How To Make Morning Joe Panel Shut Up: Say 'Solyndra'
By Mark Finkelstein | November 16, 2011 | 09:15
Ever been watching Morning Joe, and wished you could stop the steady stream of liberal blather? Simple. Say the magic word—Solyndra—and watch the gabby guests fall suddenly silent.
Today's show offered a prime example of the phenomenon. For the first ten minutes, the panel had a great old time cackling and crowing on the theme that the Republican presidential field is a mass of morons. They laughed at the mere mention of Herman Cain, likened the GOP field to a vaudeville show, dragged out the shopworn "bar in Star Wars" simile, and called the Republican candidates "jokes," "clowns" and "stupid." But then, 13 minutes in, Mika Brzezinski mentioned a story reporting that the Obama admin had suppressed the announcement of layoffs at Solyndra until after the 2010 elections. Despite Mika looking around the table at her guests as she wondered out loud "why this story hasn't picked up more," there wasn't a peep out of the quickly clammed-up crew and Brezinski breezed on to another topic. Video after the jump.
Watch how, after mocking Republicans mercilessly for 10 minutes, when Solyndra was mentioned, the normally loquacious likes of Tina Brown and Mike Barnicle were suddenly without a word to say.
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Too funny!
Submitted by merly1 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 9:21am.
Yes, the proverbial "silence was deafening" applies well here. Great link.
Actually, it was an uncomfortable silence----uncomfortable for any taxpayer
as these media clowns are the real American embarrassment.
SILENCE WAS DEAFENING ALSO WHEN...
Submitted by BARB BF on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:41am.
Willie Giest asked a few days ago why OWS in DC protesters were not protesting in front of the WH. Silence...then he asked..was it because the majority of the protesters are Democrats and Obama, a Democrat is in the WH? SILENCE..AND THEN SUBJECT CHANGED.
I watched a segment of this
Submitted by inquiringmind on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 9:24am.
I watched a segment of this hack show this morning and witnessed the liberal blather and suck fest.
Big mistake.
NB you will have to report on Morninig Joe because I will never waste a moment of my life again with that show on my screen.
I just remembered something
Submitted by inquiringmind on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 4:12pm.
I just remembered something else they said. They talked about the two mormons who should be in the lead. THE TWO MORMONS?!?
Could you ever hear them saying those two Muslums? No way! But those two Mormons is OK.
My contempt for these people grows by the day.
Duh!
Submitted by GeneralAl on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 9:26am.
Duh, I don't have anything to say! I mean so what, give our boy a break. After all, he's always getting hammered by the media non stop. We're constantly out to get him. Oh wait, thats my notes on Bush. Oh well, its no big deal, everybody does it!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Uhhhhhhhhhhh,
Submitted by 26CX on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 9:27am.
Ooops!
What a nasty bunch.
Submitted by NeoKong on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 9:28am.
We have to listen to a plagiarist talking about someone else being a joke while Tabloid queen Tina Brown is openly calling millions of people stupid in front a group of people who couldn't fill a telephone booth with their ratings.
How do we tell the difference
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 9:49am.
between Obama working and vacationing? Talk about a line being blurred...
Thanks, Rad
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:03am.
I was thinking the same thing.
Obama is campaigning 24/7 now....if you check his schedule, he only had a fund raiser yesterday.
*rolls eyes*
And oddly, every single thing these MJ nitwits said could be said about The Won....well, maybe except Herman Cain's hat. I LIKE HIS HAT!
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 138 (and Counting)
it was late
Submitted by ROSSMAN on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 9:56am.
I thought I heard Obama say we were sending our 1st troops to ASIA. OBAMA CAIN doesn't know that Australia is a continent, and ASIA ain't in it!!
Just a circle jerk with a
Submitted by Captain Repus on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:02am.
Just a circle jerk of liberals with a combined IQ approaching plant life led by a breasted-American who isn't capable of critical thinking beyond her favorite founding father, Abe Lincoln.
