Peggy Noonan Calls Mika's Shoes An "X-Rated Fantasy" On "Morning Joe" (VIDEO)

The "Morning Joe" crew is a tough crowd to dress for. One day after Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborough and David Gregory had a fashion face-off, Mika Brzezinski's high heels came under attack by Peggy Noonan.

Mika is known for her love of shoes, and showed off her favorite pairs on the Huffington Post seven weeks ago.

On Friday's show, Willie Geist implored Noonan to "tell everyone what you said of those shoes."

"They were not shoes," Noonan said in an even tone, "they were an X-rated fantasy walking on Mika's feet."

Scarborough proceeded to giggle, turn as pink as his shirt, and fan himself as Brzezinski looked utterly exasperated. "I am so sorry, I'm sorry, I am sorry," she said. "I thought they looked like tap shoes."

Then at the end of the show, as the hosts and guests stood on a stage, things got even weirder. The executive producer had wrapped his jacket around Brzezinski's feet ("Chris Licht bound me," Mika said), and Scarborough said "Peggy Noonan, I learned today what a Catholic would call these shoes. What are they?" "A mortal sin," Noonan responded to more laughter.

She then retracted her criticism, saying "That was too harsh. I think we have to start showing empathy."

Were Mika's shoes too hot for television? Looks like we'll never know.

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Comments

[Hopster1]

Peggy Noonan's marketability is in her remarkable resemblance to the mother's of TV sitcoms of the 1950's, 60s and 70s. She's a mixture of June Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver, Aunt Bee from Andy Griffith and a splash of Mrs. Cunningham from Happy Days. She portrays the typical Republican view of what a woman should be or aspire to. Which isn't much more than a semi attractive female who confirms and approves of her second class position.

[truthyguy]

Noonan's marketability among the media producers has intreged me for years. She has no exceptional educational credentials, has no experience in a position of authority, and her chief claim to fame appears to be that somehow she became a speech writer for Reagan and from there a republican darling. From what I read of her writings and see of her on TV, she simply states the republican party talking points and occasionally makes stupid comments (like the recent one on torture) from which she gets even more press and more credibility within the republican party. But there she is on talk shows telling others what they should think. I guess to make money and become a national figure you need only fool some of the people all of the time.

[jaydeedub]

Why would they make such a big deal about the shoes, and not show them?

[JeremyO]

How dare a woman expose her feet in any way. Republicans like to keep women in their place.

[MTiffany]

How could they not expose their feet? I thought they were supposed to be barefoot and pregnant.

[rabiddog6708]

Repubs have such weird fetishes.

[LRL]

Are the people on this show 12 years old? Peggy Noonan, who is always talking about, in her breathy
overly sincere manner, how people need to behave as adults, really needs to heed her own advice...WHAT A BORE!

[tomasedison]

Peggy its time for you to just fade away. The Reagan Era ended 30 years ago.

[JeremyO]

Yeah. It's time for her to just keep walking.

[MTiffany]

The Reagan Era never died... it just smells that way...

[speakingtruth2power]

Fascist apologists feigning a sense of morality!

[liliperl]

The topic speaks for itself and for the Morning Joe show. Stopped watching it a long time ago.

[bwither]

Mika can't help being a beautiful woman.

[ECB]

She is Du*b as a box of Rocks

[lawrencelugar]

Shoes?! they're shoes...

Show the damn shoes.

[JackNasty]

Peggy has lots of x-rated fantasies. Isn't that why the boys at the Wall Street Journal call her Peggy Nooner?

[fictioneer]

Peggy was flirting with Mika.

[fictioneer]

People who don't use empathy are sociopaths.

[marijam]

Well, of course we want to see them now. The maker of those shoes couldn't have bought better advertising because everybody's going to want to know where she buys her shoes and who makes them. Personally, high heels don't do a thing for me.