Mika: 'Morning Joe' Being Pressured To Invite More Pro-Obama Flacks
Jay Carney admits calling MSNBC yesterday to complain about Mark Halperin's crack [that we were first to report] that the President, at his Wednesday press conference, acted like a "d--k." Did the White House press secretary take the opportunity of his call to pressure the show to bring on more pro-Obama flacks?
The question arises because on today's show, Mika Brzezinski revealed that "we're getting hit a lot lately for not bringing on people who speak on behalf of the White House and really stick up for the President."
There was something surreal about Mika's statement. When she broached the subject of balance, I was sure she was going to say that complaints were coming from Republicans about the paucity of GOP/conservative guests on the show. After all, as Joe Scarborough pointed out moments later, when the show researched its guest list, it found a stunning 10:1 ratio of Democrats to Republicans!
But apparently that isn't good enough for those Obamaites. They want more Dems, and above all, more pro-Obama sycophants. So, Jay Carney, was it you who was kvetching?
Watch this reality-turned-upside-down clip.
Mika was clearly trying to convince her pro-Obama friends that the show did indeed have plenty of guests who support the President. She began by asking super-lib professor Jeffrey Sachs if he was a supporter of the President and had voted for him. Sachs confirmed he did, but added that he's been disappointed by Obama's lack of "clarity." Mika then turned to John Heilemann of New York magazine, with a question that assumed that he too had voted for PBO. Mika was surely disappointed when Heilemann said he had not voted in the presidential election. Later, Mika did her best to appease those pushing for more Obama flacks, pleading with Sachs to say "what you think the President's doing right."
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Ed Schultz seen nodding
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:36am.
Ed Schultz seen nodding enthusiastically off-camera.
Can Go Any Lower??!!
Submitted by cobokat on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:36am.
After this segment there should be NO doubt that MSNBC is just another branch of this administration. I just watched Elijah Cummings say it wasn't fair to criticize BO for going to a campaign fundraiser AFTER he scolded Congress for not staying in DC-what??!! These people have their marching orders don't they?!
"getting hit a lot lately for
Submitted by kg on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:57am.
"getting hit a lot lately for not bringing on people who speak on behalf of the White House and really stick up for the President"
That would be the Obama administration doing the hitting.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
MSLSD
Submitted by adamsmith on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:26am.
I watched Jerk Uiygar with the head mouthpiece of Media Matters yesterday once again throwing out the "Fox News is a Republican propaganda channel". I'm looking at both of those Moonbats in complete disbelief. Jerk's show never mentions anything current in politics, it's a complete Republican/Conservative smear/bash hour of pandering to Kommunist Kool-Aid drinkers. I hope all these Kommunist Klowns stay on the air, it's like a visual Air America, with them looking like propagandists more and more. I hope the Democrat/Communist Party implodes with this election. They are far more dangerous than Al-Queda,Hamas,Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood combined. As Dinesh D'Souza once wrote, "The Enemy Within". Indeed...........
Unreal!
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 10:33pm.
This should be the video that Bernie Goldberg uses when he is on Fox News again with O'Reilly. Not even a pretense and the great part is that Chance is now being found out. A couple of golf games , some vacation time and taking the wife to NYC, seems to be the limits of his success. Unless bankrupting the country to the point of no return is to be considered a positive.
I must admit that I saw this too and the moment was surreal when Mika asked her guests who they voted for. The cheerio almost came through my nose. The only part that was unbelievable was Heileman saying he didn't vote. But if she asked him if he had a picture on his wall with devotional candles of Chance that would have been a yes mam.
"Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Finally...
Submitted by Indie Dude on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:39am.
truth & sanity
This should convince people
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:41am.
This segment needs to be viewed by as many as possible far and wide, even if Fox News has to show it. It's proof positive that the WH is trying to pull the strings behind the scenes.
And this should be in conjunction with the part where they were getting their text messages from the WH as well.
