Hang it up, Scarborough.
By bluegal Tuesday Aug 26, 2008 7:20pm
Joe Scarborough goes after bloggers (I mean, who else is watching your show, Joe?) on a regular basis, denigrating us as Cheetos-eating Star Wars fans living in our mothers' basements. Joe's court jester Willie Geist interviews bloggers in the DNC Big Tent, and finds very few bloggers who fit Joe's slurs.
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As with most issues, what Joe says as opinion, is simply contrary to fact. Surveys of top political bloggers (here and here) in 2006 found that most are male, white, well-educated, around 45 years old, and earning above-average income. Kinda exactly like you, Joe. We also have extensive activist experience (I shook Ted Kennedy's hand at 18 and haven't really washed under the nails since), and we have an addictive level of news consumption (which is the only explanation I have as to why we get up to watch Morning Joe).
As an Ivy-educated middle-aged mother-of-three homeowner who does not own any Star Wars memorabilia, I can see why you might be jealous of bloggers, Joe. Few of us have to deal with little niggling details like dead staff in our office or having to carry the water of the Worst. President. Ever.
Also, as a blogger, I can tell you in the presence of my considerable, well-educated audience, to kiss my liberal elite blogger ass.
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Well said, although I think that comment about the dead staff was wayyyy below the belt and distasteful.
Sounds good, but...
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Wow - a Lori Klausutis mention! You go!
BennyP @ 2:
Yeah, that made me a sad panda. I was looking forward to this. I know it will get fixed, but I'm just so impatient!
let's hope joe takes that
silver spoon out of his ass,
you know the one where he
gets his elixir of life from.
joe is such a liar.
Well I guess that says it all!
As a former resident of Ft. Walton Beach, Florida (where the dead intern was found in Joe's office) I can say that I don't find it distasteful at all considering the bizarre happening that took place after the young woman's mysterious death.
Willie Geist is kind of the obnoxious frat boy sidekick in the fey bottom mode of a host. I hate that phuck.
Joe Blowhaerd is still spinnin dishonest talking points for the crumbling right wing?
Who'd a thunk he would do this now, after his disgraceful activities right before he cut and ran from congress.
ohhh somebody is a little sensitive
Isome @ 6:
wait, what?
Biggus Diggus @ 7:
Remember Willie was Tucker Carlson's sidekick on Tucker's waste of airtime, before he got the morning Blowhard Joe gig.
Blowhard Joe is getting sloppy seconds on that one.
Bluegal, I'm sure Little Joe didn't mean you. (But I love the rant anyway!)
Amen bluegal!! And in honor of Lori Klausutis Joe can kiss my ass too. Enough of him.
Sometimes the Scar can surprise you.
I found that his praise for both Senators Clinton and Obama shortly after Mister Obama secured the nomination this evening was effusive and genuine and one of the better commentaries I've heard on either candidate.
He is a total stoner though, and if he wants any sort of a shot at redemption, I'd like to see him lead the charge and use his national platform as a bully pulpit towards towards finally decriminalizing this plant.
I'm sure he could get Pat Buchanan's help and support with this.
I can explain the addiction, for me it's easy....
It's called International Superstar Erin Burnett at 8:30 and I totally hate myself for this, in-house MSNBC party girl Courtney Hazlett.
She seems like a younger, much, much crazier version of the Faye Dunaway character in Network and looking at her I gotta wonder how much of this story is true?
~Nyc
Are you watching/listening MSNBC, Joe has to go,and take INTERUPTER Tweety with him. The USA is sick of his 'I think' stuff,he said today, he's a commentator and no one has said they don't like him...well...I hate to pop your ego, so let me be the first to tell you to SHUT UP!.....Don't INTERUPT K.O., because you see the ratings better than me,so just bow out, and get a radio gig in some small town on a fox station.
And for those of us who are Cheetos eating, Star Wars fans who live in our mother's basement, Scarborough:
How many character reinventions are you and Tucker Carlson are going to go through before MSNBC fires you? Glass houses, boy. At least we're honest with ourselves.
kiss my liberal elite blogger ass.
Yuk, Bluegal. You don't know where Joe's mouth has been.
The saying about "a dead girl or a live boy" isn't true of Scarborough. There was a dead girl, but no scandal. IIRC the coroner who exonerated him had been disbarred in another state.
