Speaking on Thursday, October 17, the morning after Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier obliterated Vice President and 2024 Democratic candidate Kamala Harris by simply prodding her on important issues, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski lost it live on air, fuming and snapping about what she termed “embarrassing, bad-faith effort” to embarrass Kamala and please Trump.
It did please Trump, who tweeted about it and savored Kamala’s disaster and said, in part, “Great job by Bret Baier in his Interview with Lyin’ Kamala Harris. She has a massive and irredeemable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME – So bad, in fact, that she is barely able to talk about any subject other than the man who had the best economy ever, the strongest border in history, and who just got the UNANIMOUS ENDORSEMENT OF THE U.S. Border Patrol, ME! Their Endorsement was a TREMENDOUS HONOR!!! They said that Comrade Kamala did a terrible job, the absolute worst in memory, and can’t be allowed to do it again.”
In any case, Brzezinski and her Morning Joe co-host, Willie Geist, admitted that the questions that Baier asked Kamala, questions that often caused her to lose it or meltdown, were fair, but claimed that the way he asked them, particularly with the interruptions, were unfair and not how he would have treated Trump.
Geist, for his part, said, as Brzezinski agreed and said, “Right,” “It goes without saying that Donald Trump would not be given the same treatment, talked over, not allowed to finish those questions. It doesn’t mean the topics weren’t fair. There was a lot in there that viewers wanted to hear from Kamala Harris. Why do you have different positions now than you did in 2019? How are you going to fix the immigration crisis? All fair, fair questions. But Donald Trump obviously would never be treated that way on Fox News.”
Brzezinski then attacked Baier, saying, “I’ve watched Bret Baier for years. That’s just, um, that was different. I think another great place to focus would be with the “enemy from within” comments that President Trump made. You see, that’s the exact phrase Trump used a number of times in recent days, referring to his political adversaries and members of the press even, and the retribution he would take against them.”
Continuing, she framed Trump’s comments as”un-American,” saying, “It’s decidedly un-American. It’s a big story, and it’s the critical backdrop to this moment in which Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for an interview with Fox News. It was supposed to give viewers an opportunity to actually hear her plans as president.”
She continued, attacking Baier, “Instead, as you saw, it almost immediately devolved into an embarrassing, bad-faith effort by a once-respected host to play to an audience of one. The host’s constant rude interruptions were designed to distract from the issues and facts that Trump and his acolytes try and twist and distort every day, and on Fox News they try and avoid. And they couldn’t.”
Then, adding to that, she said, “When Kamala Harris realized the host was not going to let her speak, the only way the Vice President could give Fox viewers an opportunity to hear what she had to say was to talk back over him. Was he making sure that happened? I personally think absolutely. Did she do well in this environment? Of course, she was great.”
Concluding, she said, “She’s a former prosecutor, attorney general, senator, current Vice President. She’s fine with a situation like that and even flourishes. Yet there were times she was shaky on answers about immigration. He kept coming after her. But the questions sounded like they came from a Trump campaign ad. In fact, they played a Trump campaign ad in the interview.”
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