{"id":1255780,"date":"2022-01-30T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T15:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1255780"},"modified":"2022-01-30T10:24:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T15:24:27","slug":"reel-in-your-interns-msnbc-slammed-for-tweet-openly-attacking-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reel-in-your-interns-msnbc-slammed-for-tweet-openly-attacking-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Reel In Your Interns\u2019: MSNBC Slammed For Tweet Openly Attacking Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freel-in-your-interns-msnbc-slammed-for-tweet-openly-attacking-conservatives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1255780&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MSNBC took some backlash Saturday after a tweet \u2014 posted by the network\u2019s official Twitter account \u2014 openly attacked conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConservatives don\u2019t mind affirmative action hires so long as the people hired fit their preferred demographic,\u201d the tweet read.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Conservatives don\u2019t mind affirmative action hires so long as the people hired fit their preferred demographic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1487501307661406213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love that MSNBC isn\u2019t even trying to hide their bias anymore,\u201d Caleb Hull <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebJHull\/status\/1487791173540487169\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConservatives\u2019 preferred demographic: Applicant best suited for the job, irrespective of identity,\u201d Fox News personality and Marine veteran Johnny Joey Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Johnny_Joey\/status\/1487787992773242880\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey @MSNBC&nbsp;reel in your interns,\u201d Lauren Chen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheLaurenChen\/status\/1487557281185251336\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cThey forgot you\u2019re supposed to at least pretend to be unbiased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClarence Thomas didn\u2019t need affirmative action and conservatives *love* him,\u201d independent journalist Kyle Becker <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylenabecker\/status\/1487527119517364224\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s our preferred demographic? If you say \u2018white men,\u2019 then this tweet doesn\u2019t make any sense,\u201d The Babylon Bee\u2019s Seth Dillon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1487547085784240128\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the account of a news website?\u201d Ryan Girdusky <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanGirdusky\/status\/1487535931116642304\">asked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen is DirecTV going to sever ties with MSNBC? Asking for AON,\u201d attorney Matthew Kolken <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkolken\/status\/1487774383234068482\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill\u2019s media and political columnist Joe Concha <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeConchaTV\/status\/1487755425810456578\">added<\/a>, \u201cNot a tweet from a host or pundit on the network, but from the official feed of an alleged news organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tweet appeared to be a reference to conservatives who criticized President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/progressives-demand-biden-pick-supreme-court-nominee-based-on-race-and-sex-select-first-black-female-justice\/\">promise<\/a> to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court \u2014 a promise he reiterated when Justice Stephen Breyer <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/im-an-optimist-justice-breyer-pulls-out-pocket-constitution-says-he-believes-american-experiment-will-prevail\/\">officially announced<\/a> his retirement this week.<\/p>\n<p>Following that announcement, a number of people <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/biden-slammed-after-he-commits-to-racial-and-sex-discrimination-in-choosing-supreme-court-justice\/\">criticized Biden<\/a>, suggesting that he could have simply quietly chosen black woman who was highly qualified \u2014 and that by placing the focus on her race and gender, he had raised the possibility that he was fulfilling a quota rather than choosing based primarily on professional qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s tweet appeared to take a position similar to the one taken earlier in the week by Ana Navarro on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d when she suggested that conservatives engaged in \u201cidentity politics\u201d when they chose fellow conservatives for certain jobs, arguing that choosing people based on their similar ideological identities was no different than choosing people based on race or gender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll politics is \u2018identity politics,&#8217;\u201d she said during Friday\u2019s broadcast of the midday talk show, arguing that everyone \u2014 regardless of race, gender or creed \u2014 wanted to vote for someone with whom they identified in some way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is putting a black woman \u2018identity politics\u2019 but putting a conservative, who you agree with ideologically, not \u2018identity politics\u2019?\u201d she asked, adding that it was \u201chypocritical\u201d for people to suggest that race and gender were the only factors that influences \u201cidentity politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">REPUBLICANS TELL BIDEN NOT TO CHOOSE \u201cRADICAL\u201d JUSTICE: After Pres. Biden announced his commitment to choose a Black woman for SCOTUS to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheView?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheView<\/a> panel weighs in and reacts to Sen. Collins\u2019 urging not to rush the process. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wm7gLhW1VJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/wm7gLhW1VJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yNwJuVZLpx\">pic.twitter.com\/yNwJuVZLpx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The View (@TheView) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheView\/status\/1487183710575382539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC took some backlash Saturday after a tweet \u2014 posted by the network\u2019s official Twitter account \u2014 openly attacked conservatives. \u201cConservatives don\u2019t mind affirmative action hires so long as the people hired fit their preferred demographic,\u201d the tweet read. Conservatives don\u2019t mind affirmative action hires so long as the people hired fit their preferred demographic. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}