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Shit! This is the only website where I hit "enter" (or not) and it enters before I want my comment to be entered and I'm finished with my pithy comments. Anyway. YOU GO GIRL! And, however "below the belt" and distasteful, Joe Scar has gotten a pass on the dead intern in his office. Wasn't that the same summer the Gary Condit's intern went missing and that was all the news ALL THE TIME? I believe it may have been. Then again, Condit was a Democrat. Joe was (and very much still is) a Republican. So. There ya go!
Very nice Bluegal. Direct, to the point and without any of the political correctness that one might expect. Priceless.
Scarborough has totally gone over the edge. The argument he had on air with David Shuster yesterday revealed him as entirely nuts.
Get your John McCain NOPE T-Shirts & Stickers today!
Too bad that dumb asses like Joe Scarface get to spew their stupidity to such large audiences.
blugal said -
"Few of us have to deal with little niggling details like dead staff in our office or having to carry the water of the Worst. President. Ever. "
If I wasn't heterosexual and you weren't married.....
....Ah hell..come here!
Bluegal RAWKS and as for Joe, it will come back on him and soon. If the media can follow a tabloid all the way to a live baby and John Edwards, it can get through the murk to a dead woman and a live ASSHOLE, aka Smirkin' Joe Scarborough.
PJ O'Rourke, when he was recently touring for his book about the economist Adam Smith repeatedly used the line....
"My doing well doesn't negatively impact you."
As a way of saying that capitalism and our way of doing business is a viable model, which sounds great on its surface, but then I think of the thousands upon thousands of strivers that have gone through Columbia Journalism school and at the end of it there are the Tucker Carlsons and Cooper Andersons out there in front of them, who they will never get passed, no matter how much more qualified they are then those that have essentially inherited their positions through their family name.
Congressman Joe Scarborough seems to be the exception, save for that his two co-hosts are the son of a long time CBS News reporter and the daughter of a high placed government official.
Nepotism rules.
~Nyc
but I like Cheetos...
YEEEEEEEEEEEHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! you tell 'em.
Scarborough has a "I am entitled" mentality. He has complained about security in 'Denver, perhaps he thinks he is entitled to superstar status? He has sung the praises of McCain every single day of this convention, fair and balanced be damned. K.O interrupted him and said "Jesus Joe, get a shovel" to which Joe exploded. Joe has walked off the set when Maddow corrected him. Big mouth Joe seems like trouble but the head of MSNBC has defended all of his anchors. And as far as his two sidekicks, the blonde bimbo just agrees with everything that Joe says and the baby faced frat boy sidekick was also Tucker's sidekick, enough said.
I have been in the audience in Denver for Hardball. I will say this, I was impressed on how accessible Matthews has been to the audience. He has been friendly, shaking hands, joking and signing autographs whereas Olberman can barely manage a wave to the crowd. Keith is a disappointment but I still like his quick wit on the air.
Oh, c'mon. Joe Scarborough is the greatest. Just take a look at what dcmediagirl over at Larry (Moe Curly) Johnson's cesspool NoQuarter has to say about him. He's the only guy who tells it like it is.
And dcmediagirl explains herself --
"And for those of you who find my Joe love suspicious: This is a topsy-turvy election cycle. If fairness and serious analysis is found in unsuspected places so be it. At least we have someowhere [sic] to turn."
Yep, it's a topsy-turvy election season. For example, up is down, good is bad, left is right, etc.
Who really cares what the corpo RAT fascists have to say about bloggers.
Bitter Bud Hussein @ 26:
Nobody likes Cheetos!
Remember, poor Joe is just upset that no one thinks of him as a real journalist.
krisken @ 31:
It's no wonder. He isn't.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Joe must go!
That dust-up he had with Shuster made him look like a fool (and a big baby).
Give Dan that show and give Donahue the Hardball hour.
I can't stand that spitting, slobbering, interrupting Matthews either.
I quit watching him long ago.
From the linked article:
Indeed. On May 29, 2003, Scarborough appeared on Don Imus's radio show. While complimenting Scarborough on his sense of humor, Imus said, "Don't be afraid to be funny, because you are funny. I asked you why you aren't in Congress. You said that you had sex with the intern, and then you had to kill her." Scarborough laughed and replied, "Yeah, well, what are you gonna do?"
Sick!
I like Cheetos too. I gladly eat them at my computer smearing the screen everytime his face comes on. Eat that Joe, and that and I have elistist dark chocolate to smear on your pasty white face.
