Cat Fight: Morning Joe and Mika Bare Claws Over Couric, Limbaugh
Is the cat fight a strictly feminine affair, or can a man and woman engage in one? Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski certainly seemed to offer up a fair facsimile of the genre today. The two traded feline fisticuffs on Morning Joe.
Scarborough went first, swiping at Katie Couric for having cavorted on a Miami beach with her beau before departing for Egypt. Mika later retaliated, archly musing about the number of Limbaugh's marriages during a segment featuring Elton John's comments on El Rushbo.
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Sit back and watch the fur fly!
MIKE BARNICLE: Where [did Couric interview Richard Haass]: in St. Bart's --
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Would you stop?
BARNICLE: St. John's, South Beach, where?
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I don't know what you're talking about.
BRZEZINSKI [exasperated]: OK.
BARNICLE: I saw Katie at South Beach.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, did she come back? Is Katie back?
BARNICLE: Where is she?
BRZEZINSKI: She's in Cairo, OK? And she interviewed Richard Haass, who was here in New York . . . I'm stopping you from where you're going, is what I'm doing.
SCARBOROUGH: What are you talking about?
BRZEZINSKI: Well you guys are just being silly.
SCARBOROUGH: Willie [Geist]: let me ask you a question. You're always on that internet, right? I'm just curious: I mean, you can't find a non-stop flight from New York City to Egypt, right? You've got to connect through Miami.
Later, Mika looked for revenge . . .
BRZEZINSKI: Elton John is reportedly convinced he can force Rush Limbaugh to relax his stance against gay marriage. In an upcoming Rolling Stone interview, John reportedly says that if he called the conservative radio host right now he believes Limbaugh would support civil partnerships. John goes on to discuss being asked to play at Limbaugh's wedding last June, saying Limbaugh invited his partner and told the singer, quote, I'm not anti-gay.
That was, was that his, I can't remember. What number?
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, just shut up.
BRZEZINSKI: No, I'm just wondering.
SCARBOROUGH: What does it matter?
BRZEZINSKI: It's just interesting. Because if you have --
SCARBOROUGH: What does that matter?
BRZEZINSKI: I'll tell you why it matters.
SCARBOROUGH: You do that to a liberal commentator next time, OK?
BRZEZINSKI: No, I think it's really interesting when you have very strong opinions about civil unions, and then you have multiple, multiple marriages. I think it's interesting.
SCARBOROUGH: I think that's a cheap shot going after the number of divorces he's had.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh. I wasn't, I was, I just thought it was interesting.
SCARBOROUGH: Unless you're going to do that for people on the left.
BRZEZINSKI: I can.
SCARBOROUGH: There's no need to. I think we should just leave people alone.
BRZEZINSKI: Mmm. Really?
SCARBOROUGH: When it comes to their personal lives --
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, really?
SCARBOROUGH: Really. We didn't go through marriages, we didn't talk about John Edwards and that chaos. We refused to do that.
BRZEZINSKI: No, no
SCARBOROUGH: We refused to do that.
BRZEZINSKI: The top of the six [AM hour, when Joe discussed Couric] was interesting.
SCARBOROUGH: What about the top of the six? Did somebody get a divorce at the top of the six?
BRZEZINSKI: No, I just think it was interesting.
SCARBOROUGH: What was interesting?
BRZEZINSKI: I think that you were being similar.
SCARBOROUGH: Similar? Talking about Katie Couric being down in South Beach instead of in Cairo is the same as --
BRZEZINSKI: I just think it's none of your business --
SCARBOROUGH: -- making fun of people's marital situation? You're making me uncomforable right now, and you're making the kids at home uncomfortable.
BRZEZINSKI: OK.
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Comments
ala Volkswagon
Submitted by jdlybrand on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 9:35am.
Mika is "smarmysnarkin".
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
MSNBC
Submitted by libfail on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 9:45am.
The network that keeps on delivering
Mika
Submitted by Marsh on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 9:44am.
is unwatchable. The facial tics, the long embarrassing pauses, the childish editorial wows and eyerolling.
If her last name wasn't Brzezinski her only contact with Joe would be taking his order at Starbucks.
More and more unwatchable
Submitted by Red Jeep on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 10:01am.
On February 1 the show had 418,000 viewers. But they did better that CNN's American Morning at 272,000 viewers. 299 million Americans were doing something else.
Some girls never get past
Submitted by PeskyDane on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 9:46am.
Some girls never get past junior high.
Don't be so hard on Joe.
Submitted by Hunter12 on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 9:49am.
Don't be so hard on Joe.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Nice come-back.
Submitted by PeskyDane on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 10:10am.
Nice come-back.
I think Joe got a little
Submitted by Hunter12 on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 10:31am.
I think Joe got a little touchy about counting divorces. He's on wife number two right now.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Spot on. Plus, Joe's RINO
Submitted by PeskyDane on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 11:31am.
Spot on. Plus, Joe's RINO reputation doesn't exactly make him a favored son around here. Mika on the other hand, represents the prototype princess. Unshakable sense of entitlement, aghast when you bust her onions, and petty. I have zero patience for someone like that. Marsh implied that her career consists of trading on her father's name, and I agree. Somewhere off the interstate in Sioux Falls there's a Sheetz truck stop missing a cashier. (With respect and apologies to Sheetz cashiers everywhere breaking their asses).
