Matthew Dowd complained to Katie Couric during a podcast interview on Friday that so many more people seem to care about ABC’s “cancellation” of Jimmy Kimmel than about Dowd being fired by MSNBC. In the immediate aftermath of Kirk’s murder, Dowd suggested on MSNBC that Kirk’s own “hateful thoughts” had inspired the shooting. A few days later, Kimmel said on his ABC comedy program that the “MAGA gang” was “desperately trying to claim that this kid was anything other than one of them” to “score political points.” “For the last 24 hours, all the shows are talking about how this is awful for America, that Jimmy Kimmel was indefinitely suspended,” Dowd said. “Not one person has said anything about me. Not one person on that network! “They’ve all gone out of their way to say isn’t it horrible what happened to Jimmy Kimmel? Even including Morning Joe and Mika, who went after me on the show, basically saying that they were glad I was terminated. And now today, they’re talking about how awful it is for our country that somebody like Jimmy Kimmel can’t say what he said, and he is indefinitely suspended-and not an iota about what their employer just did to another employee.” “I have a kind of a smile on my face, actually. Because when you go through this initially… I was sitting at a Truth bar, sipping a drink by myself, obviously feeling alone. And then all of a sudden, in walks Jimmy Kimmel. And then in walks Karen, the woman from The Washington Post. And so now I have company,” he said. “If I’m in the group of those folks, if I’m now in that group-glory be.” Here’s the full conversation:
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