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Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive

by DougJ|  October 31, 20135:37 pm| 30 Comments

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  1. 1.

    David Koch

    October 31, 2013 at 5:41 pm

    Woo Hoo!

    MSNBC won D.C. The place Obummer won with 93% of the vote.

    What a surprisE!

    Can’t wait for the triumphant tweet informing us MSNBC won more deep blue areas like Berkeley and Vermont.

    As Fournier would say, “that’s not leading. How is mourning blow doing in real America”.

  2. 2.

    Higgs Boson's Mate (Crystal Set)

    October 31, 2013 at 5:44 pm

    Don’t have a TV. Is Morning Joe still duking it out with Power Rangers reruns and the Farm Report?

  3. 3.

    pseudonymous in nc

    October 31, 2013 at 5:47 pm

    “morning cable news show in DC in the demo” is a lot of qualifiers. (And that’s out of 121,000 total viewers in the demo.) What it means, I suppose, is that it beat Fox and Fuckwits because Fox News’s DC audience is made up of the nearly-dead, GOP politicians and the poor fucker at Media Matters who’s paid to watch it.

    Two bald men fighting over a comb.

  4. 4.

    piratedan

    October 31, 2013 at 5:48 pm

    well after all, it’s the go to show for the courtier class…. the other shows are catered to the peasants…..

  5. 5.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    October 31, 2013 at 5:52 pm

    I only watch Morning Joe to see if he’ll slip up and murder a staffer live on air.

  6. 6.

    Stan Gable

    October 31, 2013 at 5:55 pm

    @pseudonymous in nc:

    Reminds me of this from the marginal Mr. Baseball movie:

    Jack Eliot: I’m a World Series MVP!
    Skip: That was four years ago, Jack.
    Trey: You hit .235 Last season.
    Jack Eliot: LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!

  7. 7.

    ? Martin

    October 31, 2013 at 6:01 pm

    No WIN THE MORNING tag? FFS…

  8. 8.

    Baud

    October 31, 2013 at 6:15 pm

    It’s the #1 morning cable news show at Raven’s house.

  9. 9.

    maximiliano furtive, formerly known as dr. bloor

    October 31, 2013 at 6:19 pm

    Let’s talk after Joe and NewsBarbie take on Honey Boo Boo in a head-to-head.

  10. 10.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    October 31, 2013 at 6:23 pm

    @David Koch:

    MSNBC sucks as much as FOX news.

    Fuck all mainstream media.

  11. 11.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 31, 2013 at 6:32 pm

    @GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): I wouldn’t go that far, but Morning Joe (and Politico) are I think worse than Fox because they wear the Centrist mask and (I think) have an outsized influence with Democrats of the Claire McCaskill variety

  12. 12.

    Kay

    October 31, 2013 at 6:44 pm

    I’m so glad this is back in the news. Funniest part of the 2012 campaign:

    The source of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) infamous claim during the 2012 presidential campaign that Mitt Romney had not paid any taxes in 10 years was Jon Huntsman Sr., the father of fellow GOP rival Jon Huntsman, according to a new book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann called “Double Down.”

    “He didn’t pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain,” Reid told the Huffington Post. “But obviously he can’t release those tax returns. How would it look?”

    He had a source! It was funnier when I thought he made it up.

  13. 13.

    David Koch

    October 31, 2013 at 6:44 pm

    it really is pathetic.

    you don’t see Rachel shouting out that she sweep some deep blue urban demo.

  14. 14.

    geg6

    October 31, 2013 at 6:45 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    This. I despise them for that very reason. I don’t despise FOX. I don’t like it and I wish it wasn’t a part of our media or politics but I don’t care enough about the rubes who watch it to despise them. I despise Cuppa Joe and POLITIHO because they are much more pernicious. Plus dead staffers put me off.

  15. 15.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 31, 2013 at 6:56 pm

    @Kay: Did Willard usurp the Huntsmans’ claim on the Mormon White Horse thing?

    since “MOrning Joe” is the topic, political gossip seems like a theme

    Their friendship began to fray as Bush’s dependence on Cheney began to wane, and among the markers along the way was how Cheney and his loyalists handled the vice president’s accidental shooting on a hunting trip of his friend Harry Whittington, a seventy-eight-year-old lawyer. On the advice of longtime adviser Mary Matalin, they leaked the story to a Texas newspaper, keeping the White House and the Washington press corps in the dark. When the strategy backfired and Bush aide Nicolle Wallace urged Cheney to come clean and do an interview with Brit Hume on Fox, Matalin lit into her: “You are a fucking press lover.” Bush was pulled into the fray, and Cheney did the interview.
    The episode had a lasting impact, transforming the way Cheney was regarded in the White House from all-knowing guru to something of a joke.

    I hate me some Mary Matalin, the Bellatrix Lestrange to Cheney’s Voldemort,

  16. 16.

    Redshirt

    October 31, 2013 at 7:12 pm

    Kill all the MSM’S.

  17. 17.

    Kay

    October 31, 2013 at 7:23 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    …Mary Matalin, they leaked the story to a Texas newspaper, keeping the White House and the Washington press corps in the dark. When the strategy backfired and Bush aide Nicolle Wallace…

    Ugh. I had to stop reading there. I can’t get sucked into those two. Four. Those four.

    Is Huntsman a Mormon too? I love the idea of all the Mormon men talking about Mitt Romney’s taxes behind his back. Also, I think we should always encourage and reward Harry Reid’s natural mean streak.

  18. 18.

    PsiFighter37

    October 31, 2013 at 8:11 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: Why, just to prove he’s still got it all these years after leaving Congress?

  19. 19.

    Mattski

    October 31, 2013 at 9:01 pm

    I’m waiting for my man
    Got 26 dollars in my hand

  20. 20.

    leeleeFL

    October 31, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    @Kay: I was fairly sure he DID have a source. Harry plays hard-ball for sure but I didn’t think he’d be out on that limb with a saw in his hand. He’s just got a great poker face.

  21. 21.

    leeleeFL

    October 31, 2013 at 9:29 pm

    Moderation? How come?

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 31, 2013 at 10:29 pm

    @leeleeFL: Card game.

  23. 23.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    October 31, 2013 at 11:06 pm

    @Kay: Hmm I recall they said Huntsman was Reid’s source during the election.

  24. 24.

    Frivolous

    October 31, 2013 at 11:47 pm

    @Kay:

    Pardon me, but what’s so bad about Nicole Wallace?

    What little I know about her is gleaned from Game Change. Is she that bad for having worked in the McCain campaign?

  25. 25.

    xian

    November 1, 2013 at 12:30 am

    @Kay: it already came out that Republicans were asking “who showed Reid those tax returns,” indirectly confirming it months ago

  26. 26.

    poptartacus

    November 1, 2013 at 7:19 am

    morning joe

    they had the chance to hire ms. miller, but she was too out there, so joe and his villager buddies is it.
    tiresome
    grusome

  27. 27.

    poptartacus

    November 1, 2013 at 7:19 am

    morning joe

    they had the chance to hire ms. miller, but she was too out there, so joe and his villager buddies is it.
    tiresome
    grusome

  28. 28.

    LanceThruster

    November 1, 2013 at 11:35 am

    Yeah, and this morning Joe Scar was still thumping the Benghazi drum.

    What a maroon!

  29. 29.

    mjshep

    November 1, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: That’s nasty. I love it.

  30. 30.

    Mr_Gravity

    November 1, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    “…..Washington press corps in the dark.”

    I suppose that’s news.

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