Morning Blow: How Joe and Mika Became Trump's Lapdogs

[MrWendel]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/morning-blow-how-joe-and-mika-became-trumps-lapdogs-20160223

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski should be herded into a rocket and shot into space for their brown-nosing of Trump

BY MATT TAIBBI


"You have me almost as a legendary figure, I like that," Donald Trump recently told Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski

All-time great comedian Harry Shearer, the man who brought us voices from The Simpsons and cucumber-hoarding bass player Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap, has broken an embarrassing story about us journalists.

In his Le Show podcast, he released audio of off-camera dialogue between Donald Trump and ostensible news figures Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of the MSNBC program Morning Joe. The tape covers breaks in a town hall segment the trio filmed in South Carolina last week.

The embarrassing part starts when Brzezinski compliments Trump on his campaign stagecraft. She comments that it was a "wow" moment when Trump invited onstage two meatheads who tossed a protester from one of his South Carolina events.

A side note: The vigorous physical expulsion of loser-protesters has become a predictable scene at Trump events. Every time I've seen it in person, it's freaked me out — it's like a window into some future WWE-style dissident-beheading ritual — but Mika apparently thought the video of the South Carolina incident was inspiring.

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[Zambero]

1. Morning tools. WOW!?!!

Being a protester at a Trump event these days is a (bold and courageous) form of political mosh pit diving. And the angry snarling dogs dispatching the victim-to-be at the pleasure of Dear Leader are only too happy to oblige.

[Hortensis]

2. Well, I need clarification: Are they Trump or Koch brown-nosers?

According to one of those present at the Kochtopus's last meeting, destroyer Charles Koch really, really dislikes Trump. Trump, of course, is happy to insult in turn.

There is talk that Koch and his fellow anti-government zealots are trying to figure out how they could control him. Are Joe and Mika...emissaries keeping the door open or just typical TV sell-outs chasing ratings?

[dmosh42]

3. All of Msnbc seems under control of Trump!