The assessments of Joe and Mika are spot on
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 12:20pm.
Scarborough frequently re-connects to his glory days in the House of Representatives, and Brzezinski is the show's Life Style Gauleiter.
Whenever the two of them go at each other, it's like Foghorn Leghorn arguing with a mood ring.
I should point out that I
Submitted by Hunter12 on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 12:23pm.
I should point out that I agree with Joe that Mika should be ready with the failed marriages totals for everyone she cites speaking out on issues pro and con to her viewpoints, not just as some sort of factor in dismissing the opinion of conservatives on social issues. Do you think she'll be ready with the count of DUI incidents when citing a Kennedy on Obamacare? One of the biggest causes for requiring healthcare later on in life is those of us who treat our bodies like a tavern instead of a temple.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
"I think Joe got a little
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 3:12pm.
Wife number two after finding a young and pretty intern dead in his Congressional office and announcing his unexpected early retirement from office to spend more time with the family, the customary euphemism when the rooster's been caught in another hen's house, so to speak.
and netiher do their
Submitted by Lipton on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 10:01am.
haristyles.
Typical liberal
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 9:54am.
Typical liberal hypocrisy.
You have no right to an opinion on gay marriage if you've been divorced.
Rush said he's not "anti-gay."
Elton John believes he could interpret Rush as not being against civil partnerships.
There's a difference between "marriage" and "civil partnerships."
You could look it up -Yogi Berra
Mika always keeping abreast of what's going on
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 10:11am.
I take the same stance as the President of the united states Mika, against gay marriage but FOR civil unions.
You would bash me, but excuse your president.
I know it and Joe knows it.
She has two things going for her, errr, maybe three, one beingn her last name and the other two ...................................
I think Joe was purposely being smarmy here to make a point about her being an apologetic hen in her defense of another liberal hen. IMHO.........
Right you are
Submitted by amyshulk on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 12:36pm.
She's little miss judge and jury when they are an R/are a conservative, and get a pass when they are a D/are a liberal or progressive - as long as she identifies with them. I remember her disgust and refusal to talk about others in the past, leaving the tabloid stuff to Willie Geist, but this hit too close to home!!!
Ronald Reagan
A reminder
Submitted by zachlind on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 10:32am.
Regular visitors to newbusters will remember my frequent measurement of these two.
Of course I’m referring to “Morning Bigot and his Sidekick Lump.”
Mika is a Liberal Billboard
Submitted by The_Pumpcrop on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 10:53am.
And Joe is just a fake republican token for the network. Neither has a clue except what they are told and Joe is there to keep his host (Joe is mostly the top co-host to Mika's facial tics and fake out-rage/morifications/loftiness) stirred up, cuz it's funny to watch her TRY to justify herself. This was a perfect example.
Anything for viewers
Submitted by Texndoc on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 11:16am.
Anybody else notice Joe cackling like an idiot every 10 minutes? He was probably told to lighten up or something. Look for more drama, maybe a Mika nip-slip when she's back to wearing sun dresses. If they last.that was hard to watch
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 11:37am.
That felt like a housewife using passive-aggressive maneuvers to start an argument with her husband. This is what MSNBC calls professional? Could you imagine that kind of scene on Fox and Friends???
They probably saw the
Submitted by Hunter12 on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 12:25pm.
They probably saw the Parker-Spitzer promos and thought they were cute.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Couric likes guys?
Submitted by Funbowhunter on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 11:45am.
thought she went the other way!
Apparently
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 11:50am.
....she's got a Toy Boy.
Too bad Joe didn't lob that one up for Mika. She'd have babbled a hundred and fifty miles an hour.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Calls for another receipe*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 11:50am.
Don't you just love UI cannibilism? Let's see..Mika Mush, Joe Jambalaya.,Stupid Stew, Stuffed Princess Poulette.
Mika=Sarah Michelle Geller character in "Cruel Intentions"
Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 11:55am.
Ask any woman, we've known bi***y women like this since junior high, pretending to be "nice" as they knife you in the back. They're too cowardly to confront anyone to his/her face. No wonder they frequently play the anthem from "Cruel Intentions" as a lead-in to the show. I doubt it's an accident. Even the snarky Katie Couric looks nice in comparison to Mika.
I wonder where Mika keeps her husband's b***s when she allows him to use them.
Cat fight? Nnnyeahhhh....Catfight!
Submitted by mrt721 on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 12:03pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrL9z3Kvww
p.s. Am I the only one who sees this? Mika and Joe
Oh yes, it's meow meow jealousy
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 12:08pm.
Photo proof of Katie & the Boy Toy on Miami Beach.
Mika's just mad...don't know whether it's the bathing suit, the tan, or the Toy Boy.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Is the cat fight a strictly feminine affair, or can a man and wo
Submitted by richflanj on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 12:37pm.
Q: "Is the cat fight a strictly feminine affair, or can a man and woman engage in one?"
A: Yes, if the "man" is a liberal.
MIKA THE MORON vs. JOE THE JERK
Submitted by Herbster on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 5:19pm.
How can anyone with half a brain watch this drivel in the morning? These two twits, along with Barnicle the Plagarist having a discussion about a woman TV newsreader whose ratings are below the temperature in Chicago?
I'd rather have cold oatmeal with warm lard in the morning!