This country is in massive danger of being turned into a fascist state(practically one already) and more people need to know these things before they wake up wondering why they got to that state without enough warning from their beloved mainstream media.(MSM is complicit after all)
-Jon
Couldn't agree more!
Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 10:11am.
I was had a belly laugh when I watched this. Since I hadn't been awake too long, I thought I was hallucinating, but realized that Mika was serious. Sachs did say that he had voted for Obama, but was disappointed in his leadership since he took office. Perhaps, "Morning Joe" needs to do like Jose Baes is doing in the Casey Anthony trial and get depositions from guests BEFORE they come on the show, so that Mika and Joe know that they'll be supporters of Obama. After Mark Halperin's comment, it's obvious that Obama needs a "supporter."
Saw This!
Submitted by Texndoc on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:43am.
I laughed and laughed. As I said in the kos post, Obama has "promised to be on the show" and you can damn well bet he "promised to cancel".
Obama sets new worlds record!
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:46am.
Thinnest skin ever in a politician.
Thinnest skin
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 4:11pm.
In honor of this achievement the new Obama Thinnest Skinned Politician Evah! action figure has been released.
If you think this is crazy
Submitted by d1carter on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:52am.
If you think this is crazy now wait until next summer. Black will be white, up will be down, good will be evil...BHO will be the best POTUS ever...
MIKA'S PURITY TEST
Submitted by Picnic on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:55am.
did you hear her demand to know who everyone on the panel voted for?
dreamland
Submitted by Zepppo on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 8:10am.
More evidence that people who watch MSNBC live in their own little fantasy land where liberals can do no wrong. Why do these people not wake up? Is it just to painful to see reality for some people?
Here in Texas, the 0700 am show is a repeat of the 0600 one.
Submitted by Texndoc on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 8:20am.
Has their show time been cut in two and they're just doing an hour and repeating it? Or is the guy in their control room who yesterday couldn't run the bleep button really a chimpanzee?
They usually replay the 1st
Submitted by amyshulk on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 6:26pm.
They usually replay the 1st 15-20 minutes at the top of hour 2, and if they think a block is really good {read pro Obama} they'll replay that in hour 3.
Freaked me out a few months ago and I commented on it, but nobody else noticed/replied.
Ronald Reagan
Warning bell goes off.....
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 8:44am.
"we're getting hit a lot lately for not bringing on people who speak on behalf of the White House and really stick up for the President.
That sets off my warning bell, just like "some say....."
Getting hit by whom, Mika?
Or is this your own whine that the show isn't sufficiently pro-Obama?
hello motherbelt
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:14am.
I'm inclined to believe Mika. The tone of her voice wasn't passive-aggressive whining, it sounded authentically like "you people have no idea about the drama." Especially after Carney admitted to calling them.
admittance
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:41am.
That was disturbing on so many levels when I heard that Carney admitted to calling PMSNBC. The more they are coming out of the closet (hiding the true fact of their intentions originally) and not even trying to hide anymore what they want to do and how, the more worrisome this mess gets.
This is another sign of a dictator coming into being, when they go so far to say "I don't need Congress" and start enacting directives as if they were law (DREAM for example), or ignoring his battlefield generals such as the pullout of Afghanistan and on and on, we're seeing a repeat of dictators of other countries in how they asserted their control little by little. Chavez comes to mind when he changed things in Venezuela, may he rot in hell when the cancer becomes uncontrollable.
We're heading down the road to perdition if something isn't done by Congress to stop this guy because if he isn't stopped in his tracks, even the Dems are in danger, why don't they understand that? (Kucinich does understand that, but he's being called out as a loon)
-Jon
I remember in the Bush years
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:59am.
Every time he supposedly broke the law, it was setting a bad precedent, laying the red carpet for a dictatorship. But nope, not now.
one example
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 10:13am.
One example comes to mind is the Patriot Act and how people claimed that everyone and I mean EVERYONE in the country was being eavesdropped on the phone and they were calling him call kinds of names and etc. Did Bush ever actually break the law? To be honest, I don't know that he did, but as far as I know, he didn't. The reason I give the answer like that is because all the stuff that the bogus potus with the totus is doing was so "in your face" blatant that he didn't even try to hide it and at times tried to mess with the spirit of the law (such as "no hostilities in Libya").
