Arrested WaPo Reporter to Scarborough: Put Down Your Starbucks and Come to Ferguson

[kpete]

Joe Scarborough- Still an Asshole
Posted by John Cole +0 at 9:13 am
Aug
14
2014

Wesley Lowery is quickly becoming my favorite reporter. Here he is responding to Joe Scarborouogh, who earlier chided Lowery for not being more compliant with the cops as they illegally detained him for sitting in a McDonalds:

I would invite Joe Scarborough to come down to Ferguson and get out of 30 Rock where he’s sitting sipping his Starbucks, smugly. I would invite him to come down and talk to the residents of Ferguson where I’ve been since Monday afternoon having tear gas and rubber bullets shot at me, having mothers and daughters crying, a 19-year-old boy crying — he had to run and pull his 21-year-old sister out from a cloud of tear gas, thinking she was going to die. I invite Joe Scarborough down here to do some reporting on the ground. Then maybe we can have an educated conversation about what’s happening here.

[...] Let me be clear about this: I have little patience for talking heads. This is too important. This is a community, a community in the United States of America, where are things on fire. This community is on edge. There’s so much happening here, and instead of putting more reporters on the ground we have people like Joe Scarborough running their mouth and have no idea what they’re talking about.

That will leave a mark.


VIDEO & MORE:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/arrested-wapo-reporter-to-scarborough-put-down-your-starbucks-and-come-to-ferguson/http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/08/14/joe-scarborough-still-an-asshole/



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JoeScar: Reporters Detained In Ferguson Just ‘Want To Get On TV’

“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough said Thursday that the two reporters who said they were arrested in a McDonald’s near the site of heated protests in Ferguson, Mo. should have listened to police and just “want to get on TV.”

VIDEO & MORE:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joe-scarborough-reporters-arrested-ferguson

[spanone]

1. k&r...

[rurallib]

2. sadly, I doubt it will leave a mark

I doubt Scarborough cares one whit

[billhicks76]

42. Joe Sucks

Can him.

[Cha]

60. That's a coincidence.. I was just going to write.. "I hope that leaves a mark"! Maybe just

maybe it could get LEGS! 'Cause it's So True!

To Wesley Lowery!

NABJ Awards The Washington Post's Wesley Lowery 2014 Emerging Journalist of the Year

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

http://www.nabj.org/news/174063/NABJ-Awards-The-Washington-Posts-Wesley-Lowery-2014-Emerging-Journalist-of-the-Year-.htm

Posted by: Aprill Turner

[longship]

3. Says the guy whose job is to be on TV. (Drops mike) nt

[navarth]

16. boom! nt

[deutsey]

4. K&R

[mikeysnot]

5. Wesley Lowery

is confusing joe scar for someone with intelligence...

[ReRe]

7. Or someone with a conscience. n/t

[BuelahWitch]

9. Or someone with courage. n/t

[cui bono]

41. Or someone with integrity. n/t

[LibGranny]

6. Dead-Intern Scabro is a chickenshit - always has been, always will be!

[marew]

10. +1 n/t

[nikto]

62. Did Joe Scarborough murder Lori Klausutis?

This was the question the US Press never asked (even during the Gary Condit fiasco).

[malaise]

8. But but but

Joe and Mica were too busy throwing buckets of water at one another on behalf of Bobby Jindal. Now that was a puke fest this morning.

By the way Jeffrey Sachs was excellent this morning on the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the current mess.

[LibGranny]

12. Scabro and Mike-a should have thrown buckets of puke at each other! That would have been

appropriate!

[malaise]

35. +1,000

[catbyte]

27. At least it was probably for a good cause. It's an ALS research fundraiser. My dad died of it & it

is the most horrible disease I've ever seen.

[Voice for Peace]

11. link needs fixing

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Does Scarborough have any war zone reporting experience?

[cui bono]

43. He may have reported on the War on Christmas.

[Baitball Blogger]

48. DUzy.

[sufrommich]

14. Joe Scarborough is a smug,entitled frat boy.

Why he's on TV is a mystery to me. He's a moron.

[Cosmocat]

23. Because he is a smug, entitled frat boy

people getting what people want ...

[hopemountain]

51. because of his connections to other smug, entitled frat boys?

let my puke join your puke

[EEO]

15. Scar is an empty suit

[hifiguy]

46. No, he's a suit full of bullshit.

[gademocrat7]

17. K&R

[vlyons]

18. I had to turn him off about 5 min into the program

His comments about the reporters were completely ignorant. I rarely watch Morning Joe anymore. He's such a blow hard, and Mika just continues to humor him. Shame on her. She's a better person than that. Can't she find a better gig? His show really went way downhill (if such a thing is possible) when he started booking Nicole Wallace nearly every day.

