{"id":689426,"date":"2025-09-11T08:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/msnbcs-matthew-dowd-fired-following-charlie-kirk-shooting-comments\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:10:26","slug":"msnbcs-matthew-dowd-fired-following-charlie-kirk-shooting-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/msnbcs-matthew-dowd-fired-following-charlie-kirk-shooting-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC\u2019s Matthew Dowd Fired Following Charlie Kirk Shooting Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

\n\tMatthew Dowd, a MSNBC political analyst, has been fired following statements he made on the network in the wake of the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, an MSNBC source has confirmed. <\/p>\n

\n\tKirk died Wednesday on the campus of Utah Valley University after being shot by an assassin\u2019s bullet. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhen discussing the shooting on air, MSNBC correspondent Katy Tur asked a question about \u201cthe environment in which a shooting like this happ<\/a>ens.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Dowd\u2019s response, he stated, \u201cHe\u2019s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that is the environment we are in. You can\u2019t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that\u2019s the unfortunate environment we are in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore news<\/a> of Dowd\u2019s termination was confirmed, MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler released a statement refuting his comments. \u201cDuring our breaking news coverage of the shooting of Charlie Kirk, Matthew Dowd made comments that were inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable. We apologize for his statements, as has he. There is no place for violence in America, political or otherwise,\u201d Kutler said.<\/p>\n

\n\tDowd also later apologized, writing<\/a> on his BlueSky account, \u201cMy 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.\u00a0I apologize for my tone and words.\u00a0Let me be clear, I in no way intended for my comments to blame Kirk for this horrendous attack.\u00a0Let us all come together and condemn violence of any kind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter<\/em> reached out to MSNBC for comment, but did not hear back at the time of publication. <\/p>\n

\n\tHollywood and political figures took to social media<\/a> on Wednesday to share their reactions and tributes to the late MAGA activist. President Donald Trump announced his death on Truth Social<\/a>, where he wrote, \u201cThe Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLate night host Jimmy Kimmel took to Instagram, where he wrote, \u201cInstead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew Dowd, a MSNBC political analyst, has been fired following statements he made on the network in the wake of the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, an MSNBC source has confirmed. Kirk died Wednesday on the campus of Utah Valley University after being shot by an assassin\u2019s bullet. When discussing the shooting on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2163844100-e1757560002504.jpg?w=1440&h=810&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[136346,63158,32681],"class_list":["post-689426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-msnbc","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}