Mika Finds 'Friend' to Blame Bush for Bhutto

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Call it the Brzezinski Variation of the Some-Say Gambit. In the wake of the Bhutto assassination, Morning Joe panelist Mika Brzezinski has broken out a "friend" to put the blame on George Bush.

Joe Scarborough spoke with Mika from Florida, where he has been spending the week.

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MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Clearly this event plays into Giuliani's strengths, supposed strengths, some would say. He is the hero of 9-11 in the eyes of many. But in terms of his politics couldn't you argue that his foreign policy may, while it may appear to be the safe choice, it's also very much in line with what we've seen over the past eight years. And it may just be more of the same, which is, potentially antagonizing nations like Iran or Pakistan?

. . .

JOE SCARBOROUGH: I speak for red state America here because that's where I live. People are comfortable with leaders like Rudy Giuliani, they're comfortable with leaders like George W. Bush, they're comfortable with leaders like Ronald Reagan that don't sit around wringing their hands, asking the question what will Switzerland think about us, what will the United Nations think about us if we move forward aggressively to protect our national interests, to keep America safe?

. . .

[Visiting friends in Florida yesterday], they were all talking about the same thing. They were talking about how dangerous the world was, they were talking about Rudy Giuliani, and as I moved to different rooms, it was very interesting, I even heard people talking about, believe it or not Mika, waterboarding . . . The sentiment was a very simple sentiment: keep us safe.

BRZEZINSKI: Right, we don't care how it happens.

. . .

BRZEZINSKI: I agree with you Joe. I actually hear the same thing among my circles that I've been talking to about the story. Having said that though, the one thing that does come to my mind, when you look at this campaign, and you look at all the different choices out there, and all the different visions in terms of what our place should be in the world, I just wonder if some voters will look back at post-9/11, and -- [NB: it is here that Mika, on the brink of expressing her own partisan opinion, deploys the Brzezinksi Variation of the Some-Say Gambit] I have a friend who made a decision right after 9-11, holding her baby, in the polling booth, and she decided to vote for George W. Bush because she thought she would, quote, be safer. She now regrets that decision because she doesn't feel like America is safer and she feels like this President has brought us down a path which is leading us to this very moment right here, which is massive destabilization in Pakistan.

Let's consider for a moment Mika's questionable time-line. Her friend made a decision "right after 9-11" to vote for George Bush "in the polling booth"? You mean, in November 2004, more than three years after 9-11?

Be that as it may, Joe rose to the occasion, marshalling facts and passion to respond to Mika in the most impressive display I've seen him make during his tenure as show host.

SCARBOROUGH: You can't blame George W. Bush for what happened yesterday! Pakistan was destabilized in 1997 when they gained nuclear weapons; they had a military coup in 1999 [NB: both events occuring during the Clinton admin]. I mean this country has been unstable for years. But you know what's so ironic about your friend that was holding that baby voting for George W. Bush? That friend right now is able to wring her hands. She's able to be concerned about America's foreign policy, and whether they like us at the United Nations and whether they like us in France, and whether they respect us in Turkey right now because there has been seven years without an attack on American soil.

Good on Joe.

Aside: I highly recommend to our readers Mark Steyn's observations at the National Review's "Corner" about Bhutto and the situation in Pakistan:

Miss Bhutto could never have been a viable leader of a post-Musharraf settlement, and the delusion that she could have been sent her to her death. Earlier this year, I had an argument with an old (infidel) boyfriend of Benazir's, who swatted my concerns aside with the sweeping claim that "the whole of the western world" was behind her. On the streets of Islamabad, that and a dime'll get you a cup of coffee.

As I said, she was everything we in the west would like a Muslim leader to be. We should be modest enough to acknowledge when reality conflicts with our illusions.

—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.


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Blaming Bush for Bhutto...

