Is the Morning Joe crew Republican?

[Honeycombe8]

This morning, the regulars were there in round table, discussing the debate. (Biden was so rude, Ryan was great, but Biden seemed to help from Obama's last week performance, etc.).

Now, I could swear most of them are Republican. They're not tea partiers or extreme right. But they're on the right, are not for Obama, and they gear the converstation toward the right. They were: Joe, Halperin, Willie Geist, that skinny Republican guy who is married to some dark haired broadcaster I think from CNN or used to be on CNN (he was Barnacle's replacement), Mika (the only Dem, I think, who gave her opinion....once, and then politely shut up, since she is a second banana and low on the totem pole), Willie Geist.

There were guests in spots who were both Republican and Democrat (Dean, Cantor, some Repubs I don't know, Gillespie).

But the regulars (they're on the show for the whole show, there almost every day) are Republican, aren't they? I think Barnacle might be Democratic, although he doesn't sound like one sometimes.

Is Halperin Republican? I think so, but couldn't find evidence of it. The skinny guy is a Republican advisor or something, so his political affiliation is a given.

I was telling this to a friend, and she said no, that the M Joe crew are a balanced group. Dems are on. I was explaining that Mika is a CO-HOST who is a second banana, who doesn't express her opinions strongly or often. But the regulars, the ones who sit there for the whole show, are mainly Republicans. Dems are guests, but not regulars. Except maybe Barnacle. ????

[faith woos science]

1. Is the sky blue?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Is the bear Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?

[TardisBlue]

3. Is a pig's butt pork?

[porphyrian]

4. Only if there isn't a Douche Party. n/t

[MagdaL]

5. Do ya think?

Nobody argues with Joe's false equivalency that Birthers are the same as liberals who know that the CIA under Poppy Bush sold cocaine in L.A..

[Tutonic]

6. Does black not

crack?

[Robyn66]

7. Please refer to Mika by her true title

Hooters waitress

[fearnobush]

9. In her defense, she did agree that Biden blew his doors off. She said it more than once.

And yes, she's very hot and very smart.

[Robyn66]

10. She is an embarrassment to women in the journalism field

once in a great while she makes a point but more often than not she sits there making cow eyes and Joe Scum tells her to shut up.

[HappyMe]

16. She's an embarrassment to ANY professional woman.

Maybe even women in general.

[tavernier]

23. If laughter is the best medicine,

you are responsible for my good health today. I truly did laugh out loud... loudly. Thanks!!

I think Mika's heart is in the right place, but lately I fear that the thick mop of hair on her head is the only thing of any substance in that general area. Sad, because with her pedigree, I truly thought that she might bring some intelligence and spark to the program. But as we all know, it is now called the Morning Joe and Shut Up Mika Show.

[modem77]

8. They might as well be. It's why it's called the Morning Joke.

[arcane1]

11. Joe is Starbuckian

[upi402]

19. Product placement... sooo "newsy"!

[AlinPA]

12. It's a garbage program with republican hosts. I can't watch that crap.

[femmocrat]

13. If you have Current, try the Bill Press show instead.

Much better show. I keep hoping MSNBC will cancel Joe, but I guess there are viewers with a stronger stomach who stand to watch him.

I'm so grateful for Bill Press and Stephanie Miller in the a.m. I can't even stand C-span's a.m. show anymore.

[Honeycombe8]

14. I get the station. Don't like the show much. Kinda boring. I'll flip...CNN, MSNBC, CNBC...

Mad Money comes on in the a.m. on cnbc.

[UTUSN]

15. Even amiable GEIST has wingnut roots, worked for F***er CARLSON's MSNBC circus n/t

[fadedrose]

25. So did Rachel

Carlson's show introduced Rachel and Geist to me, at least...

[UTUSN]

27. I did not know that. I thought Keith had discovered her. Thank goodness she's that strong. n/t

[goclark]

17. Is fat meat greasy?

All of them are tools... InternJOE- MEEKa-
ChuckieTodd...ALL of them.

[Honeycombe8]

30. I think Chuck Todd is a Democrat. At least his wife is, and no Repub connection can be

found. A friend told me that. I tried to disprove that and could not. He IS a numbers guy, a reporter of sorts, and is pretty fair, so it's possible he's a Dem.

[upi402]

18. Rain is wet

This just in!

[Bluenorthwest]

20. The show's host was a Republican Congressman, what does that tell you?

It told me enough from the start that I have never seen a moment of that show, why would I? It is a right wing chat show, that's what it is. It is also why I don't buy any Starbuck's products.

[Iris]

22. Starbucks?

[Iris]

24. Oh! They drink Starbucks coffee on the show?

[PatSeg]

21. When Joe is there,

pretty much everyone is republican, but when he's not there, they are free to express their own opinions which will vary. Scarborough is a controlling bully and does not tolerate anyone who disagrees with him. He sets the tone and the rest go along if they want to appear on his show again.

Morning Joe is a very different program when the "Joe" takes the day off. The conversation is civil and no one rants and yells for most of a segment.

[Honeycombe8]

31. I've noticed that. When Joe gets back, he'll sometimes reference the "liberal feast" that

was going on while he was gone.

[Ian David]

26. Barnacle is a right-wing douchebag.

I once overheard Barnacle badmouthing Keith Olbermann to some friends in a restaurant, too. So, he's a full-time douchebag, even when he's out having lunch.

[Honeycombe8]

32. I think Barnacle is one of those nor'easterner Democrats, the kind who vote Republican

sometimes. He's a Dem, though. He's still not pro-Obama.

[jehop61]

28. Let's help her out here

Sounds like this poster is asking a genuine question and is getting nothing but derision. Yes, Honeycomb8, Joe was a republican congressman from Florida. Mark Halprin was a speech writer for Bush 43, Dan Senor worked for Bush 43 and now is an adviser to Romney. Barnacle was supposed to add the "regular guy's approach" to the show, but he was a newspaper man who was charged with plagerism and fired. His wife works for Goldman Sachs I believe or Chase. Guess where he's coming from?

Bottom line, they are all extremely well-paid commentators who are in the 1%. I suggest you watch Current TV or listen to Progressive Radio in your area. I stopped watching the Joe Show several years when my blood pressure went up with every viewing.

[Honeycombe8]

33. Thank you. Actually, I flip around in the a.m. I was looking for confirmation for my friend...

who is a Democrat but oddly thinks the M Joe show is "well balanced"??????

People are so stoooopid! They just believe what they see on TV. I see a group of right wing men sitting around a table talking about Obama...and I KNOW it's a slanted conversation and that a balanced position is not being presented, but it doesn't seem to occur to some people to NOTICE even that the people are right wing. I mean, it doesn't even cross their minds to consider it. I notice...for one thing...they'll show a poll. Only one. And it'll be the one, of course, that shows Obama in the worst light. I KNOW there are other polls, and that's not a true picture they're painting.

Gets me irritated that people, even progressives, are so easily duped.

[proud2BlibKansan]

29. Is the pope Catholic?