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Daily Kos Founder Banned From MSNBC After “Cheap Shot” At Joe Scarborough
mediaite.com ^ | 7/7/10 | Steve Krakauer

Posted on 07/07/2010 4:31:21 PM PDT by Nachum

Following a harsh exchange between MSNBC host Joe Scarborough and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas on Twitter in May, Moulitsas writes today that he has been banned (for now) from appearing on the network.

He publishes an email from MSNBC President Phil Griffin explaining the reasoning (a “cheap shot”), but Moulitsas concludes he has “been booted from the network because of a Scarborough temper tantrum.”

Moulitsas writes today on Daily Kos about the circumstances in a post “Why I am blacklisted by MSNBC“. “In case you were wondering why you haven’t seen me on MSNBC recently, it seems that Joe Scarborough, he of the lowest rated morning show in cableland, has blackballed me,” he writes. “And Phil Griffin, the alleged president of MSNBC, is going along with it.”

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KEYWORDS: banned; daily; founder; joescarborough; kos; scarborough
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To: Josh Painter

That has got to be bad! Ha Ha!


41 posted on 07/07/2010 5:06:16 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: Fantasywriter
The guy who runs the whole shooting match over there at KOS comes across sounding like he’s in his teens.

Shooting or Shouting, either one will work. I have a feeling most of his 'posters' are in their teens, physically, or mentally.

Isn't KOS a blog and not a discussion forum?

That's what I like about FR. Jim Robinson doesn't decide WHAT everyone else should discuss. We do.

Maybe immaturity is ‘in’ on the Left?

I heard that once you grow up and mature, you turn to the Right.

What was that saying.....

"With age comes wisdom. But not always, and not for everyone."

42 posted on 07/07/2010 5:07:25 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

We need more cats on the job.

43 posted on 07/07/2010 5:07:35 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Nachum

Being banned from MSNBC is equivalent to being banned from eating rubarb.


44 posted on 07/07/2010 5:08:38 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy inas whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Glenn

45 posted on 07/07/2010 5:09:05 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Well that was the gist of one of Churchill’s famous quotes, wasn’t it? It’s not so bad to start out liberal, but if by a certain age you haven’t outgrown it, you have problems.


46 posted on 07/07/2010 5:09:32 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: ConservativeMan55
What did he say?

He accused Joe of killing the pretty intern that was found dead in his campaign office on a Saturday morning.

47 posted on 07/07/2010 5:10:01 PM PDT by NotSoModerate
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To: cranked

How can you cheap shot Joe? I mean-really!


48 posted on 07/07/2010 5:10:09 PM PDT by packrat35 (Planned Parenthood - Keeping healthcare costs down, one fetus at a time)
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To: Nachum

You can’t blackball me! I’m big, rich important member of the American left!

/sarc

Kicked off MSNBC for being too obnoxious. Wow.....


49 posted on 07/07/2010 5:11:22 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Nachum

You can’t blackball me! I’m big, rich important member of the American left!

/sarc

Kicked off MSNBC for being too obnoxious. Wow.....


50 posted on 07/07/2010 5:11:29 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: UCANSEE2

Nice catch! Odds are close to a hundred percent of Kossacks are good shouters. I bet barely one percent are good shooters/marksmen. That’s one thing I like about FR; we have the guns. ;)

As to the rest, KOS has discussion forums, but if you can believe it, the bile and sludge are even worse than on DU. I still, once in a blue moon, drop in on DU to find out what’s animating the Moon Bats. I can’t go to KOS because there is just too much concentrated insanity and rage in too small a space. Really ghastly stuff!


51 posted on 07/07/2010 5:14:29 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Nachum
Markos has a screwy book coming out soon. He needed MSNBC and its leftist audience in order to promote it. This actually hurts Kos.
52 posted on 07/07/2010 5:15:32 PM PDT by GOPToad
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To: Fantasywriter

If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.


53 posted on 07/07/2010 5:16:08 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Who allowed the worst oil pollution disaster in American history and did nothing?)
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To: Nachum

Why doesn’t the author tell us what the Kos guy said? He talks around it, but never gets to the point.


54 posted on 07/07/2010 5:16:52 PM PDT by gitmo ( The democRats drew first blood. It's our turn now.)
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To: cranked

The Modern Day Certified Snot Faced Liberals are at it again.


55 posted on 07/07/2010 5:16:55 PM PDT by Waco (From Seward to Sarah)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

That’s it—the exact one I was thinking of. Thanks!


56 posted on 07/07/2010 5:17:39 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Nachum

MSNBC Morning Joe has hissy fit with Daily Kos?

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57 posted on 07/07/2010 5:21:57 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Gone Galt and loving it)
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To: Fantasywriter

I listened to the bastard a couple of times and started forming my own opinions before I figured out who he was.

He seemed, shallow, RINOstic, defensive. Then I thought he just plain sucked.


58 posted on 07/07/2010 5:22:12 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Who allowed the worst oil pollution disaster in American history and did nothing?)
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To: Nachum

I love to watch rats eat their own on hot summer days.... Better than Gin n tonics, better than Popsicles, it’s even better than low fat sorbet!

(fans self contentedly...)


59 posted on 07/07/2010 5:24:20 PM PDT by Danae (If Liberals were only moderately insane, they would be tollerable. Alas, such is not the case.)
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To: Fantasywriter
I just had a spirited exchange with a leftist who sent me two MediaMatters links to ‘prove’ that conservatives are racists. And this leftist admitted, when she sent the links, that some quotes were taken out of context. Now what mature person would consider that a valid much less persuasive argument?

Truth is to liberals as holy water is to vampires.

60 posted on 07/07/2010 5:25:39 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others)
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