Wow... Mika, Not only are you a piece of trash, but an uneducated, and IGNORANT one to boot. I would think it was the TERRORISTS FAULT FOR SHOOTING SOMEBODY TO DEATH, but, then again I would be using logic based on years of evidence that the terrorists themselves have willingly submitted not only at our living expense, but to their ENJOYMENT. It is people like YOU, you stupid woman, that our country doesn't understand the real threat of radical Islam. Scratch that. Islam itself. Islam has been THE reason all of these attacks on innocent lives. Bhutto was warned had she returned that her life was in danger. However, instead of cowering in the corner a making excuses for the MURDERERS, she took a stand and faced the enemy.

You media people wouldn't know a threat unless the power to your lighted mirror for which you coat yourself in superficial garbage such as age defying cream and the like was interrupted. You are weak. You are ignorant, and you are the enemy within. GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY.


Islamic Religious Services Will Be Held at the Firing Range At 0800 Daily.

Someone really needs to

Someone really needs to contact the APA, and request them to make Bush Derangment Syndrome a legitimate mental illness. This is getting too much

"Someone really needs to

"Someone really needs to contact the APA..."

More useful to call the SPCA because Mika's barking like a dog again.

Mika gets into more garbage than my sister's dog, which we just cared for while she was on vacation.  It must be a fulltime job for someone at CNN to clean up the poop when Mika leaves the set.

Killing them with kindness isn't working.  Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.

Isn't that just like a liberal

to make things up.  Nice catch, Mark. 

Obviously, Mika was, um, "creative" about her friend's "right after 9/11" voting, in order to take a shot at President Bush.

I wonder if the friend even exists or if she isn't some kind of a composite....like those made up by NYT reporters.

Sheesh


Obviously, Mika was, um, "creative" about her friend's "right after 9/11" voting, in order to take a shot at President Bush.

Hmmm, let's see, 9/11/2001, Bush runs for re-election 11/6/2004, yeah, that's "right after".

P.S. Hope everyone (even the leftists here) had a great Christmas!

D

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How much you want to bet

How much you want to bet her friend’s name is Mika Brzenzinski? It would make some sense that between 9-11 and the election in 2004 her "friend" did not change her/his mind or that Mika did not persuade the "friend".

MIKA...

Mika must have been reading the lefty blogs, John Gibson was going through a bunch of them on his radio show. It was off the charts funny, these folks will blame Bush for anything, Bhutto's assassination is just another example. Too predictable really.

As for Mika, she does'nt know any better. She has never been in a place where she really was challenged, she comes across as someone who has rarely been around people who were not of like mind, so she fits in at MSNBC. She's looks good, does'nt need to think much, & as long as there are no shakeups demanded by those signing the checks there, it's all good.

 

 

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

The liberal disease affects the brain.

Liberals constantly use ecclectic reasoning and juxtapose events which are unconnected.

Their ideology makes them think that certain events must be related and therefore they think of them as not just related, but actualy in a cause/effect relationship.

Poor Mika doesn't understand that the factions in Pakistan that are anti-America and pro-Al Qaeda are also anti-democracy and anti-Bhutto.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

Yet somehow they can take a

Yet somehow they can take a ten degrees of seperation linkage and say 'see that proves it' and 'theres the smoking gun'.

By that standard I could probably accuse every person in the US of being linked to child molestation.