Schmoe was actually missed this morning............
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:03am.
Mark there actually was a part two to this as Meeeeeeka brought up the e-mails that showed Obama and company wanted the job losses to be squashed until after the election and no names were mentioned and Leg Tingles himself when he spoke on it made it appear that it always happens and AGAIN no names were mentioned in the entire 60 seconds of "Hey, we reported on Solyndra" BS session.
Mark, pull it up, as in mid-sentence talking about this,Tingles goes into an anti-Cain screed as if he forgot why he was alive.
BTW, what they TRIED to do to Rubio this morning was shameless, gutless and nothing but an attempt at a hatchet job and I really can't say what I called Meeeeeeka this morning as she went into ***** mode and tried to appear to be a journalist all of a sudden, but she came off as nothing but a *****.
Rubio and Coons are trying to do something about jobs, but all these lefties would have none of that talk as it wasn't the sainted Obysmals whole plan.
Spot on, Tomorama
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:16am.
Brzezinski and a male guest (I heard it on XM so I didn't see who it was) both tried to get Rubio to say that the collection of GOP candidates is week. Phrases like "You can't be proud of your party if these are the candidates . . . " and similar fare. Other guests like Chris Matthews piled on.
So, while Coons and Rubio appeared on the show to discuss a bi-lateral effort in the Senate to pass things they can agree on, it turned into another slam of the GOP and its candidates.
Rubio, by the way, handled it all very well, refusing to take the bait while explaining that the primary process is designed to allow candidates to hone their messages and learn from mistakes, and he pointed to Obama's success from a slow start in 2008 to the nomination and the Presidency. While the Lefties on the panel acknowledged this, they immediately continued to pile on. NYT columnist Bill Keller stated that when the "clown car" stops emptying, Romney will be the nominee, prompting Matthews to burst out laughing for what seemed like half a minute.
I only wish he said...........
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:01am.
His leg was tingly as well, but XM couldn't pickup the "gyrations".......
I can not give more praise to Rubio than I have already been doing for months and months and he again proves his electability.
NOBODY on that panel is in his league and he had to listen to the teenagers giggling and talking shop while others were trying to speak.
I only wish he said to the leftist frauds hammering Cain, "Well at least Cain knows Hawaii isn't in Asia"...............
What Rubio should have said
Submitted by Model850 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 5:08pm.
Rubio, by the way, handled it all very well, refusing to take the bait while explaining that the primary process is designed to allow candidates to hone their messages and learn from mistakes....
Too bad Senator Rubio is too classy to have done so, but what he should have said is "Well, right now none of them sends a tingle up my leg yet, but a couple of them do have nice, crisp creases in their pants."
Blessed are those who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.
The difference between liberals and conservatives
Submitted by johnsonl on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:06am.
is that conservatives hold their representatives accountable. Liberals cover for theirs. Obamao could roast a live baby on cable TV (Oprah) and you would hear nothing but crickets from the liberal MSM.
It was all just for the stats.
Submitted by KyWriter on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:25am.
Now all the Obamaphile hacks at MSNBC can say they reported on the Solyndra affair
They report, viewers hide
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:55am.
Yep, they can take that off the "to do" list.
It got two mentions and turned into a Republican bash fest.
Killing two birds with one stone............
Actually killing brain cells one idiocy at a time................
So Cain's hat is silly
Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:37am.
but Obama's mom jeans are what? Appropriate?
I like Cain's hat
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:58am.
Of course, I am partial to men who wear good looking hats.
Wearing hats is a lost art. For both men and women. Just my $.02
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 138 (and Counting)
Personally, J
Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:13am.
I always liked the trench coat - fedora look of the 30's and 40's. But then, I'm a fashion disaster so my opinion in this area is not well versed. I still wear parachute pants once in a while. (Kidding! I don't wear parachute pants -that often. LOL I was in the Corps when those ridiculous things were popular and never owned any.)
