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Comparing Massa To Foley

Morning Joe is still stuck on Massa. Really, it appears that Joe has some inner regret for not being one of Massa’s targets, but something they have been saying has really got me going. All morning they have been comparing Eric Massa to Mark Foley.

Massa is accused of making sexual advances towards male staffers – people over the age of 18. Yes it is wrong, but it is something that is very common in any workplace.

Mark Foley, well this guy was sending sexually implicit emails to House Paige’s. These are minors – children under the age of 18. They are sent to Capital Hill to learn from the leaders of our country, and while there they are considered wards of the House. Foley was supposed to be a mentor to these children, not a predator.

It amazes me that a talent on a major network news channel is so blinded by partisanship that he can’t make a distinction between the two. Either Joe is trying to make Massa’s case out to be much worse than it is, or he is trying to diminish the severity of what Foley did. If the reason falls in the later, then Scarborough should be really ashamed. There is no excuse for that and MSNBC should yank Scarborough for something so disgusting. This is, after all, the network that brought us Chris Hanson’s “To Catch A Predator”.

Out Of 10800 Seconds, Morning Joe Spends 10 Seconds On Washington Cop Killings

Absolutely fucking amazing. Scarborough dishonored the memory of the slain officers just to protect his BFF Huckabee. MSNBC should hang their head very low in shame today and Morning Joe should be cancelled.

UPDATE:
Within 8 minutes of his show starting, Dylan Ratigan started covering the shootings. NBC even has a reporter on the scene, yet Scarborough couldn’t be bothered to go to him. Ratigan even has Eliot Spitzer on to talk about Governors and clemency. Drop Scarborough and give Ratigan the morning show – that would be a big help for MSNBC.

I Guess MSNBC Doesn’t Cover News?

I’ve been watching Morning Joe for over an hour and they didn’t mention the killing of the Washington State cops or Huckabee’s involvement. They talked about Huckabee being the front runner in the GOP polls for 2012 and him maybe not running, but it wasn’t until guest Donnie Deutsch mentioned the case that Scarborough could bring himself to talk about it for 10 seconds. I guess they can’t be bothered to talk about one of the biggest stories in the nation now.

Adding….They are getting ready to cover the White House party crashers again, after spending about 30 minutes last hour on it. No wonder Morning Joe is the worse rated morning show on TV.

Morning Infomercial

I hear by proclaim that Morning Joe must be renamed to Morning Infomercial. All you hear them talk about now is Scarborough’s new book. It’s a nonstop pimp fest.

Scarborough: Everyone Agrees With Cheney

Shorter Scarborough just now:

If you took a poll you would find everyone agrees with Cheney on nation security instead of Obama.

Then shorter Mika:

Yes master Joe – you are correct as always.

It really tells you how bad Scarborough’s views are when MSNBC has to pay someone to just agree with him on everything so he looks good. Glenn Beck doesn’t even need that.

A Thought On Morning Shows

Following up from my previous post, I think I have figured out why people don’t watch Morning Joe (he does rank 3rd amongst the 3 cable stations).

The most common demographic you are going to find during the early morning hours are people getting ready for work. They are on a limited time schedule and need to be able to absorb the most information possible. The can’t sit there and waste time hearing one person go on about a single issue over and over again, making you think the record is stuck.

Add to that the time of the year. People are doing more things outside, so their biggest chance of catching cable news is in the morning. They have limited watching time and want the most info, since they have the kids soccer game after work, or maybe cut the grass, or any number of outdoor activities this time of year is accustom for.

I got thinking about this while switching between CNN and MNSBC this morning. It turned into my own little “unofficial survey”. Here’s what I noticed. In one hour Morning Joe covered the same story nonstop – Pelosi and the CIA. During that same time CNN covered that story, but also the Rumsfeld memos, the decline of popularity of the GOP, teachers possibly abusing handicap children, and a few other topics.

Honestly I must say I felt so much more informed watching CNN than I did watching the Morning Joe “worry about only what I want” show.

The Joe And Mika Talking Points Show

I have had Morning Joe on for about 45 minutes now. Guess what the subject has been? Nancy Pelosi and the CIA crap. The constant whining of “how can she lash out at the CIA” is getting very old.

Scarborough has essentially dedicated his last 4 shows to this subject. This morning they are talking about the statement from Leon Panetta like it was just released this morning, when it came out last Friday. It really reminds me of some creepy stalked infatuation.

Anyways I don’t think I can handle Morning Joe any longer. I am going to have to stomach the change and go back to CNN or maybe even FOX.

