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MagaSmash

(10,886 posts)
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 11:49 AM Sep 11

MSNBC Host FIRED For Exposing TRUTH of Shooting- Keith Edwards



Dangerous Times now because of the right's reckless rhetoric
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MSNBC Host FIRED For Exposing TRUTH of Shooting- Keith Edwards (Original Post) MagaSmash Sep 11 OP
Demanding empathy LizBeth Sep 11 #1
he tells the truth and gets fired and Steve Bannon and Alex Jones Eliot Rosewater Sep 11 #2
I had not seen the Loomer directive. yellow dahlia Sep 11 #3
I disagree with this decision LetMyPeopleVote Sep 11 #4
He was just bdamomma Sep 11 #7
Contributor, not a host. Sneederbunk Sep 11 #5
Fired for being politically incorrect but not wrong. 2na fisherman Sep 11 #6

LizBeth

(11,217 posts)
1. Demanding empathy
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 11:55 AM
Sep 11

Why? Kirk is someone who has actively hurt people, large swaths of the population and fed hate. Someone who promotes policies that literally KILL our young women and girls as they lay in hospital beds withering in pain, being denied a medical procedure, left to die. A man that says empathy is sickness to a party that is empathy forefront. Repub actually using the word empathy as a political weapon to mock Dems. Why? Why are people insisting, demanding, accusing people feel sad or empathy. No one is celebrating so quit assigning that to us. No one knows who did it or why, so quit feeding the rage toward a party. All the way up to the president. And once again, a party lacking any knowledge, any information out there assigning shit to the left with no information available. BIG difference between celebrating a death and not caring about a death because of all the hate and pain caused by that life. The right is demanding victims to have empathy for the death of a man whose job was to hurt them. A true reap what you sow, found in the bible.

Eliot Rosewater

(34,128 posts)
2. he tells the truth and gets fired and Steve Bannon and Alex Jones
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 11:56 AM
Sep 11

Say that we are in a war using this to kill us which they will, I believe the whole thing was set up for that reason.

yellow dahlia

(3,086 posts)
3. I had not seen the Loomer directive.
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 12:05 PM
Sep 11

It just strengthens my theory that this was way too convenient. It accomplished a goal for the RW and the grifter.

Who benefits?

And Mace was completely irresponsible - we don't know who did this. It is not a tactic of the left. Again - who benefits.

bdamomma

(69,027 posts)
7. He was just
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 02:36 PM
Sep 11

stating the facts. And "hand signals" what is that all about????. There's a lot more to this story. and WHO CAN TRUST Kash Patel???? Not me.

2na fisherman

(96 posts)
6. Fired for being politically incorrect but not wrong.
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 02:26 PM
Sep 11

"Stochastic terrorism describes when influential figures use indirect or ambiguous rhetoric to demonize a group, which statistically increases the likelihood of politically motivated violence by unpredictable, ideologically aligned individuals." (Google search)

The far Right has always championed toxic political incorrectness as a badge of honor while denigrating "wokeness" of the Left as if to be asleep and ignorance were bliss. Now they want to martyr Kirk as the paragon of free speech for having shouted FIRE in a crowded theater. Matthew Dowd was fired from MSNBC for reporting the truth about stochastic terrorism and used this current example of it as this fatal shooting became the latest expression of it. He did nothing wrong but this network tries to mollify those that agree with Kirk's right to use hate speech must be seen as beyond reproach. So instead, management symbolically shoots the messenger because their wealthy shareholders and PR hacks demand action, however unjustified. Who's next, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell?

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