Why Does Joe Scarborough Hate Polar Bears?
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Feb 05, 2008 12:01pm
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Joe Scarborough likes his news with a little less reality, thank you very much. On Tuesday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough openly scoffed through Mika Brzezinski's news cast that included the news that the polar ice may be melting faster than previously thought, resulting in the endangering of polar bears, among other species.
Willie and I were just sitting there and were saying, ‘did Al Gore write the news this morning?’ And coming up next, [wistful voice] little cubs…little polar bear cubs in the North Pole…are being separated by their mothers by ice floe breaks.
Yeah, let's not deal with the reality staring us in the face. It's so much better to muddy the dialogue by openly scorning scientific work, isn't that right, Joe?
There is global warming, especially in this room. Thank you for “An Inconvenient Newscast,” Mika.
Charming to the end. Don't worry, I'm sure those rising sea levels won't affect you at all.
On a related note, EnergySmart is asking you to contact your elected representatives to demand that they fix the Lieberman-Warner CISA bill before it heads to Bush's desk for signature.
To answer your question bluntly - BECAUSE HE'S AN IDIOT!
Never fear. A rising tide eventually lifts all dolts.
I wish I could strand Scarborough on an ice floe.
coleshack @ 3:
With a mother polar bear.
Hey Joe how about more inconvenient truths? Lori Klausutis
What an ass.
Ft. Walton Beach is going to look real cool when it is under water.
I was under the impression that right wing nuts liked "big bears". ;)
I know one species more threatened than the Polar Bear.
Office staff for Joe Scarborough.
At least they're talking about this on MSNBC. Meanwhile, CNN now stands for Coal News Network.
Just wait until your Redneck Riviera hometown is swallowed up by the Gulf of Mexico, Joe!
Global warning killed 48 people last night Joe.
Maybe polar bears ate his eyelids.
I wouldn't want to be around Mika after the show when she has to vent the burning rage that builds up in her while being subjected to daily humiliation at the clammy hands of The Scar.
He's a right wing arm-chair activist. Preferring to sit comfortably on a couch or studio chair.
Even if you completely remove the global warming argument, why is he so unpatriotic that he wants us to stay dependent on middle east oil?
that guy never lets anyone else talk, especially that blonde next to him.
he's a first class egocentric a-hole. he afarid that someone will see him for the wuss he is so he's always
bloviating.
Blue Lensman @ 4:
A hungry mother polar bear.
Maybe Mika can sick her father on Joe -- "Polish Bear" Zbigniew.
Typical Repub. They can't be bothered to pay attention to anything unless it has an immediate impact on their own personal lives.
L.A. Confidential @ 13:
Others prefer to watch the world pass by on the television set, pc or laptop.
Obviously Joe is all about Joe. He doesn't care about future generations. Typical Republican. Maybe Joe, your children will have reason to care. He is the rudest person on MSNBC.
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They're bipolar?
And scarborough hates bi's.
Ron @ 20:
That's not fair. He's cold, callous, xenophobic, narcissistic and shallow, but he's not rude.
Ron @ 20:
His job is to keep people obediently shopping, purchasing, and to be good consumers.
He enjoys being a heartless bastard for his own entertainment. Put someone like Rachael Maddow on there instead of Mika and watch Rachael eat his fu*king lunch. She would take him apart so fast he wouldn't know what hit him.
pissed off patricia @ 24:
How soon we forget
Mika is awesome
oooh she's pissed
HIS NEWS CAST?
If he wants to decide what news get's reported and what doesn't maybe he should join FOX
Joey doesn't like truth and reality
Its the reality thing. If reality of what he has said and done (like being correct about anything) he would either be in jail or off the air.
Since reality does not usually rear its ugly head in his life he can ignore it for now.
Poor Joe and the Republican coffee hour. Mika, as the waitress. Pretty sad.
Travis @ 25:
I like Mika a lot, but she just doesn't stand up to joe the way I wish she would.
Email kudos to MSNBC about Mika at news@msnbc.com or letters@msnbc.com
It's an all time record high temperature for today Feb 6th here in the New York area. 63 degrees last time I checked.
There are many doubters in my family, and I try not no engage them on this obvious reality. I just say, "It's too warm for ice" and leave it at that, because arguing that point seems idiotic, even to them.
clytemnestra @ 26:
That's because he's a rethug!
Someone should do a sketch where Mika goes postal on Scarborough and security guards have to pry her hands off of his throat.
Scarborough is just another repiglican corporate piece of shit who has been made rich by his corporate masters ... an arrogant puke who is dangerous because he does not not how fucking stupid his actually is ... and of course what this corporate slut .. and the entire corporate media .. repiglican/ oil controlled .. does not want anyone to know is the fact that the oil companies want the ice caps to melt because there is lot's of oil underneath them ... this is why the evil fuhrer called pig shit bush has resisted all things environmental .. meanwhile Scarborough can go drink his million dollar expressos while laying his putrid cum riddled .. from all the corporate gangbangs that he is obliged to make himself available too .. body underneath yet another tanning salon machine so he can prop up his evil ego .......
