichik, the person behind the Libs of TikTok account.
“The Left is the party of murder,” #ElonMusk wrote.
“The Left wants us dead,” wrote C.J. Pearson, a Gen Z conservative influencer. “This is not hyperbole. This is now the ONLY logical conclusion that any sane human being can reach after a repeated pattern of demonstrated behavior & violence.”
#USpol #right #left#CharleKirk#FarRight #extremism#PoliticalViolence
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