It looks like the once-tried and true bond between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” has cracked.
In a new 7,000-word New York Times profile on Republican Christie, it is revealed half way through that the feisty governor thinks the left-leaning cable network has had it in for him ever since the so-called “bridge-gate” scandal nearly wrecked his political career.
Christie was known before the scandal to be good friends with “Morning Joe’s” Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, and co-host Mika Brzezinski. He often appeared on their show.
Not now.
“There’s an agenda at the network level at MSNBC,” Christie told the Times’ Mark Leibovich. “All these folks have to march in line in order to keep their jobs.”
Asked specifically about Scarborough and Brzezinski, Christie said, “it seems to me there is a completely different approach to me than they were approaching me in the past.”
In the Times piece, Scarborough recounted a run-in with Christie in 2013. “We saw him at the Vanity Fair-Bloomberg party last spring, and he stormed right past us,” Scarborough said. “Mika and I just looked at each other and laughed. It’s a question of temperament with him.”
On “Morning Joe” Thursday, both Scarborough and Brzezinski addressed the issue. “I don’t really understand what happened,” said Brzezinski. “I mean, we have allegiances in the White House. It does not preclude us from being extremely critical of the White House at times.”
“He obviously has a very thin skin,” said Scarborough. “Good luck with that in a presidential campaign, Chris.”
