MSNBC to Cut Ties With Sam Seder After Roman Polanski Rape Joke (Exclusive)

[oberliner]

MSNBC has decided not to renew its contract with contributor Sam Seder after an old tweet emerged in which Seder joked about Roman Polanski raping his daughter, TheWrap has learned.

Seder’s contract ends in February and he has no scheduled appearances between now and then, a spokesperson for MSNBC told TheWrap.

“Don’t care re Polanski, but I hope if my daughter is ever raped it is by an older truly talented man w/a great sense of mise en scene,” wrote Seder in the now deleted tweet from 2009.

https://www.thewrap.com/msnbc-will-not-renew-contract-with-contributor-after-roman-polanski-rape-joke/

[CatMor]

1. What a stupid, disgusting tweet....

what could he have been thinking. He should be so ashamed.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

19. yeah! How dare he mock Polanski's defenders like that!

He was being sarcastic and pointing out the idiocy of those who said a child rapist should get off the hook because of his filmmaking skills.

[MineralMan]

2. Good for MSNBC!

[bullimiami]

4. Bad for MSNBC. Firstly hes a comedienne. Second. Its 8 years gone and deleted.

Third. Fired for bad taste joke? Really.
Forth. They still have lying RW assholes on their payroll.

I call BS on the enablers.

[MineralMan]

5. Bad taste joke?

Uff da!

[kcr]

11. So do I

Apparently, Cernovich is our cultural and political guide, now. So damn stupid!

[WillowTree]

12. Sam Seder is a woman??

[bullimiami]

13. Autofill decided he was.

[greeny2323]

7. What the fuck are you talking about?

Sam Seder is a good man. Sam was making fun of the people who were defending a rapist!

Jesus Christ some of the threads here are so fucking misleading.

[MineralMan]

9. The OP.

That's what.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

20. It was a deliberate smear and distortion by Mike "Pizzagate" Cernovich

You like MSNBC giving into alt right targeting efforts?

[NightWatcher]

3. I don't watch all the time, but is Seder on MSNBC?

I don't know when I've seen him there.

[oberliner]

8. He was listed as a "contributor"

Not sure what that entailed.

[Eko]

6. Im not convinced either way on this one.

“This smear involves the willful misinterpretation of a tweet that I posted in 2009,” said Seder, who said Cernovich and his allies were deliberately misrepresenting him to silence his criticism of Roy Moore and President Trump. “I will never be ashamed of criticizing those who would excuse the predation of women or girls. And I certainly won’t be quiet about Roy Moore or a conservative movement that which would defend his actions so they could get his vote in the Senate.”

Seder said the tweet was satirical and was intended to show his disgust with liberals at the time who were attempting to apologize for Polanksi’s past behavior.

[MaryMagdaline]

14. Clearly he was ridiculing rape apologists!!

He was actually ahead of the curve on that one

[Eko]

17. I agree.

But it was still pretty crass.

[kcr]

10. Cernovich strikes again!

He was roasting Polanski defenders.

[Initech]

22. God, I hate these assholes.

[no_hypocrisy]

15. It was meant as sarcasm and overstatement to make a point.

This is Seder's modus operandi.

[mfcorey1]

16. Will the last person please bring the flag!

[welivetotreadonkings]

18. Did the people celebrating the move by MSNBC take two seconds to read the tweet?

Or understand who he was referring to? Because it's completely obvious this was satire--he was clearly critiquing liberals who were defending Polanski at that time.

[RussBLib]

21. it's getting out of hand

over-reactions setting in

no comedian is safe!

[Gothmog]

23. I disagree with MSNBC's actions here

[oberliner]

25. I'm starting to feel the same way

The more I find out about this story, the more I agree with your disagreement.

[librechik]

24. Trolling for liberal transgressors must be very lucrative for somebody

When you can just pick them up by the dozens among the hyprocritical Repubs.

[Egnever]

26. Sadly Sam has been taking hits for telling truth to power for a long time now

Just another notch in his belt at this point.

Keep fighting Sam!

[bdamomma]

27. he's a comedian

geez, they are systemically targeting these comedians, who's next Bill Maher????

I like Sam Seder and even sent him a donation today. Don't we have other things to focus on???

[bathroommonkey76]

28. I would hate for someone to look at my tweets from 8 years ago

Weekly drunken tweets were the norm back then for everyone.

[Loki Liesmith]

29. I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth!

A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud—God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together