{"id":2370625,"date":"2024-11-19T07:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T12:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morning-joe-hosts-keep-up-media-charade-of-accountability\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T07:24:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T12:24:11","slug":"morning-joe-hosts-keep-up-media-charade-of-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morning-joe-hosts-keep-up-media-charade-of-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Morning Joe&#8217; Hosts Keep Up Media Charade Of Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmorning-joe-hosts-keep-up-media-charade-of-accountability%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2370625&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Mika Brzezinski \u200dand\u200b Joe Scarborough, co-hosts of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kristi-noem-defends-jason-aldean-offers-country-artist-incredible-location-for-concert\/\" title=\"Kristi Noem supports Jason Aldean, offers perfect concert venue.\">faced \u2063backlash<\/a> from viewers after \u2063their explanation\u200b for meeting President-elect Donald Trump at \u200dMar-a-Lago. The couple,\u200b reading from a script, claimed\u200d it was\u2063 their first meeting \u200cwith Trump in seven years. While Scarborough \u200backnowledged their \u2062disagreements with Trump, Brzezinski stated \u200cthey agreed\u2064 to &#8220;restart communications.&#8221; They also recognized the significant number of voters who supported Trump, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/incumbents-prevail-in-northern-arizonas-primary-election-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Incumbents prevail in northern Arizona\u2019s primary election - Washington Examiner\">past controversies surrounding<\/a> him. Critics accused\u2064 them of capitulating to Trump&#8217;s influence, noting that their ratings have decreased significantly since the election. Ultimately, the hosts&#8217; admission \u2063of changing \u2062their approach was seen as insufficient to regain credibility with their\u200b audience.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Longtime bedfellows and MSNBC&rsquo;s &ldquo;Morning Joe&rdquo; co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough apparently upset many of their low-I.Q. viewers after they offered a humiliating explanation Monday as to why they crawled their way to Mar-a-Lago and met with President-elect Donald Trump. Their audience is right to reject it. Everyone should.<\/p>\n<p>Very obviously reading from a script, Brzezinski said the pair were &ldquo;given the opportunity&rdquo; on Friday to see Trump, &ldquo;The first time we have seen him in seven years.&rdquo; When it was Scarborough&rsquo;s turn, he said, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s gonna come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show &hellip; that we didn&rsquo;t see eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.&rdquo; But, Brzezinski said, they did agree with Trump to &ldquo;restart communications.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The best part, though, was when Brzezinski said she and her husband &ldquo;realized it&rsquo;s time to do something different,&rdquo; acknowledging the nearly 80 million voters who cast their ballots for Trump in spite of &ldquo;election denialism, public trials, [and] January 6.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It must have been very painful to read the notes likely mandated by MSNBC executives who have seen the channel&rsquo;s ratings cut almost in half since the election. But while I give Brzezinski and Scarborough a sliver of credit for at least admitting that the trifling issues they screamed about for three hours every weekday for the past two years didn&rsquo;t have the impact they&rsquo;d hoped, that&rsquo;s the extent of grace they deserve.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump&rsquo;s victory is so complete, Morning Joe has fully surrendered. Both hosts went to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring. Astonishing. <br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iDcbuP7Gep\">pic.twitter.com\/iDcbuP7Gep<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuckSexton\/status\/1858508311739408656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In order to keep doing what they&rsquo;re doing they <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/11\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-they-missed-the-mood-of-the-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">need forgiveness<\/a>, but they&rsquo;re not asking for it. If they were, the first words out of their mouths would be, &ldquo;We lied. We knew we were lying. It didn&rsquo;t work and we&rsquo;re sorry.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>If they&rsquo;re not going to say that, I&rsquo;m not interested, and nobody else should be suckered into falling for it. They did this last time around.<\/p>\n<p>In the Republican primary of the 2016 cycle, Mika and Joe could hardly retain their bodily fluids over Trump. They interviewed him almost daily on set and on the phone, openly marveling at his campaign, shooting the breeze with him on national television to a degree that Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple was moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2015\/12\/10\/the-many-times-donald-trump-and-morning-joe-yukked-it-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describe as<\/a> &ldquo;too much fun, too much exposure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Then Trump became the GOP nominee and the pair did a 180, using every second of airtime to denounce his candidacy. But wait! Then Trump won and Mika and Joe did yet another about face, traveling to Trump Tower in New York  to kiss the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">incoming president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s ring.<\/p>\n<p>But wait! Then they hopped on the Russia-collusion train and once again filled their silly program with non-stop anti-Trump hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>These aren&rsquo;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/l-a-meteorologist-faints-during-live-broadcast\/\" title=\"L.A. Meteorologist Faints During Live Broadcast\">morning news hosts<\/a>. They&rsquo;re hustlers hoping to pull off one final scam before they retire to France.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s no reason to believe Trump should be so naive as to let people like this back within a galaxy of his graces. The vote for him was every bit one against them as it was against Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party writ large. He&rsquo;s been through this before. We all have.<\/p>\n<p>They can&rsquo;t get away with it again.<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough upset viewers with their explanation for meeting Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2370626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MSNBC.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36829,34242,45279],"class_list":["post-2370625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-media-accountability","tag-morning-joe","tag-television-critique"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MSNBC.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370629,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370625\/revisions\/2370629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}