{"id":2376775,"date":"2024-12-05T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbcs-morning-joe-continues-to-defend-mar-a-lago-visit-amid-backlash-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T21:03:29","slug":"msnbcs-morning-joe-continues-to-defend-mar-a-lago-visit-amid-backlash-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbcs-morning-joe-continues-to-defend-mar-a-lago-visit-amid-backlash-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC\u2019s Morning Joe continues to defend Mar-a-Lago visit amid backlash &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fmsnbcs-morning-joe-continues-to-defend-mar-a-lago-visit-amid-backlash-washington-examiner%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=2376775&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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-love-reproductive-choice-until-women-choose-to-stop-taking-the-pill\/\" title=\"Media supports reproductive choice until women opt to discontinue using contraception\">summary discusses<\/a> a recent\u200c episode of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, in which they defended their visit \u2063to Mar-a-Lago to meet President-elect Donald Trump. The\u2062 hosts \u2062responded to criticisms and articles\u200c about their meeting, asserting that it\u200c was not conducted out of fear but rather as an off-the-record \u200ddiscussion meant to gather information. Scarborough emphasized\u2064 that such meetings and background conversations are a common practise \u200din \u2064journalism, illustrating this by referencing his previous experiences speaking with various leaders. He rejected accusations of\u2064 hypocrisy \u2064given their past criticisms of Trump,arguing that their \u2062visit was a standard practice for \u200creporters.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">MSNBC&rsquo;s Morning Joe continues to defend Mar-a-Lago visit amid backlash<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1903196\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>MSNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/morning-joe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Morning Joe<\/em><\/a>  hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-scarborough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Scarborough<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mika-brzezinski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mika Brzezinski<\/a> reiterated that their meeting last month with President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> was not done out of fear and instead was conducted &ldquo;on background.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Toward the start of Thursday&rsquo;s episode, the co<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">-hosts rebuked articles written<\/a> about them and their visit with Trump, arguing the claims made in these articles were &ldquo;just false.&rdquo; Scarborough went on to state that their visit was not hypocritical due to their past criticism of Trump, who they routinely called a &ldquo;fascist.&rdquo; <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">He argued they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daily-mail-jeffrey-epstein-visited-clinton-white-house-at-least-17-times-sometimes-twice-a-day\/\" title=\"Daily Mail: Jeffrey Epstein Visited Clinton White House at Least 17 Times, Sometimes Twice a Day\">visited&#038;nbsp<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mar-a-lago\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mar-a-Lago<\/a>&nbsp;&ldquo;to h<\/span>ave an off-the-record comment&rdquo; with him and that other media outlets did the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what reporters do, and by the way, guess what? That&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ve been doing for years!&rdquo; Scarborough said. &ldquo;When I go speak to Middle East leaders on background, some who are not good people, guess what? I do it to get information and background to give it to you. I bet you didn&rsquo;t know because I didn&rsquo;t tell you &rsquo;cause it was a background conversation!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2717242&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=906a22c3299c1fe35d1ea25ca2c136a9\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Scarborough added that he and his wife, Brzezinski, unlike other media outlets, were trying to be &ldquo;transparent&rdquo; with their viewers in telling them that they were meeting with Trump. He also said he could understand why some viewers were taken aback by their visit with Trump, but media reports should not be surprised, nor should they condemn the couple over their visit.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And let me say this, let me say this: you can do two things at the same time,&rdquo; Scarborough said. &ldquo;You can say he had fascist rhetoric and still go in and talk to him. You know why I do that? To get the read of the man!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to these comments, Scarborough vented against David Frum for writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2024\/12\/appeasement-new-age-trump\/680871\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">a column<\/a> about their visit with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-kelly-same-people-criticizing-trump-peddled-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Mike Kelly: Same People Criticizing Trump Peddled Russia Collusion Hoax\">president-elect<\/a>. Brzezinski pushed back on Frum during Wednesday&rsquo;s episode when he made a joke about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pete-hegseth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>, Trump&rsquo;s nominee for defense secretary, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3250743\/hard-drinking-hegseth-vows-alcohol-abstinence-if-confirmed-as-defense-secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">his reports of alcoholism<\/a>. Scarborough contended his wife was not coming to Hegseth&rsquo;s defense but rather that Frum&rsquo;s comment was out of line.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2717254&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=59e24032f3c432eb531722a873f33a76\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the <em>Morning Joe<\/em> co-hosts&rsquo;s visit with Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3236623\/rosie-odonnell-swears-off-morning-joe-meeting-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">comedian Rosie O&rsquo;Donnell said she would boycott the show going forward<\/a>. She accused the couple of going to Mar-a-Lago &ldquo;to kiss the ring&rdquo; and called the co-hosts &ldquo;despicable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, MSNBC will soon be under new ownership after parent company NBCUniversal decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3236027\/morning-joe-hosts-joke-nbcuniversal-spinoff-means\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">spin off the network<\/a> and other cable channels it owns. Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/3250440\/trump-nbc-meet-the-press-post-election-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">scheduled to speak<\/a> to NBC&rsquo;s <em>Meet the Press<\/em> in an interview that will air Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1903196\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1903196\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Morning Joe defends Mar-a-Lago visit amid criticism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2376776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ScarboroughHarris-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4265,7075,34242,3746,36303],"class_list":["post-2376775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-backlash","tag-mar-a-lago","tag-morning-joe","tag-msnbc","tag-news-analysis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ScarboroughHarris-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376775","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\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376779,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376775\/revisions\/2376779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2376776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}