Morning Joe Crew Literally Laughs at Reporter Because They Don’t Know Facts of Christie Story

[highplainsdem]

From Mediaite - video at the link:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/morning-joe-crew-literally-laughs-at-reporter-because-they-dont-know-facts-of-christie-story/

On Monday morning’s Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski hosted New York Times reporter Kate Zernike, who broke the news Friday that David Wildstein had accused Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ), through an attorney, of knowing about the Bridgegate lane closures as they were going on. Along with GOP strategist Nicolle Wallace, they conducted a ten minute debate on whether Christie had ever claimed not to have known about the lane closures as they happened, and even laughed at Zernike and co-host Thomas Roberts as they introduced the facts.

In an earlier segment, the crew had just finished discussing the Wildstein revelations, and a memo that the Christie administration had put out in response, attacking Wildstein’s credibility. Brzezinski then brought in Zernike, and asked if Wildstein’s accusation was “worth immunity.”

“Big headline is Christie lied during that marathon two-hour press conference, where he insisted over and over he didn’t know anything about the lane closings until they were over,” Zernike said. That verifiable fact was a hilarious mystery to Scarborough, Brzezinske, and Wallace, who conducted a ten minute debate on whether Chistie had ever actually claimed not to know the lanes were closed while they were closed, even laughing at and mocking Zernike when she patiently explained that Christie had, in fact, claimed not to have known about the closures as they occurred, and shouting down Thomas Roberts when he tried to introduce some basic facts about the story.

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For ten minutes, Zernike and Thomas Roberts patiently tried to explain that Christie had, indeed, claimed not to have known the lanes were closed until after they had already been reopened, only to be met with chuckling, mockery, and a chair dance from Wallace.

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[Berlum]

1. Repubbie Propaganda Pimps cannot stop the End Times (R)

Christie cheated, lied, grifted, lied, bullied, and lied some more.

He is going down. Soon. His days are numbered.

The godforsaken cabal of Republicon Propaganda Pimps, Inc. can giggle & smirk & try all they want to turn Shit into Silver with their sniggering. It will not avail them. This time.

The Aeternal Fires of Justice (aka Karma) are about to flambé Christie's lying Republicon ass.

[Glitterati]

6. Let's hope not too soon!

We really want this story to stay alive long enough to paint Republicans with that corruption taint.

Let it sit like this for months and months, every Friday a new and intriguing tidbit reminding the American people that Republicans like Christie are corrput.

All the way until election day 2014 if you ask me.

A new dribble every Friday afternoon will work perfectly.

[truebluegreen]

2. Idiots. But if they want to watch their "credibility" sink with Christie's

Please Proceed.

[Daemonaquila]

25. What other choice do they have?

When you have a party of psychopaths and morons who think they're invincible, they ALL have a skeleton or 7 in their closets. That's why Reagan said "Thou Shalt Never Speak Ill Of Another Republican." You can't take the chance that one of your "friends" will air your dirty laundry, too.

[olegramps]

27. They have no credibility to lose.

[truebluegreen]

30. That's why I put "credibility" in quotes.

Maybe MSNBC--not to mention the Villagers--will finally learn how little they actually have.

[Glitterati]

3. The Morning Joe crew tried desperately to kill the Christie story today

Every sentence started by Mika and Joe started with "IF it is proven.......which it hasn't been........"

But, you just had to watch carefully...their hearts just weren't in it. Both of them KNOW Christie is done. At this point, they are both just waiting for the news story that allows them to say "Well, I always said IF, and there it is...."

[librechik]

4. Oh that uber liberal MSNBC!

gack

[Botany]

5. My life has been better ever since I stopped watching Joe and company

I stopped watching when he sat back in smiled after asking, "Well, is this Obama's
Katrina?" about the BP oil spill in the gulf. That spill never would have happened if
we didn't have Florida 2000 and the bush v Gore mess because Cheney stopped making
oil companies having to have an emergency kill switches for deep water oil rigs.

Joe worked to make the loser of the 2000 election in Florida declared the winner
and that BP oil leak is a direct result of bush v Gore.

[Glitterati]

7. I don't normally watch either, but this morning I had to

I wanted to watch Mika squirm about her best bud Chris Christie. And squirm she did.

[Mike Daniels]

8. Time to get rid of Joe and Mika and replace them with real hosts...

at least until the Christie story is resolved.

Joe and Mika though are so wrapped up in their personal friendship with Christie that any story that continues to show Christie in a bad light is met with instant derision and skepticism. I generally like Wallace's presence on the panel but her continued defense of Christie now appears to nothing more than an effort to maintain his viability as a candidate for the GOP in 2016. If a Democratic governor was in the same situation there's no doubt she'd be calling for him/her to resign by this point.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the format of Morning Joe as demonstrated with how well the show works when both Joe and Mika are on vacation. That said, what used to be a pretty varied panel just a few years ago has now been reduced to the same 4 to 5 faces over the past year or so (I guess past regular panel participants got tired of Joe's tantrums and interruptions).

[cui bono]

44. Does Thomas Roberts have his own show?

He's pretty good and makes sure the facts are spoken and lies are called out from what I've seen.

[lapfog_1]

9. They are trying to rewrite the Christie news conference

where he said, over and over, that he didn't know about the lane closures until after the fact (by a couple of weeks).

"There were news helicopters... everyone knew... of course Christie knew about it, what he was really saying is that he didn't ORDER the lane closures and didn't know that someone on his staff DID order it, how can you be so dense as to not know this, it's obvious that is what he meant!"

