Matt Welch, an editor-at-large at the libertarian magazine Reason, said MSNBC hosts have routinely complained to him about their viewers when he has been a guest on the network.
Welch said on Thursday’s episode of his podcast “The Fifth Column,” that hosts have told him during commercial breaks that they were fed up with complaints they get from viewers whenever they ask Democrats tough questions or engage in debate with “the bad people.” Welch said:
I’m starting to hear more and more — and this happened this week and it happened probably every week that I’ve been on MSNBC recently — in commercial breaks the hosts lean over and say “God I’m sick of our viewers.