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MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” covered the blowback — and its bumbling hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, have only themselves to blame.
The two men said management told them the show would be replaced with breaking news following Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Trump, sparking a day-long row that began on Sunday night.
The network returned to its regular programming on Monday, with most of its hosts hosting from Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention. Only “Morning Joe” was conspicuously absent. That infuriated Joe and Micah when they returned to the airwaves Tuesday morning.
“Let me just say this: The next time they tell us News Feed is going to replace us, we’ll be sitting back,” Scarborough declared. “And it’s either we’re in charge of News Feed or they get somebody else to host the show.”
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That’s pure arrogance.
The pro-Biden hosts could have spoken to management privately. They could have expressed their disappointment and anger behind closed doors. But Joe and Mika have always been and always will be committed to promoting themselves first. The only clear conclusion is that they must have been determined to (a) embarrass their bosses on national television and (b) make themselves victims in the process.
“The network did not appear to believe that the shows hosted by Scarborough and Brzezinski, or their many guests and contributors, could be trusted. MSNBC leadership did not appear to be confident that the co-hosts and other staff would be able to maintain control and speak responsibly at this critical juncture following the assassination attempt on President Trump. After Saturday’s horrific events unfolding before the whole world, it was too big a risk to take.”
In fact, Joe and Mika interviewed Trump as a candidate 41 times in 2015-2016, flattering him, before turning their backs on him when the show’s far-left audience turned on them. Then, after Trump defeated Hillary Clinton and became president, the couple’s conversations sounded like this:
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“I think before the show you said something that really summed it up. You said… [Trump is] “It’s like a kid pooping his pants and then saying, ‘That’s what I was going to do,'” Brzezinski said in 2017.
“Well, it’s like someone pooping their pants and people seeing it say, ‘Oh, this is contemporary art, don’t you get it? I’m making a statement against Russian aggression in Crimea, so this is my statement, and if you don’t get it, then that’s your problem, not mine,'” Scarborough replied.
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It’s lofty stuff. Scarborough, who left the Republican Party the year Trump took office, has charged that a second Trump term would lead to the public executions of American generals, journalists and political opponents.
Yes, he really said that…among numerous other crazy predictions.
MSNBC executives, including NBCUniversal Chairman Cesar Conde and MSNBC President Rashida Jones, have so far done absolutely nothing to stop this kind of rhetoric, including from far-left primetime host Joy Reid, who said just days before Trump was shot that protesters would be “shot in the street by Trump’s storm troopers” if he won the election.
And on Monday night, while covering the Republican National Convention, Reid called Trump “the greatest purveyor and instigator of political violence since George Wallace” and then said he didn’t want Trump to be seen as a “victim.”
You know, the man who nearly lost his life to an assassin’s bullet on Saturday.
Also on Tuesday morning, and yes, there’s more, Scarborough blasted NBC’s most senior anchor, veteran news anchor Lester Holt. Again, if he took issue with Holt’s interview of President Biden, which included fair and appropriate questions, his criticism should have taken place off-air, not on.
But Scarborough’s uncontrollable ego apparently wouldn’t allow this, and he lectured Holt, a respected journalist and news veteran for decades, on how to properly conduct an interview with Biden, calling him a “fake.”
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Regarding Holt’s question asking Biden to “hit the bullseye” on Trump, Scarborough said:
“But to ask that question without any context about the politically violent rhetoric that the Republican Party has been engaging in for nearly a decade…we can talk all we want about Nancy Pelosi, the assassination of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the hanging of Mike Pence. And we can talk about both sides of that. Again, asking about something he said at a private fundraiser is a good question. It’s a good question. I would have asked that same question. But to ask that question without any context seems to me to be speaking to a false moral relativism. That was what was being shouted throughout that portion of the interview. I have to say I was shocked.”
It’s textbook insubordination — it could happen in any company — and many employees would be fired or at least suspended for publicly criticizing both management and coworkers in this way.
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Conde or Jones should have called the control room then and there and told the hosts to start cleaning up their offices, but these are the same executives who allowed everyone from Chuck Todd to Jen Psaki to Rachel Maddow to Joe and Mika to lecture them on air about the network’s decision to hire former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
Pro-Trump opinions are not allowed on MSNBC’s airwaves. This was behind the alleged talent-management backlash. And when it came down to it, it was McDaniel who was fired after just one interview.
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Given precedent, it’s expected that nothing will happen to “Morning Joe.”
Because it looks like 30 Rock’s mental hospital is currently being run by the inmates — never mind professionalism, responsible language, and reporting.
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