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By then, Seder noted that advertisers on ''The Majority Report with Sam Seder'' podcast were also being contacted and pressured by Cernovich and his team to cut ties with the show over the tweet.<ref name=CNNHowAJoke/> In response, Seder launched a GoFundMe campaign to help maintain funding for the show in the face of potential loss of advertising revenue.<ref name=CNNHowAJoke/> In an episode of the podcast titled, "I'm Under Attack By the Nazi Alt-Right", Seder said, "this smear involves the willful misinterpretation of a tweet that I posted in 2009" and that he will "never be ashamed of criticizing those who would excuse the predation of women or girls."<ref name=MSNBCdupedbysmearcampaignofSederbyDateRapistMikeCernovich/><ref name=WaPoIThinkTheyreafraid/> | By then, Seder noted that advertisers on ''The Majority Report with Sam Seder'' podcast were also being contacted and pressured by Cernovich and his team to cut ties with the show over the tweet.<ref name=CNNHowAJoke/> In response, Seder launched a GoFundMe campaign to help maintain funding for the show in the face of potential loss of advertising revenue.<ref name=CNNHowAJoke/> In an episode of the podcast titled, "I'm Under Attack By the Nazi Alt-Right", Seder said, "this smear involves the willful misinterpretation of a tweet that I posted in 2009" and that he will "never be ashamed of criticizing those who would excuse the predation of women or girls."<ref name=MSNBCdupedbysmearcampaignofSederbyDateRapistMikeCernovich/><ref name=WaPoIThinkTheyreafraid/> | ||
Seder revealed plans to use a portion of the GoFundMe proceeds to produce a three-minute video educating people on Cernovich's tactics.<ref name=CNNHowAJoke/> He surmised Cernovich's ploy had been retribution for his frequent criticism of US President Donald Trump as well as Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore who was accused of sexual assault.<ref name=MSNBCdupedbysmearcampaignofSederbyDateRapistMikeCernovich/><ref name=NYTMSNBCRehiresSamSeder/>{{#tag:ref|Seder explained Cernovich's ploy thusly: "If they succeed in getting me fired or scaring my advertisers away, they will continue until they have silenced anyone who'd criticize Roy Moore, criticize President [Donald] Trump or criticize the conservative movement."<ref name=MSNBCdupedbysmearcampaignofSederbyDateRapistMikeCernovich/>|group=N}} Further, Seder chided MSNBC's decision to terminate his employment concluding, "I think they're afraid of those people."<ref name=WaPoIThinkTheyreafraid | Seder revealed plans to use a portion of the GoFundMe proceeds to produce a three-minute video educating people on Cernovich's tactics.<ref name=CNNHowAJoke/> He surmised Cernovich's ploy had been retribution for his frequent criticism of US President Donald Trump as well as Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore who was accused of sexual assault.<ref name=MSNBCdupedbysmearcampaignofSederbyDateRapistMikeCernovich/><ref name=NYTMSNBCRehiresSamSeder/>{{#tag:ref|Seder explained Cernovich's ploy thusly: "If they succeed in getting me fired or scaring my advertisers away, they will continue until they have silenced anyone who'd criticize Roy Moore, criticize President [Donald] Trump or criticize the conservative movement."<ref name=MSNBCdupedbysmearcampaignofSederbyDateRapistMikeCernovich/>|group=N}} Further, Seder chided MSNBC's decision to terminate his employment concluding, "I think they're afraid of those people."<ref name=WaPoIThinkTheyreafraid>{{Cite news|last=Wemple|first=Erik|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/12/05/msnbc-is-cutting-ties-with-sam-seder-i-think-theyre-afraid-of-mike-cernovich-co-he-says/|title=MSNBC is cutting ties with Sam Seder. 'I think they're afraid' of Mike Cernovich & Co., he says.|date=2017-12-05|work=[[Wikipedia:The Washington Post|The Washington Post]]|publisher=[[Wikipedia:Fred Ryan|Fred Ryan]]|accessdate=2017-12-10|language=en-US}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|"According to Seder, he and MSNBC management never had a serious discussion about the tweet, what it meant and whether it posed a problem for MSNBC social-media standards. "If there was any conversation about the tweet," says Seder, "it had nothing to do with substance. It was, 'This is blowing up.'" And from what Seder can tell, his position with the network didn't much concern the company's top managers. "I only spoke to the PR guy and they only fired me after there was an imminent story," says Seder. An MSNBC spokesman responds that the company requested Seder's written defense of his tweet, and then considered that defense in reaching its decision on the contract renewal. Seder's conclusion: "I think they're afraid of those people."<ref name=WaPoIThinkTheyreafraid/>|group=N}} | ||
{{Quote box|quote=This was mind-bogglingly stupid, a real textbook case of how not to handle 'controversy' ... Seder was taking the side of abuse victims. |source=—Washington Post reporter David Weigel on MSNBC's decision to fire Seder.<ref name=CNNHowAJoke/>|salign=center |width=25% |align=left |style=padding:8px;}} | {{Quote box|quote=This was mind-bogglingly stupid, a real textbook case of how not to handle 'controversy' ... Seder was taking the side of abuse victims. |source=—Washington Post reporter David Weigel on MSNBC's decision to fire Seder.<ref name=CNNHowAJoke/>|salign=center |width=25% |align=left |style=padding:8px;}} | ||