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Greta Van Susteren slams Comcast CEO over ‘what he created’ at MSNBC, denotes why ‘journalism is dying’

July 21, 2024 | | Print Article

Unloading on what one corporate media exec “created,” Greta Van Susteren torched talking heads that remained at MSNBC after her own termination as she laid out the “reason journalism is dying.”

From President Joe Biden’s debate disaster to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and the success of the Republican National Convention, leftist ideologues have shown just how unhinged they could get across three consecutive weeks of damage control.

Saturday, the Newsmax TV anchor took to X t o call out Comcast CEO Brian Roberts as the likes of Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid and Alex Wagner have maintained their jobs at MSNBC even while seemingly losing their collective minds over the possibility that Trump had a clear path to returning to the White House.

“If I ever DO write the book on cable news I intend to include my emails [with] Comcast (owner of MSNBC) CEO Brian Roberts…he should be ashamed of what he created and he knew exactly what was happening [with] my firing…it is about money, not dignity for free speech ..too bad Brian..I still have my integrity :),” posted Van Susteren as she continued a thread addressing her own brief stint at the network.

She had shared a screengrab of a headline that read “Coming apart at MSNB-seams” featuring some of the inane reactions to the RNC with the caption, “Yes, [@MSNBC] fired me…because they thought I was fair and ‘did not play ball) (then President Andy Lack weeks later told me oddly ‘you are a world class journalist’– instead these 3 women remain there. There is a reason journalism is dying.”

As had been reported, while Wagner had suggested GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (OH) had seeded “white nationalism” in his acceptance speech while talking about eventually being buried at his family plot and Reid and attempted to liken Biden’s COVID diagnosis to the attempt on Trump’s life, Maddow had taken mental gymnastics up a notch by bringing up J.R.R. Tolkien.

“Like his mentor, like Peter Thiel who had given him all his jobs in the world, Mr. Vance also, when he founded his own venture capital firm with help from Peter Thiel, named it after a ‘Lord of the Rings’ thing and called it Narya,” explained Maddow as she spelled out the name the author had given to the character Gandalf’s ring, “which you can remember because it’s ‘Aryan’ but you move the ‘n’ to the front.”

“Apparently, that has something to do with elves and rings from the ‘Lord of the Rings’ series. I don’t know,” admitted the anchor after landing the absurd mental leap.

For her part, Van Susteren continued by asserting, “By the way, the words that ‘I did not play ball’ are exact words MSNBC management told me…and I wrote those words down on a piece of paper at the time …June 2017…so memory can’t play games on this one…nor could they conveniently deny it.”

The Newsmax TV anchor had joined fellow former corporate media figures Gretchen Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Eleanor McManus, Linda Vester and Addie Zinone in an open letter to Roberts dated Oct. 17, 2019 where they had called out the Comcast-owned NBC Universal’s refusal to do an independent investigation of sexual misconduct allegations and asserted, “Comcast must prove to its shareholders that it will pursue the truth on behalf of NBC staffers. If necessary, it should remove executives who have abused or silenced women.”

After speaking out on the current state of “journalism” at MSNBC, Van Susteren was cheered on social media with one user even calling out, “It was a compliment for them to fire you.”

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