How To Make Morning Joe Panel Shut Up: Say 'Solyndra'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Ever been watching Morning Joe, and wished you could stop the steady stream of liberal blather? Simple. Say the magic word—Solyndra—and watch the gabby guests fall suddenly silent.

Today's show offered a prime example of the phenomenon. For the first ten minutes, the panel had a great old time gabbing and joking on the theme that the Republican presidential field is a mass of morons. They laughed at the mere mention of Herman Cain, likened the GOP field to a vaudeville show, dragged out the shopworn "bar in Star Wars" simile, and called the Republican candidates "jokes," "clowns" and "stupid." But then, 13 minutes in, Mika Brzezinski mentioned a story reporting that the Obama admin had suppressed the announcement of layoffs at Solyndra until after the 2010 elections. And despite Mika's wondering out loud "why this story hasn't picked up more," there wasn't a peep out of the quickly clammed-up crew and Brezinski breezed on to another story.

View the video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Morning Joe panel having great time gabbing about how dumb Republicans are, until Mika mentions Solyndra and they fall suddenly silent. Ping to Today show list.

[mewzilla]

An additional suggestion: MF Global.

From yesterday...

MF Global CEO was supposed to lecture on financial responsibility today

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Good one! That should also be a sure show-stopper!

[Chuck54]

Good one Mark.

This is ‘series’ as the FReepers are wont to say.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Fox News had an amazing statistic today from The Daily Caller: Politico had 138 Herman Cain stories in a week or two, compared with 9 Solyndra stories and 3 Fast/Furious stories.

Got bias?

[mewzilla]

MFG is even worse than Solyndra, which is undoubtedly why it is now off the MSM’s radar screen.

[jersey117]

Corzine was one of the obama team’s financial advisors. LOL

[Enterprise]

It would be nice if we had a free press that’s honest. And when are we going to establish the doctrine of separation of press and State?

[CMailBag]

Politico should be PolitiKKKo

[Rummyfan]

That’s Barnacle the plagiarist and Tina Brown the magazine destroyer. A real brain trust there on The Morning Schmoe (hat-tip to Mark Levin!). How bad is it when Mika Brzezinski comes across as the objective one?

[MrB]

Part of the communist goals for America (20,21) was infiltrating the press.
Another part was taking over education (17).

[LibsRJerks]

Whatsa matter, Barnacle — got a sock in yer mouth?

Effers.

[Saundra Duffy]

What on earth is Michael Steele doing hanging out with those clowns on MSNBC?!

[eggman]

For good measure they could throw in the Siga Technologies deal. A no-bid contract for $433 million for something there is no need for. Yet another payoff to an Obama donor.

[Rummyfan]

And just as a matter of curiousity Mark, does anyone watch MSNBC other than you? And WTF is LEAN FORWARD supposed to mean?

[Rummyfan]

The corruption in this admin is deep and systemic. But the MSM sees only the patriotic OWS'ers, Herman Cain's alleged misconduct, and Rick Perry's slip-up. If the Iranians get the bomb I hope they use their first one on the MSNBC studios.

[mewzilla]

You’re right! That’s another beaut!

[101voodoo]

And WTF is LEAN FORWARD supposed to mean?

***********************************************************

It’s actually half of the new PMSNBC slogan. The entire slogan is, “Lean Forward And grab Your Ankles”

[mewzilla]

And since we’re discussing the MSM’s total lack of curiosity when it comes to ‘Rat criminality, I’ll just toss this out there: Barry decided not to go with Graham Spanier for SecEd. Was it because the admin found out what Spanier was covering up at PSU? Inquiring minds want to know....