Except, of course, Christie was at the news conference for 2 hours, had plenty of time and questions to answer about the lane closure on the bridge, and kept repeating he didn't know about it.

Maybe he did hear about it on the news...

Then why didn't he ask about it on the first day? Why isn't there an email he could release today from his office asking the Port Authority WTF?

You can't have it both ways. If he says he didn't know about, and Wildstein has evidence that he did, then he lied repeatedly at his news conference... if he DID know about it, but didn't order it or know why it was happening, why didn't he ask about it (after all, it was a "big news story with helicopters and stuff&quot at the time it was happening.

And, more important, who came up with the cover up story about a "traffic study" and why did Christie sign off on that?

[Oilwellian]

10. I captured a few of those "I don't know" comments

in a video inspired by this poster that EarlG did:

[The Wizard]

26. The coverup phrase duribg Watergate was

"I can't recall."

[whathehell]

46. Another had Nixon blaming the Watergate scandal

on "overzealous aides".

[Dawson Leery]

28. Dead Intern is trying to revive the only highly competitive candidate they have.

[sendero]

29. I saw a replay..

... of this "where he said, over and over, that he didn't know about the lane closures until after the fact (by a couple of weeks)." just this morning. Christie could not have been more clear, he claimed to not know UNTIL IT WAS OVER.


Why did he spin it that way? Because in addition to trying to dodge responsibility for ordering the closure to begin with, he also cannot defend the idea that he knew they were closed AT ALL.

I believe Wildstein and I hope he cuts a deal.

[Enthusiast]

11. Scarborough murdered his intern.

[libodem]

12. Thank you

[polichick]

15. Where does her family stand on that weird situation?

[Enthusiast]

34. I have never heard.

Maybe they received "hush money".

[zbdent]

13. Christie could really learn from Joe Scum ...

I mean, how would a Dem have fared had a dead intern been found in his office?

The coroner declared it a mere accident ...

[merrily]

16. The Chandra Levy matter more than answers your question.

[zbdent]

47. exactly ...

if they would have put as much effort into actually searching for her body as they did digging up HIS sordid shenanigans,

They might have found here less than 2 miles from where she was last seen. Remains found by a guy walking his dog in the park fairly near her apartment ... that they said they had searched before.

[arthritisR_US]

37. How did she die ? nt

[zbdent]

48. Wikipedia's coverage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Scarborough#Controversy

A link with more details: http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html

[merrily]

14. You are generous.

Morning Joe has been scamming for Christie's benefit for years.

[Fawke Em]

17. I don't care if Mika and Joe know or understand...

I only care if a Grand Jury, or some other august body that can hold Christie accountable, does.

[valerief]

18. How can you watch those RW morons whose only job is to rewrite history? nt

[Gothmog]

19. I have been ignoring Morning Joe for some time

It is really hard to watch this show

[handmade34]

21. I don't normally watch

a few times of Joe Scarborough responding to a guest he doesn't agree with, by saying, "Why do you hate America?" if more than enough for me to never watch the show

[cash__whatiwant]

20. saw this and its sickening how much they're still kissing christie's ass

Guess journalism goes out the door when you're good friends with someone and have been lauding them as the gops only hope. That they still talk about him overcoming this and 2016 as if his governorship isn't in jeopardy is a joke.

[Mike Daniels]

23. "The GOP's only hope"

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I figure that has to be the reason why you see some higher-level GOP names starting to come out to defend Christie.

They know that Christie is the only current prospect who is remotely viable among independent/moderate voters so they are going to man the pumps for as long as it takes in order to keep Christie's chances afloat.

[nxylas]

22. I think the headline is somewhat misleading

(Mediaite's fault, not the OP's). The word-order makes it sound like it was the reporters who didn't know the facts of the case. It should have read something like "Morning Joe crew doesn't know facts of Christie story, laughs at reporters who do".

[VWolf]

24. Yep. I interpreted it incorrectly the first time as well. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

31. Setting Irony Alert for when they deny they did this.

[heaven05]

32. and a sizable

audience gets their information from these MSNBC clowns. I'm sick of the whole charade perpetrated and passing as news worthy on american television. This is getting more disgusting with each passing day. How can people be so stupid?

[marew]

36. Could not agree more!

How does anyone with a double digit IQ listen to them? Joe's ego is waaay over the line and if Mika had a different last name she would have trouble finding a job anywhere. They are both shallow as a kiddie pool- neither has a clue!

[AAO]

33. No need to look up "dumbfucks" in the dictionary any longer.

[Rex]

35. What does one expect from RWing bots? They get paid to lie and laugh

and mock the TRUTH.

[One of the 99]

38. When has the facts ever mattered to Joe and Mika? nt

[lindysalsagal]

39. Ahhhhh...The librul media bias, ruining uhmurrikuh agin.

Whining GOP babies.

[spanone]

40. this from the left-wing wacko m$nbc

[Cha]

41. Kick to read later.. thanks hpdem!

[Cha]

42. I guess

Christie's interview was too boring for mika and joe.

So Wallace, mika, and joe are covering Christie's ass.. good luck with that.

[cui bono]

43. Time for another MSNBC apology!

[Corruption Inc]

45. The people who watch repuke propaganda and believe it are criminals

They are self-deluded supporters of illegal propaganda on a widespread scale not seen since the former USSR. Fully supporting, believing and spreading lies, especially for money, is known as corruption.

Calling out these repeated frauds, propagandists and operatives is not enough, they need to be prosecuted/held responsible for their behavior or else they'll just keep getting paid to do it.