Posted on 07/15/2024 6:02:23 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
NBC has pulled MSNBC’s Morning Joe off the air Monday morning in favor of continuing news coverage of the aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump on Saturday, as the Republican National Convention (RNC) begins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
CNN reported:
MSNBC will not air “Morning Joe,” its celebrated politics roundtable program, on Monday, opting to instead air continued breaking news coverage of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
The progressive news network confirmed the decision to preempt its influential and top-rated morning show after a CNN inquiry Sunday evening. The network said the show will resume airing Tuesday.
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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. Given the breaking news nature of the story, the person said, it made more sense to continue airing rolling breaking news coverage in the fraught political moment.
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I went looking for that and found this. I couldn’t read it all. Joe is a very sick man. He’s writing a musical about Trump. Thinking of running for office. Delusional doesn’t cover it.
https://www.gq.com/story/joe-scarborough-has-big-dreams-trump-musical
On another level, perhaps MSNBC fears that if one of their guests/hosts says something they have termed 'inappropriate', the reaction might go beyond complaining to advertisers.
TV personalities and Comcast execs are a lot easier to put in the ground than presidential candidates. The image these people have of right-wingers is the perception of the average Muslim in the days after 9/11 - a drooling mass of murderous anger. Once nothing happens for weeks, the all-clear will be given, and they’ll resume the old Trump bashing.
And that’s the way it should be. Politics ain’t beanbag. Slamming the other side is how you grab audiences by the throat.
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