{"id":56813,"date":"2024-03-27T02:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T02:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56813"},"modified":"2024-03-27T02:13:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T02:13:03","slug":"nbc-pulls-its-head-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56813","title":{"rendered":"NBC pulls its head out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just when I thought the world was going to hell, a major TV network has delivered the goods and thought better about a horrible hiring decision it had made.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News withdrew its decision to hire former Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel as an on-air political contributor.<\/p>\n<p>I want to stand and cheer out loud! <em>So &#8230; I will.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You see, NBC erred in hiring McDaniel after the former party chair had been complicit in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election; after she denied President Biden had been elected fairly; after she promoted The Big Lie put forth by the 2020 Republican Party presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>She is far from just someone who once led a major political party. She is a purveyor lies and deception. That a TV network would put her on the air to offer political commentary was just too much to swallow. It drew tremendous blowback from its own employees and journalists everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The network today thought better of its own stupidity &#8230; and pulled Ronna McDaniel&#8217;s name off the table.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I thought the world was going to hell, a major TV network has delivered the goods and thought better about a horrible hiring decision it had made. NBC News withdrew its decision to hire former Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel as an on-air political contributor. I want to stand and cheer out loud! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NBC pulls its head out<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[1941,7419,3236,3967,7882],"class_list":["post-56813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-gop","tag-maga","tag-nbc-news","tag-rnc","tag-ronna-mcdaniel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56815,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56813\/revisions\/56815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}