On Wednesday night, Puck’s Dylan Byers broke down the fallout from both MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-hosts and married couple Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s attempt at making nice with President-Elect Trump (to avoid his wrath) and Comcast admitting this week it’ll spin off MSNBC and six other cable networks.
The headline and subhead were exquisite: “Mika & Joe’s Excellent Adventure; News and notes on the real ulterior motive behind the Mar-a-Lago pilgrimage. Plus, all the nail-biting and agita unleashed at 30 Rock in the wake of the Comcast spinco news.”
Byers made sure to emphasis off the top that Brzezinski and Scarborough’s trip to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago wasn’t some massive burden but rather a short hop, skip, and a jump from Jupiter to West Palm Beach (so less than an hour away).
He explained their “relatively exalted status in…
