Mehdi has been the best interviewer since Jon Stewart. MSNBC made a colossal mistake.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Getting rid of your most talented interviewer right before the most important and scariest election in American history was such an amazingly shortsighted and asinine decision. And don’t tell me this had nothing to do with Gaza…

He is never afraid to express his personal morality on air, which is pretty rare. He believes combative journalism is integral to a functional democracy, regularly saying “journalists should be biased, biased towards democracy.” He’s often the only voice of reason amid a toxic cloud of both-sidesy bullshit. There are not two sides to every issue, sometimes there’s just the truth. And he’s not afraid to say it.

MSNBC didn’t deserve him. I hope he has a stack of amazing job offers, I’ve come to rely on his voice.