UPDATE 6-20; Joe cites NewsBusters: At 6:07 am EDT on June 20, Joe Scarborough cited NewsBusters as the blog that had criticized Mika Brzezinski as a snob for her comments about Rosie. He added that yesterday the blog had called Mika on her "half-a--ed" apology.
View video here of Joe discussing NB's criticism of Mika.
Yesterday, in Mika's Snobby Sneer, we reported on the elitist swipe that Mika Brzezinski took at Rosie O'Donnell. The MSNBC newsreader had poo-poohed the idea of the erstwhile "View" co-host taking over "The Price is Right" from the retiring Bob Barker. Said Brzezinski: "The problem is she's going to look like the people who run down the aisle all excited."
We had also observed that a running theme of the banter between Mika and "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough is the latter's teasing of the former over her privileged upbringing as the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's former National Security Advisor.
So how did Joe open this morning's show at 6 am EDT?
MSNBC HOST JOE SCARBOROUGH: You know, you hang out with the elites, day in and . . . Your mother raised you right yet you go around making fun. I looked at the blogs yesterday, I read the blogs all the time.This engendered an inexplicable laughing jag in Mika.
MSNBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I can't.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, you should. They kind of went after you yesterday.Story Continues Below Ad ↓
BRZEZINSKI: What did I do?
SCARBOROUGH: . . . I'm telling you, the bloggers, they're enraged, because you mocked Rosie O'Donnell, and said Rosie couldn't host the show because Rosie would look like all the people running down the aisle when Rosie yelled "come on down!"
SCARBOROUGH: You're laughing. You're laughing now. And they called you a snob.More laughter from Mika.
BRZEZINSKI: I'm a snob?
SCARBOROUGH: They called you a snob.
BRZEZINSKI: I'm sorry. I guess that was inappropriate. I'm sorry.
SCARBOROUGH: You don't believe that, any more than I believe my apology to Amy Robach.Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net
BRZEZINSKI: Come on, it was a little funny.
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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Mark,Considering the Rosie ha
June 19, 2007 - 06:31 ET by LeonMark,
Considering the Rosie hatred that's spit out on this blog daily, I find it strange that you're now offended by what Mika had to say. Have you read the comments about Rosie on this blog?
Why the defense now?
Snob
June 19, 2007 - 06:34 ET by allanfMika can be as snobby as she wants. In fact, I find her distaste for Rosie O'Donnell endearing. You see perhaps I'm a bit snooty too. I have real concenrs about Mika's lineage.
I agree allan.Rosie is a jerk
June 19, 2007 - 06:37 ET by LeonI agree allan.
Rosie is a jerk on the regular on national tv. If you're going to say hurtful outrageous and offensive things, be ready to get some heat back. That's the price you pay for being loud and obnoxious.
He's said it's not bias but
June 19, 2007 - 06:37 ET by sarcasmoHe's said it's not bias but elitism, but I think this one's not worth all that much NB time, too. I mean, look at the new doggie-toy we just found...
JMR
True about the elitism, but a
June 19, 2007 - 06:38 ET by LeonTrue about the elitism, but any Rosie defense juse seems wildly out of place on this blog.
sarc, I revised my opinion.
June 19, 2007 - 06:42 ET by Leonsarc, I revised my opinion. I don't see any elitism from Mika
Wrong party, eh? JMR
June 19, 2007 - 07:18 ET by sarcasmoWrong party, eh?
JMR
My beef with Rosie is not a
June 19, 2007 - 06:38 ET by Mark FinkelsteinMy beef with Rosie is not about her looks but her views, such as her 9-11 conspiracy lunacy or her suggestion that American troops are the real terrorists in Iraq. I think it's noteworthy that an MSMer like Mika would engage in such elitist "lookism."
Now maybe I'm just missing so
June 19, 2007 - 06:42 ET by LeonNow maybe I'm just missing something but it doesn't seem all that elitist to me. In fact, your reaction to her comment seems to what's elitist. Through you're reaction you've inherently assumed that people that appear on the price is right are a lower class of society and then, you interpreted Mika's comments within this context.
You assumed Mika was implying Rosie was low class because you yourself view people on the Price is Right as low class.
That's how I read it at least.
Either way you look at it, Le
June 19, 2007 - 07:09 ET by GalvanicEither way you look at it, Leon, Brzezinski's 'joke' was elitist, and the fact that she doesn't understand that, only confirms its nature.
YOU can't make fun of the w
June 19, 2007 - 08:54 ET by balboaYOU can't make fun of the way Rosie looks. Only the conservatives on this board can. Make sense?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think
June 19, 2007 - 11:27 ET by TeamcheeserMaybe I'm wrong, but I think the elitism stems from the comparison by Mika of Rosie to those folks running down the aisle. She makes it sound like the contestants on the show are pathetic or something.
It has nothing to do with Rosie's views, which are justifiably attacked on this here site.
Mika
June 19, 2007 - 10:30 ET by CellaEqually offensive to me was Mika's giggling and laughing when Joe mentioned Brit Hume this morning. Brit Hume, one of the best journalists of our time, was ridiculed and snickered at (pardon my syntax) by this nobody.
MSNBC needs to get rid of this news reader-without-a-clue. She is so puffed up and self-aggrandizing that I can't stay but a few minutes on that show.
According to the number of viewers, I am happy to note that Morning Joe is on life support.