Morning Joe

I’m savoring the fact that Harry Reid finally grew a pair and the GOP is choking on them!Mental image: Harry grows a pair, GOP choking on them, tea-baggers, awesomeness!

This is one of the reasons I love living in China. Nobody here even knows who the fuck Tiger Woods is!

@ emsiqueAre you fucking nuts? I’m in Taiwan, and EVERYONE knows who Tiger Woods is. He’s as famous as Michael Jordan and Ronald McDonald.Where are you? Some little village in Guangdong with no television except for local news and Japanese game shows?

Note to Bob (don’t mean to threadjack):Did you catch Hitchens writing about Sarah Palin in Slate?My favourite quote:

At least Richard Nixon had the ill fortune to look like what he was: a haunted scoundrel and repressed psychopath. Whereas the usefulness of Sarah Palin to the right-wing party managers is that she combines a certain knowingness with a feigned innocence and a still-palpable blush of sex. But she should take care to read her Alexander Pope: That bloom will soon enough fade, and it will fade really quickly if she uses it to prostitute herself to the Nixonites on one day and then to cock-tease the rabble on the next.

I didn’t see the Tiger segment but, I did catch that pipsqueak Aaron Schock. This baby faced idiot was saying that Gitmo should not be closed and it’s not tanking our reputation around the world. He said he didn’t want to fear monger about terriorists attacks but, then did just that. He then said that the American people don’t want those upcoming trials to be held in NY. Eugene set his stupid ass straight but, why the hell is Schock even on?I sent an email to the show last week taunting Jethro because I’d read that he is now dead last in the cable morning show ratings. I also said that the reason his show is tanking and now sucks is because Liberals aren’t watching anymore. And that Republicans and Conservatives never watched because they have fox. I hope that Comcast drops their asses. There was a rumor that Comcast was going to keep all the CNBC dayside shows and all of MSNBC’s primetime lineup but, Comcast quickly came out and denied that. You have to wonder with a last place, how long will they be able to survive?

emsique, my brother lives in Thailand and everyone there knows who Woods is. Of course, having a Thai mom makes him very popular there. I have read that Woods is known to Chinese golfers but, that since it’s not a big sport in China, he is not well known in China generally.I’m sick of Tigergate! Another very rich athlete screws his groupies! Big News!But this is what constitutes news now — everything that was relegated to gossip columns and celebrity magazines years ago is now worhty of Bob Woodward and Gene Robinson.Okay, since it is Woods, I’d give it time on ESPN and maybe CNBC as it is potentially going to cost all of men’s pro golf a LOT of money.But the economics of it is not why it’s all over cable. Cable News — we give our audience all the salacious crap they want!

Spot on Eve! I suspect that the only person who is happy about this Tiger bullshit is Desiree Rogers. The idiot Villagers have dropped her and moved on to Woods. It’s a true disgrace. The media is embarrassing themselves again. Didn’t the President just bitch slap them for asking him if he’d read that hillbilly housewife’s book?My favorite part of the show that I caught was when they started whinning about how the Whitehouse is no longer doing that stupid rope line. The President and First Lady will not be standing around for 3 or 4 hours taking pictures with assholes who trash the President and his administration on a daily basis. Somehow I think Mrs. Obama had a hand in this. Good for her. There’s no better way to say FUCK YOU to the press. Good for her! Also, I read on Ugh!, politico yesterday that many reporters were not invited to the party this year and are really pissed. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

I quit taking Woodward seriously when he became a shill for Bush.

The whole Harry Reid, slavery segment was pathetic. They’ve got their knickers in a twist because Reid invoked slaverly, civil Rights and women’s rights. The feigned outrage on display by Republicans was the real embarrassment. Who the hell do they think they’re fooling. They don’t give a shit about us black folk. Just take a look at their party. They don’t give a shit about civil rights. Just read what Ronnie Raygun thought about that. And finally, they don’t give a shit about women. See the lousy 3 female Senators in their party.Where is the outrage everytime their supporters show up with guns, Hitler signs, swastikas and all the other extremely offensive shit that comes out of the mouths of some of the same clowns grandstanding at their press conference. This African American was not offended by what Reid said. It may have missed the mark on what he was trying to say but, I for one was not offended. No, what offends me is the entire Republican party. They’re the real disgrace.

This is one of the reasons I love living in China. Nobody here even knows who the fuck Tiger Woods is!

Don’t kid yourself emsique, there are plenty of people in China who know who Tiger is. In fact, there are enough people in China who know Tiger that a series of news reports complete with simulated computer generated video were produced by a Chinese new outlet.That being said, I think it’s a complete waste of time and energy. “BREAKING NEWS! Billionaire cheats on spouse” isn’t news.

Their corporate masters tell them to form an electronic lynch mob, and that’s exactly what they do.Never mind the field day media swine could have had with Scarborough’s own past.Stop watching the daytime lineup for MSNBC or any other cable news show if you don’t want to keep your brain from turning into a giant dust bunny.

These folks are just lazy. It’s a lot easier to sit around talking about someone else’s sex life than it is to keep track of the intricacies of the proposed plans in the Senate or the debates in Copenhagen. You know, real important stuff.That twit Mika keeps writing her sage advice in columns at HP. She is hand wringing about her complicated life blah, blah, blah. HP is dumping any comments that don’t praise her as the world’s best mother and TV commentator.I could do her job drunk. Each of us here spends more time understanding current events than the morning Joe crew. I would love to have a job where all I had to do is throw on some makeup and heels and talk about scandal for a couple of hours.No I wouldn’t. I take that back. I would be suicidal.

HehGreat audio clip from Mars Attacks Bob. I loled.

I think this deserves a double take:The whole Harry Reid, slavery segment was pathetic. They’ve got their knickers in a twist because Reid invoked slaverly, civil Rights and women’s rights. The feigned outrage on display by Republicans was the real embarrassment. Who the hell do they think they’re fooling. They don’t give a shit about us black folk. Just take a look at their party. They don’t give a shit about civil rights. Just read what Ronnie Raygun thought about that. And finally, they don’t give a shit about women. See the lousy 3 female Senators in their party.Where is the outrage everytime their supporters show up with guns, Hitler signs, swastikas and all the other extremely offensive shit that comes out of the mouths of some of the same clowns grandstanding at their press conference. This African American was not offended by what Reid said. It may have missed the mark on what he was trying to say but, I for one was not offended. No, what offends me is the entire Republican party. They’re the real disgrace.Posted by: roxsteady [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 8, 2009 10:20 AMWhen you’re right you’re right!