“Morning Joe” wasn’t on the air Monday morning in the aftermath of an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, and now co-host Joe Scarborough is speaking out publicly against his employer.
The MSNBC host took the left-leaning cable news network to task on Tuesday over allegations that executives misled him and his team about their plans for covering the weekend shooting.
Morning Joe hosts are fuming at MSNBC for pulling them off the air over July 13th:
"We were very surprised & disappointed"
They say they'll quit if it happens again pic.twitter.com/1he5FeNuHY
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 16, 2024
According to Fox News:
“We were told, in no uncertain terms, on Sunday evening, that there was going to be one news feed across all NBC News channels yesterday,” Scarborough said, referring in part to NBC’s parent network and his home at MSNBC, the left-leaning cable affiliate. “That was going to be one news feed across all NBC News channels. That we were going to stay as a network in breaking news mode throughout all day yesterday. That did not happen. We don’t know why that didn’t happen. Our team was not given a good answer as to why that didn’t happen, but it didn’t happen.”
Fox News Digital reported Monday that the show’s producers and hosts had been informed that would be the case but were left shocked and upset when it appeared to be the only significant MSNBC program on Monday to be sidelined.
“We were very surprised,” Scarborough said on Tuesday. “We were very disappointed. And if we had known that there wasn’t going to be the one news feed from NBC News across all NBC News channels, Willie [Geist], we obviously would have been in yesterday morning.”
Scarborough quipped the next time the hosts are told a news feed would be replacing them, they would be in their chairs and ready to broadcast. Brzezinski and co-host Willie Geist added they wanted to be on air yesterday.
ADVERTISEMENT“This show began, and continues 17 years later on being the place where you can go to have the hard conversations in a civil way. So it seemed like, now more than ever, is a day, a time that we would like to be on. I think our viewers agree with that,” Brzezinski said.
MSNBC’s decision not to air the rabidly anti-Trump morning show on Monday sparked considerable social media discussion:
Why morning Joe was cancelled today… The dude is unhinged. pic.twitter.com/HNruPTdtjt
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) July 15, 2024
@Morning_Joe Segment pulled because the producers thought they'd say something controversial about Trumps attempted assassination. Wonder what ever gave them that idea. pic.twitter.com/dumDy2PLbc
— Alabaster (@Alabaster_1836) July 15, 2024
Holy Smokes…
MSNBC Pulled Morning Joe Off AIR the next few days because they felt these demons (or their guests) would say something “inappropriate” about the Trump Assassination Attempt live on air.
Legacy media is dead ☠️ https://t.co/Og7rQhkseX pic.twitter.com/GGZ8XQf2HF
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) July 15, 2024
For its part, MSNBC pushed back against reports that “Morning Joe” was pulled due to concerns that one of the hosts or guests would say something inappropriate.
As the New York Post reported:
MSNBC rolled out breaking news coverage Monday morning instead of risking one of its stable of talking heads uttering something that could paint the show and network in a bad light, a source familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday.
An NBCUniversal spokesperson denied the CNN report.
ADVERTISEMENT“Given the gravity and complexity of this unfolding story, NBC News, NBC News NOW and MSNBC have remained in rolling breaking news coverage since Saturday evening,” the rep told The Post on Monday.
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