It seems Baldwin is 'retiring' or something; I don't care one way or the other. But on his way out the door he took some time to rip MSNBC, Phil Griffin and Rachel Maddow for torpedoing his talk show on the network. I never tuned in but those who did found it ... less than riveting, apparently.
TPM reports: Baldwin gave a "rambling, ranting tell-all" to New York Magazine, published online Sunday night, rehashing his firing.
Once they fired me, a former MSNBC employee I knew emailed me. He said, “You watch now, Phil is going to start leaking left and right to bury you.” When I left, “Page Six” was flooded with lies about me. Another told me, regarding the “toxic little queen” comment, that Rachel Maddow was the prime mover in my firing, as she was aghast that I had been hired and viewed me as equivalent to Mel Gibson. Another source told me, “You know who’s going to get you fired, don’t you? Rachel. Phil will do whatever Rachel tells him to do.” I think Rachel Maddow is quite good at what she does. I also think she’s a phony who doesn’t have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air.
The fundamental problem with everybody on MSNBC, as Baldwin sees it, is that "none of them are funny, although that doesn’t prevent them from trying to be." Though he lamented the Roger Ailes-Fox-Breitbart axis, he further faulted MSNBC for being "in its own way, is as full of shit, as redundant and as superfluous, as Fox."