Because he fears them. They pose a real threat to national security... The Inuit of northern Canada and Alaska are the first targeted as polar bears move southwards looking for food and safer land.
Maybe we should consider redeploying the troops there!
Travis @ 25:
Thank you for posting this . . . Joe is still an arrogant asshole
he demands she take control of HER newscast
and then he takes over and says he won't have global warming covered on HIS newcast.
He needs intervention
it's still early, he can be treated
clytemnestra @ 36:
Way too late. He's hit bottom and still falling.
when reality, facts, data, statistics, and even video footage has proven their anti-scientific bullshit dead wrong, there isn't much left for the dunderheads to do but mock what is tragically unfolding...
this is not news, msnbc, you are broadcasting rightwing talking points, good job!
exxon funded the anti-science blowhards, i wonder if scarborough is getting a little kickback from exxon. phhpt, he probably isn't even smart enough to get paid for shilling for big oil.
It wasn't just Al Gore saying that the polar ice is melting; it's scientists and researchers who spend their lives studying the arctic who are telling us about it.
Right-wingers simply have a problem with reality. Even with the truth shoved in their face, they will stick to their talking points.
MSNBC could do well by dumping Scarborough and replacing him with someone who actually knows what is going on.
Don't worry all these TV people are going to keep things going.
Just stay tuned.
Someone should submerge Scarborough next to one of the Navy's ELF sonar emitters and ask him how it feels. You die if you're too close for too long.
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Dr. Acula @ 42:
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If I were Mika Brzezinski I'd walk off the set. I think she was close to it. Joe has an ego problem and no knowledge of environmental issues. I was furious just watching this ass interrupt with idiotic statements.
coleshack @ 33:
And they fail. Then Mika should get the same cover-up service that Joe got when Lori Klausutis turned up dead in his office.
scott @ 44:
Thats the idea. And in the process your energy and will gets sapped. Eventually, you start to believe there is nothing that can be done to change things so why bother.
What a [scornful epithet comparing reprehensible person to human rectal sphinchter]. Um, also couldn't help but notice MSNBC's wall-to-wall Huckabee converage from this jerk and Tweety-Pie. Ecch. Olbermann should get his own NETWORK!!!
Dr. Acula @ 43:
Are you making a suggestion to Mika re: Joe?
Not to get off subject, but have you notice women network anchors "necklines" are getting lower?
For a moment there I thought I was watching a Telemundo news channel.
Howard @ 49:
Every cloud has a silver lining, I suppose
The GOP's new "Axis of Evil" (now that Iraq is broken, Iran is NOT making nukes and No. Korea is getting along with South Korea)...
'Healthcare / Science / John McCain'
Joe Scarborough defies imagination. I try very hard not to watch the man, but occasionally I check to see what the man is screaming about on any given day. Today he was ranting and raving about the MSM's lovefest with Mike Huckabee and how they just won't give Romney a break at all. Now this might be true, I don't know. But has Joe forgotten that Mike Huckabee is on "Morning Joe" every morning. Including today. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Howard @ 49:
The more they can devise ways to control peoples minds and keep them glued to the telescreens the less people there will be in the real world hustling hard for a slice of the material pie.
Howard @ 49:
The world is getting warmer and they just dont want to overheat.
Joe Scarborough is a mental midget - like all conservatives - who panders to corporate greed. if Exxon/BP/Chevron/Kenoco can't make money on it, it's bad science. What an f'ing idiot.
Wow. You could really feel the love on that that set.
What a complete shithead !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I kept seeing a little thought balloon over her head with the word asshole in it.
Just thinking-Had she been a man,would Joe have the same balls to berate the newscast? Just wondering.
Regarding CISA: Anyone notice that when there's something f*cked up happening in congress, Lieberman's usually involved? Dems gotta find a way to dump this guy before 2009!
It's not that Joe hates Polar Bears, it's that he hates women in general.
Lest we forget, there was dead intern in Joe Scarborough's office when he resigned from Congress.
WHo knows what kind of sexual advance Mika Brzezinski had to rebuff, how many times, before this newscast?
Hey everyone, let's write to MANBC and ask them about Lori Klausutis!
I have accepted the fact that we will not succeed in our attempts to curb or reverse the climate change problem thanks in no small part to the religious reich who don't give a damn about anything because they're counting on the invisible magic wish granting fairy to swoop in at the last second and rapture them all off to heaven and the reslug neocon wingnuts who see all issues as a personal attack on their closeted, closed, xenophobic, self centered and selfish way of life. So attempting to find a solution to a global crisis is viewed as just another librul idea that should be smeared, laughed at and finally ignored.
So while they're doing all they can to undermine the people who want to fix things the water slowly rises. But it's ok because if jebus doesn't rapture them up a new place to live in time they'll just insist the gubmint pay for their relocation to higher ground. neocons have an answer for everything... just don't ask them for any solutions.
They should just lump Willie "Thats my president you're talking about" Geist, Tucker, and the Scar on one show so that it will be easier for us to skip it...call it "An Hour of Dumbass" .
Proof that there is a writer's strike still going on.
First they came for the polar bears. And I said nothing.
