Morning Joe Hosts Totally Lose It During Segment on Furries

[Omaha Steve]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/12/morning-joe-mika-furries.html?mid=google

When Mika Brzezinski was tasked with reporting on the chlorine attack at a Chicago furry convention this weekend, the confusion in her voice became palpable. "Did I get that wrong?" she asks, stumbling over the words "furry convention." No, Mika. No, you did not.

While their co-host tries to continue reporting on the story with a straight face, Joe Scarborough giggles helplessly into his fist and Brzezinski hides her face. During a cutaway to news footage of the story, the two hosts apparently filled Mika in on what a furry is, and she straight up runs out of the studio.

Sorry, Mika. Some things you can never unlearn.

Published on Dec 8, 2014
Let’s All Watch Mika Brzezinski Learn What a Furry Is

Some days, god’s bounty is plentiful.

[daleanime]

1. If she can't handle that....

how sheltered of a life has she lead?

[Half-Century Man]

2. If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you stab us, do we not bleed?

If you try to poison us with chlorine are you not a terrorist?

Just pointing out, I can't breath is applicable in other situations.

[delrem]

3. Morning Joe is so precious.

They are all so in love with their own opinions it just makes me want to get in on it, to be accepted.

Alas, it will never be.

[pansypoo53219]

4. she might have needed new undies. or check her makeup. lol

[imthevicar]

5. I'd like to see

What she does in her private life broadcast and laughed at. Snob!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

6. Mika's main concern:

How's my hair/makeup and am I color coordinated.

[Thor_MN]

7. Life's a bleach?

The situation really isn't funny, but as no one was seriously hurt...

[Midnight Writer]

8. If a convention of folks with tea bags hanging from their hats

were attacked by a poisonous chlorine bomb, would they think that was funny?

[Omaha Steve]

11. You are spot on!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Yup,....she just peed herself.

[Delver Rootnose]

10. You know people dressing as furries...

..is a source of ridicule but it is o so normal for people to paint their face, and other body parts, at sporting events. All just normal team spirit. And don't get me started about those deviants who do civil war reinactments or colonial Williamsburg or those sick red hat ladies. Or the bohemian grove sickos.

[retired rooster]

12. I'm old...

...will someone explain to me what a furry is.

[malthaussen]

14. You serious?

Furries are people who do costume play dressed as animals.

-- Mal

[retired rooster]

15. WOW...

...now that's what I would call fun. But why would Mika abandon ship over that?

[malthaussen]

16. Sexual connotations, probably

Although getting inside her head is not an experiment I'm willing to try. But there is a whole sub genre of furry porn, and "normal" people seem to get all hot and bothered when confronted by people who set free their inner groundhog. In general, I've noticed that people who indulge in any sort of fantasy -- furry, role playing, whatever -- tend to be regarded askance by those who pride themselves on their conformity.

-- Mal

[CTyankee]

13. IDK why she was so upset? Furries may be weird but so are lots of folks...

Don't we have other more important things to worry about?