Morning Joe slammed for pre-taping post-Thanksgiving show

Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough have come under fire for pretending that their day-after-Thanksgiving show on Friday was live. 

Brzezinski opened the MSNBC show by welcoming viewers with an enthusiastic declaration of: ‘The day after Thanksgiving, woo! I’m stuffed!’ 

Joe muttered under his breath: ‘Yeah, that was a great Thanksgiving.’  

Later, the engaged pair joked about her ‘still frozen’ Turkey and stifled laughter as Scarborough remarked on ‘last night’s football’.

Viewers have now expressed outrage after learning that the show was in fact recorded on Wednesday. 

It was revealed when a long-time viewer noticed none of the biggest news stories of the day – namely the atrocious ISIS attack at an Egypt mosque which killed 305 innocent people as they prayed at noon local time – had been mentioned. 

The news ticker which runs beneath them throughout the broadcast made reference to the attack but none of the hosts commented on it. 

Mika Brzezinski welcomed viewers to Morning Joe on Friday by declaring ‘the day after Thanksgiving, I’m stuffed!’. It has since emerged the show was taped on Wednesday and viewers are not happy 

Instead, they discussed Donald Trump’s failures in the White House. 

A show executive then confirmed that, as suspected, the show was not recorded on Friday. 

They failed to see the problem, telling The Washington Post, which revealed the discrepancy,: ‘There was no intention to trick viewers. 

‘Would it have helped if there was a disclaimer? Maybe. But that’s not typically done,’ they said.

Critics were not so quick to dismiss it. 

The viewer who raised suspicion initially said it was a surprising decision by the show given its commitment to debunking other deceptions and mistruths.  

As Brezinski tried to keep up the pretense with a straight face, her co-host and fiance Joe Scarborough laughed as he spoke vaguely about 'last night's football' 

As Brezinski tried to keep up the pretense with a straight face, her co-host and fiance Joe Scarborough laughed as he spoke vaguely about ‘last night’s football’ 

Viewers questioned why the hosts' discussion left out the atrocious ISIS attack on the al Rawdah Sufi mosque in Bir al-Abed, Egypt, which killed 305 people. It had not yet happened when they recorded the show 

Viewers questioned why the hosts’ discussion left out the atrocious ISIS attack on the al Rawdah Sufi mosque in Bir al-Abed, Egypt, which killed 305 people. It had not yet happened when they recorded the show 

Discussion on the show focused on what President Trump had failed to achieve in his 11-months in office 

Discussion on the show focused on what President Trump had failed to achieve in his 11-months in office 

Viewers shared their disappointment on Twitter and asked why the show had tried to deceive them

Viewers shared their disappointment on Twitter and asked why the show had tried to deceive them

‘I was quite flabbergasted by the way they were so deceptive about this…especially when they are always so quick to castigate lying [or] deception they attribute to others,’ they said in their complaint to the Post. 

Others joined them in their disapproval. 

‘If you weren’t trying to deceive their viewers why did they need to pretend it was Friday and thanksgiving had already passed?’ said one. 

‘This show is so stupid. Why fake what day you record your show?’ one Twitter user quipped. 

‘Not cool Morning Joe. I trust you but now I’m doubting myself,’ said another who added the hashtag ‘disappointed’.     

Brezinski was at her home in Westchester on Thanksgiving Day and shared this photograph of the eggs her chickens had hatched 

Brezinski was at her home in Westchester on Thanksgiving Day and shared this photograph of the eggs her chickens had hatched 

Scarborough shared this photograph of his Turkey Bowl football game on Friday after the show aired 

Scarborough shared this photograph of his Turkey Bowl football game on Friday after the show aired 

Brzezinski and Scarborough, who are engaged, were not the only hosts who kept up the pretense. 

Contributor Rick Tyler said his Thanksgiving was ‘very successful’ but that there had been some ‘interesting conversations’. 

A spokeswoman for the show declined to comment when approached by DailyMail.com on Saturday. 

After recording the show, it is likely the pair retreated to their home in Westchester. 

On Thursday, she shared photographs of the eggs her chickens laid while Scarborough shared a snap from a Turkey Bowl football game he led with friends. 

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