The disparity in media coverage between Rev. Jeremiah Wright and John McCain’s multiple pastor scandals has been widely documented. McCain’s Media has done a splendid job of running cover for their candidate while hammering away at Obama — but according to Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, that’s all hogwash and how DARE anyone suggest otherwise?
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During this morning’s show, while talking about Senator Obama’s decision to resign from his church, they read a viewer’s e-mail complaining of MSNBC’s obsession with his church while barely giving lip service to McCain’s pastor problems. Mika was none too happy with the viewer’s astute observations and shot back with one of the biggest, bald faced lies I’ve heard in quite some time:
“Okay, umm…first of all, I think we covered the Hagee story as much, umm…the Reverend Wright situation injected itself into the news cycle for sure, but having said that, don’t you think that there is a difference or is there not, especially given the fact that he resigned from his church.”
To say that MSNBC and Morning Joe covered the Pastor Hagee story as much as the Rev Wright story is laughable and an outright lie. Joe Scarborough ran wall to wall with with the Wright story for weeks on end, constantly chastising Senator Obama and obsessed over the church and the issue of race — usually only stopping for headlines and weather in between. Mika was right in the middle of all this coverage, she should know better than to say something so ignorant and easily debunked. Contact MSNBC and demand a retraction.
Update: I thought it only fair to MSNBC that I acknowledge Keith Olbermann’s extensive coverage of not only John Hagee, but McCain’s other controversial religious endorsements as well as his pandering to the likes of Rev Jerry Falwell.
Filed Under: Campaigns/Elections, Election 08, Hackery, Liars, MSNBC, McCain’s Media, Morning Joe/Joe Scarborough
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Never watched ‘Morning Crow’. First?
the Reverend Wright situation injected itself into the news cycle for sure,
‘injected itself’ — what the fuck! apparently that video uploaded itself for repeated play; and booked all those yammering yakkers to discuss nothing but rev wright for weeks on end.
mika b is a liar and propagandist. but, then, that’s why she’s working for general electric’s media outlet.
She should know better - please, the average IQ of talking heads on teevee has dropped considerably over the last 20 years. She is a moderately attractive mouthpiece for her corporate masters, nothing more.
morning joe is unwatchable and she is a major reason why. dillusional nit wit.
obama is toast!
I’ll try to balance that out a little bit. Here’s the paster McCain was begging to support him. John Hagee. Most Christians think that how you treat the poor says something about you. Jesus… “The least among us…” etc.
John Hagee on the other hand says. STARVE!!! Incredible these people fall for such miserable crap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmFaNnRy40o
She sits quietly and lets joe and that pompous nitwit willie geist get away with shameless lies and exaggerations on a daily basis and now she’s getting defensive? I think she dost protest too much.
“Obama has pushed earmarks to his church?”
WTF. Is this true?
And I hope I live long enough to see folks shut the fuck up about the religion of a candidate.
I can proudly say that I have never watched “Mornin Joe & Mika” but the difference in the story of Wright, Hagee and Paisley is that John McCrazy has probably never actually sat through one of their sermons, does not belong to either of their churches and is just pandering for the religious nutcase vote. Obama, OTOH, did belong to nutcase Wright’s church for 20 years and did listen and have his children listen to that racist hateful crap and even named his book after one of Wright’s sermons. Right or wrong, I do believe that this will be an issue for many people in the general election.
Bluesage @ 9:
Thank you for your concern.
“And I hope I live long enough to see folks shut the fuck up about the religion of a candidate.”
A big Amen to that. I don’t trust anyone that wears their religion on their sleeve. Some of the biggest jackasses I know go to church and seem to need to let everyone know about it.
Obviously not all church goers are a-holes.
I think that’s mispelled , It should be morning ” hoe”. Just some bullshit that was left over from his breakfast he didn’t eat.–CEO
Steve@7
She sits quietly…..
Mika is anything but quiet. She is constantly “posing” and “flirting” with any man who happens on the set. The only news she knows is what she reads off of the front pages of selected newspapers. Used to think Joe treated her badly but since he has been gone from the show I now realize that Mika is the one who is uninformed and probably deserved Joe’s attitude.
BTW, where is Joe? They keep saying he will be back soon but he has been gone for quite awhile. I heard at one time he might be McShame’s running mate. Any truth to this?
Mika is, well, human, and doesn’t like anything that disagrees with her narrative. Sounds like a lot of us.