So for all the stuff that the MSM was projecting on to Bush but never happened, it's happening now on this bogus administration and as you said, "nope, not now" would be the response of the MSM.
And the fact that so many of the MSM is so complicit with them scares the hell out of me, how could they have such a huge hold on them? Don't they even realize that if Soetoro gets to where he wants(recently claimed he has 5.5 years to go, whatever THAT means), the MSM will be among the first to go away? For God's sake, Halperin was made to go away as admitted by Carney and that was in FULL VIEW OF THE PUBLIC! If that's not a conflict of professional interest, I don't know what the hell it is.
-Jon
Mika and Joe: worried
Submitted by Texndoc on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 8:40am.
I can guarantee after the Halperin flack: the loony left blogosphere AND the White House threatened a boycott.
I'm surprised they were not suspended, too
Submitted by IgnatzJFahrquar on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 8:54am.
Redeye did a segment on the Halprin epiphany and watching the whole thing, again, it was pretty clear that the Tweedle Dumbs were egging him on multiple times then weazley acted shocked when he went ahead with his statement.
As Joe Derosa said on Redeye, it would be like going into a bar and slapping the biggest guy there. Then when he caves in your face you start whining about suing him.
"Just Joking" Joe
Submitted by mom_rox on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:17am.
here's the transcript:
Which means Halperin meant to say this AND meant for the MJ hosts and crew to hear this. Had this been bleeped, the "bleeped word" would not have remained secret for long - too many heard it. very interesting.
They're pulling out all stops
Submitted by IgnatzJFahrquar on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 8:48am.
And the election is 15 months away.
It's going to be interesting to see just how many points Oblahblah loses by in 2012 once all the LSM media propping-up is stripped away by actual poll results. I say 8 to 10.
The falling star has burned out.
Submitted by johnsonl on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 8:58am.
Libs are pulling out all the stops and we're still more than a year away from pulling the lever. Desperation is a stinky cologne.
Why the White House concern? No one is watching
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:47am.
MJ might get 300,000 viewers. That's like a little bit of NYC watching and the rest of the country doing other things.
If it were not for cable they would have no viewers.
"C'mon Mika...
Submitted by PJRyan on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:07am.
C'mon girl! You can do it. 10-1 D-to-R ratio...still not enough lemming-like fawning over your guy...Say it, girl! Who's an abject failure? Who's only resource is the water-carrying media?? C'mon, big girl...you can do this...you can figure this out all by yourself...pretend those big cameras aren't on you....begins with a B? Huh? Huh? You can do this! Horrific ideologue...big, floppy ears...ruining the country..."
Mika "hearts"Obama 10 to 1 ----Liberal mouthpiece not big enough
Submitted by Rovin on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:24am.
Translation: Obama cheerleaders wanted---common sense not required.
Dicks, Sluts, Weiner pics...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:25am.
Oh my. Love the politics of the left.
No Labels?
Halperin made the fatal mistake of telling the TRUTH to a liberal audience therefore, he is gone.
Shultzie smeared a female conservative and is back spewing hatred of the right.
Weiner tweets under a pseudonym now until the left offers him a hate show...
REALLY?
Submitted by ferv888 on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:40am.
What do they need more from the WH on the show for? They already have all the cheerleaders they need in the regular cast of DIMWIT's
The Borg
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:46am.
Dictators are like the Borg of Star Trek TNG fame.
They want to consume everything and have EVERYTHING under their control. "All they need" is never enough.
-Jon
"strong arming" is in high
Submitted by jkwtrading on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 10:53am.
"strong arming" is in high fashion from the White House..
I though laugh thinking Carney could strong arm anything. he would look ridiculous. Obama when he does it his eyes bulge somewhat..
But but but . . . Chairman
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 10:20am.
But but but . . .
