On “Morning Joe,” seemingly in response to this C&L post, Joe Scarborough denies he was talking about his colleague Keith Olbermann when he referred to a pundit who “ignorantly” reported on McCain’s Anbar gaffe, and then goes on a hysterical little rant about the “Cheetos Brigade” without mentioning who he was talking about.
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“I was talking about someone on another network. […] But again, you know the problem is when you’re in the basement and you’re blogging and you’re eating Cheetos, sometimes the Cheetos dust goes up, ya know, and you get two choices: You can either keep typing, or you can stop for a second and wipe the Cheetos off your chest, clear out your ears and take a closer listen. But they don’t do that. And therein lies the problem with the ‘Cheetos Brigade.’”
What other cable news host reported on the story Tuesday night that Joe could have been talking about? Was it Andersen Cooper? We’ll probably never know because although Joe may not be a keyboard-carrying member of the “Cheeto Brigade,” he sure doesn’t have the courage to name names.
Maybe Joe can lament about the evil bloggers with Brian Williams at the next DC cocktail party. I can just picture them yukking it up about guys named Vinny with “Cheetos-stained” shirts in their pathetic “efficiency apartments.” Maybe our pads would be a little nicer, Joe, if we were handsomely rewarded for being wrong about everything like you are. Then again, I’ll take my snack food, modest housing and clean conscience over your mansion and war-cheerleading record any day of the week.
Be back in a minute….my fingers are orange and the bag is empty. [Blue Gal has a Cheetos message for Joe, too]
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Joe, whoever told you you could work with men? *says in Al Pacino voice* You child. You hack.
Oh Joe, give it up already! You and your Republican co-horts are toast in November. Good-bye, We hardly knew you! (P.S. you want to attack someone for their bias, go after O’Liely and Limpballs.)
Anybody know Joe’s mailing address? We outta send him a few bags of Cheetos. Just to let him know we care.
;-)
They should can him the way they did Imus…
Just how many blogs emanate from basements? Do a lot of people have their computers in basements? Are basements inherently evil?
Better watch it Joe, that sounds like quite an elitist comment to me.
man, why harsh on the Cheetos. Yum!
Joe hates the bloggers because some of them will say the words that must never be spoken…….”Lori Klausutis”
She was the young intern that was found dead in Joe’s office with a cracked skull after Joe announced his resignation from Congress (just months after getting reelected) amid allegations of marital infidelity.
The media then threw her body down the memory hole.
Scarborough, calm down and put the thorazine drip IV back in your arm. Again, you’re just too stupid to work in a job which speaks to the public. The concept of time and logic may escape you, so I’ll help you out. The Awakening occurred after The Glorious Surge. Not even your hero Bush has yet figured out how to go back in time to make the Glorious Surge occur before the Awakening.
Sorry we tried to teach you this. Logic is not your best suit. An empty suit seems to be your best suit.
Joe Scarborough - Epic Douche.
Well, I figure these guys are really upset with bloggers for another reason- they hate having someone fact check them. Makes their jobs so much harder, having to be honest and present, or be corrected by, those pesky facts all the time.
Of course, if these idiots did their jobs instead of spouting BS all day, maybe we wouldn’t need thousands of bloggers checking and calling them on their inaccuracies.
Scarborough, calm down and put the thorazine drip IV back in your arm. Again, you’re just too stupid to work in a job which speaks to the public. The concept of time and logic may escape you, so I’ll help you out. The Awakening occurred before The Glorious Surge. Not even your hero Bush has yet figured out how to go back in time to make the Glorious Surge occur before the Awakening.
Sorry we tried to teach you this. Logic is not your best suit. An empty suit seems to be your best suit.
I was disappointed with Harold Ford for rolling over and not challenging Joe.
Joe is such a little bitch. The heat is directly on these conservative hacks and the one thing they can’t handle above all else is being called out for talking right out of their own asses - unless they’re regurgitating other websites, in which case they’re talking out of other people’s asses.
“The blogosphere has no impact and should be ignored!!!’
~reich-wing talking point 654,953
Buffy had a long talk with Scarborough last week.
