Staffers ‘Scrambling’ After Bedbugs Spotted At Leftist Network’s HQ
MSNBC staffers at the far-left network’s New York studio headquarters are reportedly “scrambling” after discovering a potential infestation of bedbugs. Meanwhile, social media users are ruthlessly mocking the network over the news.
“Bedbugs got the worse end of that deal,” one user wrote in a response on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The potential infestation was discovered just ahead of the network’s Super Tuesday coverage. A memo issued on Monday from Midtown Manhattan’s 30 Rockefeller Center revealed the sighting of an “unidentified insect” around MSNBC’s studios on Sunday.
The New York Post obtained the memo and spoke with a source inside the far-left media outlet, reporting that the bedbug problem centered around studio 3A — which is where special election coverage and the “Rachel Maddow Show” are filmed.
“They are scrambling,” the source told the New York Post. “They’ve already been borrowing an unused local studio for some shows in recent weeks. So studio space is tight.”
The outlet confirmed that an exterminator had been called to the studio, control room and green rooms, but MSNBC did not respond to a request for comment.
The memo obtained by the New York Post stated: “An environmental K-9 detection team will ensure the remediation efforts were complete and will take an extra pass, through extended areas of newsrooms [on the third floor].”
According to the source within the network, the “studio reopened an hour or so after [the] memo went out and inspection was complete.”
Pest control company Orkin has explained that signs of bedbugs include small brown stains on walls — with the company advising people to look at cracks, gaps and edges when checking for a bedbug infestation.
Orkin released a list of the top 50 cities with the most bed bugs back in January — and New York City, where MSNBC’s headquarters are located, ranked just shy of first place for the second year in a row. Chicago came in first place for the fourth consecutive year.
New York City’s Housing Prevention and Development Department’s data from early Nov. 2023 showed that complaints of bedbugs increased by 17% across the city’s five boroughs from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31, with 2,667 total cases reported.
Social media users mocked MSNBC over the news, with one user writing: “I would say fumigate the place of pests but then they won’t have any reporters.”
“Imagine that: parasites in Rachel Maddow’s studio. Who could have known?” wrote Michael R. Caputo, who served as assistant secretary of public affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration.
Radio host Kenneth Webster argued that the massive increase in illegal immigration from less developed nations could have led to the bedbug infestation, writing: “Thanks to illegal immigration, parasites and previously antiquated illnesses have become more common in the US.”
