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Keith Olbermann Slams MSNBC for Cutting Ties With Joy Reid and Other POC Hosts: ‘A Purge So Brutally Racist It Makes You Think It Was Done by Musk’


Keith Olbermann says MSNBC cutting ties with Joy Reid and other POC hosts was a "purge so brutally racist it makes you think it was done by Musk."

“They didn’t even try to hide the racism by firing an unnecessary white anchor like [Katy] Tur or [Stephanie] Ruhle as cover,” he added. On his “Countdown” podcast, Olbermann continued to address the matter by saying: “When the company is in trouble, when a dollar might not be earned, you won’t hear crap out of [Rachel] Maddow or [Lawrence] O’Donnell, or [Chris] Hayes, or [Symone] Sanders, [Michael] Steele, or [Alicia] Menendez, or Jen Psaki. Olbermann’s comment came ahead of Rachel Maddow’s Feb. 24 show on MSNBC, in which she directly called out the network for parting ways with Reid.

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