Zoot Suit is the cats meow.
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 12:17pm.
Zoot Suit is the cats meow.
Mom Jeans?
Submitted by Franksam on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 12:28pm.
I always wondered if he wasn't raiding Michelle's closet.
I know another way to bring silence to their liberal love fest
Submitted by iamsaved on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:39am.
All one has to do is ask them what they have decided about Jesus and they will make a quick exit for a bathroom break.
Morning Joe
Submitted by csmrjerry on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:43am.
I wish Joe would not claim to be a conservative when in fact he is a brain dead liberal democrat that refuses to tell the American people the truth. What a waste of air.
Have a suggestion: Next time
Submitted by rickster0130 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:50am.
Have a suggestion: Next time you watch the MSM, break out a notepad, and with pen poised, count the number of factually accurate statements issued by the talking heads. At this rate, I can guarantee your pen will not move. 'Nuf said?
As much of a pompous blowhard
Submitted by lesterwink23 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:46am.
As much of a pompous blowhard as Joe is, the show is even more unwatchable when he isn't there. Mika is clearly out of her league as the host and is barely able to sustain a decent roundtable conversation with other morons who AGREE with her.
And if ya think THAT'S good,
Submitted by rickster0130 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:55am.
And if ya think THAT'S good, wait'll you get a load of Chelsea when she gets on the air! Once she learns how to turn a zit into a volcano like her new colleagues do, then we're REALLY off to the races!
Agreed
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:53am.
If she can't read it from a prompter, a cue card or a WH tweet, SHE DOESN'T KNOW IT.
THIS WAS UNWATCHABLE, but I left again with the feeling that someday Rubio will by my PRESIDENT and deserving of the title NOT because of his race (see Obysmal, Barry), but because he is the smartest and most reasoned person in the room.
Apparently Joe was one a
Submitted by goon on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:02am.
Apparently Joe was one a republican, but I don't see it. The man is a shill for Obumble just like the rest of the buffoons on MSNBC.
Willie Geist Face
Submitted by P.J. Gladnick on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:13am.
Too bad there was no closeup shot of Willie Geist's face after Mika mentioned Solyndra. The pained look on Geist's face are classics and I always look forward to seeing them. Nobody does pained face as good as Willie Geist.
That would be only one of
Submitted by John21 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:14am.
That would be only one of many scandals of this administration that would bring silence to the RINO discussion party.
Mention things like
The total lack of action of this administration during the gulf oil spill
Mention of the various "Contitutional breaks"
Any menton of the word "Holder"
Any mention of "Cash for Clunkers"
Any mention of "Crony Capitalism"
Any mention of Waserman-Shultz
Any mention of "Obamacare"
The list is endless but that show and his partners will continue to bury their heads in the sand and stick their fingers in their ears and hum loudly rather than face reality.
Very intelligent panel
Submitted by Gat New York on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:28am.
Barnicle - plagerist who does a poor impression of Pete Hamell
Deutsch - lucky gene pool for taking over daddy's ad agency and mocked behind his back by clients for years. This is the guy who said what OWS needs is a Kent State moment.
Tina Brown - the most sanctimonious on the panel who happens to be doing a great job of sinking Newsweek into oblivion.
Mika - the last of the valley girls. Does she realize just how utterly clueless she comes across?
If SNL is looking for material just turn on the Morning Joe and tape it - it is a a comedy that shows the contented looks of ignorance.
Vanden Heuvel, The Communist Tart Ended it for Me
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:53am.
I actually reached my limit with them - FOREVER & FROM NOW ON - early this morning. I try to watch both sides but no more. That's it.
