Retraction: Morning Joe Was Joking About Blagojevich Innocence, Made Ted Bundy Jokes
Yesterday, NewsBusters published an account of the Morning Joe crew seemingly sticking up for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and how he was victimized by prosecutors. Going past the original transcript I reviewed yesterday to the video, it became obvious Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, and Mike Barnicle were all joking. When Mika Brzezinski proclaimed she didn't want to waste a segment on this, she meant the silly pretense. NewsBusters regrets our collective failure to grasp the elongated joke. Whether you find it hilarious is another matter.
It became really obvious when Scarborough started to suggest an American hero was executed serial killer Ted Bundy, who represented Florida values. (Eric Ames, who reported on this segment, is 21 and wasn't born until after Bundy was executed.) Fortune editor Andy Serwer was mocked on the set for not seeming to get the joke until that point. Video below the fold.
SCARBOROUGH: You know who's the hero of the America I grew up in? And he's a Florida boy.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, who's that?
SCARBOROUGH: Ted Bundy.
BRZEZINSKI: No.
SCARBOROUGH: I tell you, seriously. No, seriously, you look at Florida values.
BRZEZINSKI: Wait, what do you mean? I think you might mean a different Bundy.
SCARBOROUGH: It was funny. It was so funny. He was on Married with Children.
BRZEZINSKY: That's Al Bundy.
SERWER: You guys were letting him just twist a little bit there.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, there's Al Bundy.
BRZEZINSKI: Just don't go on tv before you say that.
GEIST: King Kong Bundy, I think you were thinking of.
BARNICLE: No, I think it was Al Bundy. Joe was thinking of Al Bundy. Very funny.
SCARBOROUGH: Married with Children, he's now on Modern Family. That guy's great.
SERWER: That's very well done, actually.
SCARBOROUGH: Do you get it yet?
SERWER: I got it - I got it half way in.
SCARBOROUGH: You're a little slow. You're a little slow, Andy. Hey, Andy, when I go like this - I'm going to be telling a joke- I'll do it four times.
SERWER: I got it, I was playing along.
SCARBOROUGH: Can you do pig Latin?
BRZEZINSKI: Usually it takes me 24 hours to get a joke.
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Good One Joe!!!
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 5:34pm.
Did you hear the one about the former FL. congressman who had a deceased female campaign worker in his office??? Hilarious!!!
Oh, this is going to make one very special boy very happy.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 5:37pm.
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So THIS is the Shmoe thread you were referring to...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 7:58pm.
(I know..ending in a preposition. cajun may smite me.)
Anyway, I intended to post a video of a male cheerleader apparently performing some sort of deliriously ecstatic somersaulting routine, but my stupid computer refuses to redownload a player.
Jer
Oh, like you weren't circling like a Predator drone @ 5,000 ft
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 8:02pm.
Go ahead, let's get on with it.
My pleasure, SoL...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 8:20pm.
NANANANA...NANA! YUK,YUK,YUK...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!...WHOO-HOO, HOT
DIGGETY DOG! YEAH...TOLDJA. IT AMAZES ME HOW OFTEN I'M RIGHT! READ IT AND WEEP, SCARBOROUGH BASHERS! THIS MADE MY DAY! WAIT'LL I TELL THE WIFE. YES! DIAGNOSE "THIS" DR SAM!
Okay, I'm much better now.
Jer
lol jer - was this a glimpse
Submitted by amyshulk on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 1:13pm.
lol jer - was this a glimpse into your mind?
Ronald Reagan
Tim Graham---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 5:43pm.
Up front, timely, no excuses.
That is the way it is supposed to be done.
Nice job.
MD
Oh stop it, Matthew...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 8:07pm.
If you need a t-shirt that badly, I'll send you one of mine.
Jer
Thanks all the same, Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 8:17pm.
but I has lots and lots of t-shirts.
i did find it unusual, though, to see an upfront admission of a mistake by someone who puts his work out for public consumption.
That just don't happen with the lib media, now do it?
MD
Oh my,
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 8:33pm.
BRZEZINSKI: Usually it takes me 24 hours to get a joke.
That aint saying much for the jokes. But then, hanging out with morns aint funny.