Chairman Obamao would never do that! That's like something out of the criminal presidency of W! /sarcasm off
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
More??
Submitted by KornKing on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 10:42am.
How do you go over 100%?
I love the smell of desperation in the Morning (Joe).
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 11:01am.
Take heart....this is the sound of the ship going down.
The WH knows Obama is in serious trouble. It's only going to get more outrageous from now on.
Seriously....when one of the MSNBC hardliners calls Obama a "d***" on live TV, and the following day we see this video!
Think about it for a minute. 10-1 in their favor, and the WH is still whining. What does this tell you? Bueller?
Thanks Mark....you got the scoop of the week. Totally amusing.
I love the smell of desperation in the Morning (Joe).
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
They will take as many with them
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 11:18am.
It may be a ship going down, but I doubt they'll let the rats leave that sinking ship. They'll try to bring down everyone with them and this might be just the beginning of it. I wonder how far it will go?
-Jon
Like I said Jon....
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 11:24am.
Take Heart
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Thanks
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 12:13pm.
Trying to cheer me up, eh?
Ok, it worked. That's a definitely good image to keep in mind. The better one is the Dictator in Chief in jail...or deported to Kenya. Wishful thinking, I know.
-Jon
Is that the same Mika B. who
Submitted by Reaver on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 11:55am.
Is that the same Mika B. who admitted to coordinating talking points with the White House?
so biased
Submitted by right of way on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 12:20pm.
i watched msdnc this morning, and their top three week in review stories were:
3. blago
2. some bizzare baby rituals
1. bachmann's john wayne flub.
really? i didn't think that was such a big deal. i think the president not knowing how old his own kid is, is worse, but mark calling the president a dick didn't make the list.
Keep it quiet
Submitted by jon_torlin on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 12:30pm.
They were probably told not to talk about it. I wouldn't be surprised if someone from the WH said "talk about anything else, not this."
They seem to really have control over MSNBC now. I mean literally, if a WH spokesman can call them and say "do something about that guy" even though Halperin didn't directly call the Duce a Richard, just that he acted like one, what's to stop them from making calls again? And considering they once said Fox News is not a real news organization, if they go unchallenged from this, what's to stop the WH from declaring Fox News to go off the air? Or anyone else?
The MSM just doesn't realize that their livelihood is in danger from the very people they are trying so hard to protect. They are in a swimming pool filled with pirahnas and think they are swimming with goldfish.
-Jon
Getting It Right
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 12:36pm.
Halperin got the "ick" part right, but, he missed the "pr" part.
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huh?
Submitted by ironhead4099 on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 1:06pm.
This guy must be dumber than a brick! To accuse THAT network, and especially their token "Repulican" of being right-wing is absolutely MINDBLOWING! Theirs not one person on that network that doesn't think Obama shits golden turds, and he can part the Red Sea with a fart! I've said it before, these people need lobotomy's and that network needs an enema!
This is just a stopgap until Obama can get Fox News off the air
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 1:51pm.
...talk radio shut down, and unplug any websites that dare criticize him.
And I'm only half kidding.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
ChickaBOOMer: Scarborough, Brzezinski Tit For Tat
Submitted by StewartIII on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 3:35pm.
Scarborough, Brzezinski Tit For Tat
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2011/07/scarborough-brzezinski-tit-for-...
Are you kidding?
Submitted by djwolf12 on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 8:53pm.
These idiots are getting complaints from people that they don't have enough Democrats on their show? They ADMIT that their panel is slanted 10 to 1 in favor of democrats, yet they need MORE DEMOCRATS to appear on their show? I swear, Comcast needs to just end M.S.S.R's (MSNBC) reign of error. To use a fitting verb of what must be done, this demonic child of the once proud NBC brand needs to be aborted.
Sachs almost had it - he
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 2:25pm.
Sachs almost had it - he forgot something though: "I WON" excluded/derided the R's from day 1, and while he {finally!!!} gets it that stimulus was the wrong way to go, he refuses to admit that the R's ARE serious and DO have a plan!!!
Ronald Reagan