Mika Brzezinski: back on the crime beat with another loopy liberal take on reality . . .
Yesterday, the resident lefty on the Morning Joe panel -- defying the facts of the volunteer guard who stopped the Colorado church shooter -- labeled as "the most inane thing" she'd ever heard the notion that one armed citizen could make a difference.
Today, in a breathtaking bit of revisionist history, Brzezinski tried to credit notoriously lax former Mayor David Dinkins rather than Rudy Giuliani for making NYC safe. So fierce was the return fire from Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough that, as pictured here, Mika ultimately took refuge under a sheaf of paper.
View video here.
At about 8:10 AM ET, Matthews and Scarborough were discussing the way that, thanks to Giuliani, they felt safe in NYC at night.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I can walk around the streets of New York City at two in the morning and not be afraid for my life.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I'm an out-of-towner too and I felt that. I know exactly where I was. I was at the Barnes & Noble in SoHo right near the Angelica Theater, that great movie theater there. And I was with my two kids, they were young teenagers at the time. And we were just hanging around at 10:30 at night, hanging around the city of New York and feeling great. And I said "I haven't felt like this in my lifetime in a big city." It felt like we had a right to be there. It was unusual!
SCARBOROUGH: It is really a miracle that I feel comfortable with my children, my teenage boys, walking around New York City at night. I would not feel that way if they were in Atlanta or Washington or Cleveland --
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: OK, is this because of Giuliani's work as mayor?
SCARBOROUGH: You're damn straight it is.
BRZEZINSKI: Because some people argue --
SCARBOROUGH: Some people, my ass.BRZEZINSKI: it was actually the work done by the previous mayor that finally kicked in.
SCARBOROUGH: David Dinkins?!
BRZEZINSKI: I'm just saying.
SCARBOROUGH: Please, tell me you are not that liberal that you are crediting the [unintelligble, perhaps "laughingstock"]--
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Mika, I've got two words for you.
BRZEZINSKI [going into defensive posture]: Oh no!
MATTHEWS: Crown Heights.
BRZEZINSKI: Crown Heights, when the guy [Dinkins] couldn't decide between the killers of, what's his name, Yankel Rosenbaum, the Talmudic scholar, and the people that killed him. He [Dinkins] was the [saracastically] honest referee. Wait a minute, as Churchill said, don't confuse the fire brigade with the fire. We're on the side of the fire brigade.
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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Get Rid Of Her
December 12, 2007 - 14:28 ET by NoMoreClintonsHow does MessNBC continue to employ this clueless dingbat? Even a local station would have dumped her sorry butt by now out of sheer embarrassment.
Sorry
December 12, 2007 - 14:50 ET by cvgbuckeyeSorry, No More, but she is only different from the rest in that she is to stupid to shut her mouth about her ignorant wiew of the world;;;;;;;;just to shut up EVERY HOUR OR SO!!!
Bernie Goldberg is right: Some of these ignoramouses would pass a lie detector, claiming that they are not lefties. They honestly believe that they are in the mainstream and are providing an honest perspective of the world. The problem is where they live, who they work with and who their friends are. THERE ARE NO CONSERVATIVES OR CENTRISTS IN THE NEWSROOMS; save a trifling here and there.
Dinkmeister Revisionsim
December 12, 2007 - 15:13 ET by Gat New YorkLoon Liberals like this pseudo-newsperson, Mika, live off revisionism. They concoct complete distortions that support their political position - even if it means actually lying. In this case she is lying and you saw both Scarborough and Matthew's reactions. During the reign of the Dinkmeister I actually walked into the mugging of a British tourist around the corner from the Regency Hotel. Brazen muggings were common during the reign of the Dinkmeister and nothing - I mean nothing - was being done by him to stop crime. Mika is a bald faced liar. It also appears Scarborough has had about enough of her as time goes on.
Stupidity finds it way in
December 13, 2007 - 05:18 ET by Andrew H.Stupidity finds it way in the media to bore us, especially as readers with a name migrate to MSNBC.
Liberalism is a convenient lie.
You have to be kidding? I
December 12, 2007 - 14:41 ET by buddycYou have to be kidding? I lived there!
Well if they can claim Jimmy Carter was a good president it isn't too much more of a stretch to claim Dinkins cleaned up the crime problem in NY.
And, not to "diss" Rudy TOO much, but....
December 12, 2007 - 14:50 ET by sarcasmoIt wasn't exactly rocket-science to fix NYC's crime problem after THAT many years of obvious Democrat-malfeasance...
JMR
Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul. (All purpose anti-slander-link, sadly-needed these days...)
And, in related news,
December 12, 2007 - 14:51 ET by fitzfongAnd, in related news, Bubbles Brzezinski credited Jimmy Carter with ending the Cold War and Neville Chamberlain with winning World War II.
