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Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe on MSNBC & I have a Twitter Exchange

Jul 07 2010 Published by under Joe Scarborough MSNBC

I wake up this morning and someone has tweeted that Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s Morning Joe has called Nevada senate candidate Sharon Angle a “jackass.” Given how much arrogance & contempt we’ve seen coming from politicians and media for the American people lately, and knowing what a noxious ideological bubble Joe lives in in Manhattan in general and MSNBC in particular, this struck me as plausible that he would let that fly. Having been a broadcaster for twenty years (just music, not news/talk, but I get the concept of hours spent day after day with a hot mic) I understand that a career ending remark can happen at any time. God knows, this does not rise to the level of career ending, but it’s at the very least, ungentlemanly, and at most, a momentary lapse in his responsibility as a “credible” analyst of political news. Let me state for the record, I have no particular interest, nor have I closely followed the Nevada senate race except that I hope Harry Reid is sent packing. I imply no endorsement of Angle here. Don’t know. Don’t care, except to the extent as just stated. So! I tweet the first tweet listed below out, purposely putting “@JoeNBC” in it so that, if he hasn’t blocked me (I don’t know, don’t particularly care who blocks me, so I figure, what the heck. It’s like throwing spaghetti at the ceiling. He might see it. Might not. But I know he’s an active twitterer because I follow him and other people who are themselves or are affiliated with “liberal” media so that I can, as always, learn something new and fact check my own assertions/beliefs/philosophies.) Then the gauntlet, such as it is, is evidently thrown down, then shortly, picked up by our pal, Joe Scarborough…


ANNIE: Did @JoeNBC *really* call Angle “jackass”? Has he been getting PR lessons from Pete Stark? C that h20 going down drain? LAST of MSNBC’s cred


A little later, presumably having seen the previous tweet, and now on a different subject, Joe sends out the following tweet, then I reply and that starts the exchange:


JOE: Politicians in both parties continue to pursue a Wilsonian foreign policy that is radical and dangerous for America’s future.


ANNIE: Uh… #GlennBeck’s been on Woodrow Wilson’s toxic policies for nearly 2 years now Joe. Welcome, again, late, to the party. Gawd…


JOE: So Beck’s been talking about Wilsonian policies for 2 whole years?Gee Whiz! He’s only 14 years late. You too, cowgirl.


Then Joe sends out another tweet to all (not just me) that I see and I reply again:


JOE: When the US changed it’s Afghanistan goal from killing al Qaeda members to building a country, our leaders guaranteed an endless war.


ANNIE: Uh… again… Nation building, what Obama likes to call “colonialism” is EXACTLY what O is doing w/his p*ssy ROE. He’s a COWARD.


JOE: Read your tweets ang realize that arrogance combined with ignorance is an unbecoming combination. “Gawd”? Really?


Now we’re having Mitt Romney moment when the lady is “unbecoming.” Granted, I admit, using the word “p*ssy” even with an asterisk, is, indeed, un ladylike. My bad. But I beg the mercy of the court that I am confined to 140 characters in twitter so a little shorthand, softened with an asterisk, is allowed.  Again, he’s now shifted the argument from the matter at hand, to trying to discredit me, personally.  This is standard in liberal circles. They do it all the time when out of factual gas.  I will admit to being viciously sarcastic, but I have never, ever called Joe “ignorant.” I don’t regard him such. I just think he’s wrong. Also, it’s well known in Twitter circles that complaints on spelling are the last refuge of scoundrels. It’s a complete waste of time, and again, a diversionary tactic. Twitter allows 140 characters, so the usual rules of spelling are not in play. Additionally, I explain my purposeful misspelling of the word “God” for “Gawd” in a later tweet, which you will see.  So! I fire off four tweets in quick succession then he tweets back again:


ANNIE: Once, just ONCE, could you tweet something with a clue in it? You are monolithically late, wrong, out of touch. Get out of Manhattan


ANNIE: Start reading ALL the London papers EVERY DAY, because your MSM ISN’T DOING VETTING/REPORTING. they ARE.