It's coming for you, Joe.
back before hurricane katrina i jousted with this one troll for quite a while on here ,dam i forget his name now ,he was from somewhere around new orleans, he towed the repig line and tried to sound like he knew it all , he really hated my guts because i fought the bastard tooth and nail, that was before monitors on here , man i loved this jerk , oh now i remember his name it was bilgerman , anyway his style reminded me of joe scarbouro and as i pictured him while he typed i saw him as old joe, he looked down on the ordinary man and id punture his ego, last time we heard from him on here was the night of katrina he mentioned something about going to a ship that night and working on its bilges , guess he bought it in that storm that night he never came back after katrina hit!
'Dems gotta find a way to dump this guy before 2009!'
We tried, but big money and conservatives got him re elected. Maybe they could put him on a special action committee - located in Iraq. He is so gung-ho about the war, I think maybe he should be closer to it
L.A. Confidential @ 23:
Republicans only care about fetus'. Once you are born, fuck you.
Travis @ 8:
I saw that last night. Ads upon ads for "clean coal". What the hell is clean coal?
Another example of conservatives being boorish, juvenile, infantile assholes. What more proof do you need? I'm sure Joe's hometown of Pensacola will be completely unaffected by the rise in sea level.
I believe Mr. Scarborough is DRUNK. As well as obnoxious.
what an ass-hole
Every time Joe Scarborough sneezes, a polar bear drowns.
ConcernedCanuck @ 69:
They sterilize the coal in gasoline before it's sold.
I like Mika a lot, but she just doesn’t stand up to joe the way I wish she would.
Whenever she's tried to stand up to Mornin' Joe, he's threatened her with unemployment. Remember when she tore him a new one over waterboarding as torture, and she had back up from David Shuster?
Joe Scar threatened her with her job, saying, "If you don't report what I want to hear, Mika, you need to do that somewhere else..."
I wish someone had video of that...he harassed her on the air and in any other work environment, Mika could file a claim for sexual harassment and get Joe fired.
At least Andrea Mackris got paid for having to listen to being sexually harassed by the Falafel Man. And Joe continues to get passes on that dead intern found in his office, when at the very least, he should have been picked up and thrown in jail as many times as the Arubian Police have arrested Joran van der Sloot for the murder of Natalee Holloway.
Isn't Joe from Fl.?
Doesn't he know if the polar bears lose the ice the retirees lose Miami?
Short sighted like all Republicans. Money over party, party over country.
i find it ironic that conservatives are not concerned with conserving the wildlife conservations
If nothing else this shows what a pompous ass the beast Joe Scarbourough is.
Did you catch that look of scorn on Mika's face? I swear I saw daggers.
Everytime this pr*ck sneezes, his IQ drops 5 points!
"Why Does Joe Scarborough Hate Polar Bears?"
He prefers Pepsi?
Sarah Connah @ 79:
Actually, I'd pay to see a pr*ck sneeze.
Morning BLOW sux, Mika is cool though, she must have a thick skin.
I sent so many emails about this jerk and finally gave up. I seldom watch anymore because it gives me a headache. He will not let her finish a single thought. Very seldom lets her finish a sentence. Reminds me of one of my exes. So frustrating. Finally, you just have to walk away, or in this case, change the channel.
I missed the segment but is this where Joe left the set? I switched to it this AM around 8:30 and Joe was gone, and they had gone to CNBC and Mika alluded to something that made Joe mad and leave the set and not come back. At some point she said he had to catch something, a heart, a brain, a plane maybe?
On another note they were recently doing the show in restaurant down the block from me. Mika was doing the news and Joe was standing by the window. I went to look in not realizing he was right there. It was just a pane of glass btw. me and big guy and I have to say he is burly. Mika on the other was much more attractive in person. Is that possible?
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Hurray for Mika!
I removed MSNBC from my Dish Network favorites list after being fed up with "Baby Huey Mathews" and his sexist manner not to mention that "HA!"
Joe Scar fits the MSNBC clone of clowns.
A better question may be, "Why is Joe on TV?". Talent isn't exactly oozing from his pores. I know the cable channels have a lot of time to fill. But this guy is just inane. The only thing more amazing than his tv gig, is his election to the House. Guess I just don't understand Florida.
Ft. Walton Beach is going to look real cool when it is under water.
YBNurmal @ 5:
You must be the only person who remembers Lori. Scarface found a way to silence her and all of the press when she was found dead in his office. I wander if Mika knows about this? She better be careful crossing him. He prematurely resigned his seat in Congress, his law firm, and as publisher of the FL Sun. Then given his own show on MSNBC! Sadly her death happened just weeks before 9/11. So all the news coverage went there and all the stories of her death and the medical examiner cover up were removed from the record and website of the NWF Daily News. And people actually listen to this guy on TV everyday. Maybe he should get O J for a sidekick.
GREG @ 68:
I have been saying this for years....in exactly those words.
I would love to contact my representatives on the CISA bill, but, alas, I am from Georgia and my Senators and Reps are all Rethugs. Saxby Chambliss has proven time and again what an ignorant shitlicky he is.
Joe is a great fuckin' american: ignorant, dishonest, self centered, and wrong.