Maybe you can help me puzzle out this video. On Morning Joe yesterday, co-host Mika Brzezinski interviewed Senator Jim Webb while she was holding an adorable baby. At first, I assumed the baby was Mika's--perhaps her babysitter canceled--and I thought it was sort of cool to see the complications of family life so unabashedly portrayed on the news.
Or maybe Mika was going to talk to Senator Webb about the new children's health care bill, and she wanted a live demonstration of its impact. But it turns out the baby belongs to a coworker, and Mika
just felt like holding him throughout the interview.
The male anchors ask Senator Webb the real questions, while
Mika makes some cute jokes about the baby, gets lipstick all over his forehead,
and speaks to him in baby talk. So instead of enforcing the idea that babies
and high-profile careers can go hand-in-hand, MSNBC only succeeded in showing how
much all women love babies—and don’t really want to talk about that boring
political stuff!
Unfortunately, MSNBC won't let me post the video directly to this page, but you can watch it here.
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