Fired MSNBC Analyst Calls Out Colleagues For Being Outraged Over Jimmy Kimmel Instead of Him

Fired MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd called out his media colleagues for being outraged over Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension while ignoring what happened to him.

Dowd was one of the guests on Katie Couric’s podcast focused on Kimmel’s suspension, and the former senior analyst for MSNBC said he was confused at the outrage over Kimmel’s dismissal versus his own, saying:

All the shows are talking about how this is awful for America that Jimmy Kimmel was indefinitely suspended, and isn’t this awful for America, it’s a chilling thing for the First Amendment. And they’re saying that on every platform.

Not one person has said anything about me. Not one on that network has said — they’ve all gone out of their way to say, isn’t this horrible what happened to Jimmy Kimmel? Including Morning Joe [Scarborough] and Mika [Brzezinski], who went after me after the show, basically saying they were glad I was terminated.

And now today, they’re talking about how awful it is for our country that somebody like Jimmy Kimmel can’t say what he said and he is indefinitely suspended and not an iota about what their employer just did to another employee.

Both Dowd and Kimmel faced repurcussions from their employers after comments related to the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Kimmel found himself facing the wrath of affiliates and suspended indefinitely by ABC after a comment about “MAGA” and 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, the man now facing murder charges over Kirk.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said on his show.

Utah officials have made clear that Robinson was “indoctrinated” with leftist ideologies in the years leading up to Kirk’s murder.

Dowd was dismissed by MSNBC after his commentary on Kirk’s shooting in which he suggested the activist could have been killed by a supporter firing off a gun in celebration.

“I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions,” he said. “You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awful words, and then not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”

Dowd defended his comments, accusing his critics of falsely framing his words as blaming Kirk for his own assassination.

“I said, ‘I think you guys are making a huge mistake,'” Dowd recalled about his interactions with the network. “I said, ‘you know and I know that’s not anything what I meant. You know it’s been misconstrued,’ and they agreed with that. They agreed it had been misconstrued. But they said it didn’t matter. The decision’s been made.”

Watch above via Katie Couric’s YouTube.