Morning Joe hosts applaud CEO's foulmouthed rant about Elon Musk

The hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe applauded Axios CEO Jim VandeHei aft he blasted Elon Musk and X successful a foul-mouth meltdown. 

VandeHei gave a blistering code astatine the National Press Club connected Thursday successful Washington D.C. aft helium and his publication's co-founder, Mike Allen, won the Fourth Estate award. 

During his acceptance speech, the seasoned writer focused connected Musk's assertion that the media has been replaced by 'citizen journalists,' branding the thought 'bulls***.' 

'I hatred this damn statement astir "Oh, we don't request the media," similar it's not true!' VandeHei said. 

'I emotion this country, I americium a beneficiary of this country. Like immoderate dipsh** from Wisconsin who tin travel and commencement 2 companies, beryllium up here, triumph an award, beryllium adjacent to Mikey, I'm a beneficiary of it,' VandeHei said, referring to himself. 

The Oshkosh, Wisconsin autochthonal started retired astatine a section outlet earlier moving connected to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post arsenic a nationalist governmental reporter. 

He aboriginal co-founded Politico and is present astatine his existent relation arsenic CEO for Axios. 

VandeHei continued his rant portion targeting Musk for claiming that anyone tin beryllium a writer done societal media. 

'Elon Musk sits connected Twitter mundane 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 arsenic the assemblage applauded. 

VandeHei said that Musk's assertion is 'nonsense' due to the fact that being an existent 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, you don't bash that by having an opinion' helium continued. 'You bash it by doing the hard work.' 

He besides noted each of the things helium loves astir America, adding that it each 'matters profoundly'. 

'There's thing astir freedom, capitalism, the carnal spirits of Democracy, but astatine the halfway of that is possibly transparency, possibly a escaped press, possibly the quality to bash your occupation without worrying to spell to jail, possibly the quality to beryllium successful a warfare portion and archer radical what's really happening truthful they're not conscionable looking astatine distortion,' helium said. 

He went connected to accidental that journalists take to bash their occupation due to the fact that 'we emotion it.' 

On Monday morning, the Morning Joe unit invited VandeHei connected the amusement to congratulate him for his words astir the manufacture arsenic they agreed with his stance. 

Co-host Joe Scarborough was visibly thrilled by what VandeHei had to say, unleashing his ain foul-mouthed rant against influencers, who helium said get distant with lying connected societal media portion 'what reporters bash matters.' 

After Scarborough and co-host and wife, Mika Brezinski, 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.

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, acknowledging 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.'