The NBC cable network’s canned political analyst who mocked Charlie Kirk’s murder says it’s more worried about ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel’s ouster than his.
“Not one MSNBC person has said anything about me!” Matthew Dowd cried to podcaster Katie Couric. “They’ve all gone out of their way to say, ‘Isn’t this horrible what happened to Jimmy Kimmel?’”
Dowd got fired for suggesting that Kirk had invited his own assassination, allegedly for preaching hateful conservative rhetoric.
Kimmel’s late-night show was yanked off the air for similar reasons – when he intimated that Trump supporters were responsible for the murder.
But Dowd grabbed on to the woe-is-me narrative while being interviewed Friday by Couric, wondering aloud why Kimmel is getting all the sympathy.
He complained that MS-“DNC” morning hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough “care more about him than they do about me, basically saying they’re glad I was terminated.”
“They’re basically glad that I was gone, but all of a sudden they’re worried about Jimmy Kimmel,” Dowd told Couric. “Not an iota of caring about what their employer just did to one of their employees.”
Dowd had suggested Kirk prompted his own killing, saying on air that “hateful words” trigger “hateful actions.”
He later claimed he didn’t intend for his comments to blame Kirk for the attack.
But MSNBC shut off his mic, effectively ending his 20 years of TV commentating.
Kimmel made comments during his recent monologue about Kirk’s suspected killer and, as he called Trump’s supporters, the “MAGA gang,” implying that the gunman in Kirk’s slaying was a right-wing political activist.
He was suspended indefinitely by ABC.
