Tuning in to MSNBC this morning, interested to get the take of Joe Scarborough and his cohort of fellow Trump haters on the attempted assassination, it was surprising to find that the show had been pre-empted in favor of generic coverage hosted by Ana Cabrera.
What was behind the decision to yank Joe and Mika off the air? CNN’s Oliver Darcy, perhaps gloating over the temporary suspension of its early-morning rivals, ran an article on the matter, “‘Morning Joe’ pulled from air Monday because of Trump shooting,” that included this line [emphasis added]:
“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.”
A likely explanation. But odd…