ANNIE: Read the Financial Times (of London, too). Read Business Insider. Read Investors Biz Daily. DO YOU GODDAMNED JOB, JOE!!!!!!!!!


ANNIE: This isn’t about PARTY Joe. Bush’s policies were *functionally* progressive. He was a DISASTER on MOST levels. PLEASE PLEASE WAKE UP


JOE: See Annie, that’s your problem. You hate Obama’s Wilsonian policies but toucans Beck went along with Bush’s adventurism.


ANNIE: “Bush’s adventurism”? What? There’s a euphemism. STOP THINKING ABOUT PARTY. Think PRINCIPLES-strip away ALL NOISE-THINK PRINCIPLES


JOE: Unlike you and talk show right wing extremists hacks, I oppose Wilsonian policies regardless of who is in power. #consistent


That was his last tweet to me. I replied with the following few more and, thus, it was over…


ANNIE: I don’t CARE who is in power. The GEICO lizard would get my vote if he would bring a bill of enumerated powers to the floor!


ANNIE: I listen 2all sides, CLEARLY. watch MSNBC regularly (as much as I can stomach) I read EXTENSIVESLY-transcripts/unexpurgated sources


ANNIE: Stop stop stop thinking of Republican or Democrat. THEY ARE ALL ONE BIG NOISE NOW. Look at their ACTIONS… ACTIONS, Joe. ACTIONS.


ANNIE: BTW: I hv been harshly sarcastic w/my characterizations of u but I never, ever, ever, called u “ignorant”/*insulted* u way u did me.


ANNIE: …Last thing… “Gawd” is meant to be an effort not to take the Lord’s name in vain… Though I am NOT affiliated with ANY church.

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When Children Sit at the Grown Up Table & Mouth Off

Apr 06 2010 Published by under Ariana Huffington, Joe Scarborough MSNBC, Morning Joe, Rudy Guiliani

This was BEAUTIFUL. I happened to see it live and the total, utter humiliation Zsa-Zsa er Arianna Hufington suffered at the hands of Rudy Guiliani & Joe Scarborough was damn near “political porn” as a favorite local radio host might describe it!  These insufferably smug, intellectually moribund, and thoroughly corrupt Progressives are utterly unused to being challenged by anyone.  Just witness the look of astonishment on Zsa-Zsa’s face…. then recline like a cat in a warm sunny window.  This is a rare moment of truth on MSNBC. Luxuriate in it.



Rudy Giuliani and Joe Scarborough Humiliate Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington stuck her foot in her mouth during Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, and ended up being totally humiliated by host Joe Scarborough and guests Rudy Giuliani and Mort Zuckerman.
As the subject of Florida’s Senate race was broached, Huffington decided to attack the former Mayor of New York City rather than address the qualifications of Republican candidates Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio.
“Your judgment in people has not been stellar — Bernard Kerik, anybody, so the fact that you’re supporting Rubio now, I don’t know exactly how seriously we should take it,” irrelevantly spouted the liberal publisher.
Marvelously, some of the gentlemen on the panel didn’t appreciate the cheap shot including Giuliani himself who finally said, “I come on here just to talk about Marco Rubio, you’re attacking me on Bernie Kerik, you’re attacking me on how I ran my presidential race. I imagine you’re going to attack me on what I did in the Little League when I was a child”


PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:


