Ex-MSNBC Host Keith Olbermann Accuses Network of ‘Racist Purge’ After Firing Joy Reid | The Gateway Pundit | by Ben Kew


Ex-MSNBC Host Keith Olbermann Accuses Network of ‘Racist Purge’ After Firing Joy Reid

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Podcaster Keith Olbermann calls for a “national emergency” on Twitter to deal with conservatives.
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It increasingly appears that MSNBC is in hot water with their progressive audience.

The former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann is the latest to weigh in on the network’s decision to fire fellow wacko Joy Reid as executives to stymie their cratering viewership.

Also axed by the network were Alex Wagner, who also qualifies as a “woman of color” because her mother is Burmese and lawyer Katie Phang, who is an Asian American.

Meanwhile, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki will see her show bumped up and her role expanded within the network.

“It is such a confused, brutal, racist purge at MSNBC it’s like they’re being run by Elon Musk,” Olbermann wrote on the X platform.

Olbermann is far from the only leftist raging over the firings.

Rachel Maddow, who is widely considered the network’s star anchor, launched in a tirade against her bosses live on air for axing two “non-white” hosts.

“In all of the jobs I have had in all of the years I have been alive there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid,” Maddow said on Monday’s show.

“I love everything about her,” she continued. “I have so much more to learn from her I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC and personally I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.”

”It is not my call and I understand that, but that’s what I think.”

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Reid, meanwhile, issued a teary response to her firing in which she defended her work and insisted she brought “value” to the network’s coverage.

“My show had value…And that,” Reid said before starting to cry. “I’m sorry… What I was doing had value.”

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Ben Kew
Ben Kew is a writer and editor. Originally from the UK, he moved to the U.S. to cover Congress for Breitbart News and has since gone on to editorial roles at Human Events, Townhall Media, and Americano Media. He has also written for The Epoch Times, The Western Journal, and The Spectator.

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