This clip puts the “blue” in “blooper.”
An MSNBC reporter’s live segment consisted of just two muttered obscenities during a Tuesday spot before a confused network anchor cut him off.
During his Tuesday morning program, anchor Craig Melvin introduced a segment on how President Trump’s White House is handling the transition to the team of President-elect Joe Biden.
“Ken, what have you learned, sir?” asked Melvin, throwing it to reporter Ken Dilanian, social media video shows.
Dilanian, glancing down as though at his phone, wasn’t exactly insightful.
“Oh s–t. F–k,” he simply mutters, before the split-screen camera cuts to solely Melvin.
The anchor sat in stunned silence for a few seconds, before offering, “OK. Uh. Think we lost Ken for a second, we’ll try to get him back there.”
Later in the show, Dilanian returned to the air to complete his report, and offer a mea culpa for the gaffe.
“I want to sincerely apologize to viewers who may have heard me use profanity at the top of the last hit,” he said.
In a later tweet, Dilanian pinned the blame on technical difficulties that made him believe his feed was cut right as he was about to go on air — though he was very much live.
“So sorry for the profanity I used on air last hour. I was experiencing some technical difficulties and mistakenly hung up on the control room, though my mic still was on,” he wrote. “Perils of playing producer, cameraman and tech support all at the same time from home. #2020”