UPDATE

So I decide to switch on CNN and guess what they are talking about? The Rumsfeld memos. Get that Joe – there is other news out there. Perhaps someone from MSNBC will read this and tell Scarborough to start covering other stuff or find a new job. Even FOX can get off of a single story every once in awhile.

Awww Scarborough’s Mad At Jon Stewart

Tonight’s episode of TDS should be awesome

Scarborough Turns Further To The Right

I was watching Morning Joe this morning and in utter amazement at the dialogue going on. For a moment I thought FOX had taken over the show. Here’s a clip caught by Think Progress:

As Think Progress points out:

What’s more, as Center for American Progress Action Fund President John Podesta pointed out to Scarborough minutes later, these tax cuts were something that “Barack Obama campaigned on all year long” — and he encountered the exact same fearmongering accusations of “socialism” from conservatives. If Americans didn’t support Obama’s tax plan, they wouldn’t have voted for him.

Yup – this country voted for Socialism by the Republican’s very definition. If they don’t like it then they can find a new place to call home, but that is what America wants, so Scarborough needs to get over himself.

But the fact is Scarborough and Buchanan both said they didn’t want help for the lower and middle class, but would rather have tax-cuts to the corporations. Again – screw us, but save them.

Obama Ahead By 11% In Gallup Daily Tracker

This is the biggest margin to date for Obama. I guess the pundits blew it again. It seems that the "bitter" comment isn't hurting Obama, like they all claimed it would. As matter of fact, the AP is finding out that there isn't much impact at all:

Yes, some Democrats in Pennsylvania's Rust Belt communities were upset by Barack Obama's suggestion that voters there "cling to guns or religion" because of bitterness about their economic lot. But many more seem to think it was no big deal - and if there's a problem it's with the political slapfest that has followed.

So Scarborough, Buchanan, O'Reilly, and all you other broadcasters out there, stop telling middle America how they feel. You are elitists in your own sense and have no idea what we "feel". It's an insult to try and tell us that. Here's something middle America. Why don't one of you guys walk into a local bar and start telling all the people that they need to "feel" this way? Watch how fast you get called outside.

Scarborough Is "Outraged" Over Matthews Having To Apologize

But who really cares? What I find the most interesting of the entire segment is how they keep saying Media Matters is now a front for the Clinton campaign.

Scarborough And Buchanan - "Hold Hearings Over the NIE"

Looks like people from the right side of the aisle are upset with Bush trying to lie this country into another war and want Joe Biden to start holding hearings over it. My suggestion is that Joe Biden drop out from the Presidential race (let's face facts - I like Joe but he doesn't have a prayer) and during that announcement tell the people he is doing so to focus his energies into getting to the bottom of this scandal.

Card -Vs- Rove

You got to love it when the man who ran the White House for six years debunks the man who ran the President for six years:

SCARBOROUGH: We have to start with something that we all are talking about a couple of days ago where Karl Rove went on Charlie Rose and he blamed the Democrats for pushing him and the president into war. Is that how it worked?

CARD: No, that’s not the way it worked.

SCARBOROUGH: What the heck? Seriously, what the hell was that about?

CARD: Democrats pushed us a lot of stupid things, but they didn’t push us into war.

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, yeah. You worked with Karl. Is that just Karl spinning beyond the White House?

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Spinning out of control?

CARD: Well, Karl is very smart. He’s — sometimes his brain gets ahead of his mouth. And sometimes his mouth gets ahead of his brain.

His mouth gets ahead of his brain? That is a really good characteristic for a man who had clearance to classified information, and we all know how that went.

Tucker Get A Smack Down

This was classic. Scarborough thinks that Tucker got the best in this argument. Check it out and see what you think. I believe Scarborough is flat wrong.

It is funny to hear these right wingers get mad when the personal lives of politicians is brought into the public debate. It was just 10 years ago that it was perfectly legitimate to do so. As matter of fact, Joe was on the very Congress that voted to impeach Bill Clinton.

Dismissing Coulter's Scapegoat

This is getting old. Ann Coulter is out on our public airwaves using a defense any 5 year old would use (and she is suppose to be a lawyer?). That defense is simple - "Well Bill Maher did it". Wow Ann - if Bill Maher jumped off a bridge, would you?

So let's look at Anne's defense. What she is under fire for is the following statement:

"I've learned my lesson. If I'm gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot." (emphasis added)

Now she is saying that Bill Maher said the same thing about Dick Cheney. During episode 503 of Real Time with Bill Maher, the round table turned to the hot topic of the week of a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, in which Dick Cheney was the target. Bill was discussing with his panel the decision of the Huffington Post to close the comments on the news thread about the attempt, because people were commenting that they were upset Cheney survived. I dug through my archives and here is the video of the segment: