Top brass at NBC thought it was a brilliant idea to hire Ronna McDaniel, former chair of the Republican National Committee, as a paid contributor. They did not check with their on-air commentators, who had taken the brunt of McDaniels’ criticism of the “fake news” on behalf of Trump. They knew she had fiercely defended his lies about election fraud. She has now retracted her lies, but that didn’t erase her history as a liar.
When the on-air commentators lambasted the hiring of McDaniel during their shows on Sunday and Monday, NBC leadership withdrew their offer.
But they had signed a contract to pay McDaniel $300,000 a year for two years, and she’s expecting to be paid in full.
Politico reports that she’s also considering a lawsuit for defamation and a hostile work environment.
If NBC wanted to add a Republican commentator who did not participate in the effort to overthrow the election and subvert the Constitution, they could have hired Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, or Mitt Romney (Ronna McDaniel’s uncle). She used to call herself Ronna Romney McDaniel but Trump insisted that she drop her middle name and she did.
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It will be an expensive lesson for NBC but settle with her and move on. The liberals didn’t make this brilliant decision. Some nearsighted and overpaid executives did. Pink slips anyone?
As the cliche says, you can’t make this stuff up.
Some more things to add to that:
According to Noel Casler, who worked on the set of The Apprentice for many seasons (six?), the guy who is currently leading in the polls for the presidential race, the career criminal, traitor to his country, and utter moron Donald J. Trump,
regularly snorts the amphetamine Adderall,
used to be addicted to cocaine,
routinely invited teenaged beauty pageant contestants up to his hotel room,
literally shits his pants every time he gets excited, requiring him to wear adult diapers.
No, one cannot make this stuff up. If you invented a character this extreme for a film or a novel, the character would be deemed too over the top, too extreme, too unrealistic.
Casler also says that Trump would become extremely agitated when he had to read from cue cards because “he can barely read.”
Does trump ever use a teleprompter? If so, how does that work for him– extra large print, only one word at a time, and phonetic spelling?
Yes, he does. But he frequently goes completely off script.
Trump often has a teleprompter and often goes off script to ramble about how unfairly he is treated. He admitted a few days ago that he was having trouble reading the script in the teleprompter.
Well, Casler, who watched Trump in action for years, says that he can barely read, period.
On Trump’s DJT stock, by Chris Tomlinson of The Houston Chronicle:
“Trump has always played the legal system to his advantage. Now, he is testing the limits of federal campaign finance laws with Truth Social. The ticker symbol DJT debuted Tuesday on the Nasdaq stock exchange, adding $4 billion to Trump’s net worth when the stock price rose 16%. The share price continued rising on Wednesday.
Reasonable investors should question how a company with $3.3 million in reported revenue against a $49 million loss can be worth $6 billion. But as the ticker symbol suggests, investors are not buying stock in a social media company; they are investing in a person, someone who needs cash to pay legal bills while he’s running for president. “
Reasonable investors should question how a company with $3.3 million in reported revenue against a $49 million loss can be worth $6 billion.
Exactly. It will crash bigly.
Hmm….After 19 years teaching in Title One schools, my annual salary was a little less than $60,000. So ronna wants–for doing NOTHING– 10x my former salary!
AND defamation !?? WE teachers need to start a class-action lawsuit against her for all the years of insults, lies, and character defamation.
Her sentence could be cleaning school bathrooms and cafeterias for the number of years worked by the average school custodian, with payment also at the average wage.
Ronna McDaniel wasn’t NBC News’ first choice.
But Joseph Goebbels was unavailable.
NBC deserves the $600,000 hit. This was an utterly irresponsible decision. The executives responsible for it should be replaced.
Aha! I knew there was some reason why for some time now I’d been watching and listening to ABC News and CBS News more and NBC News less.
Likewise.
Liars are liable. Even if there’s a lawsuit, that is a steal for such a grievous error. Comcast and NBC got a good deal for making the mistake of trying to put a liar on air in order to convince voters to elect the candidate who will give their corporate executives and wealthy shareholders nonsensical tax breaks. It’s a stupendous deal. Lies have victims, and liars are liable. $300,000 is nothing — nothing — compared to the $787,500,000 Rupert Murdoch and Fox News had to pay Dominion for airing lies about elections.
The following is considered a good idea to some NBC suit:
“Let’s pay handsomely to broadcast to millions of Americans the corrosive views of an anti-democracy, election-denying vocal enabler of a fascist, bronzer-addled, grifting insurrectionist.”
Good times.
Calisto: That was my first thought: Paying Rona is a cheap way to speak to Trump’s base . . . she’s the STAR WITNESS for the prosecution.
Fire that guy, but thank you anyway, NBC for a great gift.
And there has to be a lawsuit in there somewhere, like teachers’ organizations above, to sue her for all the public lying, and for being part of the attempted takedown of the U.S. democracy itself.
And how twisted is it . . . it’s self-defamation . . . if she screams “defamation,” when it’s the truth about HER that is source of her defamation. And apparently, she already admitted it to the whole world, as if it didn’t matter. CBK