RUDY GIULIANI: Arianna, I’m also, I’m also responsible largely for the turnaround of New York City. I took over, I took over a city that had 2,000 murders a year, I left a city with four or 500 hundred murders a year. I took over a city with 1.1 million people on welfare, I left a city with 500,000 people on welfare. I took over a city with a $2.3 million deficit, I left a city with a $3 million surplus. I hired a lot of good people to do that…It’s just a cheap shot.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: That’s a cheap shot!…I want to stop. I want to stop right now. I want to talk also about Bernie Kerik for a second. I know no one else will agree with me. This is just me talking and nobody else. Bernie Kerik did a hell of a job also keeping New York City safe. Two, it’s an unpopular thing to say, Bernie Kerik made mistakes, a lot of people make mistakes. I was glad Bernie Kerik was standing behind Rudy Giuliani September 11. And the bottom line is Arianna, if Rudy Giuliani did not run for President of the United States, Bernie Kerik would be walking the streets today, because the second Rudy Giuliani started running for President of the United States, the long knifes came out and they started searching everybody’s record and they found somebody who had made some bad mistakes. [...]
MORT ZUCKERMAN: If there is one thing that the mayor deserves a lot of credit for is that he turned around the living conditions of New York by really reinforcing law and order, and particularly backing the police, and doing what he, a fundamental transformation of life in this city.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: That’s not either, or. You are not judging the mayor’s entire history. We’re talking about something very important, something very specific. And we’re talking also about this knee-jerk attempt to criticize the administration on everything, especially the position of the president on terrorism from a man who said you don’t know if waterboarding is torture. I don’t know if you still hold that position.
GIULIANI: Well, first of all, we have a perfect right to talk all about that, but you’re comment about Bernie Kerik was totally irrelevant to it and just a cheap shot. [...]
SCARBOROUGH: Can I ask also how we got from Marco Rubio to waterboarding, Arianna? That is a wild (?), you have taken this conversation and hijacked it.Exactly, and that’s what liberal media elites like Huffington do in these situations. The discussion was Crist versus Rubio, and Huffington instead wanted to just tar the record of someone backing one of the candidates:
HUFFINGTON: It’s all about what the mayor stands for. What the man stands for means that we can look at who he supports from that perspective. This is a man…
SCARBOROUGH: Do you want to take waterboarding as the issue you embrace, because I know a guy sitting in the United States Senate now that said it polled pretty damn well in Massachusetts.
HUFFINGTON: What does this have to do with anything?
SCARBOROUGH: It has everything to do with everything. You’re saying that his position on waterboarding disqualifies him to endorse a guy in Florida, and I’m telling you if waterboarding is popular in Massachusetts, it’s probably pretty popular in my home state of Florida.
HUFFINGTON: So what? So it doesn’t disqualify him from supporting anybody he wants. It means that I don’t have to take his support particularly seriously. That’s all I’m saying.
SCARBOROUGH: I don’t think he gives a damn whether you support his candidate or not because you’re not going to support him anyway, right?
HUFFINGTON: I’m not saying whether I’m going to support his candidate. I’m saying we’re having a conversation about whether who he supports makes a difference.
SCARBOROUGH: It does in Florida.
HUFFINGTON: I mean, this is a man who also spent $50 million in the presidential race and got one delegate.
SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. Arianna, I’ve got to say this. Just stop. If we’re going to do this, Arianna, I, understand, we’re going to talk about your race in California.
HUFFINGTON: I never, I mean, my…
SCARBOROUGH: You ran for governor of California, and it was a complete flop. I still want to hear your ideas, and I don’t always go back to your failures here or your failures there. But for some reason, you’re doing it with Giuliani. And I, by the way, I would be defending somebody on the Left if someone on the Right was doing the same thing to them.
GIULIANI: The reality is you criticized the Tea Party movement and the right-wingers for getting terribly personal and terribly irrelevant and racist, and you’re the worst offender. I mean, I come on here just to talk about Marco Rubio, you’re attacking me on Bernie Kerik, you’re attacking me on how I ran my presidential race. I imagine you’re going to attack me on what I did in the Little League when I was a child. I mean, this is an over the top, emotional reaction as opposed to an intellectual discussion of whether Rubio or Crist would be the better senator.
Exactly, and this is what Huffington and her ilk do whenever they’re on the same set as someone on the Right.
Fortunately, much as what occurred when she tried to take on [0] Fox News’s Roger Ailes in January, she ended up being soundly humiliated.
Nice job, gentlemen. Bravo!

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