But I no longer live in the basement. My momma, bless her, is long gone. Maybe they will bring Dan Abrams on and eliminate the chaff, Joe, from the wheat.
JimboSlice @ 1:
Why? Since when is the truth "below the belt?
Just because the traditional media and the Republican party washed it all under the rug and refuse to talk about it, why should the blogs? Of course, if Joe had been a Democrat, a la Chandra Levy, it would have been talked about 24/7 for months and months.
OT
Friend of mine said that over at america blog , bill clinton was set to blow off obamas acceptance speech.
what a §$%&/()= Liar. Here I am watching bill clinton on cnn giving his speech.
WTF is wrong with americablog? Iam so glad i come here and dropped a-blog last year.
JA is a lying moron who needs to grow up ,, fast and get over his 75, grand a year pay scale.
danke C&L for a kick ass blog that actually lets ppl have thier say.
regards
,,,
"What is your high score on Dungeons and Dragons".
I think this one is my favorite, since it shows how poorly they researched their questions before asking them of the bloggers.
krisken @ 37:
I think you just blew your cover
I don't watch Morning Jerk.
Joe Stupidborough
Proof positive that abortion should never be outlawed............
Thank.You.Bluegal.
BeeSting @ 38:
Meh, I have nothing to hide. I've played the game for 20 years. It taught me the importance of imagination, working as a team, math skills, ingenuity, and improved my reading.
Anyone who sees these things as bad should pull their head out of their ass.
Didn't a male intern Joe was allegedly having a homosexual affair with die in his office?
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 43:
No
Larry Craig moved ..............
Star wars, cheetos, D&D??? what the fuck this is 2008......
Wow, that was the cast for the theater of the absurd. Living out in the toolies as I do without access to the "blessings" of cable TV I don't see these tools except on video clips (we do have high speed wireless access, go figure.)
That said, as a relative outsider to the MSM those people must not watch their own performances otherwise they'd be aware of how absolutely ridiculous they look and sound. They're trying to cast bloggers as loser freaks. Best they look in the mirror and see the loser freak looking back at them. And these people are helping shape Americans' opinions? Scary stuff.
Joe's a little worried that some bigwig will ask himself, "why the hell am I paying that tool all that money, while the bloggers run circles around his pasty ass?"
Anon @ 45:
I know. I think what really gets under my skin is these are the same pricks trying to push that "Elitist" meme on us while trying to look superior by slagging on people who aren't like them.
BeeSting @ 38:
Yeah, because throwing some dice (not for money) and using your imagination amongst friends is much less healthy than hanging out at clubs with your friends, getting drunk, or, for the younger kids, hanging outside of a liquor store, trying to get someone to buy for you. I guess church, where you can go and listen to someone else tell you how to live your life is healthier, too. Oh, krisken, you nerd. ;D
Dig that hole a bit deeper, BeeSting. :P
krisken @ 42:
It is all good
it took 60 years for msm to embrace geek culture as a result of the dark knight, 300, sin city, xmen, etc....now they still refer to comic book collectors as geeks, but they are going out of their way to pander to the creators, cuz without them, their biz is dead
the dinasor media is dying....newspapers are on their last legs and only those over 60 watch the nightly news on a regular basis
joe can belittle and fight as much as he wants to, but citizen media is winning out
and i think that people who put in 14 hour days are kinda funny when they ask others if they ever see the sun
as far as i know, no blogger has yet to have a dead girl found in his/her office
and make fun of star wars as much as you want joe...george lucas owns you
Oh, little local color for you people out in the hinterlands of fly-over country, ie not living in Manhattan Media Nation, to fill you in on what the big picture is here and tell you everything that you need to know about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
For ye shall know them by the company they keep....
79 year old Bob Grant is one of the most loathesome, vile, nasty and creepy right wing radio commentators on the AM dial, he's pretty much credited with creating the hate radio genre, and he now in the twilight of his career he has an evening show on WABC in NYC after Imus, Limbaugh and Hannity have had their say for the day, and about a month ago he was out and the guest hosts for the evening were....
Joe and Mika.
They seemed quite comfortable filling his hate-filled spot and didn't look at all like they missed their usually early bedtimes the next morning.
