This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features the latest hit on the Trump administration by MSNBC’s popular Morning Joe show, this time from co-host Mika Brzezinski who called top White House advisor Kellyanne Conway “awful,” and reaffirmed her ban from the show.
It came Monday when Brzezinski said, “I absolutely will not have her live on the show.” However, she played two soundbites of Conway in order to condemn her and President Trump.
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In the first clip, when asked about surveillance of Trump Tower, Conway cited Wikileaks revelations about how the CIA can turn TVs and microwave ovens into listening devices. In a second clip, asked on ABC about the insinuation the CIA techniques were used to monitor people inside Trump Tower, Conway contended she didn’t mean any such insinuation.
Following the two clips, Brzezinski charged:
“That was awful. She’s really. It speaks for itself, America. Come on now….It’s really awful. It’s very, very, very sad what’s happening. Everybody has to sort of let the story speak for itself and understand the story as time goes by. I just hope not too much time goes by….
“I’m just letting it hang out there, just like I’ll let that hang because there’s nothing I want to attach to it. I just want to stay as far away as possible from trying engage with someone who seems to have an audience of one who may not have the country’s best interests in mind, we’ll put it that way.”
(Also on set: Former Obama OMB Director Peter Orszag and his wife Yahoo news and finance editor Bianna Golodryga.)
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “Brzezinski has quite a bugaboo when it comes to Kellyanne Conway and has left any pretense of journalism behind. Brzezinski’s clearly now an angry, arrogant and condemnatory judge of Trump’s team.”
Rating:
Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
