Mika: HRC tried to get me booted
MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski said Friday that the Clinton campaign called the cable network to get her booted off the air after she criticized them during the race.
“I was concerned the campaign was not understanding that perhaps there was an arrogance,” the “Morning Joe” co-host said on her show Friday, recalling remarks she made on air about Team Clinton. “They needed to sort of get off their high horse and understand that this isn’t over.
“I’ll just say it: NBC got a call from the campaign,” she added. “Like I had done something that was journalistically inappropriate or something and needed to be pulled off the air. I mean, think about that. That’s just . . . shooting the wrong messenger.”
Brzezinski’s on-air barbs during the campaign also drew the ire of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, then the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
Leaked DNC e-mails show that Wasserman Schultz wrote to NBC anchor Chuck Todd in May, with the subject line, “Chuck, this must stop,” after Brzezinski called for her to resign over her handling of the primaries.
Just minutes earlier, Wasserman Schultz wrote to DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda, saying: “This is the LAST straw . . . This is outrageous. She needs to apologize.”
Brzezinski, of course, was not taken off the air.