As Mika Reads Op-ed About 'Monstrous' Acts In Afghanistan, Morning Joe Rolls Photos Of Paul Ryan
Let's stipulate up front that it might well have been an innocent mistake. Even so, until explained, it was shocking to say the least. On today's Morning Joe, as Mika Brzezinski read a David Brooks op-ed about the shooting of civilians in Afghanistan in which he wrote of "monstrous acts that shock the soul and sear the brain," suddenly the screen cut--for an extended period--to three different photos of . . . Republican Paul Ryan.
Even Joe Scarborough couldn't resist joking about the incident revealing the show's liberal bias. As it turns out, an op-ed by Ryan was up next, and the control room guys might simply have transitioned a bit too quickly--though some readers might not be willing to give Morning Joe the benefit of the doubt. View the video after the jump.
Watch what happened . . . and judge for yourself.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: David Brooks, talking about what happened in Afghanistan, Sergeant Robert Bales and the massacre of 16 civilians there, and this is hard to get the mind around but it's a really interesting piece [reading]:
"The inner world is a battlefield between light and dark . . . His job is to struggle daily to strengthen the good and resist the evil, policing small transgressions to prevent larger ones. If he didn’t do that, and if he was swept up in a whirlwind, then even a formerly good man is capable of monstrous acts that shock the soul and sear the brain. [Screen rolls photos of Paul Ryan.] Certainly not excusing what happened, but it can be a symbol of -- what are you, why are you [laughing]?
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well, because, our workers are so liberal that when you were talking about depravity, and the slaughter of entire races, they were showing, T.J. was showing pictures of Paul Ryan -- at great length!
BRZEZINSKI: They did? Did that happen?
SCARBOROUGH: T.J. Can we go? You've got to show T.J.'s face here. So T.J.
Cut to shot of control room guys giving camera the hand.
SCARBOROUGH: So, T.J., how --
MARK HALPERIN: He thought it was a description of the Ryan budget.
SCARBOROUGH: [dissolving in laughter] It just went on and on.
CONTROL ROOM GUY: It was an honest mistake.
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The soldier(s) that murdered Afghani children are crazy loons
Submitted by lrgon on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 12:41pm.
but guys like Paul Ryan who fund these wars are crazier.
Bush 43 was talked into attacking the wrong country - Iraq- by his crazy boss, Cheney. The Cheney conspiracy that included the wrecking crew, Project For the New American Century, are the maniacs behind it all. All are CFR members and are once more pushing for war with Iran. They also secretly worked on trying to merge the USA,Mexico and Canada into a EU type political arrangement but their plans were exposed and the states blocked their NAU scheme.
http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2005/01/05OTTAWA268.html#
Whatever conspiroloon.
Submitted by The Vet on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 12:50pm.
Yes. It is us in the CFR. We actually run the show and murder all who oppose us. Except for you of course. We always let the loons run loose and expose our every plan.
When are we finally going to tire of the lunatic rants of this idiot?
What you DON'T know
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 1:15pm.
Is that Obama is an undercover CFM member. We're just waiting for you libtards to get him re-elected, THEN THE GLOVES COME OFF! All liberals will be rounded up and placed in re-education camps, liberal politicians will be stood against the wall, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security and all "social programs" will be stopped, gays will be harried through the streets and stoned, citizenship papers will be carried by all (and checked at random - "your papers please"...), illegals will be immediately deported to Mexico (regardless of where they're actually from), and all non-approved news sites will be shut down. Oh, BTW, we will start a war with the entire European continent within a year of our operative (Obama) coming out of the closet. And all this is absolutely true, cause Wikileaks says so...
Have fun with that, why doncha?
Yeah Joe
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 1:06pm.
That's friggin HILARIOUS! How about Fox doing a story on heinous dictators while showing pictures of Obama? Wouldn't THAT be good for a chuckle or two? And not one word of apology to Ryan, but good ole Joe looked like he was about to piss himself laughing. But always remember - MSNBC is the fairest news source available!!!
LEFTISM AS PSYCHOPATHY
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Tue, 03/20/2012 - 1:09pm.
Before I read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.), I was merely repulsed by the Left. Now, I am scared to death of them.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html