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MSNBC’s rabid leftist viewers who tuned in Monday to hear what the “Morning Joe” crew had to say about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump were sorely disappointed.
Absent from the air were the Trump-bashing co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski and their roundtable of approving panelists. Instead, NBC News was scheduled to air continued special news coverage on the attempted assassination on Saturday. A spokesperson told CNN that the network’s top-rated morning show would be back on air Tuesday.
CNN thought the decision in the wake of the shooting Saturday and the start of the Republican National Convention on Monday was “certain to raise eyebrows.”
Stunning. On this uniquely impactful morning, #MSNBC pulls its signature show #MorningJoe, for fear that some jackwagon panelist would say something grotesquely inappropriate. Profoundly pathetic… and probably a wise move on their part. pic.twitter.com/JqqDSGfz9f
— Mark Davis (@MarkDavis) July 15, 2024
“The fact that Morning Joe’s own network can’t trust its flagship brand not to spew reckless and inflammatory crap during breaking news tells you all you need to know about the credibility of the MSNBC line-up,” a veteran Republican consultant told Fox News Digital.
A person familiar with the decision to yank “Morning Joe” on Monday told CNN it “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,” CNN reported…
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