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Well, this is a relief:
MSNBC said Friday that it is suspending “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough for two days after he acknowledged giving eight previously unknown $500 contributions to friends and family members running for state and local offices during his tenure at the network, a violation of parent NBC’s ban on political contributions by employees without specific permission from the network president.
Democracy is now safe. Neither Keith Olbermann nor Morning Joe, who are real persons/citizens, can contribute insignificant, puny amounts to political campaigns without asking their corporate daddy’s permission.
Meanwhile, the advertising sponsors of NBC/MSNBC programs can blatantly launder hundreds of millions of dollars through Karl Rove and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. And NBC/MSNBC will continue to take millions from Chevron, AT&T and Citi, etc to sponsor their news/commentary shows, while continuing to claim they believe in unbiased, objective reporting about global climate change, net neutrality and media concentration and financial regulation.
These people make my cynicism look Pollyannish.
Also, today’s reading is from Matthew 7:3
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Maybe we should start calling him Morning Chuck.
In my experience, guys who use their middle names really, really don’t like the diminutives of their actual first names.
Up-Chuck Scarborough?
It’s the *Big Corporate* daddy’s permission, mind you.
I’ll bet anything that Scar doesn’t get 350,000 signatures on a petition demanding his return.
Somehow I doubt that no NewsPerson at NBC has never forgotten to check with NBC first before they donate to GOP or Dem.
Does anyone expect big news anchors with the big ego’s million dollar contracts and news show with millions of viewers to check with NBC before they write a check?
I want him to run Comedy Gold plus he should be easy to beat. I wonder if Jeb Bush is putting him up to this though?
Again, this is such a lame joke in the context of Andrea wanking Greenspan. Did she ask permission to marry that dirty old man, thus putting everything she ever reports on in a suspect light?
Does Tweety report that General Electric the owner of NBC makes nuclear reactors when he gushes on about how green nukes are?
as a friend noted earlier, this happens just in time for Thanksgiving vacation
How much does George Will get from Climate Change Deniers?
How much does NBC’s stock market gurus get to pump the market?
Exactafrikinlutely! What a joke.
General Electric got bank bailout money even though they are not a bank did that influence coverage?
I hadn’t thought of that. What are the odds that Scar comes back on Wednesday? I’ll bet he has someone filling in for him that day.
“Mr. Scarborough, put out your right hand, suh.”
[crowd murmurs]
“Mr Scarborough, pull down your cuff, suh.”
[old woman shreiks, waif cries]
SLAP!
[crowd gasps, womenfolk faint and wail]
Scar, as much as I disdain the asshole, doesn’t deserve this any more than Olbermann did. This is just a ploy by the asshole at the head of msnbc to convince everyone that he is fair. Suspending either of them is just stupid. We all know their political leanings, they don’t hide them, why would we be surprised that they put their money where their mouths are?
Well, in the interest of fair disclosure, I should reveal I have a monetary bias here. I get my cable via Comcast, so I’ve built up an irrational, uh, hatred towards them.
Noooooo… you want to get a reaction out of Scarbourough, you ask him, “How’s Lori?”
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html
Agree completely. Stupid on every level. I *guess* because they did it to KO, it makes *some* sense to do it to Scar, but srsly I *could care less.* What a crock. I know what Joe Scarborough’s pol leanings are, as I know about KO’s. Big frackin deal. Get over it.
Sheesh. With Citizens United in full swing, this is just more bright shiny objects meant to distract the rubes from the bigger shenanigans & rip offs going on. Stupid.
Plus doing this to Scar will just conservatives yet another venue for playing the victim card… boo hoo…
That explains the questionable timing of this farce.
Ooooo… I know your pain. I just fired Comcast a few months ago.
I don’t know how a multinational corporation managed to get down such a perfect recreation of Soviet-era bureaucracy, I don’t know, but they nailed it. Just write Comcast in Cyrillic on the front door.
The really sick part was since there’s basically been nothing on TV since the writers strike, I was paying over $100 a month for basically commercial free music.
I’m MUCH happier with Comcast fired and Pandora hired. Much richer, too :)
When does it stop?
“Scar, as much as I disdain the asshole …”
I would like to associate myself with this part of your comment :-)
I think what it comes down to is that everybody in Washington actually enjoys being a evil corrupt hypocrite. Once you understand their pleasure principle, it makes more sense.
When it comes to campaigns, I think the Spanish have it …..
http://www.newslook.com/videos/267685-orgasmic-voting-video
Can NBC do this legally? Can your employer tell you whether you can donate to a political campaign?
It’s a contract matter. The contract can set the conditions the employee must meet — e.g., avoid all appearances of bias via direct political contributions — to keep the job. But applying this to known political advocates is a little strange.
To me Joe belongs right at the top list of the 20 worst republicans. But of course this list just keep growing daily.
But we can not expect Scarborough or any person to have to ask some Corporate Jerks for permission on who they may contribute money to a candidate of their choice. As long as everything is on the up and up , if there is any rules today after seeing what the U.S. Supreme Court did creating a policy in which Corporations can do as they please.
Where does the control over citizens of this country end,, from that of the RULING CLASS.