CNN Rep Mocks Scarborough: He's 'Become Unhinged' Over His Low Ratings

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT – MAY 1, 2014, 4:52 PM EDT

Things have gotten so bad for MSNBC that it's making CNN look good.

A story this week in the New York Times captured the dismal state of affairs for the liberal cable news channel, which saw its ratings in April fall to their lowest mark in seven years. Compounding matters for MSNBC: "Morning Joe," a flagship program that serves as a reliable supplier of conventional wisdom, fell to third place among its cable news competition.

While "Fox & Friends" continued its dominance, CNN's "New Day" actually surpassed the MSNBC gabfest hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

It represents quite a triumph for CNN, the long-suffering (and widely mocked) channel that enjoyed a ratings boost during its wall-to-wall coverage of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.

Scarborough did not take the development well, telling the Times that "“CNN has made itself a punch line on the ‘Daily Show’ for its phony breaking-news headlines and breathless coverage of random ocean debris.”

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[spanone]

1. i no longer watch the joe show....guess i'm not the only one.

[monmouth3]

2. Morning Joe is not good programming first thing in the morning for a left-leaning (or it's supposed

to be) as their spewing pretty much dictates their programming until noon or after. I personally cannot attest to this as I turn it off after about fifteen minutes. I used to watch MSNBC all day, I even watched Imus but Joe is a turn-off. He's churlish and whiney and Mika serves no purpose other than to read the papers and pat his hand. Sorry Phil, this is your mess, it used to be a good station but no more.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. I guess Joe missed The Daily Show segments mocking his show.