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MSNBC fires Sam Seder after ‘alt-right’ group digs up old Polanski joke

Sam Seder, an MSNBC contributor and podcast host, has been let go by the network in response to the backlash over a 2009 (since-deleted) Tweet satirizing defenders of Roman Polanski. Seder contends that outrage was part of a smear campaign by “alt-right” figure Mike Cernovich designed to get him fired.