The overwhelming majority of conservatives – aside from these of us who’re media screens – skip Morning Joe daily. What’s shocking is what number of instances the starring couple, Joe Scarborough and his third spouse Mika Brzezinski, have been skipping their very own program this 12 months.
Meghan Blonder and Thaleigha Rampersad on the Washington Free Beacon did the ugly math. Between Could 27 and November 15, Scarborough and Brzezinski appeared collectively on simply 70 of 124 episodes. Scarborough missed 29 exhibits, whereas Brzezinski skipped 41! That’s one out of each three workdays. In July, she was out for 2 consecutive weeks, showing on solely about half of that month’s episodes.
We all know Mika wrote a e book referred to as Know Your Worth, so did she negotiate in her contract she might skip one out of each three exhibits? Does that sound just like the work schedule of the common American? Possibly she thinks if Rachel Maddow can seize $25 million a 12 months for simply working Monday nights, why ought to she have to tug herself to the microphone at 6 within the morning?
That is funnier once you recall Joe and Mika primarily broadcast from a studio constructed at their dwelling in Jupiter, Florida, a classy location for the rich. There are an estimated 75 skilled golfers within the space. Many cable-news stars seem from their Florida mansions. They joke the Fox Information stars are simply miles from Mar-a-Lago, so the Trump interviews can occur rapidly.
Neither half of this energy couple was current for 16 exhibits, leaving the Morning Joe bench gamers—Jonathan Lemire, Willie Geist, and BBC correspondent Katty Kay—to fill in.
The Free Beacon reporters cited the opening of the August 29 episode: “I’m Katty Kay, in for Joe, Mika, and Willie. All people’s off besides me. I’m so sorry.” She hosted a phase that day touting a Vox.com article titled “Are We In a Disaster of Rudeness?” The writer referred to incidents like “college students leaving class unannounced,” however Joe and Mika’s morning hooky by no means got here up within the dialog.
For a bit of spice on this punch bowl, we hear from a gossip on Substack utilizing indignant nameless sources – by no means my favourite supply. It’s apparently staffers claiming their overlords “barely present up, and the remainder of us are doing triple the work.” These gripes additionally included: “Day by day is a scramble. Who’s internet hosting? What’s the tone? Who’s working the ship? Nobody is aware of.”
Who’s griping? Nobody is aware of.
The absenteeism got here to an abrupt finish when MSNBC lowered its flag they usually grew to become the dreadfully named “MS NOW.” Blonder and Rampersad famous the couple’s ongoing good attendance streak—three entire weeks—is their longest since Memorial Day. In truth, their document earlier than November 12 was a whopping seven days in July, marking one of many solely two full weeks they each labored throughout that interval.
No one who routinely skips this present thinks that America wants extra mugfuls of Morning Joe and Mika – like we’d like issues like Scarborough’s risible rant final 12 months that the decrepit model of Biden was the “Greatest Biden Ever.” That wouldn’t have match the letters MS NOW. It was extra like MS 1996.
