As you’ve no doubt heard, this week the president of the United States, Donald Trump, expressed his displeasure over the fact that MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski frequently criticized him on their show “Morning Joe” that he launched a series of Twitter missiles at the prair, many of which — as The Atlantic astutely points out) — were brazenly sexist.
I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
…to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
Scarborough and Brzezinski responded by denying Trump’s story, proved that he was at best incorrect about her alleged face-lift and added that high-ranking members of Team Trump had once tried to get them to scale back their negative coverage in return for squashing a negative story about them in the “National Enquirer.
”This morning, Trump responded again in a tweet that was little better in character and tone than his earlier missives.
Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
The presence of the “National Enquirer” in this debacle does bring to mind another once-infamous incident from Brzezinski’s career — one that occurred exactly a decade ago this week.
When her higher-ups insisted that she cover celebutante Paris Hilton’s release from jail instead of important political news, Brzezinski passionately, almost tearfully protested by declaring that “I hate it and I don’t think it should be our lead” and eventually tearing up the script after attempting to light it on fire.
She later added, “I just don’t believe in covering that story, at least not as the lead story on the newscast, when we have a day like today.
”See the remarkable incident below:
The irony here — that a journalist who briefly became something of a folk hero for refusing to…
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