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Morning Joe Friction Over Whether Pierson Was Affirmative Action Hire Has Geist Smirking at Mika
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 10/01/2014 5:42:37 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Imus would call it a "tension convention." There was palpable friction among members of the Morning Joe team today on the question of whether Secret Service Director Julia Pierson was an affirmative action hire. By the end, the almost unfailingly affable Willie Geist was smirking in frustration at Mika Brzezinski.

When Brzezinski first broached the sensitive-for-liberals subject, she suggested that she was going to go further than her male colleagues dared. But by the time she circled back to the topic, Mika had for some reason lost her nerve. She was suddenly so cautious that Donny Deutsch chided her for raising the issue "softly." Things came to a head when Mika, suddenly trying to sound tough, asked Willie whether it was "illegal" for her to ask why Pierson got her job. Willie, having suggested no such thing, could only smirk and look off camera for support in response to Mika's non sequitur of a question.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; juliapierson; mikabrzezinski; williegeist
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1 posted on 10/01/2014 5:42:37 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Morning Joe spat over whether Secret Service’s Pierson was affirmative action hire. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 10/01/2014 5:44:16 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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Like the clintons, these people don’t take a dump without polling and focus grouping the brand of toilet paper to use.


3 posted on 10/01/2014 5:47:52 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I figured she was an affirmative action hire to placate the birkenstock set - my gaydar was pinging when she gave her smarmy interview and took “full responsibility”

for being an incompetent idiot


4 posted on 10/01/2014 5:48:20 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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The bungling Pierson---the all-you-can-eat buffet gorger--placed in charge of a sensitive ntl security agency, once again proves that it's high time to stop thinking of Democrat-ism as merely a "political party"......

It's the party of stupidity, slavery, servitude, segregation, secularism, and sedition. Not just the party of scalawags like Aaron Burr, Boss Tweed, Richard J. Croker, Bull Connor, Chris Dodd, Richard Daley, Bill Ayers, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Chicago kingpin Obama.

It's a criminal combine----and hot bed of conspiracy to undermine US ntl security----Kendall “Agent 202” Myers, the Carter-era State Department official recruited as a Cuban spy along with his wife.

The Democratic Party shows its true colors over and over again------as a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.

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Astute conservatives have known from the getgo--- Dummycrat-ism is not even a coherent party....just a collection of hyphenates, hacks, hooligans, schemers and govt looters.....aided and abetted by an expedient alliance of special interest groups who finance the schemers....all of them gorging at the public trough.

5 posted on 10/01/2014 5:48:24 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I have to admit as soon as I heard about the fence jumper I had my suspicions about who was the secret service director. My initial thought was a black radical like Van Jones or Charles Bolden (NASA) who was put in place to make Muslims feel good about themselves and run a politically correct organization. I was surprised that it was a white woman. And it does appear she was an affirmative action hire because he bio states out “The highest ranking woman in the agency” over any other qualifications.


6 posted on 10/01/2014 5:49:15 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Amusing to watch liberals react when reality intrudes on their politically correct delusions. However these clowns are personally well paid and protected. Too bad they don’t suffer the consequences of their absurdities that are plaguing the American people. They really need to be punished and personally chastised.


7 posted on 10/01/2014 5:52:28 AM PDT by allendale
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Clearly, Hillary planned to ride to 2016 glory showcasing the "diversity" of State Dept's Marie Harf, Jen Psaki, Susan Rice.....the execrable Samantha Powers.....and Pierson.

Rice, Harf, Psaki, Powers and Pierson's monumental stupidity also tars Hillary w/ the same imbecilic brush.

Hillary's One Of Them---she can't escape the grotesque versimilitude.

8 posted on 10/01/2014 5:54:00 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Mika would make a good White House spokesman spokeswoman. Reality is what she decides it to be.
9 posted on 10/01/2014 5:54:22 AM PDT by McGruff (we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq - Barack Obama)
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To: Organic Panic

For the purposes of this selection, this criterion: “The highest ranking woman in the agency” over any other qualifications.” was the only relevant criteria.


10 posted on 10/01/2014 5:55:26 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Liz

WoW! Just WoW!

That gets a 10 as the best post of the day in my book!


11 posted on 10/01/2014 5:57:52 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The reason Pierson has her job is because her job is to look the other way and keeps her mouth shut while the Obama Administration provides all manner of Obama associates who major National Security risks, Criminals , terror affiliates, communists, inappropriate visitors, cronies with major conflicts of interest and other people hostile to the United States under the radar screen access to the White House.

Much of the competent Secret Service people from past administrations have been replaced with the sort of people willing to look the other way while Obama does what he does.

In order to allow access to the kind of people Obama wishes to provide access to, the ordinary security procedures the President is subject to must be eliminated or circumvented which provides a permissive White House security environment where such things can happen

12 posted on 10/01/2014 5:58:22 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Organic Panic

I was surprised that it was a white woman. And it does appear she was an affirmative action hire because he bio states out “The highest ranking woman in the agency” over any other qualifications.

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Saw something yesterday about maybe she was a friend of Big Sis or part of a group of Big Sis female friends that tends to get consideration above and beyond more qualified individuals for Obola Administration jobs. I don’t have a link, unfortunately.


13 posted on 10/01/2014 6:09:46 AM PDT by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

At this point who cares if Peirson was a AA hire. Because I don’t give a damned about the pResident’s security anymore....at least not THIS president.


14 posted on 10/01/2014 6:14:46 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Liz

Awesome statement!


15 posted on 10/01/2014 6:19:35 AM PDT by suijuris
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Must be a risk of flood at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, because they have dikes protecting the property.


16 posted on 10/01/2014 6:21:00 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: rdcbn
Much of the competent Secret Service people from past administrations have been replaced with the sort of people willing to look the other way while Obama does what he does.

Have any of the individuals replaced come out with that accusation?

17 posted on 10/01/2014 6:22:08 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The real question is “Why do we care?”


18 posted on 10/01/2014 6:25:14 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: silverleaf

My gaydar was out of control. Gay, obese dyke woman affirmative action hire.


19 posted on 10/01/2014 6:38:30 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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It would be so refreshing if, for any of these posts, we just hired the highest ranking person, and the heck with the all other descriptors. But we haven't seen that from government since the early 70s at least.
20 posted on 10/01/2014 6:41:23 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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