MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough didn’t appreciate CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker‘s comments to The Hollywood Reporter that he “should start getting [his] résumé ready.
“Jeff’s continued obsession with ‘Morning Joe’ is fun to watch,” Scarborough told Politico’s Dylan Byers. Scarborough went on to criticize Zucker’s decision to spend over $100,000 on a New York Times ad that taunted the Morning Joe host. Scarborough feels a simple email would have been sufficient, instead of this:
This full-page ad appeared in the New York Times back on Jan. 29, 2015.
“It would have saved his company a lot of money at a time of mass firings at Mr. Zucker’s network. Now he is praying openly that I get my résumé ready for a new job. No such luck,”Scarborough said before pointing out that Morning Joe is watched by “influencers.”
“What is even more humorous than Jeff’s Ahab-like obsession with me is that Jeff knows personally members of his executive team and own family watch ‘Morning Joe’ every day. He also knows that being the most influential news show in cable drives up subscription fees for our network in a way that shrinks the significance of a few wins in a single demo. ‘Morning Joe’ matters to people who run the world, and I guess that still drives Jeff crazy.”
Scarborough ended the Politico interview with some kind words for Fox News, saying “maybe one day, we can all compete with Fox.”