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Boots go to jail. Suits get lucrative contracts.

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Dumping Mehdi Hassan and hiring Rona? I hope it's not a trend.

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Profits before democracy.

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A new rookie reporter would know how to get "an insider's perspective" without paying for it, much less $300,000. There are plenty of Republicans who would share their perspective without demanding money. There goes NBC's credibility.

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Scores of responsible people have deplored the normalization of political violence, hate speech and election interference during the Trump era. But here we have a major television network hiring a hack who tried to justify the January 6 insurrection, recruited fake electors and even promised a few that she would find lawyers for them. It just reminds us that amoral TV executives care only about ratings.

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She is now fired and presumably paid off. But the execs that run the place and hired her, what about them?

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