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Often inaccurate MSNBC host Katy Tur had the knives out from the get-go during Monday’s MTP Daily. From the opening intro, she was looking to get a piece of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly even going so far as to question why the former Marine Corp general continued to be employed by the White House. Her and her panel essentially were calling for the gold star father to be fired.
Tur began the program by continuing the liberal media’s obsession with Bob Woodward’s gossip book. “[D]on't let the noise drown out the fact that the op-ed and the things reported by Woodward are extraordinary,” she opined. “And they raise the serious question of who is really in charge of the executive branch?”
Tur made her insistence on Kelly’s ouster very apparent:
In a normal West Wing, that would be the chief of staff. In a normal West Wing, the chief of staff wouldn't allow staffers to steal things off the resolute desk in the Oval Office. In a normal West Wing, the chief of staff wouldn't let staffers record their firings inside the situation room. And in a normal West Wing, if any of nose abnormal things happened, the chief of staff would be the fall guy. So our question today, and one posed by Chuck yesterday to Kellyanne Conway on Meet the Press is, why does John Kelly still have a job?
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