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The Daily Beast says Maddow could leave "as negotiations drag on and the temptation to take her brand elsewhere or start her own lucrative media company has grown." She has "in recent months increasingly expressed openness to exiting when her deal ends, citing a desire to spend more time with her family and the toll of hosting a nightly program since 2008."Ī Rhodes Scholar who earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree in politics at Oxford, Maddow "has occasionally dropped hints about professional burnout. It's hard to imagine the news without Maddow, the 2022 midterms, or the 2024 presidential election without her insight, expertise, self-effacing wit, and dogged determination to inform. But according to The Daily Beast, the 48-year old Emmy and Grammy award-winning anchor is "seriously considering" leaving when her contract expires next year. does engage in situations like what's happening now," Starr wrote in a Twitter post.This article originally appeared on AlterNet.įor more than a dozen years Rachel Maddow has been the face of MSNBC, keeping the network's mostly liberal and growing base of viewers informed five nights a week. "I share his views that America is morally inconsistent and that does undermine when the U.S. Terrell Jermaine Starr, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center and a senior reporter at The Root, was among those voicing agreement with Hasan's analysis in response to the Monday night segment, which came hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of troops to two breakaway territories in eastern Ukraine. Imagine how much more credibility we'd have to condemn and act against Russia in Ukraine if we didn't turn a blind eye to our allies doing the same." "I'd just like us to be consistent in our approach to illegal invasions and occupations. "On the contrary, it is outrageous and illegal for Russia to try and seize territory from a sovereign neighbor," he added. foreign policy disasters in the midst of the Russia-Ukraine crisis, Hasan said he is "not trying to excuse or justify Russia's behavior." "Oh, and let's not forget our own illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq," Hasan continued, pointing to a 2003 U.S.-led war that President Joe Biden-then a senator-vocally supported and voted for.Īddressing potential criticism that he is engaging in "whataboutism" by simply highlighting U.S. And in the cases of the Western Sahara and the Golan Heights, we've even given the occupiers a pass."
doing very little if anything to condemn such occupations. "In many of these disputes," Hasan observed, "the occupying nation is an ally of the United States, with the U.S. During his presidency, Donald Trump controversially recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel." "According to the United Nations, that was also the same year Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria, effectively annexing it with a 1981 law. "Israel has occupied the West Bank and Gaza since 1967," Hasan noted in his segment. Security Council passed a resolution deeming Israeli settlement activity in the Palestinian territories a "flagrant violation under international law." The U.S. To make his case, Hasan pointed to a number of prominent examples around the world, including Israel's ongoing and brutal occupation of the Palestinian territories, which has been maintained over a period of decades with the crucial military and political backing of the U.S. "I'd just like us to be consistent in our approach to illegal invasions and occupations." MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan argued in a monologue Monday night that the United States would have "more credibility" to condemn the recent actions of Russia in Ukraine if it wasn't currently supporting illegal occupations by its allies around the world-and if it didn't have its own long record of carrying out brazenly unlawful invasions of sovereign countries.
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