Leaked Audio: 8 Things Trump And Morning Joe Hosts Discussed When Cameras Were Off

[kpete]

The hosts have recently been criticized for boosting Trump on their program, and for their performance moderating the town hall in question, which was labeled a "journalistic shortfall" and "disgraceful" by media observers. The non-confrontational tone of the town hall event apparently extended seamlessly into the commercial breaks, where Scarborough, Brzezinski, and Trump engaged in friendly banter:

1. After Scarborough told Trump that "all the polls out today look great in South Carolina," Trump asked Scarborough if he thinks super PAC ads against him are catching on, noting, "they're spending $75 million in negative ads on me over the last two weeks." Scarborough replied, "No."

2. Brzezinski pointed out what she described as a "wow moment" on the campaign trail when Trump brought two supporters up on stage. Scarborough told Trump, "We played it several times this morning." Trump responded by telling the pair that he watched the show that day and observed, "You had me almost as a legendary figure." Indeed, "

3. Scarborough told Trump "we were completely wrong" in thinking he did poorly in the February 13 Republican debate. He later told the candidate that "the people who mattered" thought he did well.

4. After Brzezinski thanked Trump for participating in the town hall event, Trump said, "I'm doing this because you get great ratings and a raise -- me, I get nothing."

5. Brzezinski can be heard asking, reportedly to a producer, "You don't want me to do the ones with deportation?" which is followed by Trump saying, "That's right, nothing too hard, Mika."

6. Trump asked Scarborough, "So what are the chances that something bad can happen on Saturday for me?" -- an apparent reference to the South Carolina primary. Scarborough reassured Trump by pointing out that polls in the election so far have done a good job of predicting primary results.'

7. Trump and Scarborough discuss Trump's golf game.

8. Scarborough told Trump that National Journal columnist Ron Fournier "understands" Trump's campaign now after visiting Michigan, where he "got an earful" from Trump's supporters. (Trump said Fournier "has been brutal.&quot Scarborough added that The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza "has completely changed," and Trump responded, "Cillizza's been fantastic."



http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/02/22/8-things-trump-and-morning-joe-hosts-discussed/208731

BUSTED: MORNING JOE’S OFF-MIC BANTER WITH TRUMP PROVES JOE SCARBOROUGH IS IN HIS POCKET (LEAKED AUDIO)

http://winningdemocrats.com/busted-morning-joes-off-mic-banter-with-trump-proves-joe-scarborough-is-in-his-pocket-leaked-audio/
http://www.redstate.com/tag/joe-scarborough/
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/morning-joe-hot-mic-trump-conversation
http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/02/22/awkward-leaked-audiotape-catches-trump-telling-msnbc-host-nothing-too-hard-mika/

[EdwardBernays]

1. This is the media

it's how they work...

[cantbeserious]

2. The 1% Take Care Of Their Own - It's A Big Club - The 99% Are Not Members

eom

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. The media are the caddies of that club.

They gets to 'bask in the glow' of the club, but still have to work for the privilege of even being there, while all the while thinking that someday they'll be a member.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. "the people who mattered"

wow.....just wow......

[MissDeeds]

13. I caught that too

Apparently some people matter more than others.

[lostnfound]

24. I took that to mean the polls / the voters

There's a lot wrong with this interview but that comment wasn't bad

[bjobotts]

29. Scarborough is a legend in his own mind

[SoLeftIAmRight]

12. If America can not control the one percent...

what chance do most nations have?

[n2doc]

4. Wonder if Joe has special Kneepads with a monogrammed T on them n/t

[jalan48]

9. Definitely! I hear Mika's have rhinestones.

[malaise]

5. Comcast whores

and that's an insult to whores

[nxylas]

41. I believe the preferred term is "sex workers"

But when talking about Comcast, "whores" is fine.

[malaise]

42. LOL

[Glimmer of Hope]

7. Disgusted.

[Gregorian]

8. Can one assume income inequality perverts our media?

Because that's what this smells like.

The only thing to slow this down at all is a Bernie win. And even that is tenuous. This problem is so deeply rooted in greed and power hunger, we may not recover in time to do anything meaningful before the oceans begin to destroy harbors, etc.

[Blus4u]

45. Income inequality is the underlying cause

of a lot of American society's ills. That is why Bernie keeps hammering that issue home.
I just wish he would tie the ills back to the financial inequality.

Peace

[turbinetree]

10. And they have the audacity..............................

to sit there and put this right wing hypocrite up a some damn pedestal of right wing hypocrisy---------------they have no shame when it comes to getting paid off -----------------------resign

I am really glad that I do not watch these two hypocrites----------------they truly are the epitome of what meaningless means when it comes to being a so called MSM journalist standard---------------move over to Fix Noise you both would be perfect sitting on the white couch, and take your right wing producer and right wing president of this firm Comcast with you

[bbgrunt]

11. who woulda thunk........k and r

[NoMoreRepugs]

14. looked at my dictionary --- sure enough

right next to douchebag was a picture of shitheel Joe Scarborough

[joshdawg]

33. And apparently his picture is next to

shitheel. :^)

[navarth]

15. Insert picture of Claude Rains in Casablance here:

I'm shocked.

[corkhead]

16. this and Rachel turning 100% Republicon Horse Race has just about done it for me RE MSNBC

I have listed to Rachel since day 1 of AirAmerica so I don't take having to quit her lightly. I don't have cable but I have listened to the Rachel Maddow Show podcasts since she started her show. Sadly, I am afraid the time has come for that to end

[Delphinus]

17. Pardon?

Rachel Maddow? Understand that I don't watch TV, so I don't see her show, but all that I've ever seen of Rachel Maddow has been clear, concise, and almost always skewing the repubs. What is going on?

