FAMILY FEUD! WIKILEAKS SHOW DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ FURIOUS AT MIKA BRZEZINSKI, CHUCK TODD:
Leaked e-mails from the Democratic National Committee reveal a family feud between DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and liberal cable news network MSNBC over the channel’s suggestion that Schultz had “rigged” the Democratic primaries in favor of Hillary Clinton.
The e-mails, revealed by Wikileaks, show that DNC staffers and Wasserman Schultz were furious about criticisms on the MSNBC show “Morning Joe” that “the system is rigged” against Bernie Sanders. Consequently the DNC set up meetings with MSNBC’s embattled president, Phil Griffin, to try to influence the morning show’s coverage.
On May 18th, Wasserman Schultz was particularly outraged on by “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski’s criticism of her handling of the primaries. Brzezinski had called for Wasserman Schultz to resign.
That morning, Luis Miranda, communications director at the DNC, emailed Wasserman Schultz that “Morning Joe today was ridiculous calling it a rigged system for the first hour.”
What is it with the DNC and their strange stalker-like obsession with Morning Joe anyhow? Here’s video of the Obama administration emailing the show and one of Joe’s distaff co-hosts (possibly Savannah Guthrie) reading on the air a White House “correction” to their coverage back in October of 2009. That was also around the time “a ‘senior White House official’ sent an email calling Joe Scarborough an ‘asshole’ for mocking Pres. Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.”
And you thought Trump couldn’t handle criticism!
Related: DWS is “quarantined” and will not speak at Dem convention after #DNCLeaks. That’s not good enough for Bernie Sanders, who tells fellow Democrat and Hillary flack George Stephanopoulos that Debbie Wasserman Schultz “should resign, period” following Wikileaks debacle.
More: That’s some audience that MSNBC attracts: WikiLeaks to MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid: ‘Our lawyers will monitor your program’ #DNCLeak.
UPDATE (4:40 PM EDT): Debbie Wasserman Schultz To Resign Amid Email Controversy.