Video- Pat Buchanan: April job numbers "unvarnished good news"

Hahahahahahaha.

Video- Hannity and Tyrrell go after Scarborough as a "phony conservative" and "the worst"

Sweet. I love a catfight. Via Media Matters.

Year to year MSNBC sees smallest decreases of any network in total viewers

Interesting. My guess would be that MSNBC has more loyal viewers.

MSNBC saw the smallest decreases of any network in total viewers. Year-to-year, MSNBC is down -6% in total viewers for both total day and primetime.

MSNBC was #3 in total day/demo viewers behind FNC and HLN. The channel was also #3 in total day/total viewers behind FNC and CNN. MSNBC topped CNN each hour between 6pm-12amET.

"Morning Joe" was the second most watched morning program in total viewers, but struggled in the demo averaging 115K, the fewest of the four.

(snip)

"The Ed Show" was one of the few cable news programs to grow in both total viewers (+25%) and demo viewers (+4%) year-to-year and was the number two program in its time slot. Also, the 5pmET "Hardball" topped "The Situation Room" for the first time in total viewers.

Both "Countdown" and "The Rachel Maddow Show" were down in the demo year-to-year, but Maddow's program did grow slightly (+2%) in total viewers. For the first time since 2000, MSNBC, which airs a replay of "Countdown," topped CNN at 10pmET in total viewers. MSNBC was also #2 in total viewers at 11pmET, which hasn't happened since Maddow's show premiered in 2008.

Though Olbermann's program saw year-to-year decreases (-13% total viewers/-30% demo), 8pmET "Countdown" moved back into the cable news top 10, finishing 10th among cable news programs in total viewers. "Maddow" was #11.

Scarborough: Arizona immigration law is "un-American"

Tom Tancredo AND Joe Scarborough? Wow.

Tuh-WEET! Scarborough wants Michael Steele out

By GottaLaff

Michael the Quitter? Why not? If it's good enough for HalfGov McBumpits, it's good enough for Steele, per Joe Scarborough:


For once I agree with MoJo. And so do other GOP leaders.

I'd rather he stick around. I'm betting I'm not alone.

Video- Scarborough: Threats against Dems are "bad," but "I never hear these stories when it's Republicans receiving the threats"

Alot more bullshit, just from this morning, here.

Video- Joe Scarborough: Poster Boy for Passive/Agressive Behavior

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Man, I feel bad for his wife. Today was extra frothy.

Monday Links

I was doing just fine, all happy and stuff until Scarborough went on one of his nonsense rants and upped my blood pressure. What a smarmy bastard.

New-found galaxy went through 'teenage growth spurt'

VA focuses on needs of more female vets

Science fiction in cake form

CNN: Obama hitting road this week to sell health benefits President Barack Obama plans to hit the road this week to start aggressively selling the benefits of the health care overhaul and give nervous Democratic lawmakers some political cover across the country, according to three Democratic officials familiar with the plans.

Farewell flambe: Dubai to hunt for booze in food

Web censorship expanding in some countries

'Man with the golden arm' saves 2million babies in half a century of donating rare type of blood

Washington Post: Democrats counter Republicans' pre-redistricting push Hoping to counter a series of Republican efforts aimed at winning governorships and state legislatures in advance of the decennial congressional redistricting process, the Democratic Governors Association is launching its own venture, led by veteran party strategist Harold Ickes.

VIDEOS: Rep. Anthony Weiner smacks down Peggy Noonan, GOP Rep. Garrett

By GottaLaff

Start watching at about 8:00:

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I lerves me some Weiner .... er, Anthony.

All Joe and Peggy could come back with is that he "raised his voice". That's it? They got nothin'.

Smackdown #2, this time of Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), courtesy of Good Day, New York:

Video- John Ziegler, Joe Scarborough on Palin's Tonight Show appearance

Even when he's with friendlies, he's a huge ass.

Video- Scarborough asks Rubio if he condemns Beck for calling Obama a racist, comparing him to dictators

So, you think he condemned Beck?

Video- Former Bush Speech Writer Says Obama is Inviting Another Terrorist Attack, Larry O'Donnell fights him on it

I want a dollar for every time they said Lawrence, double it if they sounded condescending. Wussies.

UPDATE- Here's the complete vid with the relatively staid bit after the commercial. Does it bother anyone else that Scarborough seems to mock O'Donnell and the idea that he's "off his meds" a bit too much?

Note- Title changed 'cause FDL came up with a better one.

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Video- Chris Wallace: 'Joe Scarborough Lives Out Where the Trolleys Don't Run At Night'

Hell, Joe ran out of colleagues on MSNBC to feud with so now he has to go off channel**. But Rachel got him first and best. Too funny.

**Holy crap, Dylan Ratigan is now going after Beck. They're going to stop reporting the news soon and just ding each other all day.

Cartoon of the Day

Good Ole Joe Scarborough this am told Mika that he wanted to suspend all discussion of global warming because of all the snow. I forget the exact words he used, but he basically implied that there is none because of the snow. The last line of this cartoon is dedicated to Joe. Click to enlarge, via.

VIDEO: MSNBC's Griffin Memo To Keith and MoJo: Stop Fighting

By GottaLaff



Tsk, tsk. Boys, boys... Infighting forbidden. Smile, play nice, and everything will be better in the morning.

Via Mediaite:

MSNBC President Phil Griffin sent a memo to staff reminding them “we do not publicly criticize our colleagues,” in the wake of Joe Scarborough tweeting that Keith Olbermann’s recent Scott Brown rant was “reckless” and “sad.” Huffington Post has the full memo. [...]

Here’s part of Griffin’s memo:

We have many strong personalities with differing, passionate opinions, but it is important to remember that we are all on the same team. I want to reiterate my long-standing policy: We do not publicly criticize our colleagues. This kind of behavior is unprofessional and will not be tolerated.

Let me be clear: I encourage you to keep doing what you do best. Give the viewers your perspective and a vigorous debate on the issues they care about. But do not turn substantive differences into personal ones.

It got personal when Scarborough tweeted his thoughts and called out Olbermann by name ...

There is more at Mediaite, including updates.

Videos- "Spirited" HCR Debate On Morning Joe 12/17/09: David Axelrod, Ed Schultz, Howard Dean

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Video- Debunking Scarbough's False Claim Re: Trials Of Foreign Terror Suspects

Wha? Scarborough got the facts wrong? Unbelievable!

Note To Lawrence O'Donnell

Dear Mr O'Donnell-

If one of these days you should decide to take Joe Scarborough by the scruff of the neck and face plant him into the sidewalk in front of 30 Rock, I'm pretty sure there are people out here in the blogotubes who would be more than happy to help out with bail money.

Just sayin',

Paddy

Video- Scarborough: "Fox news is no more biased in its own way than the rest of the networks are biased in their own way"

Yep Joe, it's the exact same thing.

Video- Scarborough: Limbaugh put "testicles in a blind trust" for Bush and "stopped being conservative"

I do so love it when the asswipes go after each other.