Joe Scar hiding this morning? Mika voices doubt on Christie...

[CTyankee]

Mika was hosting by herself on MJ today. I thought immediately that Joe is hiding out desperately trying to put together a coherent defense of Christie after the revelations over the weekend with the newly released papers in Bridgegate. Mika is now less convinced of Christie's total ignorance of what was going on. In fact, no one on the panel was NOT skeptical of Christie's claim that he didn't know what was going on. And they all slammed the repukes who were saying Obama didn't hold a press conference and answer questions like CC did (they played the clip of that little shit Priebus on the Sunday shows).

I don't think Joe is going to be able to weasel out of his earlier defense of Christie. And he'd better knock off his "Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi!" tirade. It's not flying now...

And who didn't love the segment with Lawrence O'Donnell? Refreshing to see/hear him this a.m.

A good start to the day, IMO. ymmv.

[Mike Nelson]

1. Sounds like the Morning Joe team...

...has heard the orchestra warming up... Mika has done an about-face.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Mika's jumped from denial to bargaining.

[MoonRiver]

12. But is she at the "sad" stage yet?

[PearliePoo2]

2. BINGO!

As soon as I heard that Lawrence was going to be on, I KNEW little "Scar" would be absent.
There is NO love between those two. Scar's always the interrupting, belligerent asshole and Lawrence is always ever so cool.
Besides, Mika improves 100% when "BIG MOUTH" is gone and she actually runs a damn fine show.

[CTyankee]

3. I ownder if Joe will be on tomorrow. And if so, what he will say...

It'll probably be "let's wait and see how he handles this going forward." Or something equally weaselly.

[SoCalDem]

24. She has been taking Fridays off..and he misses Mondays sometimes

[gordianot]

4. I have not watched Morning Joe in years.

Joe does seem able to smell blood in the water at which time he does a reverse shark and swims away. It is a talent that at various time has helped him avoid dead interns, lost elections and unemployment. The only value he has is as a Canary in the mine. All of the brave souls who watch Joe's drivel, or Fox News, and the likes of Limbaugh to report the State of delusion are to be commended.

[CTyankee]

5. You can't compare Morning Joe with Fox or Limbaugh.

Yes, Joe is terrible and Mika is awful when she equivocates. But on days like today she "manned up" the way Joe could never do and voiced her doubts. She and the other regulars skewered Christie AND his apologists...playing that clip of Priebus and howling...stuff like that wouldn't happen on Fox or with Limbaugh...

[gordianot]

6. Joe's problem he does not work for the official propaganda arm of the Republican Party.

He likes to eat, I could see him going a different direction on another network or God forbid he is independent and has to get a real job in a market you have to be insane to survive.

[CTyankee]

10. But sometimes I think he gets the party line the night before each show and has

his statement all prepared accordingly. He rarely steps outside the lines of what the GOP is officially saying. HOwever, I think he might have gotten into a row with the the MSNBC head over this thing and he's hiding out to let the scandal simmer down. Trouble is, that isn't happening. If anything, everybody is eagerly awaiting the drop of the next shoe...

[monmouth3]

13. I think Joe may have visited his children this weekend in Florida and has today off..n/t

[CTyankee]

14. Ah, yes, good time to "spend more time with his family."

Perfect.

[Ninga]

11. I've read a lot of posts here about Scar - yours is the most spot on and best I've EVER read.

[CTyankee]

15. Yep, beady eyed Joe is always looking out for his backside...

but he's in a pretty bad situation now...I wonder what he'll pull next....

[Paladin]

18. Nicely put. I walked away from the show some time ago. (nt)

[Walk away]

21. I tune in whenever some repuke does something really...

stupid. It's the same with Fox. They have a similar audience.

[gordianot]

22. For that Joe is a good source, you do not have to wade through Fox drivel if they ever address it.

DU spares me ever having to watch Joe it is posted here.

On election night 2012 I would rate Fox as some of the best entertainment ever when Rove had his now famous meltdown and visited Fox election statisticians in the back room.

Any time you want to know what Republicans are thinking (or more often not thinking) go to Fox. CNN has value to just watch poor journalism and deluded apologist.

[Walk away]

23. I too turned to Fox right before they called the election in 2012...

and was lucky enough to catch the entire Rove lunacy live. I was jumping up and down screaming!

[Kingofalldems]

8. Meanwhile over at Fox, Steve Doocy makes faces

and proclaims: It's just a bridge! Benghazi!

[malaise]

9. Benghazi, IRS and Obamacare flopped big time

Joe Scum is meeting with the gang to come up with new talking points for tomorrow. Today even Mika is not so sure about her 'friend'.

And now the Feds are investigating the Sandy money ad - Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! This is one 'huge' investigation.

[CTyankee]

16. assuredly so. I hope Mika is having a hissy right now with him...

[monmouth3]

17. I have friends in the Manasquan, Sea Girt area who were hard hit. Thankfully they were able to fix

things on a temporary basis until the insurance money and any aid was received. It was a very long time coming and at one time they heard that Mrs. Christie was "handing out the money." Doesn't sound too feasible to me but you never know. Nothing shocks me anymore. I was up there in the summer of 2013 and almost all of the homes had one of those yellow Caterpillar vehicles in their yard. Much work still to be done...

[malaise]

19. I don't doubt that he was sharing out the money

It's always about him.

[monmouth3]

20. I had a flashback of Boehner doling out checks on the Senate floor...Good times, eh?..n/t