Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann is doubling down on his criticism of Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, calling for the information community to fireplace them each.
Penning an article for Selection, Olbermann wrote about what MSNBC can do now that Donald Trump is returning to the White Home and “Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went on their present and welcomed our new insect overlords.”
“I imply, clearly it’s important to fireplace Mr. and Mrs. Scared-Bro,” wrote Olbermann, who hosted Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC from 2003 to 2011. “Nevertheless: Proceed their banal however largely benign political espresso klatch present with out them and their insistence all of us be part of their MSNVichy. No one will bear in mind they have been ever there.”
Final month, Olbermann blasted the Morning Joe hosts after they revealed on-air that they’d flown to Mar-a-Lago to fulfill with president-elect Trump following his election victory.
“BREAKING NEWS: I TOLD YOU SO,” Olbermann wrote on X on the time. “@joenbc and @morningmika – Trump collaborators. Not a phrase Mr. and Mrs. Vichy Quisling say can ever be trusted once more – not that these phrases ever ought to have been trusted. They’re confidence tricksters – and grifters.”
He went on to check with Scarborough as a “political whore,” and wrote, “To political reporters, commentators, liberals, moderates: After this fawning, humiliating, network-destroying give up, in case you go on @Morning_Joe you’ve gotten endorsed and purchased into #VichyMSNBC.”
Followers had combined reactions to Olbermann’s article, with one X person writing, “To sum up your article…your recommendation is to fireplace Joe and Mika and to provide you a present. That ought to save lots of MSNBC.”
One other wrote, “Nicely stated! They need to embrace YOU of their new format. Fox lite: Katie Tur, Chris Janson, have to go!”
“They want a complete new line up. Rent Mayor Peter and shake issues up. They’re unwatchable now,” stated one other.
“Nicely stated. Agree 100!” added one other.
“MSNBC wants new blood – Prefer to see you, Elie, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo have reveals,” wrote one commenter.
One other added, “You aren’t getting employed Keith. No one likes you.”
In his Selection article, Olbermann added that MSNBC’s makes an attempt to appease the incoming administration will solely additional alienate viewers.
“The subsequent cash is coming from extra fervent opposition to MAGA, not much less,” he argued. “Wasn’t the Scarborough catastrophe (60% of the demo viewers gone in three days) instructive sufficient?”
Morning Joe noticed a dip in scores following their assembly with Trump. The Monday, November 20 episode, the place the hosts mentioned their assembly, introduced in 839,000 complete viewers and 113,000 viewers within the 25-54 demo, whereas the Tuesday, November 21 episode dropped to 680,000 complete viewers and 76,000 in the important thing demo.
Nevertheless, regardless of this dip, the present has remained regular since. Morning Joe averaged 691,000 complete viewers throughout the week of the Trump assembly announcement, which was solely a 1.7% decline from the earlier week’s common of 703,000.
Olbermann continued, “Did you not discover CNN going from fact-based criticism of Trump’s insanity to hours of cacophonous shouting and sinking to no matter is the subsequent degree down from irrelevance? Did the quarter of one million canceled Washington Submit subscriptions not let you know one thing? Or the exodus from Twitter/X?”
The outspoken information reporter concluded that MSNBC must struggle again, writing, “The bullies don’t cease hitting you since you’re good to them. They cease hitting you once you knock them out chilly.”
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