[corkhead]

21. 100% is a bit of an exaggeration

but last night's show which you can either download as a podcast or maybe find on the MSNBC website was 80% about the Ted Cruz Marco Rubio thing about the bible and Donald Trump. It sounded like I was listening to a soap opera. Very little about the Democratic side.

[Delphinus]

22. Thanks for the tip.

I will listen in ...

[Volaris]

31. well, see, because theres not much to report on the democratic side,

because EVERYONE knows that it's Hillary's TURN, dont yoiu understand, so what is there really to talk about?..
Besides, anyone who doesnt understand this is just a filthy Republican Communist, and so their opinion doesnt matter anyway.



This is what passes for Journalism in America now. maybe we should change the spelling to 'jernolizm', it would seem more appropriate..

[tabasco]

18. The corporate mass media is nothing but right-wing propaganda.

Everyone should turn it off. Cancel your cable and dish. Stop supporting the media whores.

Watch FreeSpeechTV and Democracy Now. Where real journalism still lives on TV.

[flamingdem]

19. Chris Cillizza exposed as a right wing ass nt

[Arkana]

20. So Joe is a Trump toady and Trump is an insecure, orange little baby.

[kpete]

23. yep!

[Rex]

25. The corporate media decided that a billionaire and one of their own should be

POTUS and they will make sure it happens. 2000 was their trial balloon and there was no revolution or unrest. So now they know they can influence enough people to vote for their boy. Even if Wall Street don't want him.

Should be interesting watching two huge monsters of the establishment try to beat each other up.

[YOHABLO]

26. The Country Club set. Let's have drinks at the bar. They're all so full of it.

[houston16revival]

27. What's Trump hiding in his hair?

That's not even a 70's doo, or a 50's doowop

Nobody has hair like that, the most blatant comb-over ever

What's he afraid of, the sun on his scalp?

Weirdest dude in a long time

[rladdi]

28. What is the real truth behind Scarborough leaving politics so fast. Why did he

resign soon after an aid was found dead in the office?

[Orange Butterfly]

30. Joe said he "would never vote for Bernie"

I heard him say it once during an interview. Can't remember who he was interviewing, but it was within the last few weeks.

His co-host looked at him with shock, truly. She was like, "I can't believe you just said that", but he did.

[mdbl]

32. I quit watching morning blow after the first couple of episodes

which was nothing less nauseating than listening to mush limpballs or michael weener.

[rtracey]

34. truth

The MSM has made this cretin. Fox news was called out by Newt Gingrich about it, and now you see MSNBC, is doing the same thing. No just Scarborough and Mika, but others on the the station too. Everytime something about Trump is in the news, they play it. More then any democrat, very much more then for Sanders.

Trump get free plugs. He calls in, they put him on, he does not get called out on anything, no one goes after him.

He will be the nominee in a few months, simply because Rubio and Cruz are fighting each other and Trump is just slipping in for the wins. The Nevada situation was ridiculus. They claim people were voting twince, no ID were checked, non registerd were voting, etc... so I discount Nevada, but lets see what happens in the up coming primaries.

Reality is hitting home.... Trump could be president, picking supreme court nominees.

Pull it together democrats.....

[Roland99]

35. Gotta love that liberal media!!

[saidsimplesimon]

36. Crocodile tears for joe and mika

Pathetic discussion panel on “Morning Blow” with Kokie Roberts, Bob Woodward, and Michael Steele today. Joe and Mika trying to justify their nonstop coverage of Pennywise refused to acknowledge the obvious.
Pennywise thrives on free media. The simple solution would be a media self-imposed code of silence.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/morning-blow-how-joe-and-mika-became-trumps-lapdogs-20160223

Morning Blow: How Joe and Mika Became Trump's Lapdogs

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski should be herded into a rocket and shot into space for their brown-nosing of Trump
By Matt Taibbi February 23, 2016

[ChiciB1]

43. How MANY People That Most Of Us Loved Have Been Fired

from MSNBC? I've forgotten the count, but the once that REALLY hurt the most lately was Ed Schultz. Did it begin way back with David Schuster or were there more earlier? Martin Bashir made a very little negative comment, APOLOGIZED and still got canned!

It's gotten worse as time goes by. It seems Chris Hayes has toned his coverage down but I still think he's liberal minded, but he became a new father about a year ago and probably doesn't want to risk his job. For me Rachel went over some time back. I see some here have begun to see Rachel's support for Hillary, but I saw it some time ago.

I stopped watched any MSM a long time ago, watch FSTV, TYT, RT and others. Since I've gotten my ROKU I've been much happier with the news coverage I see. Not only about what's going on in this country, but some real truths about our foreign policies and also how many countries are really suffering.

[kgrms]

37. kgrms

Did anyone notice today, 2/24/16, that when Bob Woodward was revealing negative points about Trump University, Joe kept talking over him so that the subject would go away.......or so it seemed.

[TeamPooka]

40. Welcome to DU! nt

[Martak Sarno]

38. Just more of the Big Gulp Media

It would seem as though Republican Candidate BS isn't the only thing these real-world challenged media sycophants have no problem swallowing!
I wonder if these people were jealous or envious of Monica?

[ChiciB1]

39. Why Can't PEOPLE UNDERSTAND? This Stuff Is Wrong In So Many

ways, and THEY LOVE DOING IT! DISGUSTING!

[Nitram]

44. Some of these points are underwhelming to say the least.

They talked about golf? Oh my!