Well this won’t go down well with Phil Griffin. Newsmax’s Bill Hoffmann writes about something Scarborough said on Newsmax’s “Steve Malzberg Show” (via J$)
“I agree with Martin Bashir’s apology. It was a deplorable thing to say, and he has every reason to be ashamed for saying it,” Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” told “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.
“I’m glad that he went out and said it, and I will guarantee you he didn’t write all that by himself.”
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Scarborough digs himself in deeper with Griffin…
“Every time something horrific is said like that, I go in and I talk to [MSNBC President] Phil Griffin, who I’m good friends with,” Scarborough said.
“And I say, Phil, this is unacceptable; either they apologize for it or I’m going to take it up myself. And I can tell you that didn’t happen in this case, because I was in the middle of a book tour and I didn’t even really hear about it until after Bashir’s apology.”
It’s this kind of inside the tent shoot from the hip loose canon stuff that drives PR departments bonkers. It may all be perfectly true but that’s not the point. The point is Griffin will look at this as talking out of school and that is a big no-no.
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