Mika Brzezinski Learns From Daddy All About the Benefits of Failure -- Which He Certainly 'Achieved' With Jimmy Carter
For Father’s Day, the national Sunday newspaper supplement Parade Magazine again consulted Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for some reflection on their dads.
Mika said "My father taught me to look at failure as a good thing, even if you don’t realize it at the time, because it opens the door to other opportunities." That certainly sounds right when your dad was in charge of "national security" under Jimmy Carter and had that great record of accomplishments like losing Afghanistan to the Soviets and the Iranian hostage mess.
Of course, that never stops Zbigniew from lecturing the dreaded "neocons" on how they’ve ruined the world, as if Jimmy Carter’s presidency was an era of international triumph. His failures never stopped him from being honored as some kind of legendary pundit.
She added, "When I called him the day I was fired from CBS, weeping, that’s what he told me, and he was right. It was like getting a gentle, fatherly, loving embrace over the phone. It made me feel like the little girl he used to hug when I fell down."
That’s nice – and getting fired from CBS (where she wasn’t well known) was not a bad thing when she had yet to find her calling by going on cable news and looking down her haughty nose at everyone who’s ever consumed a sugary soda.
Mika also said she admired her dad’s "moral compass," but admitted "The only thing I didn’t listen to was how hard to study. I got into trouble with every report card." That’s never stopped anyone from a successful career in television. And yet they still mock conservative politicians as idiots.
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If MEEEEEKA digs failure.....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 12:07am.
....then being at MESS-DNC is the perfect place for her. The bar isn't all that high (Chrissy Tingles, Fathead Ed, Ralph Madcow, Al Sharptongue, Larry O Dummel) and she repeats the daily WH marching orders as good as anyone in the Administration Press.
You
Submitted by grammajane on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 2:11am.
had trouble with your report card? From what comes out of your mouth, can certainly understand why
Failure being a resume
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 3:45am.
Failure being a resume enchancer is why they work at MSNBC.
Then she must have had many "good things"
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 8:20am.
Cause theyre BOTH failures, and losers!
So, that must
Submitted by nolefan2 on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 10:47am.
make working at a failure of a network must be a good thing. She's not real smart, so it must have been her last name that got her the job. Is she married? If so, why not use her husband's last name? Oh, I guess it would not benefit her in any way, would it? Oh, I forgot. She's a celebbbbrityyyyyy.
Nothing spells failure quite like liberalism
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 11:08am.
With the exception of one area (that would be their takeover and rapidly approaching destruction of America as founded), they have been failing for a hundred years now.
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Vote for the American in November
But did Zbiggie ever LEARN anything from his massive failures?
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 12:03pm.
Certainly not. Look at the way Mika turned out--a chippie off the old blockhead who goes from failure to failure to failure having learned nothing.
"Idiots On Parade" Magazine
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 12:32pm.
Seriously, if Bubbles Brzezinski and Morning Shmoe are featured in this pinko commie bloody tampon in our newspapers on Sunday Morning, do we normal intelligent people STILL watch their show?
Answer: NO. Here are 2 idiots who know FIRST HAND about failure. By the way, I feel as if I am getting dumber whenever I listen to Bubbles Brzezinski. Hey Bubbles, where did you rank in your High School and College graduation class in IQ?
Mika will never get it
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 5:10pm.
Mika said "My father taught me to look at failure as a good thing, even if you don’t realize it at the time, because it opens the door to other opportunities."
Failure is not "a good thing." Failure can open one's eyes to other opportunities, and one hopefully learns from failure. But that doesn't mean failure is good. Some failures are more serious than others.
Highly successful individuals are rarely strangers to failure. People who innovate and accept risk do fail (some fail more than they succeed), but they do not let failure defeat them. They learn, regroup, and try again.
But in Mika's perspective, it's easy to see why Carter's failed Presidency -- in which her daddy was a failed National Security Adviser -- is celebrated as "a good thing" rather than a disaster, though I don't think you'll find many Democrats who'll agree with that assessment.
What is with this, "Rain on Everyone's Parade" rag, anyway?
Submitted by mytwosense on Sat, 07/14/2012 - 3:47pm.
They use these two duplicitous dingbats,
from 'Moron Joke,'
again?!%?#&*^!!