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'Morning Joe' Sets Montage Of Yesterday's Storming Of The Capitol To Johnny Cash's 'Hurt,' Breaking Brains
To many, yesterday's storming on the United States Capitol marked one of the darker days in American history, one befitting somber remembrance. MSNBC's Morning Joe tried to give the moment exactly that due this morning when it set a montage of pictures from the event to Johnny Cash's "Hurt." The result is… well, look for yourself.
Judging from the quote-tweets, there are plenty of people who think this is an inspiring and touching way to remember yesterday's catastrophe. There are also plenty of people who think it sucks shit.
For the, let's say, "irony-poisoned" crowd, Morning Joe's video is brain-breaking, a transcendently weird mish-mash of horrifying images made unintentionally hilarious by the early-AMV aesthetic and Cash's croaking rendition of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt." The responses have been particularly hilarious, as people expressed how the video is the thing that broke their fragile psyche.
finally my mind has broken the shabby bonds that tethered it to reality and can float freely away. thank you morning joe https://t.co/CKHh0lGi7O
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) January 7, 2021
lmao why would you turn this into a cool music video. what's going on in lib brain. we need to shut MSNBC down until we figure it out https://t.co/jk2T6sA17O
— Nathan Bernhardt (@jonbernhardt) January 7, 2021
actually hit play on the audio on this and holy shit lmao https://t.co/03Pnria6Qc
— Chris Wade (@saywhatagain) January 7, 2021
Can't imagine being a producer on a national cable news show and making your big meaningful cold open today one of those on this day slideshows that iPhones generate from your camera roll https://t.co/OiAFevimCi
— Carrie Courogen (@carriecourogen) January 7, 2021
omg lmao We're bringing back 2007 era fanvid Youtube culture. Get some Linkin Park up in here © BY MATTY420 SHARELIKESUBSCRIVE https://t.co/uM1VWbLgmo
— Frogger Neal 🥀🏴☠️🚩 (@froggneal) January 7, 2021
While Morning Joe certainly succeeded in creating a memorable video about yesterday's events, they also unintentionally created a new meme template: by far the funniest part of the response has been the parodies setting the montage to more, er, fitting songs.
fixed itpic.twitter.com/vunHPZUwyt https://t.co/SGhcnxvHD9
— jacob (@jacob_posts) January 7, 2021
Trash. How about this instead: https://t.co/sFBePE8cAf pic.twitter.com/SPcMe4KzaR
— TGB (@twitersbadboy) January 7, 2021
— it's ok to have a hot dog for every meal (@GarlicCorgi) January 7, 2021
h/t (@theArto) pic.twitter.com/2xMQ92QsKU
— Garbage Ape (@GarbageApe) January 7, 2021
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