Brzezinski Makes Noise With Paris Hilton Stand

Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC spoke with David Bauder of The Associated Press about how she ripped up her report on Paris Hilton the morning after the heiress was released from jail. “I could not get through the first three words without crumbling,” she said. “My skin was crawling. This was our lead? On a day like this? To me, it was just the ultimate Paris Hilton out-of-control moment. We’ve gone too far and we’ve got to stop. That was all real. There was nothing planned about that, and I believe we got a little snappy.” She added, “It’s not like I’ll never cover a Paris Hilton story again and it’s not like I’m never going to listen to my producer again,” she said. “But that day, that story as the lead was just preposterous. It made me feel stupid.”