Gen Zinni

While I have disagreed with some of the things that General Zinni has said in the media previously he has always seemed to see both sides of the issue and offered insight past just the political motivation which is where I usually disagree.
Once again I apologize for not knowing how to create a link but from a Yahoo News article General Zinni responds to accusations against the White House for the assassination (of course at the very end of the article) -Still, the former top U.S. military commander in that part of the world said it's wrong to blame Musharraf, or the U.S. "I think it is al-Qaeda - they're the only ones who gain from this," says Anthony Zinni, a retired four-star Marine general who served as chief of the U.S. Central Command - responsible for Pakistan - from 1997 to 2000. Zinni rattled off reasons for al-Qaeda's wanting Bhutto dead, including her commitment to democracy, her secular views, the blowback it will create for Musharraf, and her gender. Beyond that, Zinni says al-Qaeda - making marginal progress in Afghanistan, backsliding in Iraq, and rebuffed in Somalia - is looking for a new battlefield. "I really think they're trying to ignite Pakistan into the kind of chaos they need to survive," Zinni says, "and create a fundamentalist, even radical, Islamic government." "This is one of the worst things that could happen to Musharraf," he continues. "In part, because he'll be accused of doing it."
"Zinni also disputes the idea that Washington could have done anything to prevent the assassination. "You want Blackwater out there providing security for her?" he asked, referring to the controversial U.S. private-security firm implicated in the deaths of many Iraqi civilians. "The losing of Pakistan - to whatever degree we've lost it, and I wouldn't write it off yet - goes back to after the first Afghan war," Zinni says, when Washington neglected the Afghan-Pakistan border roiling with insurgents. "We put them in a bad situation that we helped create," Zinni says. "I'm no fan of this Administration, but you can't criticize this Administration for what they inherited."

I have been seeing scattered

I have been seeing scattered reports of AQ action in Yemen so that they can have access to the narrow choke point on the Red Sea to cause all sorts of issues with Suez Canal shipping.

makes sense

This is one of those stories that makes sense because it is such an apparent strategy but messing with the Suez can get same pretty powerful people PO'd at you; Dubai, UAE and SA would not be happy for instance. So I will have to wait before I believe they have become that desperate.

The liberal assumption is

The liberal assumption is that Islamic fundamentalists will somehow accept living peacefully in the same political world that liberals wish to create. They can't prove it but they still want to believe it.

Bhutto was an Islamic fundamentalist's worst nightmare. A woman. A fashionable woman. A woman in high political office. A woman leading men. They were outraged. To fundamentalists, women are valued at half a man.

(I think) libs are conflicted. A death might have been prevented if Bhutto had just stayed away. Instead, Bhutto - a brave woman - stood up to the fundamentalists, thumbing her nose at them. Libs only know to blame our own people when something goes terribly wrong, not thinking for a second that bad guys had anything to do with it.

Libs don't seem to understand this struggle against violent fundamentalism. In a limited sense, it's like the women's lib movement from the 1960s, times a thousand. In the 1960s it was flower-power, bra-burning, sexual freedom, equality...women standing up to male chauvinist pigs. The movement back then was an entirely peaceful one. This one, however, in the Islamic world, is deadly serious.

 

 

Oh, puh-leeze!!

Oh, puh-leeze, Mika!! Your "friend" decided in 2001 to vote for Bush in 2004, and in those three years, he never did a single thing to change your "friend's" mind about him??? But NOW she regrets voting for him?

This is just another case of Mika trying to sound WAY more knowledgable than she is....

A couple of weeks ago she tried to say it was David Dinkins' policies as NY mayor that finally started showing results in Giuliani's term that decreased crime so greatly in New York. She practically got hooted off the set. But apparently she didn't learn, and now comes up with this twaddle.

Mika had better stick to just being a news reader and forget commenting on anything more serious than "Style Section" topics.

Remember, Mika, "better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."(Abe Lincoln).

I'll say it again...if not for her name, her only employment at MSNBC would be in the cafeteria.

Update: If you watch the video, you can't see him, but you hear Joe Scarborough responding to Mika when he says You can't blame Bush for what happened yesterday,.. (His voice has the inflection of "What are you, nuts??? You can't be serious!)

The video stops at the end of his explanation, but something tells me Mika had no rebuttal.

mb

I did't see this piece this morning, but listening to the video puts a perfect point on what I posted about Morning Joe a few days ago.

Bubbles tried to pitch more liberal talking points, yet again.  After blathering on how the instability in Pakistan is President Bush's fault, Joe instantly smacked her down with facts.....1997 (nukes) & 1999 (coup), and it was a very nice BDS put-down, too boot.   And it's really nice to see a liberal try it, and not get away with it.  Too funny. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

??

This makes me wonder if liberals are secretly trying to rescind the 22nd amendment, just so Bush can technically run again.

