On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough took a thinly-veiled shot at Olbermann for the way he tried to keep Republican analyst Mike Murphy off the air, and then tried to pull the plug ["let's wrap him up, alright?"] when Murphy eventually made it into an interview with Chris Matthews.
Pat Buchanan was the sole voice on today's opening-hour panel to opine that Fred Thompson had done a good job with his speech last night. In contrast, Scarborough suggested Thompson had been flat. Pat expressed his feelings of alienation as the show was going to a break. It was then that Joe and Mika let Buchanan know that—in contrast with other MSNBC venues—dissident voices were welcome on Morning Joe.
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PAT BUCHANAN: Joe, I had a good time there last night, until I got here this morning.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Oh, did we do something?
BUCHANAN: Everybody dumped on, I was coming prepared to say what a great time I had, everybody here's dumping all over it.
BRZEZINSKI: Hey! Speak up! We're about a lot of ideas.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: We are about a lot of ideas.
BRZEZINSKI: We won't cut your mic. We won't cut your mic.
SCARBOROUGH: Unlike other people, we won't cut your mic and we won't kick you off the stage.
BUCHANAN: Somebody [inaudible: can a keen-eared reader help?] nattering nabobs of negativism!MIKE BARNICLE: I remember that!
SCARBOROUGH: That's right. I don't want to be that.I've got an idea. Joe is already in Minnesota. Perhaps Keith can convince the NBC brass to let him out of his NYC studio and fly there to join him. I figure Stuart Smalley, AKA Minnesota Dem senatorial candidate Al Franken, must be in the general vicinity of the Twin Cities. Surely Stuart could get the warring pair to share a cathartic hug.
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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Another Shot
September 3, 2008 - 06:28 ET by Gat New YorkFollowing that they all (including Mica) took a major shot at Daily Kos and any journalist that even reads it because they concoct smear stories out of thin air. That too was shot at Olbermann who is regular blogger there.
Good point.
September 3, 2008 - 12:47 ET by lumpyThat should have been the story here at NB. It wasn't even mentioned.
lumpy
September 3, 2008 - 12:51 ET by Cool ArrowNB has covered Olbermann's blogging at Kos.
Rocky & Bullwinkle '08
Joe
September 3, 2008 - 07:03 ET by well99You really need to make sure KOed gets his medicine or dont let him out of the bathtub.
Is that big brave Keith
September 3, 2008 - 07:20 ET by benrandIs that big brave Keith Olbermannann afraid of a few Republicans?
No, assassination
September 3, 2008 - 08:08 ET by Red JeepRichard Johnson in Page Six column in the New York Post reported on 08-29: "MSNBC's increasingly paranoid Keith Olbermann is threatening to quit unless his bosses beef up his security, sources say.
Olbermann - upset to be anchoring at the Democratic National Convention from an outdoor set near Denver's train station - 'announced that his bosses [had] better find a more secure location for him to broadcast from at the Republican National Convention [in St. Paul, Minn.] or he's not going,' one insider said. 'He thinks someone will assassinate him.' MSNBC had no comment."
Or meet an actual Republican
September 3, 2008 - 08:29 ET by KC MulvilleHe might actually have to face someone who doesn't pre-agree with him. That's like torture, isn't it?
Does character
September 3, 2008 - 09:41 ET by Hero SquadDoes character assassination count?
*****
"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will
When Olbermann last night
September 3, 2008 - 09:39 ET by Hero SquadWhen Olbermann last night said that he counted the number of times Thompson coughed during his speech and presented as a compelling analysis of the night's events.
I watched his show for about a minute. So my highly scientific study concludes that it takes about a minute to watch the show before Olbermann says something completely inane and overtly biased.
*****
"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will
Fred Flat?
September 3, 2008 - 10:45 ET by bradbenj5952Joe should be commended for letting folks speak their mind, especially those of an opposing political persuasion, but...
I wonder what speech Joe was watching? Fred was anything but "flat". A few times there I thought he was going to blow a gasket...or break out into a good ol' fashioned fire-and-brimstone sermon.
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Brian Williams on TDS: Does
September 3, 2008 - 13:22 ET by MikeknaJBrian Williams on TDS: Does MSNBC have to be The Lohans?
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"Look, when Keith anchors, he plays it straight down the line.”
-MSNBC President Phil Griffin
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I caught this early this
September 3, 2008 - 15:41 ET by bigtimerI caught this early this morning...I got a kick at the reference to Olbermann...
What I was very disappointed about though was Joe and all on panel saying they thought Thompson's speech was flat....
I wondered did they watch the same speech or was Joe told to start the show this way...he isn't that deaf and dumb.
I sure was glad when Pat spoke up!
That speech was the hit of the night!!!!
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