It wasn’t enough for Mika Brzezinski to declare that Ronna McDaniel would never darken Morning Joe’s doorway.
On today’s episode, Mika, on behalf of the show, called on NBC to fire McDaniel. Or as Mika couched it, “we hope NBC will reconsider its decision,” to have hired former RNC chair McDaniel as a political commentator.
MIKA: To be clear, we believe NBC News should seek out conservative Republican voices to provide balance in their election coverage. But it should be conservative Republicans, not a person who used her position of power to be an anti-democracy election denier. And we hope NBC will reconsider its decision. It goes without saying that she will not be a guest on Morning Joe in her capacity as a paid contributor.
Morning Joe hasn’t attempted to have any actual conservative “balance” in years. …