~Nyc
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 43:
no...he was fucking a young girl
she died
he got away with it and got a tv show
where he can belittle non murderers
Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, and Mike Barnicle have berated and belittled "the cheeto brigade" of bloggers almost daily for months now. They taunt blogger almost every day. a couple months ago Barnicle had a yelling rant about bloggers in their pajamas in the parents basement and he pointed at the camera and screamed "get a life!" And the whole crew laughed and laughed all week long about it, so they've just stuck with that meme ever since.
bluegal, Right on. I, myself, am a 41 year old Grandmother who doesn't eat Cheetos or have Star Wars memoriblia. Although I only have a High School education, I consider myself a Hell of a lot smarter than good ole Joe!
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 51:
Oh, why'd you have to go and bring up 300? Christ, both the graphic novel and film were right-wing, post-9/11 propaganda. The Persians weren't a bunch of pierced hedonists- quite the opposite! They were far more tolerant than the Spartans.
If you wanna read a good book on the battle of Thermopylae, check out Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire. Still from the Spartan pov, but researched and written much better.
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 53:
Joe is as out of touch as the rest of his party.
Scumborough has those dead eyes, they match his soul.
I exclaim, "How does he confuse a condom wrapper for matches?"
And my wife answers, "The prostitutes don't make him wear one."
krisken @ 37:
The response to the question should have been:
"What was Morning Joe's last rating among 18-35 viewers, and why was it LOWER THAN THE FUCKING SQUAWK BOX?!?!"
That's right, folks. Here are people so starved for entertainment at 6 in the morning that they'd rather watch stock market analysis than the Scar!
I'd source the ratings report, but the link is on my other laptop. Oops.
Now if you'll excuse me, fellow fat bloggers, but a Warcraft Marathon beckons!!
skippy covered the lori klausutis (dead intern) affair back in 2006, when katherine harris was trying to revive the rumors (most probably true) about scarborough.
we do a short, readers digest version here today...and here is the 2006 post.
oh dear....there's something wrong with me i'm afraid.
i'm a mom, i hunt, a progressive dem by and large, played d&d for years, and and..um...i have a starwars lightsabre my kid gave me. (yes it makes noises and lights up. i wave it at the chimpy poster with the propeller beanie cap)
bobbie @ 57:
uh...this whole thing (lori's death & the subsequent cover-up) happened months before 9/11, so, whatever you read was out to lunch.
dont eat cheetos but thanks to joe, i may start to.
Great.
Now I'll be thinking of Bluegal's ass all night.
skippy @ 62:
skippy- blogwhoring outside of the Music Club thread? When did this start?!?!
Seriously, folks, check out skippy's blog. He's good.
echo @ 66:
isn't joe bluegal's ass?
I'll bet Joe has a collection of Pat Boone records.
Kevin Foster @ 59:
jaws: quint:"...And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes... "
Hmmmm....I don't have a blog but have some favorites that I visit. I am a 52 year old father of four adult children and business executive with an MBA from the University of Chicago. What the fuck does Joe know?
That was way below the belt. Criticism is fine but I can't see how anybody can say Scarborough isn't probably the best right winger out there they can find. I enjoy the show and yeah he can be a dumbass sometimes...but please, that staffer thing is disrespectful to him, his family, and most importantly the staffer and her family.
Wow- what a dipsh!t segment.
I suggest that anyone who calls themselves 'Willie' shouldn't throw stones.
And to think that that was edited?
Willie Geist: Joe I am here at the bloggers tent. Do you eat cheetos? Do you eat cheetos? Do you eat cheetos? Do you eat cheetos? Do you eat cheetos? Do you eat cheetos? Whats your high score in D&D? Whats your high score in D&D? Whats your high score in D&D? Whats your high score in D&D? Whats your high score in D&D? Do you live in your mom's basement? Do you live in your mom's basement? Do you live in your mom's basement? Do you live in your mom's basement? Do you live in your mom's basement? Do you live in your mom's basement? Pfff...losers. Back to you Joe.
Iowa @ 72:
I have to disagree. Joe Scarborough is the worst rightwinger on msnbc by far. Even Pat Buchanan is better than Scar. Joe Scarborough is just barely more tolerable than Glenn Beck.
He pretends (occasionally) to take a more moderate position than some in his party, but it's usually only when he's being a concern troll. Joe's been the biggest concern troll ever on any issue about Hillary - just like Limbaugh, Rove, O'Reilly, Hannity - for the past year, sometimes calling her his "girlfriend" only because he was trying to help McCain by draining money from the candidates in the primaries trying to make them go on as long as they could. Before she fell behind Obama in delegates, Hillary was a shedevil to Joe and he blasted her every chance he could, just like Limbaugh, Rove, O'Reilly, Hannity.
