Awkward moment Mika Brzezinski looks away while Joe Scarborough slams influencers in bizarre rant

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski was spotted successful an awkward on-air infinitesimal arsenic her co-host and hubby Joe Scarborough slammed influencers during a bizarre rant Monday. 

The big of Morning Joe appeared shocked arsenic Scarborough unleashed a foul-mouthed rant against influencers, who helium said get distant with lying connected societal media portion 'what reporters bash matters.'

The aggravated speech stemmed from a code that Axios CEO Jim VandeHei gave astatine the National Press Club Thursday, wherever helium called retired Elon Musk for claiming that the media has been replaced by 'citizen journalists.'  

VandeHei joined the Morning Joe amusement Monday arsenic the MSNBC squad congratulated him connected winning the Fourth Estate grant alongside his publication's co-founder, Mike Allen - but the speech rapidly took a crisp turn. 

After the Morning Joe squad praised VandeHei, Scarborough instantly hopped connected the bandwagon, repeating the CEO's remark helium made past week astir influencers 'popping disconnected connected Twitter.' 

As Scarborough grew aggravated, helium dropped a curse word, leaving Brezinski speechless. 

'And similar you said, this is what gets me,' Scarborough said successful notation to VandeHei's speech. 'If idiosyncratic pops disconnected connected Twitter, oregon immoderate different societal media, and they lie, they marque mistakes - you cognize what the outgo of that is? Nothing. They bash it again. 

'In fact, it helps them due to the fact that algorithms are rigged, truthful you disturbance up sh**,' helium added, arsenic Brezinski jumped successful her seat earlier concisely looking away. 

During his code connected Thursday, VandeHei defended journalism portion taking jabs astatine societal media users - specifically Musk, the proprietor of X (formally known arsenic Twitter). 

'Everything we bash is nether fire. Elon Musk sits connected Twitter each time oregon X contiguous saying like, "We are the media. You are the media." 

'My connection to Elon Musk is: Bullsh**!

'You're not the media, you having a bluish checkmark, a Twitter handle, and 300 words of cleverness doesn't marque you a newsman anymore than maine looking astatine your head, and seeing that you person a encephalon and telling you person an awesome acceptable of tools makes maine a damn neurosurgeon, right?,' VandeHei added. 

The seasoned writer past said that 'being a newsman is hard, similar truly hard.' 

'You person to care, you person to bash the hard work, you person to get up each azygous time and accidental "I privation to get to the closest approximation of the information without immoderate fear, without immoderate favoritism." 

'You don't bash that by popping disconnected connected Twitter,' helium explained.

Scarborough told VandeHei that what helium said 'continues to request to beryllium said' due to the fact that determination is simply a batch of 'garbage flying astir connected societal media.'

He dove adjacent deeper arsenic helium shouted retired circumstantial outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and MSNBC. 

'What The New York Times does matters. What The Wall Street Journal does matters. What Jonathan Lemire does matters. What the Financial Times does matters. What MSNBC News and MSNBC reporters bash matters,' helium said. 

VandeHei agreed with Scarborough, arsenic helium mentioned that journalists aren't perfect. 

'And it doesn't mean determination aren't things that we get wrong,' helium said, adding that helium got truthful 'hopped up' during his code due to the fact that of what he's heard from reporters. 

'I perceive to truthful galore reporters who consciousness similar the manufacture is going to hell. Nobody trusts them, they're demoralized... And the information is we don't person clip to beryllium demoralized!

'We don't person clip to whine, we person to bash our job! 

'There is an accusation warfare retired there,' VandeHei said adding, that 'there are inactive tens of millions of radical who beryllium connected large reporting.' 

Scarborough past referred backmost to those circumstantial publications and stated that reporters that enactment for them 'don't person to worry' because  they 'print information each the time.' 

He past shocked his co-anchor with his connection earlier she chimed successful and said: 'Right, the much you hate, the much you make.' 

VandeHei suggested that radical should work articles from media outlets each time to find if they tin spot them. 

'Use your ain eyes - bash you consciousness similar they're trying to get to the closest approximation of the information with each story, and that astir of the time, if not astir each of the time, they do? 

'If they bash past you tin spot it arsenic a quality source,' helium added. 

Toward the extremity of the segment, Brzezinski appeared to effort to get Scarborough to halt talking arsenic helium continued to rant astir the issues helium sees successful the industry. 

'At immoderate point, radical person to privation to cognize the truth, and if they don't privation to cognize the truth, well, past spell up and locomotion astir ignorant,' Scarborough said arsenic his co-host kept saying 'OK' earlier closing the show.