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.
Scarborough and Brzezinski were part of the decision-making, reportedly joining Cesar Conde, the chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, and MSNBC president Rashida Jones to make the call.
“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 for NBCUniversal News Group said in a statement. “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 show’s fans were not happy.
“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 wrote on X. “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.”
But one veteran Republican consultant told Fox News that it showed a lack of trust on the part of MSNBC.
“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,” the consultant said.
Others were also shocked by the move and took to X to air their reactions.
Oh my. @MSNBC has ditched the nerd prom king and queen this morning and went with a straight anchor/news desk delivery. How do you read that? Afraid the Morning Joe team won’t be able to control their tongues? pic.twitter.com/LExdHkVp1M
— Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) July 15, 2024
Pulling Morning Joe off the air is an admission.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 15, 2024
WOW @NBCNews @MSNBC yanked Morning Joe off the air this morning over concerns its hosts would go off the rails – this may be the first sane programming decision made at MSNBC in Decades
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) July 15, 2024
MSNBC pulled Morning Joe this morning – LOL.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 15, 2024
Joe Scarborough has done more damage to this country than just about any other person in the past 8 years and it took almost getting a former president assassinated for his own employers to realize it.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 15, 2024
They know they carry responsibility. And they’re cowards.
— Nick (@pramisnicolas) July 15, 2024
ABC might want to do the same thing with the View. Vegas odds this morning will be fodder for pundits and GOP campaign ads.
— Ernesto Ronin (@Ronin1021) July 15, 2024
The pulling of Morning Joe is a public admission that the NBC “News” strategy has been to push a theme that Trump is the problem and causes violence. When we all know that these lefty media shows lie and stoke left wing anger.
— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) July 15, 2024
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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