Matt Taibbi - "Morning Blow: How Joe and Mika Became Trump's Lapdogs"

[Miles Archer]

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

"You know what I thought was kind of a wow moment, was the guy you brought up on stage," Mika says.

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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



All-time great comedian Harry Shearer, the man who brought us voices from The Simpsons and cucumber-hoarding bass player Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap, has broken an embarrassing story about us journalists.

In his Le Show podcast, he released audio of off-camera dialogue between Donald Trump and ostensible news figures Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of the MSNBC program Morning Joe. The tape covers breaks in a town hall segment the trio filmed in South Carolina last week.

The embarrassing part starts when Brzezinski compliments Trump on his campaign stagecraft. She comments that it was a "wow" moment when Trump invited onstage two meatheads who tossed a protester from one of his South Carolina events.

A side note: The vigorous physical expulsion of loser-protesters has become a predictable scene at Trump events. Every time I've seen it in person, it's freaked me out — it's like a window into some future WWE-style dissident-beheading ritual — but Mika apparently thought the video of the South Carolina incident was inspiring. "You know what I thought was kind of a wow moment, was the guy you brought up on stage," Mika says.

[corkhead]

1. Their recent live mic tongue bath of the Donald made me feel embarrassed for them.

[melman]

2. link

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

[Miles Archer]

4. Forgot that in the OP, thank you n/t

[phantom power]

3. Oh Mika, you're such a Good German.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. I can't open the link, but does it include this:

TRUMP: “I watched your show this morning. You have me almost as a legendary figure, I like that. You, you get great ratings and a raise. Me, I get nothing. This will make us all look good.”

SCARBOROUGH: “Exactly.”

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/2016/02/22/leaked-tape-catches-trump-begging-mika-dont-ask-me-anything-too-hard-audio/

youtube audio at bottom of site

[hifiguy]

6. Into the Sun.

Immediately if not sooner.

I wonder if Il Douche is slipping them a bagful of cash or two on the side.

Murrow, Brinkley, Cronkite and Chancellor just hit 10,000 rpm in their graves.

[underpants]

7. This was obvious when I first heard about it

It was clearly free advertising.