New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart came together on Friday’s PBS NewsHour to lament NBC’s “gigantic mistake” of hiring former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, whom they promptly fired after backlash from Capehart and his colleagues.
Host William Brangham set the stage by asking Brooks, “there was a revolt amongst many NBC anchors, who said, we can’t have someone who actively tried to undo the last election be on our payroll and be on our airwaves. How do you — what do you — what do you make of how that played out?”
Brooks began, “I was glad they had the instinct to get more Trump-supporting people on the air. I think that’s something we all need to work on.”
However, things then went off the rails, “But here was someone clearly over the line. Like, to be on…
