dust himself off. and say, i hurt my foofu. oh, my gosh. i still laugh. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, january 26th. mike barnicle isith us and mark hal and michael steele and sam stein are all still with us. joining the conversation, nbc news host of andrea mitchell reports. andrea mitchell. we are talking about mary tyler moore, star of the show bearing her name. as we all know, she died of the age of 80 yesterday. she helped redefine television and inspired a generation of women with, including you, so here is andrea s report on mary tyler moore. mary richards, the path breaking all-american single career girl. yes, girl. not woman. this was 1970, after all. i would like to know why the last associate producer before
redefine where they want to go politically. yet, mary tyler moore took these social issues, her show took the social issues, mary richards and presented them with warmth and smile in a nonthreatening manner. do you think it s easier to do that with issues. the humor is not destructive and you follow it up more. there a sense of shock. you can t have a conversation about than stuff without somebody deeply defended. a guy who wrote fight club said we are in a have you victorian age where you cannot have conversations without a lot of people on the left, especially. but also on the right. being deeply, deeply offendered and calling you a racist or a bigot or a misogynist or whatever. i go back again.
me made $50 a week more than i do. oh, because he was a man. reporter: an inspiration to all of us who broke through in an age when bosses were gruff and women were told we didn t belong in the newsroom. but it does seem you ve been asking a lot of very personal questions that don t have a thing to do with my qualifications for this job! you know what? you ve got spunk! well. i hate spunk! reporter: so many news women tweeting their tributes. so someone so iconic, she once inspired this spontaneous moment on the today show you re going to make it after all we heard the first mention of the pill on a sitcom. don t forget to take your pill. i won t. i won t. climbing the career ladder with conflicted feelings about being the token woman. what would you say fountain
advocate for torture, all of those kind of things. this isn t an easy meeting. everything is on the table. ambassador kim darrich, thank you. thank you, mr. ambassador. keir, thank you as well. good for you to be on the set. good to be here. coming up when life imitates art. i d like to know the last associate producer before me made $50 a week more than i do. because he was a man! an inspiration to all of us who broke through in an age when bosses were gruff and women i recall told we didn t belong in the newsroom. nbc s andrea mitchell reflects on the ground breaking example set by mary tyler moore s character on her iconic show. andrea joins the conversation next on morning joe. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis isn t it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla, apremilast.
people left flowers of the statue of her in minneapolis and dick van dyke tweeted this. there are no words. she was the best. we always said that we changed each other s lives for the better. carol burnett wrote, quote, she will be so missed. she was a pioneer on television and one of the sweetest, nicest people i ever knew. she is survived by her husband of 33 years robert levine. mary tyler moore dies at the age of 80. mike barnicle, we just talked about another trailblazer, a woman who is a trail blazer. in television you have lucille ball and mary tyler moore and carol burnett but carol burnett and lucille ball did is what or carol burnett and mary tyler moore did in the early seventh was nothing short of extraordinary. talk about an all boys club. they kicked the walls down! and they did it their way. well, both of them. but especially mary tyler moore, given the cast, the ensemble