Morning No Joe.

[Atman]

The sun is shining, the birds are tweeting. Mornings are so much better without that asshole.

[DrDan]

1. changing the channel grants you that each morning

[Atman]

2. Not if I want to watch news.

Today show? No chance. Fox? Hah! No CNN since they fired Soledad. Morning Joe isn't a bad program, as long as Joe isn't there.

[riqster]

13. Three letters: NPR

Yeah, they have their share of RW tools, but not as many, and not as shrill.

Plus, the ads are a lot shorter and lower-key.

[mwooldri]

19. Here's another three: BBC.

World Service to be specific. It broadens your perspective and you still get good coverage of important news in the USA.

[riqster]

21. Gotta love the Beeb. nt

[eggplant]

25. Here's another three: OFF. n/t

[Atman]

3. BTW, Nicole Wallace is a guest today.

The former/still Bush mouthpiece. She's almost as bad as Joe...shrill, rude and totally partisan. But was nice to see the entire panel shoot her down after her tirade about how multiple scandals are destroying Obama...Willie put his hand on her shoulder, as if talking to a mental patient, and pointed out that Obama's poll numbers are either up or unchanged. She humphed that, well, yeah, but, you know...not among independents!

[TexasTowelie]

4. "as if talking to a mental patient"

the "if" isn't necessary--she's a Bush mouthpiece.

[DrDan]

11. thanks - would like to have seen that

I usually watch each morning - but distracted by Andrea today

would like to have seen that

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Oops! I read that wrong...

[CTyankee]

14. Wallace needs voice lessons. She tends to sound shrieky. She needs to lower the register

an octave or so. It gets worse when she gets agitated, as she was today, trying SO hard to paste "Scandal" over everything Obama does. Republicans are desperate.

[AnnieK401]

22. For now I'm sticking with Current (Bill P./Stephanie M.) in the AM.

Glad they are still there. Don't know how much longer that will last though.

[malaise]

5. LOL

Must be collecting the talking points to push the Friday agenda for the Sunday hacks

[pinboy3niner]

9. I think it's a blatant ploy for higher ratings

[malaise]

16. Don't rule it out

[Atman]

6. I spoke too soon..

Joe is a guest on his own show. Doing a remote from somewhere...he looks like shit. Obviously stayed up too late drinking.

[John2]

7. Yeah, I'm just

shaking my head at these Media Pundits. They are bringing up Policies mostly started under the Bush Administration with the Patriot ACT. Obama just renewed most of them for the War on Terrorism which most of the Republicans supported. The media Pundits were silent then, but now they see it as a way to attack the Obama Administration. This thing about phone records has been going on for years, because I studied the Patriot ACT. The only groups complaining at the time were Liberal groups and the Media Pundits were silent. They are all scoundrels. It is what you get, when you go to bed with snakes, because you don't know when they will turn around and bite you. That is exactly what is happening right now to the Obama Administration.

[Atman]

8. Wow...Chuck Todd just schooled Joe...

Joe is OUTRAGED! Outraged, I tell you! Over the Verizon/NSA scandal! Nobody thought the Patriot Act would go this far! Nobody! (Pssst, Joe...I did). Chucky asked Joe why he wasn't outraged when Bush was doing the exact same thing. BOOM. Joe was speechless for a moment, but then offered a "Well, yeah, but what Obama is doing is far worse! And the drone strikes! Hmmmph hmmmmph hmmmmph."

[CTyankee]

15. I laughed out loud watching him do that! "Nobody expected that it would be taken so far..."

Joe needs to quit talking about what has happened as a result of the Patriot Act. I'm sure that there is quite a bit of videotape of him pushing it during the Bush Administration. Can't wait for jon stewart or stephen colbert to do a devastating takedown of joe and other repukes on their rancid hypocrisy...

[malaise]

17. Lots of us saw this coming

but now it affects them.

[CTyankee]

18. Joe was "lecturing" us today. He thought it was bad for a progressive (yes, he used that

word!) administration to be doing this. Did Joe bother to READ the Patriot Act that he supported so much? Did he think through the long term implications of such an Act?

[KharmaTrain]

10. Joe's "Poutraged"...

...how dare the Obama administration supposedly continue carrying on a policy from the boooosh regime. I agree but for far, far different reasons. I, like many here, never agreed to the draconian Patriot act and other crap passed through those dark years. The "scandal" are all these shitstains like Wallace who wish for the scandals...hoping that by trying to tarnish President Obama with booosh's shit that he'll be viewed as inept and corrupt as dubya. Yet, these are the same people who were shitting their pants about "a-rab terrerists" and were all in favor of throwing any and all leakers in Gitmo and bombing anything that moved. And, be assured that if another rushpublican were to be elected president, they'd be all in favor of their beloved "unitary executive". Hypocrites...

[libodem]

20. Finally canceled

Woo Hoo! (I'm making shit up)

[AnnieK401]

23. Too bad you're making it up.

[libodem]

24. That is what I was hoping

It was going to say when I clicked on the OP. One can dream.