Then they can let loose all their screeching harpies like that scene in Wizard of Oz.

if you start the video at

if you start the video at 2:08, just when they put Mika on camera it
appears that she doesnt know shes on camera. Shes making faces to
someone off camera, like she doesnt agree with Joe. Then she realizes
the camera is on her. pretty funny. what Mika is lying about is she
DOESN'T have any friends and should just sit there and look cute.
Remember Mika, Joe is the smart one and you are just cute! OK!!

Mom

Smart?

Do you want me to really scare you? It is my understanding from a "friend" who recently voted for Harry Truman that Mika is the smart one in her family. Father Zbig and her brothers call her everyday to have her explain some fact or another to them.

Double sheesh

I see Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee have jumped on the "blame America first" bandwagon.

D

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Cowards

Finally showing thier true colors.  White RINO's.  It took a crisis to show it.  I'm glad it was now and not in the White House.

Ecce potestas casei!

EXACTLY..

Is it time to use this tragic event to start thinning the field? Some people will not be up to the task of The Oval Office just on the basis of CRISIS MANAGEMENT. Sort of like going to the amusement park & not being tall enough to get on some rides, & we saw some who are not tall enough to procede onto the ride. This is 1 reason I like Rudy, & I also think McCain would be up to it as well. As for the Dems, maybe Hillary & Biden...maybe, but nobody else.

 

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

Yesterday both Feingold and

Yesterday both Feingold and Dodd were singing the tune of not enough emphasis on Afghanistan and Pakistan because that's where OBL is.

Heck we don't even know if he is not worm food at this point with any public admitted data and until Bhutto got hit, a careful balance had to be done in Pakistan because of all the competing agendas there.

DUDD & FOOLSGOLD...

Dudd is still running for President, why I don't know. Foolsgold is always touted as someone the MSM would love to see run as well. Both are idiots, & if you did'nt know that before, their statements about Bhutto's assassination should confirm this.

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

If you think that's bad, get

If you think that's bad, get a load of what Bill Richardson had to say...he went so far as to offer a "solution" (Musharraf steps down for starters). Weekly Standard awarded him their “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt” award for his thoughts.

Congratulations Governor!

Normallly.......

Normally I have some kind of gnomic comment, but that just left me speechless. 

Ecce potestas casei!

Here You Go OldSailor88

My aphorism of the day:

Bill Richardson is now officially dangerously stupid.

Killing them with kindness isn't working.  Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.

Mika

     How in the world did she get this position? Her smugness is enough to make a person be ill!

Don't you know who daddy is?

Don't you know who daddy is? Her dad was part of the Carter or was it Clinton administration. This is a case of, "She has a well known father, give her a job." Just like Paris Hilton, her name has gotten her to where she is, not any REAL tallent.

Also isn't big Z advising

Also isn't big Z advising Obama now?

Yes. Zbig is advising

Yes. Zbig is advising Obama, and she's mentioned that one of her brothers is also working for him.

MIKA...

ForeverOnTheRight,

You are spot on, having a connected father & good looks are the ONLY reason she is on MSNBC.

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

dannyboy, Your right

dannyboy,

Your right about the good looks. It's a reason we don't see Madline Albright on the Morning Joe, who would tune in to see her? You can at least mute the T.V. when Mika is on and dream that she's a conservative. And no, I do not do that, I don't even watch Morning Joe at all, and would not even for her.

You've heard of "Location,

You've heard of "Location, location, location"?

She's got "Connection, connection, connection."

 

...and here I thought most

...and here I thought most newsreaders should at least look happy and pleasent on camera.

Everytime she tries to smile it looks like it's forced and I can't count how many times she has the look of "I'm better and smarter than you."

 

Do you realize how much it costs to run for office? More than any honest man could afford. -Montgomery Burns

she doesn't feel like

she doesn't feel like America is safer and she feels like this President has brought us down a path which is leading us to this very moment right here, which is massive destabilization in Pakistan.

