MSNBC reverses decision to fire Sam Seder
Source: The Intercept
PROGRESSIVE RADIO AND television personality Sam Seder will be offered his MSNBC contributor job back and plans to accept, according to multiple MSNBC sources.
Seder and MSNBC were set to part ways when his contributor contract expired next year, with reports indicating the departure had to do with a 2009 tweet from Seder surfaced by the far-right provocateur Mike Cernovich. After initially caving in to right-wing internet outrage over the tweet, MSNBC reversed its decision to not renew Seders contract.
"I appreciate MSNBCs thoughtful reconsideration and willingness to understand the cynical motives of those who intentionally misrepresented my tweet for their own toxic, political purposes," Seder said in a statement. "We are experiencing an important and long overdue moment of empowerment for the victims of sexual assault and of reckoning for their perpetrators. Im proud that MSNBC and its staff have set a clear example of the need to get it right."
Cernovich is a right-wing provocateur and conspiracy theorist who works in hand-in-glove with white supremacists. Cernovich dug up a 2009 tweet from Seder and claimed it endorsed rape. The tweet was meant as a satirical criticism of accused rapist Roman Polanskis liberal defenders, but MSNBC took Cernovichs bad-faith reading at face value and fired Seder.
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2017/12/07/sam-seder-msnbc-reverses-decision-to-fire-contributor-sam-seder/
Good news for Sammy.
The people have spoken and gave MSNBC hell for caving to a smear from the Pizzagate guy.
Suck it, Cernovich!
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They actually paid attention to the fact that the whole assertion was bullshit and did the right thing? 
Who pays asshole cernovich and/or his staff to comb through the twitter accounts of people they want to target? You know it's not just Seder--they must have a long list of effective liberals they scrutinize. And it's not just twitter.
Financing an army of trolls takes a lot of money. I'm too disgusted to research the point but I'll bet the trail goes back to RW bilkionaires aka kochs and their ilk.
They want to literally silence any voices of opposition or dissent or effective truth-telling.
Fascism in action.
