Posted on 07/15/2024 6:45:36 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Tuning in to MSNBC this morning, interested to get the take of Joe Scarborough and his cohort of fellow Trump haters on the attempted assassination, it was surprising to find that the show had been pre-empted in favor of generic coverage hosted by Ana Cabrera.
What was behind the decision to yank Joe and Mika off the air? CNN's Oliver Darcy, perhaps gloating over the temporary suspension of its early-morning rivals, ran an article on the matter, "‘Morning Joe’ pulled from air Monday because of Trump shooting," that included this line [emphasis added]:
"A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show’s stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole."
A likely explanation. But odd that the unidentified source said that the concerns about an "inappropriate comment" centered on the show's regular guests. The biggest danger of someone popping off might surely have come from Scarborough himself.
Get the rest of the story and view the video here.
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Even the MSNBC suits don’t trust Joe Scarborough to behave decently!
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
It was thought better to keep the rabid dogs in the kennel this morning
Maybe they are being retired?
Donald Trump is worse than Hitler, because Donald Trump has been known to send mean tweets.
In other News — MSNBC needs to take some of its political commentators of the air for a bit, because those guys can’t control themselves at all and are likely to spew some wild and offensive stuff on the air for, like, an hour.
IOW, they are actually saying, “These people cannot control themselves and act like grown-up, sane, civilized individuals on a national TV show.”...............
If I was to lay a wager as to the specific group, I’d say their legal department. One of their attorneys has a clue.
Possibly, but apparently Joe and Mika will be back on the air tomorrow morning.
Those guys are almost guaranteed to say something wingnut stupid.
No, they were still too drunk from both celebration of the event and sadness at the out come to go on air!
Ah, but one can be hopeful.
They realized they had no way of figuring out how to run the show today. Just flummoxed.
Morning Joe is a daily unseemly outburst.
For sure!
Morning Joe is my main beat at NewsBusters [governsleast=Finkelstein]. So I’d kind of hate to see them go, since the show is such a gold mine of liberal lunacy!
Freudian slip much?
Maybe The View will also be cancelled. Those B****** cannot be trusted.
Heavy drinking would be my suspicion.
Was after 9/11 and the news pretty much ran out of steam. So I channel surfed and came to “The View.” Within seconds I said “nothing could be this stupid. I was wrong. Watched the whole show just to be fair and it only got more moronic. At least I haven’t watched even one second of the show since.
Still on the schedule. On ABC at 11:00. I only post this for people an iron stomach and to warn channel surfers. Natalie Portman is their guest so expect tons of stupidity oozing from there.
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