Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out, Joe!
Mika Brzezinski began today’s Morning Joe with an apparent expression of discontent about the show having been yanked off the air yesterday, pointedly saying “It is VERY good to be here.”
That apparent discontent become absolutely explicit an hour later in the show. Joe Scarborough in effect accused the NBC News suits of having lied to them in saying that they’d been taken off the air because there’d be one unified feed across all their networks yesterday. That didn’t turn out to be so.
Scarborough ended with what sounded like a threat to quit, saying:
“Next time we’re told there’s going to be a news feed replacing us, we will be in our chairs. And the news feed will be us, or THEY CAN GET SOMEBODY ELSE TO HOST THE SHOW.”
Note: Mika supplied some unintentional humor, at one point claiming that Morning Joe is…
