“Disgusting,” said Brzezinski after viewing Gingrich’s remarks.

One of the “Morning Joe” panelists had this quip:

“the immorality of income inequality …”

“Income inequality” comes by way of free will. No one forced the students protesting to agree to student loans whose terms they could not meet; no one forced homeowners to agree to home loans they could not afford–the only lack of economic free will which has created any disparity is directly due to the economic policies of an administration whose strategy of shrinking the tax base while increasing the burden of revenue sans cutting entitlements is a no-win situation. But no one is “occupying” the space in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. If you want to talk “income inequality” let’s talk about how none of the occupiers are protesting the Obama administration over seizing public capital to unfairly prop up failed energy companies oh, who also donated to Obama’s campaign. Coincidence, I’m sure.

Fascinating: the choice to be productive and successful is immoral yet this is not:

Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents: MyFoxBOSTON.com

Redefining greed is a progressive strategy. It is the very definition of greed to expect someone else to provide you your way of life with their capital in which you had no hand producing.
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Amazingly, Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe seemed to figure out the hypocrisy of the DNC and the White House complaining about undisclosed donors and “special interest” money being supposedly funneled into Republican campaigns. The White House has been going after the Chamber of Commerce and more than once has been unable to come up with any defense or any support to their totally unsubstantiated claims. Alexrod can’t answer, Gibbs can’t answer, and Mika Brzezinski, co-host of Morning Joe certainly can’t answer. Joe brought up something that the rest of the media has blatantly ignored in this debate, President Obama’s ability to raise more money than any other candidate. President Obama has received more anonymous donations, more big oil donations, more big business donations, and more special interest donations than any other politician ever!

The obvious lunacy of the White House pointing fingers at the RNC is something that only one MSNBC host can apparently seem to grasp. Perhaps Joe can talk to the other MSNBC hosts that have shown “rank hypocrisy” when it comes to asking about finances between Republican and Democratic candidates.

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Yesterday Valerie Jarrett sponsored the White House Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference hosted by the White House Council on Women and Girls (Jarrett is the chair). Valerie Jarrett is the former Chicago political power-broker who became a top Obama aide after the election. She’s excellent at organizing propaganda. As we remember with the NEA conference call, Buffy Wicks along with Yosi Sergant – who organized the call – worked in Jarrett’s office and Wicks reported to Jarrett.

Our favorite White House tool, Mika Brzezinski, moderated the opening panel. Brzezinski is a “host” at MSNBC (she’s the one always giving the mean looks to the conservative guests on Morning Joe). You remember Mika: She’s the one who admitted on air that she received talking points from the White House for her reporting and debating political issues: (more…)

It takes Mika Brzezinski and Lawrence O’Donnell to make you feel warm and fuzzy about Donald Trump:

Don’t you wish more guests would speak to them like this? (more…)

Newsbusters reports that Morning Joe brought on Terry Jones, the Gainseville, Florida pastor now famous for the Koran burning hubbub, so that he could be lectured on Christianity by departing Newsweek editor Jon Meacham.  So far this is all SOP at MSNBC.  Then, in what will strike most of you as a surreal (and perhaps unprecedented) occurrence that ought to go down in MSNBC lore, Jones’s feed is cut off before he gets in a single word.

From the Newsbusters write up:

In what had to be the ultimate in condescension and elitism, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” brought Pastor Terry Jones on the show merely to lecture him on Christianity, cutting him off before he could even respond. Co-host Mika Brzezinski explained to him “we don’t really need to hear anything else, so thanks.” Newsbusters’ Mark Finkelstein first briefly reported on this segment this morning.

Panel member Jon Meacham, the departing editor of Newsweek, briefly preached to Pastor Jones on Jesus’ New Testament message of love and forgiveness and then appealed to him “as a fellow Christian” to not follow through with his threats to burn the Koran. Then, before Pastor Jones responded, his live feed was cut and co-host Mika Brzezinski continued with the show, saying that they did not need to listen to Pastor Jones.

Now all radio and television shows have to cut off a guest from time to time due to time constraints, etc., but it’s not every day you see a guest invited on, talked at, then cut off, all before he has a chance to utter even a greeting, much less a defense.  What’s more, Brzezinski emphatically explained MSNBC’s treatment of their guest by stating, “we don’t really need to hear anything else.”

You know MSNBC has sunk pretty low if they can make the nutty Pastor Jones seem like a sympathetic figure, even if for just a brief moment.

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Joe Scarborough is a scarcely visible light in the intellectually vacuous cavern of MSNBC liberal apparatchiks.

I made the mistake of turning on this network in prime time last night and my head almost blew off.

What stunning honesty about ones employer and the jackassery within one’s own network.  The choicest part of these two minutes is the smug, putrefied reaction of the co-host after Joe’s comment.   Looking mortified, Mika Brzezinski glares the rest of the dialogue before squeaking out a nervous laugh in the end.  Eugene Robinson laughs and retorts Joe’s rational argument with quite possibly the most obtuse, child-like avoidance in the history of punditry.

