Morning Joe Hits WHCD For Low Blows Against Sarah Sanders: ‘She Was Being Humiliated’
Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski was displeased with the timbre of the monologue delivered by comedian Michelle Wolf, after which the WHCA released a statement apologizing for her rhetoric.
“I would watch her Netflix special and I thought that a lot of her jokes, though some of them were really raunchy, probably were really funny,” Mika Brzezinski opened. “But there? Now? Why?”
“And who didn’t predict it becoming a huge problem having a comedian who is a little edgy coming into the White House dinner when the press is under fire by the president himself? We have to hold ourselves to a higher standard,” she continued. “I think it’s really having it both ways to have this woman at the dinner and then apologize for it. You own it, White House Correspondents’ Association. You invited her… I really thought the pain of the people on stage when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was being made fun of, everybody felt pain for her, she felt pain and it really bothered me. And I know there’s big controversy about whether or not her appearance was being made fun of, come on, stop it. Don’t even.”
“She looked pained. She was being humiliated for a prolonged amount of time onstage. Do we really want to be laughing at that? It’s not funny,” she added.
They talked about the jokes made about Sanders, including that she looked like Aunt Lydia from The Handmaids’ Tale, and said that it was a joke that was certainly, at least in part, about Sanders’ looks.
“I think at this point you have to look at the whole thing and think whether or not it was a good choice, but this was a win for Trump,” Brzezinski contended. “So, if you didn’t want this to be a win for Trump, you gave him one in a big way.”
“Look, Mika, actually the joke was about lying and not her looks,” New York Times political writer Nicholas Confessore countered. I think the reference to Aunt Lydia was reference to the character on that show.”
“What I will say is this whole event has become problematic,” he continued. “It is not journalistic. It is a celebration of the wrong values. And if you invite a comedian to it, you are putting the entire press corps on the hook for whatever that comedian says. You are. And it’s pointless.”
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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