I bet Ziggy is proud of his little bimbo.
"Mika Credits Dinkins, Not
December 12, 2007 - 14:53 ET by Chris Norman"Mika Credits Dinkins, Not Giuliani, for NYC Crime-Stopping"
And thus, Mika began her career as an absurdist comedienne...
Her dissing today of ...
December 12, 2007 - 15:04 ET by deedledeea video of Barney, Ms. Beasley and Laura Bush was what got to me today! A few minor snark comments told you how distasteful that story was to her.
gasp, Chris Matthews makes
December 12, 2007 - 15:11 ET by wiwfgasp, Chris Matthews makes sense for a change?!
He must have forgotten to take his medication...
The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy
MIKA...
December 12, 2007 - 15:27 ET by danybhoyBoy, this might be 1 of the dumbest things I've heard in a while. NYC's crime rate was out of control under Dinkins. Rudy did what needed to be done to bring crime to an acceptable level coming from a law & order backround. Rudy had to deal with crime as a prosecutor, so he had an idea of what would work to clean up NYC's crime problem, he turned out to be right.
Mika is working hard to become the dumbest woman in TV news, I'm happy to see she is at MSNBC, just the right place to find out how dumb someone can be without being yanked off of the air. If Scarborough had any brains, he would reel her in before she says something really bad.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
She has to be kidding!
December 12, 2007 - 15:33 ET by keckkwThat comment needs to be followed up tomorrow morning with any facts supporting her ridiculous comment. I was a cop in the South Bronx beginning with Ben Ward under Mayor Koch's administration and ending with Bernie Kerik under Mayor Guiliani. At the Crown Heights riots, Mayor Dinkins was quoted as saying that the rioters were just "letting off steam", as hard-working business owners lives were ruined in the process. By the way, we cops were ordered to stand down and watch it for nearly three days. Dinkins commissioner Lee Brown was "out of town" at the time.
Murder was at it's worse in his adminstration. The big drops in homicide all happened under Rudy and his commish Bill Bratton.
Lastly, he paid for a a drug dealers funeral in the Dominican Republic after a (good police shooting), that still set off riots in Washington Heights that I think were even worse than Crown Heights. Witnesses of the shooting of Kiko Garcia by PO Michael O'Keefe were shown to have completely perjured themselves, yet Dinkins never sought their indictment. Which means basically that he'd never seen a policeman he liked.
What creditials does this woman have?, her commentary is a down right insult to viewers intelligence.
Mika Mika Mika
December 12, 2007 - 16:02 ET by okiehawk44A chip off Zbig's block -- that would be ZB of failed Iranian policy fame -- same song, different drummer. What would these people do without America's armed forces protecting them from themselves?
Some day, I'd love to see
December 12, 2007 - 16:15 ET by Chris NormanSome day, I'd love to see pictures of these "some people" who are saying...
Dinkins wouldn't let the
December 12, 2007 - 16:18 ET by Free StinkerDinkins wouldn't let the police act to stop a riot in progress.
Mika is an idiot.
She Didn't Even Major in Journalism
December 12, 2007 - 17:49 ET by Del DolemonteShe was an English major at ultra-liberal Williams College in Massachusetts, then started her career at ABC News. Believe it or not, she actually spent a year at a Fox affiliate in Hartford, but then got sucked into the liberal cesspool known as CBS News.
She'd never be where she is today if not for her last name.
DOJ Report
December 12, 2007 - 17:15 ET by allanfThe items below are from a Department of Justice report titled "The Remarkable Drop in Crime in New York City", The report by DOJ statisticians confirms the efficacy of Guiliani's Compstat system. . You may visit the DOJ web site for some perspective on the report.
I'm afraid there's only one
December 12, 2007 - 20:56 ET by BacchusI'm afraid there's only one sure way to get the unvarnished truth out of Mika and that's with rib-tickling torture.
Bacchus
December 12, 2007 - 21:05 ET by BlondeBoard her. It might make her change her mind....plus she'd have a touch of "real world" experience upon which to draw. (Okay...I'm kidding).
I've been watching "Morning Joe" for about four weeks now.
It's rather amusing...particularly Mika and her unvarnished liberalism.
She's a total idiot. And proud of it.
I laugh my head off every day at her antics. She tries to be soooooo serious, and it just comes off like a three year old.
Check it out....great for a laugh.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
I agree somewhat...
December 12, 2007 - 23:17 ET by raiderdavI don't think Giuliani should get credit for the crime reduction in NY either. Its no different than Bill Clinton getting credit for the economic boom surrounding the birth of the internet 'tubes'. The stats and economic data show that the crime reduction had already started under Dinkins and Rudy got the credit. I also doubt that the policies of Dinkins helped anything and that the downturn was based on other factors...