MSNBC host, Mika, tries to clean up the mess her show made blaming hip-hop for the racist SAE chant

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A day after an MSNBC panel on Morning Joe attempted to blame hip-hop music for a racist fraternity chant about lynching black men, the co-host of the show, Mika Brzezinski, made a valiant attempt to clean it all up, but fell short. In her interview, seen in full below the fold, she has no sincere explanation for the following statement that was made yesterday after she introduced hip-hop into the conversation with Joe Scarborough and Bill Kristol:

“Popular culture becomes a cesspool, a lot corporations profit off of it, and then people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they’ve been hearing,” said Bill Kristol. He added that Tipper Gore “tried to raise this issue, and was widely ridiculed,” referring to the parental advisory labels the future V-FLOTUS enacted after her daughter purchased Purple Rain thirty years ago.

“The kids that are buying hip hop or gangster rap, it’s a white audience, and they hear this over and over again,” Joe Scarborough said. “So do they hear this at home? Well, chances are good, no, they heard a lot of this from guys like this who are now acting shocked.”

Instead of saying they just got it dead wrong, she denied that was ever how they felt, and then again pivoted back to hip-hop and how a discussion on why hip-hop artists use the "N word" was still very timely and appropriate.

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