IT’S OFFICIAL: ‘Morning Joe’ Is Dead

The Daily Caller ^ | 14 May 2018 | ALEX CASTELLANOS

[Magnatron]

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell

Belonging is a drug and we are all addicted to it. When a “like” validates our social worth, or we ignore work to respond to our most recent email, we confirm our identity in a tribe. Our brains reward the recognition with a dopamine rush.

For years, I started my day with a dopamine hit at six a.m. from Morning Joe.

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It was great television. At its best, TV is an ensemble medium, an instrument of belonging. Whether we watch a local TV news program, sit-com, or talk-show, we tune in to become part of a TV family that reflects our own.

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The conflict between mom and dad is gone. The relationship that once ignited sparks has been dimmed and homogenized. Every cast member reads the same script, disowning differences and drama. Morning Joe has become a sea of sameness. The performers play indistinguishable parts, predictable bobble-head dolls that hate Donald John Trump.

Every morning, Joe trods the same path: “Can you believe what Trump has done? He does not respect the institutions that we, the establishment, have been running. He does not understand the principles that we, the establishment, have been upholding. He is disrupting the status quo that validates our superiority. When will Republicans in the Senate say “enough” and stand up to Donald Trump? And when will someone pass the Grey Poupon?”

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The show’s monotone political chanting makes for incredibly dull television. From six to nine a.m., Morning Joe is where Washington goes to learn it need not change at all.

[Hawthorn]

>> So, they closed down the ranch. There were always rumors it was a tax dodge <<

Something tells me that the IRS didn’t like the way Imus was running a lot of personal expenses thru his “charitable” set up. That may have had something to do with the shut down.

As I recall the public explanation, however, Imus said the thin air out on the high desert of New Mexico gave him problems after he had a very serious injury affecting his lungs, making it necessary for him to relocate.

But both the tax angle and the air angle could be true. Not mutually exclusive. All I know is that I wish he could have kept going with the old MSNBC format. If so, I’d probably still be watching!

[miss marmelstein]

I remember when he would get annoyed with MSNBC and have Chuck tape a piece of paper over the camera lens. Hilarious.

I remember the Wall St. Journal did a negative article on the ranch when Elliot Spitzer was still NY AG. When they want to get you indicted, they first get it into the paper. To show Imus’s power, he got the AG to drop it - or not take it up ‘cause the story was dropped. (Curtis Sliwa was always banging on about it.)

I’m sure he has major health problems from smoking so I agree it was probably the two things that got him to close down the ranch.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Someone told me Morning Joe is really conservative.”

I think he sort-of used to be, when he was in Congress. But when his little head took notice of Commie Mika, his big head took a hike. Now he is whatever she wants him to be.

[windsorknot]

But when his little head took notice of Commie Mika, his big head took a hike. Now he is whatever she wants him to be.

Yes, I often refer to him as being “Mika-whipped”.