 

Bhutto said roughly the same thing:

What would you like to tell President Bush? I ask this riddle of a woman.

She would tell him, she replies, that "propping up Musharraf’s government, which is infested with radical Islamists, is only hastening disaster. I would say, ‘Your policy of supporting dictatorship is breaking up my country.’ I now think al-Qaeda can be marching on Islamabad in two to four years.”

 

I realize that the Clinton era did nothing good in Pakistan, but its hard to say Bush has done anything good there either. Its been a powder keg for a decade. Just shows how little America knows about stabilizing islamist dictatorships. You can't change a country without changing the culture. Wipe out the extremist leaders, but rest assured that if the culture is left unchanged, extremist leaders will emerge again, its only a matter of time.

 

"Its been a powder keg for a decade"

Pakistan is a basket case and has been since it's inception.  Even the East Pakistanis (Bangladesh) couldn't stand to be associated with them. You need a history lesson friend.

No history lesson needed. I

No history lesson needed. I said it has been a powder keg for a decade. That is when they announced their successful testing of several nukes.

No doubt they have been an irrational country for much longer than a decade. I was referring to how much more of an issue they have become since early 1998 when they completed their nuke program that had been worked on since at least the 1970's.

Why are we responsible for

Why are we responsible for any other country other that the USA?  We are responsible for Afghanistan to a small extent and to Iraq to a greater extent but only because we took over those countries by military force and no other reason.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

Religion of Peace B.S

The Bhutto assassination has absolutly nothing to do with President Bush and Miki Brzezinski knows it. I submit that this is yet another vast left wing liberal conspiracy formed by MSNBC and the MSM. MSNBC should be called on the carpet for this one. Miki should be relocated to Al jazera and shoved into a burka, at least the Islamic veiwers would love her opines.      

What this story fails to

What this story fails to address is why Miki's friend is so scared. She's holding her baby on election day and with a tear-stained face, votes for the evil Bush to keep her little one alive, though she yearns to be free, she votes for security.  So if logic follows through we have two choices in America:  vote Democrat  and die in a terrorist attack or vote Republican and live under tyranny?  What the hell is that?  I can honestly say that I have never feared for my life or my family's lives because of any one event shown or discussed by the MSM. Miki's friend should be more scared about getting hit by busses, DUIs, splinters, the flu and many other things not involving geopolitics.

Mika's imaginary friend

 

Mika, the dunderhead, is pathetic. She had another loony moment this morning.

Her dream sequence began with,

"I know I heard someone blame George Bush.

Oh, wait.... I remember now. It was my cousin's sister's best friend."

I was thinking about this

I was thinking about this and I think...

BDS = Radical Islomic Terriosts

I say this because the people who think this way both think they are right and fighting for a "good" cause. While BDS hasn't caused their supports to kill anyone (that I know of), it does make them as looney as Ackmehd thinking of blowing himself up because somebody doesn't support his cause.

 

Do you realize how much it costs to run for office? More than any honest man could afford. -Montgomery Burns

that is probably one of the

that is probably one of the best Simpsons quotes ever, brings back some memories. To which Homer responds:  "I'll bet you could run for office"  Oh yeah, good comment above too.

Mr. Burns is by far one of

Mr. Burns is by far one of my favorite characters on the show even if he is an evil old Republican running a nuclear power plant. Grandpa Simpson and Krusty the Clown also have some priceless quotes.

 

Do you realize how much it costs to run for office? More than any honest man could afford. -Montgomery Burns

While repugnant I would

While repugnant I would not admonish the Lefty Loons too much from blaming Bush in this case.

I think the casual person could not comprehend how this is Bush's fault thus further exposing BDS to more of the masses.

I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.

 

In defense of Mika

I enjoy the presence of Mika Brezinski and David Shuster on Morning Joe.  They're both valuable and always good for a laugh. 

Mika represents the spacey, feel good, can't-we-all-get-along liberals that make up such a large part of the left.  

Shuster, on the other hand, is representative of the blatant leftist bias so often seen in the media. 

