In the aftermath of the Clinton/Warren rally in Cincinnati, MSNBC correspondents hailed the “magic” of what was apparently more like a “rock concert” than a campaign event. On Tuesday, Morning Joe exhibited more of the same as they obsessed over Clinton and Warren’s “really good chemistry.” Yes, another MSNBC groupie took the compulsive idolization to another level, as host Joe Scarborough likened Warren to rock n’ roll legend Led Zeppelin:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: --but I'm talking, though, I’m talking though, not about her quality, I'm talking about filling the stage, performance. Why is she Led Zeppelin? There’s Led Zeppelin. You get them on the stage, they fill the stage.
NICOLLE WALLACE: Yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: What is it about Elizabeth Warren, and I was asking this yesterday, why does she fill the stage like Zeppelin?
As Scarborough alluded to, he was way too infatuated with the Democrat to actually talk about the quality of her candidacy. Nonetheless, the adoration continued:
SCARBOROUGH: …To me seeing her, though, on stage, owning a stage—
WALLACE: Mm-hmm.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Seeing the two of them own it together.
SCARBOROUGH: --the way that politicians, the way that politicians don’t own the stage…but very few do, she’s got something.
BRZEZINSKI: Great skills.
This is classic MSNBC, promoting the incessant idolization of liberal politicians while they avoid engaging in actual objective analysis. Warren may have “something” but she hasn’t been picked for vice president yet, and she most certainly hasn’t sold over two-hundred million albums worldwide.
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06-28-16 MSNBC Morning Joe
06:10:01 AM – 6:13:28 AMJOE SCARBOROUGH: She steps on that stage.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. I want to answer.
SCARBOROUGH: I'm not saying she's bigger than Hillary.
NICOLLE WALLACE: She's big.
SCARBOROUGH: But she's as big as anyone on the national stage when she gets behind that microphone. Why is that? Let's talk.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: So it's not surprising at all to me.
SCARBOROUGH: [Muffled sarcasm about talking about this around the room] Let's chat about this.
BRZEZINSKI: What's that?
SCARBOROUGH: Let's talk about this.
BRZEZINSKI: I'm trying.
SCARBOROUGH: Okay good.
[Laughs around the table]
BRZEZINSKI: I'm trying, I really am.
WALLACE: You've known her a long time.
BRZEZINSKI: I've known her a long time and if you look at her -- sort of her trajectory, she has been since she was at Harvard, obsessed with the concept of bankruptcy and what's going on with America.
NICOLLE WALLACE: From watching her parents, right?
BRZEZINSKI: From watching her parents.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: But, but—
BRZEZINSKI: Sitting in bankruptcy court when she was at Harvard writing a paper and watching families coming in and realizing they look like her, they look like you, they look like everybody else. That this was a problem. That America was getting screwed. She knew it decades ago.
SCARBOROUGH: Right.
BRZEZINSKI: She creates Consumer Protection Bureau. She gets run out by Republicans because the president is too weak to keep her in there. You know what she does? She runs for senate.
WALLACE: Mm-hmm.
BRZEZINSKI: She's not someone who’s going to run away.
SCARBOROUGH: Right, right right--
BRZEZINSKI: I’m not surprised by what I see.
WALLACE: The filling the stage thing is different.
SCARBOROUGH: --but I'm talking, though, I’m talking though, not about her quality, I'm talking about filling the stage, performance. Why is she Led Zeppelin? There’s Led Zeppelin. You get them on the stage, they fill the stage.
WALLACE: Yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: What is it about Elizabeth Warren, and I was asking this yesterday, why does she fill the stage like Zeppelin?
MARK HALPERIN: She's just like Palin. She’s an unapologetic populist who is unafraid of the establishment.
BRZEZINSKI: Like Bernie.
SCARBOROUGH: Unafraid.
WALLACE: Mm-hmm.
HALPERIN: And there's no doubt, and this is the comparison to Palin I think is constructive. There’s no doubt that being a woman and willing to stand up to the establishment, which is mostly men, is electrifying, it just is.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
WALLACE: Yeah.
JON MEACHAM: It's conviction versus calculation. Right?
WALLACE: Mm-hmm.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. Like Bernie Sanders.
MEACHAM: Yeah. And she’s, you know she has these convictions. She doesn't have to worry about how it plays in a purple state. She can help senator Clinton with the people who, the extraordinary number of people in the Democratic primary who weren't excited about her.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. Well Donald Trump, you know what, so something like that happened--
SCARBOROUGH: By the way, you have seen this all along. I guess that's why this question is so elementary to you.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: Because you've been saying she was going to be her vice president all along. And so maybe this is just obvious to you. To me seeing her, though, on stage, owning a stage—
WALLACE: Mm-hmm.
BRZEZINSKI: Seeing the two of them own it together.
SCARBOROUGH: --the way that politicians, the way that politicians don’t own the stage.
WALLACE: Mm-hmm.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. I know.
SCARBOROUGH: --but very few do, she's, she’s got something.
BRZEZINSKI: Great skills.
WALLACE: And they had more chemistry than I expected.
SCARBOROUGH: Really good chemistry.
WALLACE: I thought that to me was the revelation yesterday. People have talked about how they personally dislike each other. I don't know if that’s the case or not.
BRZEZINSKI: Nah-ah.
WALLACE: But I thought on stage they displayed--
SCARBOROUGH. Oh, it was great!
WALLACE: --a more than adequate amount of chemistry.
BRZEZINSKI: You know Hillary has this thing, she wants to win.
WALLACE: Yeah [Laughs]
BRZEZINSKI: You know? And so does Elizabeth Warren.
WALLACE: Politicians are allowed to—yeah.
BRZEZINSKI: So, I think they connect.
SCARBOROUGH: I will tell you too one final thing, I love Tim Kaine. And if I were Hillary Clinton I'd want Tim Kaine to be my vice president. I understand why Sherrod Brown would be popular for people in the party, but the more I saw Elizabeth Warren on the stage yesterday, the more I thought how dull any other pick but Elizabeth Warren would be. So I hope they are polling her and I hope she's coming out well in the polls. Because if not, she's going to make her VP pick look like a dud.
