Morning Joe

I remembered what it was Shmoe said yesterday that pissed me off too. He showed the footage of Rahm Emanuel talking off the cuff to a reporter about how he would have to consider his family and the long hours involved in the decision. Shmoe just went ON and ON about what a bonehead thing it was to discuss that in public and that it was “Obama’s first blunder”, I think were his words. And he spent 2 more hours going on about it.Time for Joe to go, at least on my tv.

Unfortunately for the GOP, he’s right. It does appeal to her base in Appalachia. If she had a basic knowledge of geography, she’d be an elite and we can’t have that, can we?

Good point, Bluegoose. Those people are my neighbors and they don’t know which continents are in NA either.And for the record, we pronounce that App-a-lat-cha (not App-a-lay-cha), same as the university. Sociologists came along and made it an economic region but the basic pronunciation of the mountains should not have been changed. (Sorry, one of my pet media/elitist peeves )

I could only take Scarborough for 15 seconds this morning. He started the hate fest for Krugman for Krugman daring to say that unemployment and health care would do more to stimulate the economy than tax cuts.Evidently, according to Scarborough, winning a Nobel prize, being a professor of economics at a major university, and so far being proven right about the economy doesn’t qualify you to speak about the economy – because you’re not a conservative.

Totally agree that Joe is a royal pain this morning, esp trying to trash Obama for the Rahm Emanual pick. He should give it a rest, and take a wait and see approach. Bill Daley and Laurence O’Donnell state credibly that Obama sets the tone (and I *like* Rahm to get things done!).

Bluegoose: I wasn’t calling you an elitist, by the way. Especially since I couldn’t hear how you said Appalachia. I just like to get that plug in every chance I get. The media, even KO, always do it the learned way, not the native way.

Apropos of nothing:Here’s the link for the page listing all the people on the Democratic Steering ond Outreach Committee.http://democrats.senate.gov/steering/index.cfm?pg=6I am calling every one of them this morning and telling them to boot Lieberman out of his committee chairmanships.

Plays in her favor? How exactly would that work? In 2010 will she suddenly appear on ‘Meet the Press’ discussing the power structure within the Saudi royal family and their impact upon the economies of Russia and Venezuela and we’ll all be so shocked and awed at her brilliance that we’ll want to vote her into office immediately? Scarborough has drunk too much kool-aid.

Matthew – myleftnutmeg.com has links for petitions to the CT Democratic Steering Cmte (I think) and at Firedoglake (different petitions) re: removing Lieberman. It was the first item up there this morning so it’s probably still at or near the top.

Only in the GOP can being stunningly ignorant and unversed in world affairs and basic geography play into your favor. Although it could serve to lower the bar so much more (if that is possible)that if she says anything even resembling smart in the future it makes her look like a genius. Kinda like the VP debate.

The best part was the he repeatedly compared Palin to Ronald Reagan – “They mocked his as being unintelligent too, and then woke up to see he won almost all the states!”Um… Who wants to tell Joe that she lost? I mean, news of her idiocy isn’t exactly new, and I’m pretty sure you can watch those number start to plummet right around the Couric interview.

Matthew, ceu – Lieberman is the neo-equivalent of a Vichy collaborator during WWII. Some people might be horrified by that analogy, but the reality is that hundreds of thousands of (if not over a million) people have been killed in Iraq. At the upper end, that’s the equivalent of 11,000,000 killed here in the US, and those are some seriously 3rd Reich-ish numbers. The wayward senator is an unapologetic head-in-the-sand cheerleader for a policy of wanton violence and de facto recruitment for al Qaeda. Collaborator? Yeah, Mssr. Lieberman is definitely one of those…

Actually, I think the comparison to Reagan isn’t a bad one. Reagan practically bragged about his ignorance and made it a political asset, along with his fake homey cheerfulness. (“There you go again!”) Another parallel: everyone forgets just how corrupt the Reagan administration was. Remember Ray Donovan? Maybe these faces without substance are particularly good breeding grounds for corruption.

After eight years of Boosh, clearly stupid is their comfort zone.

bluegoose, you’re dead on right. Reagan’s was a corrupt, anti-intellectual administration that got lucky with it’s spend until you break the soviet union strategy. From James Watt’s “kill all the trees!” environmental policies to fat boy Ed Meese’s “there’s no hunger in america” madness, those were some dark, dark days. When it was finally over in 1992, and some friends of mine and I put together the “Inaugural Ball for the Not Well Connected” in Eastern Market on Capitol Hill, we all referred to it back then as the end of ideological nuclear winter…Dreadful times, those; good on ya for remembering ‘em correctly…

I wish there was someone around to read my totally funny post.Is that sort of like, not knowing your ass from a hole in the ground?

I’ve been reading this site for a few months now. Bob, Elvis, and Jumpy thank you for helping me get through the campaign with my sanity. now for my first comment on here:Joe is one of those guys that “Was born on 3rd base, but acts like he hit a triple.” His smugness and conceit are legendary. For someone who was shamed out of congress, he sure acts like his shit doesn’t stink one bit.

I think we should challenge MSNBC to put Rachel and her crew on in the morning for 1 week and see what happens to the ratings.Could you imagine if they made a morning show with Rachel as anchor, Stephanie & Jim as color commentary, etc. Thom Hartman as a featured segment producer, Paul Krugman’s “economics for the rest of us” weekly feature, and Bob Cesca’s wacky animated political satire rants!Yes We Can!

Not to mention a semi-regular visit from John Cleese, and a never-ending supply of left leaning celebs that would come on to plug CAUSES for free instead of movies for studio bosses.

LFOD – that would be goddamn AWESOME!!!

LFOD, since we have been infiltrated by someone from KO’s crew anyway (for Countdown input), maybe they’ll pass that idea along to programming. I can’t wait to turn on Morning Rachel one day next week after your idea has made it down the pike.

According to these posts, the thing that I suspected when I wrote my last blog entry is correct: since Obama’s victory, Joe Scarborough has veered into the crazy right.It’s like the last election woke him from years of sanity and returned him to his usual lunacy.