Raw Story - 'Outrageously stupid': MSNBC's Morning Joe pushes back at critics of his Trump meeting

Tom Boggioni
December 5, 2024 7:23AM ET

The co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" kicked off Thursday morning with an extraordinary 22-minute combined rant that addressed a blow-up with conservative guest David Frum on Wednesday that then turned into a defense of their highly-criticized meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.

On Wednesday co-host Mika Brzezinski spoke about a comment Frum made about Fox News and the alleged drunk behavior of former employee Pete Hegseth. With Brezinski calling the remark "flippant," Frum left the show and penned a column for the Atlantic to complain about how he was treated, writing, "It is an ominous sign that Morning Joe felt it had to apologize for something I said."

After first admitting he is a big fan of Frum, co-host Joe Scarborough explained the kerfuffle and then proceeded to address critics at the New York Times, the Atlantic and the Washington Post who have piled on them after their post-election meeting with Trump.

Addressing the Frum blow-up, Scarborough stated, "We thanked him and went on. Then Mika generally talked about a flippant comment and I'm telling you, the sound of fear, the apology, none of that is true. But guess what? This is what's been going on now for several weeks."

"We went down to talk to the president-elect and people wrote articles that were just false," he elaborated. "But you know what we did? We did the corporate thing. Corporate said: don't say anything, just keep your head down. What did the royals say? Never explain, never complain. We did that, we enjoyed our Thanksgiving."

"People are upset with some of our guests, some of our friends: we snuck up on them too fast, we should have given them more of a warning –– whatever," he added. "The main complaint was that we called Donald Trump's rhetoric fascist during the campaign and then we went down to have an off the record comment."

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