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Scarborough and Matthews Squabble Like Schoolboys: 'It's My Show!'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 10/07/2014 5:32:39 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Early in today's Morning Joe, teasing Chris Matthews' upcoming appearance, Mika Brzezinski admonished "you two be nice now." They weren't. Yet again, the two MSNBC hosts came to verbal blows.

The detonator wasn't political differences. Instead, the two MSNBC hosts squabbled over personal supremacy like a pair of eighth-grade boys in the schoolyard. Matthews was on a riff, offering a extended rundown of his predictions on the various Senate races. He didn't want to stop when Scarborough sought to interrupt. "Just a minute, Joe. Just a minute," insisted the Hardball host. Shot back Scarborough: "no, no. It's my show. I'm going to ask you a question." "No, I finish the answer first," countered Chris. Insisted Scarborough: "you always do this. You act like you never ask follow-up questions on your show, and then you come on my show and then you're so damned shocked and stunned when somebody actually stops you from going on a 12-minute --"

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chrismatthews; joescarborough; morningjoe; schoolboys

1 posted on 10/07/2014 5:32:40 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Why do Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough hate each other? Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 10/07/2014 5:33:42 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Was Chrissy spewing spittle?


3 posted on 10/07/2014 5:35:16 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Why do Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough hate each other?

Staged perhaps? Everyone on MSNBC is going to generally agree on everything, but controversy is what sells. So they have to find non-political subjects to argue about.

4 posted on 10/07/2014 5:35:56 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They didn’t squabble like school boys.
They squabbled like school girls - which may be more biologically accurate anyway with these two.


5 posted on 10/07/2014 5:38:58 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I think it’s because Pissy knows he was a libtard before Joe and resents Joe acting like he has street cred with libtard nation.


6 posted on 10/07/2014 5:39:51 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

it’s just foreplay, tingles likes them feisty.


7 posted on 10/07/2014 6:05:10 AM PDT by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Yet again, the two MSNBC hosts came to verbal blows.

Please. More like an intellectual pillow fight.

8 posted on 10/07/2014 6:07:29 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

More like this clip from Blazing Saddles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFCb4j0E2p4


9 posted on 10/07/2014 6:09:31 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s my show, and I’ll lie if I want to.....................


10 posted on 10/07/2014 6:14:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: exit82

Yup.


11 posted on 10/07/2014 6:19:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Wow, somebody actually saw this? If a tree falls in the forest...


12 posted on 10/07/2014 6:47:12 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Who cares? I view each of them with an equal amount of distaste.


13 posted on 10/07/2014 9:31:31 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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