Thomas Pickering up NEXT on Morning Joe...

[CTyankee]

I imagine Joe will nag the hell out of poor Tom, trying to get SOMETHING, ANYTHING to shore up his attack on Hillary re Benghazi...

[Ninga]

1. *round one*. Pickering

[Ninga]

2. *round two* Pickering. He takes no crap from talking heads.

[CTyankee]

3. Joe wouldn't even talk to the guy...he was hiding behind Mika...

Halperin got nowhere and Heileman, who looked disgusted with the whole show this morning, was no help to Joe. Mika was just pathetic.

You hafta wonder what Joe was thinking would happen with a guy like Pickering. Mika was practically begging him to change one little thing in his previous investigation.

Mika's dad must be doing a real right about now...she's gonna hear from him after the show...

[pangaia]

5. Who is Mika's dad?

I don't watch TV...almost zero.

[CTyankee]

7. He is Zbigniew Brezhzinski, former foreign policy advisor to President Carter.

I'll bet he has a few choice words to say to the republicans pushing this benghazi meme...

[pangaia]

8. Whooooa Nellie !!!

Somehow I always enjoyed him.

[CTyankee]

11. He's withered Joe in the past. Once called him "stunningly superficial...I'm embarrassed

for you..." after Joe made one of his stupider statements...I sure as hell wouldn't mess with Mr. Zbig...

[Ninga]

6. Just read his Wiki, Pickering is no partisan hack, quite the opposite. *crickets* from the big

mouths on the panel was somewhat curious, did Ziggy twist arms at MSNBC to do the interview?

My guess is that Pickering was forced on Joe, and in turn, Joe was silent.

I smelled it. Yes Joe and company have their agendas...guess Pickering didn't fit into the narrative they want to spin.

[CTyankee]

9. whatta coward! I just emailed the MJ show and said Joe "hid behind Mika's skirts."

He was pretty interested in sliming Jay Carney and accusing him of lying. He was threatening Jay with follow up attacks after Jay leaves the White House job...really threatening to hold the grudge and see to it that Jay is punished somehow.

We'll see where that goes, Joe...

[malaise]

4. That was a KO

but there was no ref to stop the beat down.

[CTyankee]

10. Did you notice that Mika barely spoke this morning, except for this segment...

I wonder what was up with that?

[kentuck]

12. Also, he said he would go before the committee...

So long as it was televised. He knows Issa and the Repubs would like to have him if he would benefit their spin. If it was not televised, they could still spin it the way they wanted.

[CTyankee]

13. that means he doesn't trust Issa. Wow.

Joe is heading for the fringe, something he says he doesn't do. But I guess he just can't help himself...