“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough joked Friday that Microsoft’s global outage will give the show’s producer “an excuse” to black out future broadcasts of the show — days after it was taken off the air in a controversial move after the try. the assassination of Donald Trump.
During a recent news segment, Scarborough said the massive Microsoft Cloud IT outage would give “Morning Joe” producer and director TJ Asprea cover for any disruptive broadcast decisions in the future.
“TJ has an excuse now. He’s like, ‘My bad,'” Scarborough said with a laugh. “Three months. Three months from now, that is [he’s] it will go ‘Microsoft Outage’. Good Microsoft [is] still coming out.”
Earlier this week, the hosts of “Morning Joe” were in the spotlight after MSNBC pulled the air of his Monday morning show in the wake of the Trump assassination.
According to a CNN report, the NBC group decided to cut the show due to fears that one of its anti-Trump hosts would make an inappropriate comment.
An NBCUniversal spokesperson denied CNN’s report at the time.
“Given the gravity and complexity of this unfolding story, NBC News, NBC News NOW and MSNBC have remained in breaking news coverage as of Saturday night,” the representative told The Post on Monday.
The next day, an angry Scarborough threw his network under the bus, saying on his show on Tuesday that he was both “surprised” and “very disappointed”.
“We were told in no uncertain terms Sunday night that there would be a news feed on all NBC News channels yesterday,” Scarborough said as he opened the 7 a.m. primetime segment.
“That didn’t happen,” Scarborough noted. “Our team wasn’t given a good answer as to why that didn’t happen — but it didn’t.”
Scarborough then told viewers it would never happen again. “The news provider will be us or they can get someone else to run the show,” Scarborough said.
Meanwhile on Friday, Scarborough was rumored to be blaming Microsoft’s “monopoly” on technology for technology outages around the world.
“That’s what happens when you have companies like Microsoft that a lot of people think of as a monopoly,” Scarborough said. “If something goes wrong with Microsoft software, almost everyone is affected and almost everything in terms of commerce seems to be shut down.”
His co-host Mika Brzezinski, who was somewhat choked up by Scarborough’s rant, corrected him and was keen to continue: “It’s CrowdStrike – OK.”
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz addressed the massive technology outages Friday after his company deployed a botched software update to computers overnight that ended up grounding flights, knocking banks offline and media outlets across the globe.
“It wasn’t a cyber attack, it was about this content update,” Kurtz said in an appearance on NBC’s “Today.” “The system was sent an update and that update had a software bug and caused a problem with the Microsoft operating system.”
healthcare systems and some offline news operations. @worldofdata001/X
Kurtz was unable to give a timeline for when all systems would be back up and running again.
The scuffle was the latest apparent on-air rebellion by MSNBC personalities in recent months, revealing chaos in NBC’s top ranks.
Several hosts, including Scarborough and former “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd, objected on air in March to NBC News hiring former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel as a contributor, a decision the network later reversed.
#Joe #Scarborough #jokes #Morning #Joe #producer #excuse #Microsoft #cut #days #controversial #outage
Image Source : nypost.com