As to the whole “pastor-gate” nonsense, here’s a thought: Senator Obama is getting the level of scrutiny that he’s getting because he has the best chance of winning, at least right now. If anyone seriously thought that Senator McCain had a shot, we’d be hearing quite a lot more about his pastors, his wife’s finances, etc. As well, there has been a constant rumor going around about President Clinton messing around whilst campaigning for his wife which gets the occaisional mention but nothing more. If Mrs. Clinton had a real shot at the Oval Office, we’d be deluged under an unending torrent of Lewinsky, Part 2.
The people pushing this stuff can read the writing on the wall just as well as anyone else. Senator Obama will become President Obama.
As to demanding a retraction, why bother? MSNBC will resist, finally Mika will give a mealy-mouthed non-apology, all for a show that hardly anyone watches. And no, going through YouTube clips doesn’t count as watching.
Damn shame there aren’t analytical tools that track subject discussions in the MSM programming. I guarantee that 90% of the discussion was devoted to Rev. Wright, maybe 10% to the RW nutbags, Hagee, Parsley, and Lieberman.
So, according to Brzezinski, the media (or at least she herself) covered Hagee and Wright equally, but the Wright story injected itself into the dialog?
And Rather pretty much summed up the media’s attitude with Russert’s idea: Like it or not, fair or not,
[Wright is] going to bewe’re going to make Wright an issue.It’s going to be usedWe will use it against Obama, and it will bemore effective against himrepeated more often than anything anybody says about McCain’s supporters.jharp @ 8:
I disagree. I don’t think we should “shut the fuck up” about a candidate’s religion. I think it is possibly relevant to the decisions a candidate will make when in office. If our president genuinely believes that his god tells him to go to war, and that he will base his decisions on such a belief, we need to know what his beliefs actually are.
Myshiba @ 5:
If this is true then McShrub is stale toast.
Kerry @ 11:
but some are assholier than thou.
slippy hussein toad @ 10:
Well, Slippy, you can live in your little Obama world where nothing can touch you and see sunshine and clover all day, every day but that is not the real world. One of the problems with too many Obama supporters is that they think they live in a country of enlightened people. You do not! As a loyal Democrat I want desperately to win in Nov. but the Democratic Party seems hell-bent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory once again. I will vote for Obama if I have to but I don’t believe he will be successful in Nov. I hope I’m wrong but I’ve been voting for 40 years this year as a Democrat and I think we have some huge problems with this candidate.
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Just imagine if all the attention being given to Obama’s former church was given to McCain’s lobbyists.
Bluesage @ 9:
Which is what makes McCain’s relationships with his respective reverends WORSE!!!
Like each and every one of us, Obama has a close, personal, loving, quasi-familial tie with with a person who can be a political liability if all his beliefs and ideas are revealed. Obama has seen the man’s good side, had witnessed him bringing a community together, and participated in a lot of the good he did. Might he have some kooky ideas along with that? Perhaps (though what really upsets people — god damn America for the evils it commits abroad — has been said by many revered people, even Martin Luther King, Jr.). But what really matters is whether that person will affect the policies Obama will pursue. There is no indication that Wright will be calling any shots in an Obama White House, or affecting decisions of war and peace. Obama is his own person, and has disagreements with an important person in his life. Just like all of us.
McCain, on the other hand, decided, purely for political purposes, to make some sort of Faustian bargain with people he decried as “agents of intolerance,” a bargain whose details are as yet unknown. These people the “maverick” sought out and embraced genuinely yearn for the apocalypse. They desire wars in the Middle East in order to bring it about. They and their crazy acolytes do have influence on foreign policy, and now they’ve been dealing with McCain.
Perhaps plenty of American fools will think Jeremiah Wright is a genuine issue of concern. They’re fools, and the media will do nothing do dispel their foolishness.
I’ll tell you right now which relationship scares me more, though: McCain’s! Hands down. No doubt about it.
They can’t refute McClellan or defend McCain, so what else can they talk about?
Bluesage @ 19:
You’re wrong. There, now you know. Problem solved. The earth can go on spinning again.
If Mika just learned how to stop laughing and gave more attention to real news she would realize that she is wrong.
I watched the show today, and I did not like MSNBC continuing pounding on this Obama church story,specially when Obama said he resigned from his church.
The story did not end there…Mika said:”Is Obama’s decision politically motivated”.
