MSNBC Fires Matthew Dowd Over Comments on Assassination of Charlie Kirk
MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler criticized Dowd’s remarks.
Matthew Dowd, chief campaign strategist for the Bush-Cheney 2004 presidential campaign, speaks at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark., on Sept. 2, 2009. Danny Johnston/AP Photo
WASHINGTON—MSNBC has fired Matthew Dowd as an analyst following comments he made following the Sept. 10 shooting death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, a network source told The Epoch Times.
Appearing on the network during live coverage of the incident on Wednesday, Dowd suggested that Kirk had it coming.
Jackson Richman
Reporter
Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