Scar is threatened. Who wouldn't be? The MSM and the likes of scar have had a stranglehold on information. Bloggers are a direct threat to that stranglehold. He has every reason to be afraid. Blogging takes away his authority and relevance in the world.
=my2c
Wait a minute. Why don't you have any Star Wars memorabilia? Do you at least know the secret handshake? (Extend cheeto-dusted hand and at the last minute pull it back, run fingers through hair, yell "Psych!", yell "Damn it!" because you just got cheeto dust in your hair.)
bobbie @ 57:
How the hell this Geist creature is even employed is beyond me--he is a moron..who happens to have a father with a hideous voice who works for CBS. Scarborough's ratings are terrible--he rails about the NYTimes, the Upper East and West Side of NY, Georgetown etc., yet I remember when he wanted to send his spawn to Fordham University.
He's an ass who is in over his head. MSNBC had to be desperate to put him in Imus' time slot and Mika is no prize either. She acts a little schizzy to me. Watch C-span--you don't have to watch you only have to listen--plus, you learn something.
justabill @ 75:
This really doesn't have anything to do with the dead girl comment, which is all that poster was focused on.
My only thought is that I don't enjoy these "nyah nyah" posts on this site. They're very bitter and they always feel childish and overly defensive. I get that getting attacked by someone like Joe on no real grounds is also insulting and frustrating, but I don't feel like the tirades and digs accomplish much either.
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Blue Gal responds:
Trust me, Tony, I thought about ignoring him but he's pulling this "Cheetos brigade" bs as a regular part of his show and I've had enough. I'm educated, own my home, love my kids, and write for the internet. JS is either threatened by me or wants to impress me that he can call me and my profession names from his mountaintop. He can bite my cheetos. Thanks for your comment. - BG
What a bunch of MSM asshats! I'm always amazed at how low MSNBC will go, yet they've got Olberman and Maddow, It's like they want to be Faux News, and oldtime CNN all at once, but with a funny spin on it like Comedy Central. Dear MSNBC, none of this works.
I don't eat Cheetos either, and I am a 68-year-old mother and grandmother who blogs every day in my own house. If it's clean, it's because I cleaned it. If there's something to eat, it's because I bought it and cooked it. I don't bother e-mailing Scarborough or Mathews any more though. I'd rather spend my time pushing back against the reactionary attitudes that are shaping my local world. That's life in a Bible belt red state where the Confederate flag still flies on public ground.
My psych analysis is that Scarborough is just another one of those guys whose physical stature gave him the idea that he is more important and more powerful than others. Like Dr. Phil. Pick on women, especially mothers, and nerdy people who don't live to Lord it over others. BTW, I went to the same high school as Willie Geist, and so did my mother two hundred years ago, so he gets a pass for associating with jerks like Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough.
Three Words.
Fuck You Joe.
I'm a Libertarian Conservative and I cannot stand the bastard.
Just Sayin'
Libertarian Conservative @ 83:
I also cannot stand it, when I enter the wrong URL... ooops!
Tony @ 80:
justabill @ 54:
Hey Joe...Get a show!
God, I just watched the rant v. Shuster. What. a. tool.
I'd like to ask a question of some of these so-called professional journalists: Hope many real college programs did you flunk out of before you got your pass in journalism?
Oh Ha Ha Willie...maybe you can have a dead intern in YOUR office one day!
isn't it an elitist for someone to be putting down someone else the way joe scarborough does one a regular basis. his show is damned near unwatchable, his opinions are worthless based on little substance and his co-hosts are there to make him look good. how much does it suck to have that job. and i say this simply because i have gotten more substantative debate, information and factual knowledge from reading blogs than i have from any time spent listening to scarborough. and the morning joe coverage of this convention has been a train wreck, from the location of the broadcast to the guest and topics. to be honest my opinion is based on maybe 10 minutes of viewing spread out over three days. it is so difficult to try and eat breakfast when you are watching a show like this.
bluegal, OUTSTANDING and amen!
Also, as a blogger, I can tell you in the presence of my considerable, well-educated audience, to kiss my liberal elite blogger ass.
Word.
I watched morning Joe for about 2 weeks when it first came on. Ugh. I can't stand his smarmy arrogance masquerading as a regular guy. His team was OK by me but Joe... yuck.