“Why do you want to take Social Security away from senior citizens?” (more…)

In case you ever thought the media played things straight — you know, actually quoted people accurately and, when paraphrasing, gave a fair summation of what the person actually said and meant — think again.

Check out this priceless clip from the increasingly irrelevant Morning Joe MSNBC gabfest, which features a sputtering Chris Matthews summarizing some remarks from Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, who’s running against Harry Reid in Nevada for the U.S. Senate.

Like a typical leftist, poor Chris has no sense of irony or metaphor or anything else — spooked by his own dark fantasies of the right, he takes every statement made by a conservative absolutely literally, then spins it into a terrifying tale of lurking militias and Christian-rightists and lions and tigers and bears oh my… (more…)

All you need to know:

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The question has been asked here before but it bears repeating. Where were the Connecticut media for 20-some years while the state’s attorney general asserted repeatedly (and falsely) that he had served in Vietnam? Why did it take an out-of-state newspaper to expose the reality that Dick Blumenthal had only served stateside in the Marine Corps Reserves after several draft deferments?

Blumenthal has enjoyed some of the most adulatory press of any public official in the state. And he is assiduous in seeking coverage. It has been said before that, unless Chuck Schumer is visiting, the most dangerous piece of real estate in Connecticut is that little space between Blumenthal and a TV camera.

Inasmuch as he’s always been acutely aware of his public image, how could such a man stand idly by while media outlets printed flattering information about him that he knew was inaccurate? How could he, in his own words at yesterday’s press conference, “misspeak” about his service “on a few occasions” and the news media let him get away with it? Most of those “occasions,” by the way, were gatherings of veterans’ groups. (more…)

Internecine strife, hurt feelings, jealousy, tears: no, it’s not a daytime soap opera but rather all in day’s work over at the cable channel nobody watches, MSNBC.  It seems that someone named Donnie Deutsch — whose claim to fame is what, exactly? — who’s been anchoring a week-long afternoon series called “America the Angry,” drew the wrath of the station’s resident angry person, Keith Olbermann, by displaying an image of the Howard Beale of our time as part of a general examination of the media’s role in fostering a climate of, well, anger.

Just so you can sort them out, here’s Beale (Peter Finch) from the classic movie, Network:

And here’s Olbermann.  Even their own mothers couldn’t tell them apart:

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Is there something in the water at MSNBC that makes everybody there crazy? Morning Joe, which ought to be the premier political talk show on morning television — but won’t be until it expands its guest list beyond Mrs. Alan Greenspan, writers and editors at the New York Times and the newsweeklies, and sneering lefties like Donny Deutsch, whose claim to fame is… what, exactly? — recently witnessed this Chernobyl-style meltdown by Lawrence O’Donnell, which has to be seen to be believed:

Sure, it’s tough being on the side of the incipient losers, staring into the electoral abyss of 2010 and knowing it’s going to take a miracle to save you.  But even Joe Scarborough — who normally is quick to assure his liberal guests that he’s not really that kind of conservative – couldn’t take the vicious animosity, not to mention the spectacular rudeness to one of his guests.  To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, if this is how MSNBC treats its conservative guests, it doesn’t deserve to have any.

Memo to MSNBC management: in the immortal words of Joseph Welch to Sen. Joseph McCarthy at the Army-McCarthy hearings:

You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

You can see the more civilized second half of the segment after the jump:

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Headlines like the ones below tell the story:

“Democrats point fingers after stunning loss”

“GOP Win in Mass. Puts Dems on Offensive – Scott Brown’s Surprise Senate Victory Has Democrats Scrambling to Regain Footing”

“GOP Senate Victory Stuns Democrats”

“In Stunning Upset, GOP’s Brown Wins Mass. Seat“

Etc.

In one sense, yes, Scott Brown’s victory over Martha Coakley was stunning: In the bluest of blue states in the bluest region of the nation, voters rejected the Democrats’ — and Obama’s — agenda, sending a Republican to the Senate whom they hope will help stem the waves of left-wing socialism upon which our president, accompanied by a majority in Congress, has been bodysurfing since he came to office, despite campaigning as a moderate who would govern from the center. (more…)

Well, the cat is finally out of the bag and guess who let him out?  None other than Morning Joe’s own resident heartthrob, Mika Brzezinski.  In an interview with TV Newser’s Julie Menin, promoting her new book, All Things At Once, the daughter of Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor had this to say about the mainstream media:

I’ve worked in the mainstream media for all the networks and I will say what people aren’t saying. It’s got a liberal world view. There are great people working at the networks, and they’re mostly Democrats, ok?

I think honestly what needs to happen, is we need to stop pretending about who we are and every journalist should tell us what their political affiliation is, who they voted for,  and we go from there.

I hate the polarizing extremes that we’re seeing on cable where there’s these sort of “Think my way or you’re evil” kind of subliminal message or cartoonish type characters on the right and the left. I think we try and break a lot of those barriers on Morning Joe.

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