The technical term for the following video is “busting his chops.”
Joe Scarborough provided a wonderful satire of Keith Olbermann’s 2008 election-night bias on this morning’s edition of Morning Joe. A partial transcript follows the video, which really must be watched for the full effect.
Attaboy, Joe.
This sort of thing makes up for your left-of-center moments.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: And by the way, if the Republican Party, or if conservatives are so extreme, why are all of Barack Obama’s candidates going up in flames tomorrow?Beautiful.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: We shall see what happens tomorrow –
SCARBOROUGH: Because, I mean, I heard that Virginia had been switched forever, last year. [Begins Olbermann impression] It’s a transformative night. Virginia, once solidly in the Republican’s column – it’s gone purple, my friends! This will change the landscape of America for the next generation! Or the next...eleven months, until Republicans kick their ass by twelve points. But look, it was radicals, it was right-wing extremists that moved Virginia in the column. Joseph Stalin? Perhaps not. But the ghost of John Birch rises somewhere above a confederate flag in Richmond, Virginia, tonight. What’s next, Mika?
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"Attaboy, Joe. ...
November 2, 2009 - 12:59 ET by Trickletown...This sort of thing makes up for your left-of-center moments."
I agree, however, I'm betting most comments will reflect that Scarborough is and always will be a useless liberal lovin RHINO.
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If I don't see you in the future, I'll see you in the pasture.
That was still REALLY funny
November 2, 2009 - 13:00 ET by Mike SargentThat was still REALLY funny :D
Of course, I'm a humorless NewsBuster according to Joe. It's all good though, I caught his satire today. I started with the assumption he wasn't serious about anything he said, and worked from there...
Ooo oooo
November 2, 2009 - 13:01 ET by StarAZDo Chris---pretty please...
Can't happen
November 2, 2009 - 13:31 ET by CO2MakerHis mouth isn't big enough to do Chris the Wide Mouth Frog.
Well...
November 2, 2009 - 19:49 ET by heldmywJoe could tinkle down his leg... like Chrissy.
What?
Oh! Tingle!
Nevermind.
I think when CTWMF does it
November 2, 2009 - 19:52 ET by CO2Makerit's not a tinkle. It sort of oozes. And his face gets flushed.
That had me laughing my
November 2, 2009 - 13:16 ET by MrSnugglesThat had me laughing my pants off.
Joey??? Joey???
November 2, 2009 - 13:19 ET by jdripperYo Joey have you forgotten your conversation with Chuck Todd a month after BO was sworn into office? You remember don't you where you said the the GOP was dead? That the GOP had to learn how to be more tolerant? More inclusive? That the GOP if not dead was surely dying?
Yo Joey? Remember? Ass....
Jack
"If at age 20 you are a conservative then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are a liberal then you have no brains." Sir Winston Churchill
2000 election
November 2, 2009 - 15:57 ET by Jerry MackI remember during the 2000 election Joe was one of the designated Republican hit men. All over television. One of his funniest was that Dimocrats were so desperate that they were parachuting lawyers into small Florida towns that did not have airports.
Since then some of the positions he has taken indicate that he was either faking it then or now. But you have to live with what you say.
WPIW
November 2, 2009 - 13:21 ET by HoosierEmJoe will be worst person in the world tonight... Seriously, that was funny.
I heard this early hours
November 2, 2009 - 13:30 ET by bigtimerI heard this early hours this morning while still in bed....I was cracking up laughing...he started my day with a smile even before I had coffee...
Which by the way is switch when and if I do catch much of the show anymore...but I caught a lot of it today...glad I didn't miss this performance...it was priceless.
Like Hoosier said...you can be sure Joe will be the Worst Person in the World tonight...whether Bath-Tub Boy mentions it or not...you can be sure he is steaming wherever he is.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
bt -- yep, that was
November 2, 2009 - 13:39 ET by Jack Bauerbt -- yep, that was genuinely hilarious.
All the better for Joe starting off tentatively, then coming on gangbusters. GET ME A MUFFIN.
Jack... Lol...that Get me
November 2, 2009 - 13:42 ET by bigtimerJack...
Lol...that Get me a Muffin line at the end had me wondering.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Joe was on a roll
November 2, 2009 - 14:57 ET by TexasMom0517Usually I use the recall button and switch between Morning Joe and Imus, but this morning I stayed on "Joe" because he was so funny and soooo busy tweeking Mika and Bernstein. He was hysterical. Even Mika's pursed lips and Nellie Olesen impersonation couldn't stop him. I loved it!
Channeling Chris Matthews:
November 2, 2009 - 14:24 ET by Guapo DiabloChanneling Chris Matthews: HA!
This had nothing to do with
November 2, 2009 - 15:14 ET by gmaniac1This had nothing to do with politics as it did with either of those two not liking each other.
I know she's a liberal but Mika needs to go to Fox News as she's wating away on there. It's a surprise that she comes from ol' Ziggy's loins.
Mika makes her faces
November 2, 2009 - 18:07 ET by The_PumpcropHas her own Vodka "O" and pretends to be all embarrassed. Yes, SOMETIMES Shmoe can come up with something brilliant, but their "eye candy for the old Dems" ruins the show. Mika is sickening and so fake.
Obbies Thesaurus will flutter for tonight's show... or will it?
Very funny
November 2, 2009 - 18:15 ET by Kingfish17I watched it twice.