Posted on 02/26/2014 4:05:11 AM PST by Kaslin
Well, if you or I had Joe & Mika’s work schedule, we’d be starving in the streets. So it may be pure laziness on their part.
Did you notice Baldwin said Joe was a hard guy to work with? Confirms all the stuff I’ve heard about Joe’s treatment of staff.
I don’t know if I remember that.
It was a long ma(d)ifesto, yes?
I do remember him saying something like Joe being neither eloquent or humorous.
I often turn on Morning Joe in the mornings at the gym just to see what the enemy might be worried about. Obamacare was a delicious topic for a few months until they decided, in lockstep with the Obama administration, that none of the policy or healthcare aspects really matter so long as they can shove it down our throats anyway.
But the weird thing, Miss M., is that for all their faux wonkishness the show isn’t really a news show at all. It’s a pretentious, deeply cynical “reality” show, on the other end of the political and spiritual spectrum from, say, Duck Dynasty.
The past few days, with a few carefully timed trips from the room, you might never know that Ukraine and Venezuela were in tumult, that civilians were dying by the thousands in Syria, that powerful and near-powerful nations are lining up to fill the leadership role the U.S. under Obama has renounced.
You wouldn’t know that this is a nation in crisis itself, but for little Bobby Jindal’s “poisonous” remarks in the Rose Garden the other day.
This is the news of the world according to Margaret Dumont or, more aptly, Holly Golightly. Astonishing, the vacuous people and topics that shape our times.
So interesting - it started out as a news show and has morphed into a weird reality show, as you say. And it’s all about their personal problems - Mika’s ridiculous and embarrassing food troubles! Joe’s mentally-challenged son! Mike Baricle’s weight problem and old-fogy glasses! Clarence Page’s odd, Kermit the Frog voice! Michael Steele’s inability to get another job! Nicole Wallace trying to get her arms as cut as Michele Obama’s! Endless mindless chatter while - as you say - the Ukraine and Venezuela blow up and the Cubans have been denied meat in their diet.
Yes and the fake Republicans-—Joe and Steele and the weirdly innocuous Nicole Wallace-—are much, much worse than the lefties who fill the screen, who at least have their hatred as motive force.
There’s not a single host or even guest that one would care to have at the dinner table, with the exception of an occasional actor or athlete.
And isn’t it impossible not to notice how sexless they all are? Jon Meachem? The plasticine Mika? Even the buffed and stridently gay Steven Roberts (he of the sneering “sanctity of sperm” comments) who looks and acts like a Stepford Husband, or Wife, such as the evening demands. And...”Willie” Geist?
If you haven’t seen it already you should google the appearance on the show of the comedian Russell Brand, a brainy, hearty, real human being who clearly felt he had been dropped in amongst some clan of bumbling, evil mannkin-pods.
Did Ken Doll Steve replace Ken Doll Donnie? What grown man uses a diminutive? Gay men do, of course. Or maybe he’s metrosexual. Oddly enough, I can only stand about 15 minutes of it before switching to a movie - at eight o’clock in the morning!
Have you checked on Ronan Farrow? Since you seem to enjoy media, you might want to dvr an episode. It’s got to be seen to be believed. The kid gives nepotism a bad name!
Well, Donnie’s supposed to be the babe magnet, right?
The big swordsman?
He is such a tool—of what variety, for what job, I can’t imagine—that I was stunned to learn he actually DOES run a large p.r. firm, which has been responsible for a number of recent Super Bowl ad campaigns.
He is such a hapless emulator of that kind of greezy 50s bad boy dreamboat...I hate to admit it but I am old (and foolish) enough to envy some of those horrid expensive suits!
I am a masochistic news junkie...but I draw the line at Ronan even if NBC won’t...ha...time to go shovel snow Ms M...have a great day!
Thomas Roberts, sorry.
Forgive me the angry sperm talker new to Morning Joe is THOMAS Roberts not Steven...Steven Roberts of course is Cokie Roberts’ husband which opens an entirely new can of...well, soda, or something....
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