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offices. I’d continue to book the show, and push the show, and travel for the show into the night. Every day I grew tenser and tenser; again, it was nobody’s fault but my own.
    I knew there was really no point in blaming Joe or Willie. I liked them, and they deserved everything they were getting and more. They were smart enough to get it. That was clear with every meeting that we had with management and every phone call that I overheard. The men around me were doing a good job of getting what they wanted and deserved. The inequity became tougher to overlook.
    I was angry at myself, and certainly my family was paying the price at home all over again. I’d gone from unemployed to finding a freelance job that was totally doable and a good transition for them, to quite frankly working harder than I ever did at 60 Minutes , which really seemed like the ultimate in exhausting, hard-driving, competitive, tough, constantly explosive, stressful work. But this was even more intense and all-consuming.
    Joe was growing more furious by the day. He had believed in me from the start, and he wanted me to focus solely on Morning Joe . He probably saw me getting in my own way as I tried to get my due, but being aware of the challenges all
women in television face, he knew how difficult it would be for me to solve this problem on my own. It never occurred to me during this time that it was my job to just say no. Many days I was exhausted and depressed. I would tell myself if I worked harder, I’d prove my worth and eventually the bosses would notice and reward me.
    It would be a fruitless wait on my part.

CHAPTER 2
    GET OUT OF YOUR WAY
Women as Their Own Worst Enemies
    MY STORY, WITH VALERIE JARRETT, TINA BROWN, CAROL SMITH, SHERYL SANDBERG, CAROL BARTZ, LESLEY JANE SEYMOUR, NORA EPHRON, ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, AND SUZE ORMAN

THE PARIS HILTON INCIDENT
    D espite the network’s misgivings, Joe and I knew that our partnership on the air was driving the show’s appeal. In fact, just one month into our run, our chemistry would put Morning Joe on the map.
    The show’s fans know it as “the Paris Hilton incident.” The story began the morning socialite Paris Hilton, released from prison after serving minimal time for violating probation, walked through a blinding gauntlet of frenzied photographers. Her release was written as the lead for our news-headlines segment on a day when the Iraq war should have been at the head. I couldn’t believe this junk was being passed off as news, so Joe and I called it out by mocking ourselves and the news
business as a whole. At first I held up the news script and simply announced I wouldn’t read it; then Joe goaded me into ripping, burning, and shredding it at the top of each hour of our three-hour show.
    The episode was emblematic of what makes the Morning Joe chemistry work: our ability to act instinctively and say what we think without fear. We call each other out. We call other journalists out. We call politicians out. We do it with humor and transparency, and we do it with the credibility of having been there: we’re guided by our collective experience in the fields of politics and news. Our life lessons have taught us many things, including not to take ourselves too seriously.
    Ripping up the script was an unremarkable act to the Morning Joe team, but we discovered that in the world of 24/7 news, it was a minor league sensation. For some reason, the Paris Hilton incident hit a nerve. Someone posted the video clip on YouTube and it went viral, seen by millions of viewers around the world. The incident helped introduce Morning Joe to a whole new set of viewers. To this day, I am applauded and thanked by rabid news junkies who say they will never forget that moment. They tell us repeatedly that our show is refreshing because all the players are candid about their beliefs and biases, which apparently is something viewers have been looking for.
    Was my value suddenly changing? Could it be that what