I don't know, maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I feel like if your top-billed, most-prominent news commentary show is so untrustworthy that you have to yank it from the air in a moment of national crisis ... well, maybe it's not all that great!
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. ...
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.
Give them credit, the producers are trying to avoid that awkward moment when they have to do the inevitable during a live on-air broadcast:
Understand that this is Joe Biden's favorite news show and this is the week of the Republican National Convention, where the nominee is a former president who just survived an assassination attempt.
In other words, one of the biggest political weeks of our lifetimes. THAT'S how concerned MSNBC is that the show's "stable of guests" might say something really messed up.
Even the lead anchors of Morning Joe don't trust them:
Cesar Conde, the chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, made the decision in conjunction with Rashida Jones, the president of MSNBC, and hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the person familiar with the matter told CNN.
Mika's guest at home crying like:
It's reasonable to assume that hard-left progressive guests are going to tend to say, you know, really dumb stuff about the assassination attempt:
If they want to just go ahead and leave Morning Joe off the air, indefinitely I think we'd all be happy about it!
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