Posted on 05/22/2018 6:06:49 AM PDT by 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.
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Someone told me Morning Joe is really conservative. And that while they criticize, they aren’t liberal like other media programs.
I’ve never watched it.
Inherent in that sentence is one of the biggest reasons they hate him, if not THE biggest.
Dead like an intern with a smashed skull
Is this true that the show is being canceled? MAGA! Minka was bleeding from her facelift or her wherever.
Hope you don’t believe anything else that “someone” tells you!
That butthead quit congress to ‘spend more time with the family’. Announced it in June and made it effective September when kids go to school. He could of spent the whole summer ‘with his family’ but didn’t. A two faces ‘conservative’.
This article doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. The article is not worth reading.
Morning Joe is a show that has never been worth watching. I am shocked that a “conservative” would ever admit watching it.
Bring back Imus who had a brilliant show that Morning Creep worked to supplant.
Mourning Joe
THEY LIED.
Just like Joe lied to us when he was our Congresscritter................
Exactly.
If you know anything about joe scarborough you would know the show is as conservative as rachel madcow’s show.
No way would I waste 30 seconds even finding it on the dial (someone please explain “dial” to the Millennials reading this).
Mika has Joe’s nads in a jar.
The show began its steep decline when Joe and Mika began their adulterous affair.
The Schmo and his dumb blonde sidekick even lost “the respect” of Saturday Night Live, they were pretty much savaged there recently.
Disclaimer: I didn’t watch it “Live”, but my daughter sent me a YouTube link because she knows I mock them. I’d post it here, but I’m too technically challenged... Anyone?
Never make it past 3 or 4 minutes....the show is unwatchable unless you are a never Trumper!!!!!
Why didn’t the writer include any of the former family members who’ve left the show in disgrace?
For sure, it's just click bait -- like maybe 85% of the other articles appearing on Internet blogs these days. A right-wing site like Daily Caller can be just as guilty as a left-wing site like Huffington Post.
(And if you have a blog, you should remember that maybe the most important ingredient for generating advertising revenue will be the cleverness of whoever writes your headlines. The content of your articles will be decidedly secondary.)
Don't know what happened to him.
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