Morning Joe hosts applaud CEO's foulmouthed rant about Elon Musk
Daily MailThe hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe applauded Axios CEO Jim VandeHei after he blasted Elon Musk and X in a foul-mouth meltdown. During his acceptance speed at The National Press Club on Thursday, Axios CEO Jim VandeHei slammed Elon Musk for claiming that the media has been replaced by 'citizen journalists' The veteran journalist hit back at Musk for using his platform, X, to distribute his '300 words of cleverness,' branding it 'bullsh**' 'You're not the media, you having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle, and 300 words of cleverness doesn't make you a reporter anymore than me looking at your head, and seeing that you have a brain and telling you have an awesome set of tools makes me a damn neurosurgeon, right?,' VandeHei added as the crowd applauded. Co-host Joe Scarborough was visibly thrilled by what VandeHei had to say, unleashing his own foul-mouthed rant against influencers, who he said get away with lying on social media while 'what reporters do matters.' VandeHei said that Musk's claim is 'nonsense' because being an actual reporter 'is hard, like really hard' He dove even deeper as he shouted out specific outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and MSNBC.