MSNBC yanked their flagship show, “Morning Joe,” off the air on Monday over concerns the hosts would say something “inappropriate” about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, CNN reported. But as The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway explained, MSNBC admitted just “how damaging” the show is to America.
CNN’s Oliver Darcy reported 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.” A spokesperson for NBCUniversal News Group told CNN that the network would be cross simulcasting between NBC News and MSNBC to cover the breaking news.
But, as Hemingway explained, MSNBC executives knew thy could not “trust [Morning Joe] at all at a moment like this.”
Amazing admission by NBC here of how damaging to the country their flagship morning show is, and that they can’t trust them at all at a moment like this. https://t.co/gAFTeKCb7r
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 15, 2024
MSNBC’s decision to yank the show off the air during some of the most impactful days in American history indicates that executives know the show has become ground zero for hateful and divisive rhetoric. It’s the same rhetoric that President Joe Biden decried Sunday night in a speech begging for people to tone down the rhetoric (despite multiple instances of Biden himself likening Trump to Hitler).
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