As viewers tuned in to “Morning Joe” on MSNBC this Monday, they were very disappointed to find out that the hosts were pulled from the show possibly to avoid on hard-left remarks against the former president.
Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski host “Morning Joe” on MSNBC and are clearly rabid anti-Trumpers which most likely led the network to pull them from the air hoping to avoid any off-color commentary. NBC News decided to continue special coverage on the assassination attempt of former President Trump rather than airing the two morning hosts.
The network told CNN that they would be back on air Tuesday but noted that the decision to remove the hosts was “certain to raise eyebrows.”
A Republican consultant told Fox News, “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.”
According to sources familiar with the decision to bump the “Morning Joe” crew described to 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.”
CNN reports, “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.”
“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,” a spokesperson said for NBC. “As we continue to cover this story into the week, the networks will continue to cross simulcast, alternating between NBC News, NBC News NOW, and ‘MSNBC Reports,’ so there is one news feed covering this developing situation.”
The diehard MSNBC “Morning Joe” fans were very unhappy.
“What the f—, MSNBC? You preempted your excellent weekend programming… and now you’ve silenced [Morning Joe] in favor of your anodyne streaming news cos-play called Now?” liberal journalist Jeff Jarvis posted. “This is when we need the analysis and conversation these shows bring us (yes, with controversy; that is how public discourse works through it: with discussion). It is shocking that NBC/Comcast do not understand their own company’s programs and raison d’etre.”