Here's the thing:  now that Joe seems to have regrown his cojones, his obviously superior command of facts allows him to frequently and smilingly skewer both of them.

Finally, with Mark Finkelstein as a daily observer, we're able to have great fun at the expense of Mika and David.    :^)

 

Hey RJ!

Congrats on spelling "cojones" correctly! I want to scream every time I see it spelled cajones.....that's the Spanish word for drawers (as in dressers). LOL

It is good to see Joe showing a bit more of his no-nonsense side again. I'm still not completely sure of him, but he does seem to have beaten back a little of the liberal brainwashing that's in the water at MSNBC. Maybe he's drinking bottled water now. LOL

There's hope for him yet!

Watch the video again and get a load of Mika's little smirk while she's listening to Joe. I'm not as forgiving as you (but I'm not a guy either LOL) with her...I mostly want to slap that little smirk off her.

 

I personally think Joe

I personally think Joe would have accomplished more by saying this to a brick wall over Mika.

 

Do you realize how much it costs to run for office? More than any honest man could afford. -Montgomery Burns

So, mb, when speaking of Hillary's emasculated males,

it would be correct to say that she keeps their cojones in her cajones?

As for Bubble's smirk, her vapid transparency is what makes her so valuable. 

Would that get her the

Would that get her the Illegal Alien vote?

BONUS FOR STUPIDITY AT MSNBC?

Mika's "friend" holding her baby and voting Bush in 2004, now regret her vote because Bush kept her and her baby safe for seven years? 

This has got to be one of the most deranged statement I ever heard in my life.

With Mika Brzezinski, Matthews, Shuster and Olberman  spewing such nonsense on a daily basis, MSNBC must be awarding weekly bonus checks to the person who makes the most asinine statement.

Right on, RMR. He should

now regret her vote because Bush kept her and her baby safe for seven years?

Right on, RMR.

Newsweek's "Conventional Wisdom 2007"  gave Bush a down arrow with the quip: Manages to stymie Dem Congress, but still has nothing to show for his seven years except no 9/11 sequel. Sad.

How pathetic and Bush-hating is that?

He should have had a double UP arrow and the line..

"No terrorist attacks on US soil since 2001. 'Nuff said."

I wonder if Mika's friend is

I wonder if Mika's friend is named Tommy....you know Harry Reid's friend...

I'm reminded of a line Dan

I'm reminded of a line Dan Ackroyd delivered to Jane Curtin on Saturday Night Live, but I won't quote it here because this is a family website...

~~~

The difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives believe liberals are wrong, while liberals believe conservatives are evil.

I think that line's been

I think that line's been used here without a meltdown, but we all know what you mean......

I called this one

I called this one yesterday!

The libs are runninmg the same play book on everything.  Ignore the facts, blame Bush or the US.

Hick!!!!

 

AF

So did you buy your lotto tix, yet?

If not, pick one up for me, would you please? 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Hey Blonde...

Here are your numbers.  24 12 45 62 35 5

If anybody wins I get some of the money.  I'll take 20 %.

Mika: "...and she decided

Mika: "...and she decided to vote for George W. Bush because she thought she would, quote, be safer. She now regrets that decision because she doesn't feel like America is safer ..."

 

Question:

Mika, EXACTLY WHAT did your "friend w/baby" THINK Bush and this country had to do in order to "be safer" ?!?!?

Because IF she felt continued lame jaw-flapping and looking away to appease the terrorists would work, she should have voted for the other guy ... Yes, because it worked so well under Clinton.

My G-d! 

Maybe I'm in a post-holiday funk, but I just can't tolerate these tactical and mental idiots!

"Um, Doctor, I have this

"Um, Doctor, I have this friend and my friend is a nitwit who's this news reader on a cable morning show. See, my friend has this problem and she asked me to ask you for your advice..."

Mika

That look on Mika's face just made my day. She was so annoyed with Joe! Evidently the truth is just too much to bear for the dim Mika.