These are the people who were saying Omaba should end this and resign from his church..but they will never be happy, they want to continue dwelling on this story,while we have war,bad economic situation, big deficit, currency and oil problems they keep bringing this story of Obama’s church in every day several times a day.
Enough of this fluff ..
MSNBC is not acccurate claiming that McCain is treated the same as Obama on this issue.
Give me a break !!
Haggee is a nut bag, no doubt about it. Wright is a nut bag no doubt about it. The real difference here, is that McCain sought an endorsement from someone who had a lot of votes in his corner, but he never went to Haggee’s church. Obama sat there listening to Wright and Pfleger who were his moral guides, advisors and friends for 20 years! McCain immediately and unequivocally denounced Haggee after his rant. Obama took weeks to finally denounce Wright. So how were they supposed to talk about McCain and Haggee for weeks when it was a blip story? Wright was a major story and it isn’t over yet! Obama is toast because he has spent 20 years being friends with an entire group of corrupt, racist, and Marxist morons.
She’s also correct about the Wright issue injecting itself…Faux New’s Sean Hannity had been talking about Wright being a radical racist for almost a year before the tapes hit youtube! How could they NOT cover the story when it was on everywhere?!?
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Very “clever” reply but completely devoid of substance and adds nothing to the conversation. But, thanks so much for cutting out one sentence [no personal attacks please. Sitemonitor]
The word ‘harpy’ was invented for this woman. And that’s a ‘bald-faced’ truth.
alan @ 21:
Can I hear a Hallelujah!
I usually like Mika. I think frequently she is a nice foil for Joe’s more outrageous wingnut leanings (he’s gotten better, but he still has major lapses). However, since Joe’s been on leave (he is a new father), she has been kind of weird on her own, really inconsistent and often insisting that a thing is news when it clearly isn’t. The most egregious recent case was the first morning the Father Pfleger “story” “broke”. She played the clip for Chris Matthews and he just laughed at it, said that it was Opera Buffa and a preacher being theatrical for a guest congregation and tried to change the subject. She kept interjecting, “Well, I think that flibbedy floo, and it’s a thing.” Once again Matthews showed his mettle as a newsman by literally laughing at her insistence that this is a story. I think she’ll benefit from her guests not validating her concerns (about 50% of them change the subject real fast), and by Joe coming back so she can seem to be the reasonable one again. It’s so not news and the only reason it keeps “being” news is cos they keep forcing the subject and noone wants to talk about it.
Let’s demand the active voice.
The passive voice, without an actor, is the enemy of truth.
Sitemonitor, sorry. I don’t suffer fools lightly. I’ll try to be kinder and stay on topic.
I saw this this morning and almost spit. I sure hope they had a little meeting after the show and discussed this and the outright lie she spewed. How can they expect to have any credibility at all when they offer up such obvious bullshit. Anybody watching that show for any period of time KNOWS what she said was straight up bullshit. In the end it is about credibility. This gossip show has none!!
Thank you Logan for exposing this . And Mika needs to let go of the tee-hee laughing to cover for her stupidity.
On this subject the media was going to play a game of damned if you do and damned if you don’t. You could see it coming.
Karen @ 22:
Bravo Karen. Very well said.
“Once again, Matthews showed his mettle as a newsman”!
LOL - Surely you jest!!
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OK here is the deal Wright WAS Obamas pastor… that is he went to that church for 17 plus years married him balh blah blah… and I am sure heard more then enough to make a decision about the tenor of Rev Wrights beliefs. McCain was not a member of the Hagee church. BIG DIFFERENCE! the Hagee endorsement came from a pastor who supports McCains politics. I am not sure if Wright even endorsed Obama but Obama was until very recently a member of the Church, but of course now that it is politically inappropriate for Obama to be a member well under the bus with the whole church….I sure hope nothing bad comes up about his wife or kids Obama will have to get a divorce in the middle of the campaign ,and don’t think he wouldn’t he threw his own grandma under the bus when it was to his poltical advantage to do so!
matthews tried to smack down mika for covering the story, last thursday morning. the powers that be, let her have her way (matthews covered it (even though it was a small piece) later in the day.)
Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 35:
OR - Obama stayed with Wright because he shares Wright’s views and only disavowed him when it became uncomfortable politically.
Embittered-Max-Hussein-1 @ 37:
ok
so,
There is a religious test in america?
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