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I frequently criticize Mika Brzezinski, most recently for her claim that the left shares blame for the ridiculous Nazi comparisons that have become commonplace in political “debate”. I have to give her credit for something she did today, though.
Joe Scarborough tried to bully her into agreeing that the Obama administration has been attacking, even “savaging”, right wing media figures and organizations. Mika directly challenged him, saying “attacks” is the wrong word, insisting the Obama administration did not have some nefarious strategy to smear the right. Joe kept trying to bully her, but she stood her ground, insisting that the Obama approach had been limited and successful, as in their suggestion that Rush Limbaugh is the real head of the Republican party. Mika forced Joe to get defensive–he claimed the Obama approach is “not working”, saying Obama is “minus 9″ with independents right now, and his support is slipping in general. (I have no idea what poll Joe is talking about, but the ones I’ve seen show Obama with strong general support–around 57-40. A recent ABC/Washington Post poll shows independents giving Obama a 55% approval rating. The most recent Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll shows independents supporting Obama by a 56-34% margin. Don’t know how Scarborough can say Obama is “minus 9″ among independents–clearly, he’s in positive territory, at least in these 2 polls).
I don’t know what explains this. I have watched Morning Joe pretty regularly for the last 18 months or so and have never seen Mika stand up to Joe’s blowhard tactics in this way before. I hope we see much more of this–and maybe the next time he cites a vague, unnamed poll, she can call him out on that too.
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While I’ve never been really happy with Mika (I did like it when her father was on and smacked Joe). Her sudden backbone could be shades of things to come. Instead of Morning Joe, Morning Mika. Joe will head over to FAUX to complete their line up of truth tellers.
I really hope this does represent a changed approach…and I agree, I loved when Mika’s dad called Joe “stunningly superficial.”
I don’t think Joe’s quite that bad. It’s not like he mouths the daily Republican talking points, adding only truly bizarre and paranoid delusions. (Speaking of which, I think O’Reilly’s big story tonight is “Why has Glenn Beck become so popular?”)
To me, Joe’s like a throwback to the ’90s and represents that style of “outraged without a cause” bs more than the newer and better “we’re the true patriots and they’re the America-hating socialists” bs that we see over at Faux ‘news’ in more recent years.
Joe can be annoying, but at this point – unless he’s planning to start his own teabag movement or uncover some object for a phony controversy that’s really just about hating Obama, like the jackasses at Faux ‘news’ love to do – he’s not all that harmful.
Yes, that truly defines Joe S.
“Stunningly Superficial”
maybe that Obama has lost 9 polling points since his inauguration??? That fits pretty good on the average right??
Joe Scarborough should be in prison.
Instead, the Bush family owns his balls.
“Why has Glenn Beck become so popular?”
Red Scare Joe, preyed on ignorance and fear, palatable to the “yuck-headers” who let emotion rule, while media tools and fools instilled fear as a method to protect vested interests. Losing sight of the ball Glenn? As if you ever saw it in the first place!!
Joe is disgusting, and so is Mika. I cannot watch this program at all, and I watch MSNBC the rest of the day and evening. Joe and Mika are involved in a sadistic-masochistic duo, and he usually bullies her most of the time. If for one or two minutes she resisted it, she is not to be congratulated. I cannot believe that she is from the same family as her father, who seems so relieved to be speaking to Rachel Maddow, when he is a guest on her program. Joe shoud definitely be in jail, as was already mentioned above. His female assistant, was found mysteriously dead in his office, which marked the end of his political career in Florida and his precipitous move to New York. That incident was hushed up by the Bush administration, as were so many other lurid scandals. But he should not be rewarded by ratings, nor by the money tied to them. He is a disgusting pig, and Mika enables him every single day. I will not say anything good about her, EVER!!!