He is a very unhappy person. He has had to watch his political faction melt like a Vampire in the sun.
He feels all ookie and stuff.
Now people think he is a Liberal because he has questioned the war.
Buffy lent him a pair of panties and a stake. He said he had his own Santorum.
You know… it’s like, “some people say…”
I used to kind of enjoy watching/listening to Joe… I used to think he was somewhat of a moderate. But I can’t watch the guy any longer (and haven’t for months, now). I think he’s been drinking the Kool Aid in his “Morning Joe” mug.
Hey flavor409 @8, not all of us have forgotten his intern but then again i’m not MSM (I don’t even have the glory of being part of the Cheeto Brigade). You’d think that some a**hole with literal skeletons in his closet would learn to keep a low profile but I’ve learned that those with Narcissistic Personality Disorder rarely learn that trick. Remember, they really aren’t political pundits, they’re entertainers and glory whores.
Agreed..Joe is a talentless hack with no balls as at all, and nothing substantial to say whatsoever..”end ow western civilization as we know it”..”locusts will descend upon cbs”…just shut the hell up already. Really.
When he finally did utter keith Olbermann’s name, I think he peed his pants a little.
He uses a typical Rove tactic of insults rather then knowledge and wisdom. Btw, I love it when Rachel smacks him down!
I could really go for some Cheetos now.
I quit eating Cheetos when they quit working in my weight-loss program. That was a good 30 years ago.
Scar, you’re a cypher. Less than a cypher. And a tiny tiny man with a mind to match.
How does Frito-Lay like having one of their products used as part of a put-down by a mental midget?
awwww poor widdle baby got caught wif his pants down and now he has to blame those who are calling him out of the playground.
Are you a man or a mouse Joe?
Time for morning Joe to retire
There are those of us who prefer pretzels because they cause less of a mess and I have discovered my keyboards are lasting twice as long now since I made the switch.
Louis @ 13:
Harold is disappointing continuously these days.
By the way, Joe Scarborough may want to stop with the psychological projection.
Looking at the people fitting the stereotype Scarborough tries to conjure up, a prominent name comes to mind: Chad Conrad Castagana. The guy who, at 39, was living in his mother’s basement, blogging for Free Republic, and sending fake Anthrax to liberals.
So LMGTS (Let Me Get This Straight):
Joe slams an unnamed person (so cowardly), and when someone guesses wrong about his target, he shouts “You’re SO stupid!”
What a juvenile attitude.
“What other cable news host reported on the story Tuesday night that Joe could have been talking about? Was it Andersen Cooper?”
Yes, I saw Anderson Cooper report the story the same evening that Olbermann did.
Because media is corporate in this country and anchors, journalists and pundits make too much money, you can never expect an honest self-evaluation from these outlets. They would also have to get over that self-important attitude and realize they don’t own the news, they don’t own information and they don’t own opinion. They’re feeling the heat and they’re getting nervous. The media makes a huge deal out of every word spoken by the candidates, and make a spectacle whenever a celebrity stumbles. But when they’re the ones under the loop, they start whining. These people need to get over themselves.
webegeeks @ 25:
Yes…pretzels are good…burritos…not so much.
I don’t even have a basement. It would be difficult to find one down here in south fla.
Yeah, this wingnut is the “darling of the left” according to the NYT.
Is he still looking for the real killers?
Ol’ two faced Joe. He’s capable of spewing GOP talking point rhetoric when addressing Republicans, and adroit at faking rationality when speaking to Liberals and Libertarians.
Reminds me of a quote:
“The word politics is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”
I promise I won’t make any jokes about the coincidence of my favorite blogging snack food and my orange John Thomas.
Oops…
webegeeks @ 25:
Hey, if you prefer Cheetos to pretzels, they have those plastic keyboard protectors-like pocket protectors for your keyboard…No Cheeto dust filled geek cave should be without two or three…one for each keyboard!
Scarborough is a man who sees his future, his own mortality.
