If you’ll permit me, I’d like to add a brief follow-up note on the ongoing mess brewing over at MSNBC’s Morning Joe. As I noted yesterday, the flagship news/opinion broadcast of the Beltway consensus was summarily yanked from the air on the Monday after the world was reeling from the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, leaving all to speculate wildly about what on earth must have been uttered intemperately by people behind the scenes to raise such alarm bells. Where were Joe and Mika? How could official Washington even hope to function or make sense of the news without their steady, guiding presence?
Well, Scarborough and Brzezinski are back today, and they’re not taking this insult to their honor lying down. If you have three minutes to spare for some amusing schadenfreude, I recommend that you watch Scarborough’s agonizingly huffy “official response” to yesterday’s benching. Your attention to detail will be well rewarded. (For example, there’s a hilarious moment right at the start where Willie Geist, not thinking he’s on camera yet, visibly gulps as he realizes Joe’s about to launch into a rant.)
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