Jesse Dollemore: Rachel Maddow Defends Joy Reid After MSNBC FIRES ALL NON-WHITE PRIMETIME HOSTS!!!

"Jesse talks about Rachel Maddow's response to the brutal mass firing of non-white hosts by MSNBC corporate. These dismissals and role changes impacted Joy Reid, Katie Phang, and Alex Wagner, as well as an unknown number of support and production staff." 

Source:Jesse Dollemore doing his impression of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" over MSNBC's firing of Joy Reid and Katie Phang.

From Jesse Dollemore

I guess I have a few responses here and I'll just get into them one after another. 

I guess my first response here is somewhat minor and even perhaps humorous and goes into what my colleague Derik Schneider was talking about yesterday when he was talking about the left-wing racial term "people of color". And it goes to Jesse Dollemore's racial (if not racist) implication that Joy Reid, Katie Phang, and Alex Wagner lost their MSNBC shows because they're "people of color". And here's part of what he said about that: 

"But the fact is, all people have color. Some have darker complexions, some have lighter complexions, some people are somewhere in between." 

But if Reverend Marin L. King's America dream to ever come true, shouldn't we stop judging and looking at people based on their color and complexion? And instead look at people based on "the content of their character"? 

From The New Democrat

If Alex Wagner and Katie Phang are "people of color", then how come Rachel Maddow and Ari Melber (who are both Jewish) are not? Especially when these 4 MSNBC anchors all have similar, if not identical complexions? 

And my major point here is going to sound like I'm arguing that MSNBC (which is owned and operated by NBC News) is part of the broader Democratic Party, which it's not. But the 2 things are related and the fact is MSNBC (and perhaps NBC News as a whole) is a lot friendlier with Democrats, then let's say Newsmax or Fox News. (Just to name a couple of right-wing news outlets) And the Democratic Party right now simply has a political "brand" problem. They're seen as too left-wing and anti-white. 

And to respond to another racial (not not racist) accusation made my Jesse Dollemore about why Joy Reid was fired by MSNBC: She wasn't fired  because she's an African-American woman. She was fired because she seems too far-left for the corporate media structure of MSNBC, as well as too far-left in general. And MSNBC is saying her ratings and support are down as well. And she has a tendency to come off as someone who doesn't like "white people". Not afraid to use racial language against "white people". But she'll be first person to always accuse other people of racism (at least when they're on the right) about any potential criticism of anyone the Left calls a "person of color". 

I mean every time someone on the left-wing in American politics, loses their media job and they are a minority or a woman, the far-left always freaks out about it, they do their best impersonation possible of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". And they wonder why no one who isn't already on their side politically and culturally, doesn't watch their programs, and why they have to raise money from their viewers and readers, just to try to stay in business. And Rachel Maddow last night didn't pass up her opportunity to "cry wolf" over the firing of Joy Reid:

"Rachel Maddow defended recently fired MSNBC colleague Joy Reid Monday night and told her audience, “I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.” The decision by the network to cancel “The ReidOut” also “feels indefensible,” she added.

She added that it is “unnerving” that “on a network where we have got two non-white hosts in prime time, both of our non-white hosts in prime time are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. And that feels worse than that, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it...

From The Wrap

So my broader point here is the Democratic Party, as well as it's friendlier (if not not friendly) news organizations has a brand problem. Part of that is ideological. Democrats are seen as people who won't defend the country protect the streets, that they hate wealthy people, especially "white" wealthy people. But part of that is also cultural and racial. It's not that they're seen as too minority, but as anti-white. And view blue-collar, small town, Caucasian Americans (especially Anglo-Saxon Protestants) as ignorant and not worthy of their attention and even campaigning for. 

As my colleague Rik Schneider mentioned on Friday when talking about how the Democratic Party can come back in 2026-26: 

"And to go to another point made by Adam Kinzinger said and why I love his conservatism: let's make this opposition movement about defeating Donald Trump and MAGA, period. Not about how many different genders and sexualities we can create, if we just had more Federal funding. Or nationalizing health care, banking, energy, etc, or outlawing private wealth and individual initiative.

Lets as the opposition in America, leave the crazy politics for the political nuthouse. And perhaps visit those people on visiting day when we need to be entertained. As well as a good reminder that is not who we want to be or where we want to end up. Let's stay focus on the mission of making Donald Trump's current term as POTUS, his very last and completely knocking the MAGA movement out-of-power in Washington and in as many places around the country as possible." 

From The New Democrat

Not crying racism when every time a left-wing minority TV commentator or anchor is fired, would be a step in the right direction there. 

If the Democratic Party and it's friendly news outlets want to not just survive Donald Trump/Elon Musk's era of oligarchic/monarch style of big government, with no checks and balances left on their individual power, but come back stronger than ever and be able to send the message that their style of of government is not what American people wanted, they should be doing as my colleague Ederik Schneider talked about yesterday: 

"Before I go much further into this, I want to lay out what Rik Schneider and I mean when the use the word "liberal", or "liberals". or "liberalism". Because we're not talking about mainstream media's (including The Atlantic's) definition of those terms. We mean it in the liberal democratic sense. We're talking about people who believe in liberal democracy. No some left-wing, big government approach to government, society, and culture, etc. But people who believe in the liberal values that come from liberal democracy...

From The New Democrat

But, if the left-wing of the Democratic Party, including several of MSNBC's anchors and former anchors are satisfied as being seen nothing more than as the Green Party that's stuck inside of the Democratic Party and hasn't figured out how to get out of there, so they've decided that instead of just leaving the Democratic Party for the Greens, they'll just try to take over the Democratic Party instead, the Rachel Maddow wing of the Democratic Party will always be seen as the kids at the kiddy table, that's just a small part of a very large Democratic Party. And they'll continue to have very little, if any influence over the Democratic Party leadership. 

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