The television crowd is a dying breed. Every year more and more are pushing up daisies. (Well, the ones who might watch this clown, at least.) He knows that his time of getting paid multi-millions for lying to the public are numbered. Most young people get their 411 from the Internets. Many boomers do, too. Joe’s primary audience is the rotary dial crowd, you know, McCain’s generation - we all remember the advent of television, don’t we?
Go ahead and hate us bloggers, Joe. As long as you see your own mortality, you lying sack of shit, I’ll even eat a bag of Cheetos (baked to a delicate crunch, please), just for you.
Chomp, chomp!
I don’t know which was worse, the former black congressman
saying “yes SIR”, “yes SIR” as in yes massa to Killer Joe or Joe’s screwing up
the awakening/surge time line. Killer Joe talking down to the
women on the show who are teemed with him so he will look good,
Killer Joe talking down to a black congressman.
Maybe he should show up drunk on air like he did during the last election.
How the hell does he get away with it?
i admit… i caught this slow trainwreck this morning. when i feed my little puppy i turn the tube on, and *zoiks* the tv was turned to msnbc.
and i think willie hit the nail on the head: joe takes the blog criticisms personally.
which is great. knowing that a compromised, paleocon with some suspicious skeletons in his closet (see, old congressional office) gets offended by blog comments is encouraging.
squintborough is desperate to try to inject himself into the upper eschelons of the news whore line-up. too bad no one takes him seriously. squinty is more like that annoying kid on the school bus who thinks that making fart noises (see, parroting corporatist BS) will make him popular. not. working.
Better a basement than an office with a dead intern. Better Cheetos than a dead….ugh.
Che’s Lounge @ 28:
Thing is-It WASN’T the wrong target-he’s just a liar. The shouting gives it away.
Shorter Joe Scarborough:
“Shut up, you ignorant peasant! I’m a former Congressman! I get paid more than you’ll ever see in your lifetime! Bow down and worship me like the media god I am!”
Clearly, Joe could benefit by getting off the caffeine for a few days …
“Cheetos Brigade” is Joe’s derogatory codeword for the pot smoking junk food eating youth on blogs.
Its nice to know he is thinking about me. This toke and snack is dedicated to you Joe. Only it’s not Cheetos my asshat friend, its granola with fresh strawberries and organic yogurt.
It’s long past time for this guy to go the way of Tucker Carlson.
C-span is real entertaining this morning hope C&l gets some of it up…
Scarborough is a total wad. I honestly don’t know how he presumes to criticize anyone. If he had any other occupation than talking stooge for the MSM, he would be out of work and trying to mooch some cheetos from someone.
Think about is a second. What other gig could you have and totally suck at it 90% of the time, and still keep getting paid?
From the war in Iraq to the democratic primary, this obstreperous toad has been wrong on the issues. He should be grateful that MSNBC needs some vapid right winger with a pulse to at least make a show of trying to balance out Olbermann, or he would be asking people if they want fries with this order.
Oh, and the contrast between this pedestrian nitwit with an authentic intellect like Olbermann? You’ve got to be kidding. Scarborough’s monosyllabic grunting compared to the lucid, thoughtful, articulate content from Olbermann is like comparing the Boston Celtics to a middle school boys team in Gopher’s Anus, Alabama.
And one more thing … the lame-assed attempts at humorous cross-talk with Mikka. How lame can you get. She is reasonably bright and even charming sometimes, but Scarborough is like a fart in church. He just doesn’t belong on that stage. He belongs in a bowling alley somewhere holding court with a bunch of right wing trousered simians, explaining why they are right and noble to hate everything.
What a total wad.
I am a proud, lifetime member of the Orange Fingers party.
Joe Scarborough, you’re fucking with the all-powerful Frito Lay company. Don’t be too surprised if from now on your chips are all a little stale, not quite enough salt, etc. Nobody wants that, Joe. Apologize before it’s too late!
MsJoanne @ 36:
OOOH! Nailed it!
Joe sounds worried. He’s not used to accountability.
Joe Scarborough reminds me of a saying they have in France - “the guy farts higher than his asshole.”
I would eat Joe’s face like a wolf, long before I would eat a cheese MSG stick.
Joe Scarborough: 2008 Beady-eyed champion of the world!
CONGRATS JOE!