Matt Dowd is a former talking head on MSNBC, a very large network that reaches millions each day. He is a hateful, evil person who masquerades as a commentator. Dowd has zero redeeming qualities in life. The only, and I literally mean only thing, he has going for himself is he was Former President Bush’s Chief Strategist for the 2004 election. He since shed his Republican label and became Independent, he then re-registered as a Democrat. However, at MSNBC, “former Republican” is a title that gets you job security as no actual Republican would want to work at that network.
Dowd would spew his verbal sewage daily about Trump/Republicans in general. In the case of Trump or other electeds, while I disagree with the things that are said about them, I guess it’s the First Amendment, right? Honest criticism, I’m ok with, but in the case of Dowd, it was pure hate speech. Yes, I believe Dowd is evil. He made statements about someone who was not elected.
I am not sure the exact timeline of events, but it has been odd watching the change at cable news networks. It used to be actual news, now it is quite literally politics and mass shooting coverage on a continuous loop. Commentary has been added and name calling has taken a front seat. Republicans have been called; Hitler, rapists, racists, Fascists, dumb, stupid, idiots. It has expanded to include things that are flat out false like Republicans taking away Social Security, health care, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, work from home, free vaccines, etc. The problem is none of those are true.
To be clear, I know Matt Dowd didn’t fire the gun, but his constant inflammatory statements caused someone to. Here is the actual trash spewed by Dowd after the shooting went down.
During his appearance on Katy Tur Reports, Dowd suggested that Kirk’s rhetoric may have contributed to the violence that claimed his life. Kirk, 31, had a history of rightwing provocation an d Christian nationalism, and frequently espoused bigoted rhetoric about Islam, women , LGBTQ+ communities and people of color.
“Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions,” Dowd said, adding: “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.”
Dowd also speculated about the circumstances of the shooting, saying: “We don’t know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration. So we have no idea about this.”
So, his opinions warranted someone to murder him? Really Dowd? Maybe it was a celebratory bullet that was shot? How does your brain even come up with this trash? You obviously do not have a functioning brain. Imagine if he was reporting on a rape investigation? Dowd(probably): I’ve got to see a photo of what the victim was wearing as she may have wanted it or brought it on herself.
Dowd issued this statement after MSNBC terminated him, to their credit they did so immediately and yanked him off the air.
Writing on Bluesky, he said: “My thoughts & prayers are w/ the family and friends of Charlie Kirk. On an earlier appearance on MSNBC I was asked a question on the environment we are in. I apologize for my tone and words.
Let me be clear, I in no way intended for my comments to blame Kirk for this horrendous attack. Let us all come together and condemn violence of any kind.”
That last sentence, yikes. His comments were intended to stir up hate, and evil on this earthly plane. He is only sorry that he got fired. He is trying desperately to save face; no major network will touch this guy for a long while. He and his comments are all over the internet and social media. Make no mistake Dowd and his ilk have been saying and doing this type of thing for about 20 years. This murder is the fruit of their labor. As I have chronicled in other blog posts, how many political shootings need to happen before this rhetoric is changed? Heck, a deranged whacko fired a bullet at the local ABC10 affiliate in Sacramento because he thought someone at that office was responsible for cancelling Jimmy Kimmel! Oh, and the shooter had a note essentially naming Kash Patel and Pam Bondi as targets too. Notice how Dowd stirred up the hornets’ nest and is now doing the “we need to come together as a country” BS? Violence is terrible. The shooter is evil. Stop spending time trying to figure out if he is a Republican, Democrat or Independent. Stop the rhetoric and the shootings likely subside.
You see Dowd and his ilk didn’t fire the bullet, but as mentioned above, they stirred up the hornets’ nest. We have too many people who are mentally whacked in this country, and sadly with easy access to firearms, this will continue to occur. We have people who watch way too much tv; specifically, political type shows/news. These folks are also in deep corners of the internet where conspiracies and flat out untruths are being told as gospel. These folks become radicalized and then you get; January 6th, political assassinations, mass shootings, and Charlie Kirk being killed. The really sad thing is some folks cheered Kirk’s death, others took to social media and lost their jobs over what they said. Celebrating someone’s death who isn’t Putin, Hitler, the Ayatollah or Castro is just plain wrong.
One day I hope this all changes for the better, but I do not see it happening.
The Chief