'Morning Joe' drama keeps getting more mind-boggling. Petulant hosts seem to dare bosses to act

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MSNBC's "Morning Joe" is about the blow. And its petulant hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, have only themselves to blame.

The eruptions have come in successive days starting on Sunday night after the pair say they were told by management that the show would be preempted, following the assassination attempt on former President Trump on Saturday, for breaking news instead.

The network returned to regular programming Monday with its usual hosts, mostly anchoring from Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention. Only "Morning Joe" was conspicuously absent. That set off Joe and Mika when they returned to the airwaves on Tuesday morning.

"Let me just say: Next time we’re told there’s going to be a news feed replacing us, we will be in our chairs," Scarborough declared. "Yeah. And the news feed will be us, or they can get somebody else to host the show."

'MORNING JOE' HOST SCARBOROUGH ADDRESSES BEING OFF AIR, CRITICIZES NETWORK: 'WE WERE VERY DISAPPOINTED'

What utter hubris.

The pro-Biden hosts could have spoken to management privately. They could have expressed their disappointment and anger behind closed doors. But Joe and Mika are, and have always been, about promoting themselves first. The only obvious conclusion is that they must have been determined to (a) embarrass their bosses on national television and