Joe Scarborough vs. MSNBC’s Primetime Left Wing…
TVNewser notes that Joe Scarborough took a big ol shot at Olbermann, Shuster, and Maddow (and Anderson Cooper at CNN) for all the teabaggery that’s been going on the past few days.
Update: Video (via Olbermann Watch)
Finally, someone has a moment of sanity about this issue and the guts to speak the truth on the air (I don’t count Red Eye’s criticism which was less about the issue of good taste and more about sticking it to the other guys). The teabaggery was in bad taste. Shuster started it and others followed suit. Nobody at Standards and Practices at NBC seemed to care. Or if they did care, they turned a blind eye. This isn’t the Daily Show or the Colbert Report. It’s a news network. Show a little class. And Anderson Cooper? Bad move dude. You’re usually smarter than to get caught up in something like that.
April 16, 2009 at 10:27 am
The whole thing was unbelievably juvenile. Anderson Cooper, too? Wow, he REALLY should have stayed away from it.
April 16, 2009 at 10:35 am
Sorry, I missed it. I like MSNBC in the morning & the hotel I’m staying at doesn’t carry it.
Sometimes it takes a grown-up like Joe to put everyone else in their place.
I wonder if Joe will make KO’s “Worst Person” list tonight?
April 16, 2009 at 10:38 am
KO should put himself, Shuster and Rachel on it. They had a perfect opportunity to skewer FNC’s “fair & balanced” tag and blew it. Idiots.
April 16, 2009 at 11:25 am
On the bright side, no one watches those networks so it’s kind of a non story. It would be a problem if anyone other than ICN or Newbusters watched. Hell, I’m not even sure where MSNBC is on my Verizon Fios box.
It reminds me of a Family Guy episode when the news casters thought their signal was out everywhere and the one broadcaster Diane Simmons said – I just plain don’t like black people. Funny thing was, they were still on the air in a few areas. Hilarity ensues.
Maybe Cooper just figured his numbers were so low that it didn’t matter what he says anymore.
April 16, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Good for Joe. He has one of the few shows on that network that I’ll watch. On the topic of Family Guy, I’d personally love to see them parody Olbermann. I hope Seth Mcfarlane is listening.
April 16, 2009 at 1:12 pm
CRP, KO has been on Family Guy several times. Him and Mcfarlane are good friends.
April 16, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I caught that this morning, and Joe was right on the mark. I expected as much from Olbermann and Schuster, but I didn’t think Maddow would carry that on for days with her friend from Air America Ana Marie Cox. Of the three, Maddow is the one who can hold her own in a debate and not have to turn to grade school humor.
I don’t blame Scarborough for distancing himself from their antics. It’s one thing to have an ideological difference – it’s another thing to share a platform with a group that embarrassed the network.
April 16, 2009 at 3:44 pm
What Joe said was correct, but he has no room to talk!! He and Willie Geist tell more ineuendous jokes then KO, Maddow and AC360 combined.
April 16, 2009 at 4:17 pm
With their efforts to beat FOX in every other demo faililng miserably, MSNBC now goes for the 12-14 year old middle school boy demo, who are the only ones who find humor in their douchebaggery.
April 17, 2009 at 6:41 am
Joe-
I only remember Olbermann doing the voice of an oil executive, when Lois was mayor of Quahog. Has he been in any other episodes?
April 17, 2009 at 7:24 am
CRP, I think I saw a clip showing him as himself. It could have been a Simpsons clip, though. I may have my Mcfarlane/Harry Shearer appearances on Countdown mixed up. I don’t actually watch either show.
April 17, 2009 at 12:39 pm
“joeremi Says:
April 16, 2009 at 1:12 pm
CRP, KO has been on Family Guy several times. Him and Mcfarlane are good friends.”
Damnit, and I liked that show, too.