“Like you I’m a little stunned and a little heartbroken.” Post-Matthews, MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki said, “Erm, that was a lot to take in just now.” Later, Kornacki choked up as he discussed Matthews’s legacy. “Whoa,” Neil Cavuto said on Fox, post-Smith. In each case, a visibly blindsided on-air colleague was left to pick up the pieces. In March, Chris Matthews echoed the drama of Smith’s departure when he suddenly quit his own show, on MSNBC he’d found himself under increasing pressure following reports concerning his long history of inappropriate remarks about women, and a string of unhinged on-air remarks about Bernie Sanders’s then-ascendant presidential candidacy. He had reportedly grown frustrated by the latitude afforded the network’s opinion hosts, and had recently had a spat with Tucker Carlson. In October, Shep Smith suddenly walked off air and out of Fox News for good.
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