I can’t take it anymore; the lying - just flat-out lying, which is bad enough, and frequent enough, every quarter-hour in fact, but the fun-house mirror bullsh*t that flies out of people’s mouths unchecked and unchallenged by a single one of the 4 or 5 people around the table who (should) know better, has reached critical mass for me. It’s just no longer tolerable.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, that communist tart, and I mean both communist & tart quite literally – and can prove the former – uttered the phrase “They’re a destructive force, not a constructive one” just as I flipped over to Morning Joe from checking in on Fox & Friends (which urgently needs to burn the Saturday Night Fever wardrobe rejects and open a big fat account at a proper couturier like St. John) and I was shocked. For a second there I thought KVH had a moment of clarity!
Silly me. I thought the "destructive force" she was referring to OWS… She was referring to House Tea Party Republicans! AHHHHH!
That tore it.
That utterance was so, clearly, demonstrably, provably, upside-goddamned-down insane, so utterly untethered to reality, such a gross, ugly, willful perversion of the prima-f*cking-facie truth, I snapped.
Done.
Just Wait Democrats
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:53am.
The Republican candidate with the most gaffs and misspeaks can then qualify to be the Democrat Party's VP -- how do you think Joe Biden got the job?
And if he has had sexual relations with a female employee less than half his age while his wife and daughter sleep upstairs or has a love child with a woman on his campaign while his wife dies of cancer then he is a shoe-in to be the Democrat Party candidate for president.
When this utterly dishonest
Submitted by Gat New York on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 12:01pm.
When this utterly dishonest group of sub-intellectual libs pontificates on how they are dying to have a legit competitor to their acclaimed messiah Obama, they forget how clueless he was during his campaign and how the media gave him one pass after another.This was from a Michelle Malkin column in 2008 during the campaign. It is a list of Obama gaffes (the last one is the best):
1. Last May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.
2. Earlier this month in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
3. Last week, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”
4. Explaining last week why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
5. Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. Last March, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:
6. Earlier this month in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
7. Over the weekend in Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:
8. Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father:”
9. And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
We currently have the most inexperienced, incompetent President in American history who has been way over his head and these people still sit there and try and claim that Obama should even be in the same room with ANY of the GOP candidates?
Don't they have about 90,000
Submitted by buddyc on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 12:03pm.
Don't they have about 90,000 viewers? Who watches them?
So, they all clammed up at
Submitted by helomech on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 12:20pm.
So, they all clammed up at the mention of the word "Solyndra' ? Kind of seems like they ALL had a hand in that companys' business, kind of like an 'insiders information' thing...
At leat someone was able to make them STFU
With all due respect to the
Submitted by 10sfan on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 12:35pm.
With all due respect to the buffoons on set, the hostess didn't even ask for comments or give them a chance. She mentions the whole issue as if it's a nothing story, then moves right on. Idiots. And I love the fact that Herman Cain's hat is so laughable, when we had Prsident Clinton playing the sax in sunglasses. But that was cool, right?
Hold on a second...
Submitted by Jarhead68 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 12:41pm.
The end of that clip seemed like it was a setup for the next segment of the show and that they were going to a break only to come back and discuss that subject. What happened in the 5 minutes after the last 10 seconds of the clip? You can be accused of taking in out of context. I want to see the rest before I start hammering my liberal friends with this.
Already posted
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 1:39pm.
I posted part two already, she mentioned it again and Matthews made it appear that it is not a big deal and CAIN SUCKS he is a disgrace etc, etc in mid-sentence as if he forgot his "role".
End of Solyndra discussion.
The worst part of today's
Submitted by FAR52 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 2:26pm.
The worst part of today's program was when three panelists tried for at least 3 minutes to get Senator Rubio to admit that the group of republican nominees were an embarrassment. It was shameful.
Edit: Ahhh, I see you all already got to that. Seriously, that video needs to be posted and replayed time and again here and elsewhere. That had to be the worst liberal bias I have seen in a very long time.
British accent?
Submitted by Hozeking on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 3:39pm.
Notice how these 'deep thinking' MSNBC producers must think that intelligence is spoken with a British accent?
the only thing more rotten
Submitted by jimtrees on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 4:36pm.
Then a democrat, is four of them.