"A biased mind cannot grasp reality."

- The 14th Dalai Lama

[Cosmocat]

24. I stopped watching earlier in the year

I seriously tired of having my day's karma thrown off by how raging mad I would get watching this little group of snarky Scarborough anus kissing sycophants smugly advance bullshit beltway crap as if it were reality ...

[riqster]

19. Mister "I did not have murder with that woman" Joe should be in prison, not on TV.

[NastyRiffraff]

20. Great takedown

The equivalent of smacking his face with a glove. I doubt it will penetrate Joe's thick, smug skull though.

[kracer20]

21. OP - Link is bad

Looks like there are two jumbled together...

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/arrested-wapo-reporter-to-scarborough-put-down-your-starbucks-and-come-to-ferguson/
and

[muntrv]

22. Hey Joe! Tell that to Cliven Bundy and the Bundy ranch!

[oldandhappy]

25. Glad I saw this. thank you lots for the post, one of my few smiles this morning!

[LloydS of New London]

26. BIG kick

[hedgehog]

28. !

[OldRedneck]

29. Scarborough hopes no one remembers Lori Klausutis

Lori Klausutis: young female intern found dead in Scarborough's district office; medical examiner who claimed it was accidental death had been fired from previous ME jobs; Morning Joe did not run for re-election to spend more time with his family.

Joe hopes not one opens this skeleton closet.

http://patdollard.com/2013/01/did-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-murder-young-intern-he-was-having-an-extramarital-affair-with/

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html

http://newsninja2012.com/remember-joe-scarboroughs-intern-lori-klausutis-found-dead-in-his-office-while-he-was-a-senator-now-a-cold-case/

[Gothmog]

30. Morning Joe is an idiot

These comments will not sink in with this fool

[Octafish]

31. Hey, Joe! Still want us to forget Lori Klausutis?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2823029

[George II]

32. But he wasn't arrested.

[Blue Idaho]

33. Scarborough is a celebrity... Nothing more, nothing less.

He should never be confused with journalists or journalism. He wouldn't recognize good journalism if it bit him on the ass.

[Mike Daniels]

44. I've seen Joe outside of the studio twice for actual news stories during this show's career....

the aftermath of the tornado that ripped through that one town a year or so back and the aftermath of Sandy.

In both cases the appearance was pointless outside of Joe and Mika trying to perform some publicity stunt given there was no shortage of professional NBC/MSNBC reporters on site covering all elements of those events.

[Blue Idaho]

50. "Publicity Stunt"

Kinda describes His entire career doesn't it?

[mfcorey1]

34. Stuff that in your BIG mouth, Joe!

[2banon]

36. First Link is Broken or something...."nothing found".. n/t

[blackspade]

37. Joe Scarborough is such a scumbag.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

38. Hey hey! Ho ho! Joe the Schmo has got to go!

[Ino]

39. If only Lori Klausutis...

had complied with Joe Scarborough's demands, perhaps she would still be alive.

Joe claiming he's a journalist and saying, when Mika laughs: "Mika, don't make me backhand you."
http://mediamatters.org/research/2008/01/30/scarborough-to-brzezinski-on-morning-joe-dont-m/142362

[tblue37]

40. This slap-down reminds me of the time Mika's daddy

smacked Joe down on his own show, telling him how ignorant he is about foreign policy.

[Rex]

45. Coward Joe? Not a chance...he fled Congress after 'accidently' finding his dead intern.

That man is a coward from the toes up.

[rhett o rick]

47. Joe is the epitomy of the smart-assed lacky for the Fat Cats. nm

[Tsiyu]

49. Just a thought: When you get away with murder

maybe you want others to get away with murder as well.

You don't feel so all alone. Get you a little club going.

I digress, yet:

Can't think of any other good reason why someone in the media would not want journalists to cover an important story.

[DirkGently]

52. Bam. n/t

[chknltl]

53. So am I supposed to now boycott Starbucks Coffee?

I haven't bought anything from them in a looooong time but...

[samsingh]

54. a true Journalist calls out a moronic coward like joescar - love it

[McCamy Taylor]

55. Joe is only on TV because of a dead woman.

[Uncle Joe]

56. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[kpete]

58. what a day?

stayed up too late last night
watching and listening to Ferguson info
- with a good friend...

tired...

peace,
kp

[Uncle Joe]

59. It's the same with me

and I have a busy day tomorrow, this has been a long week.

Peace to you, kpete.

UJ.

[JEB]

57. Joe needs a Starbucks enema,

he's so full of shit.

[47of74]

61. Joe's too chickenshit to do that.

He wouldn't want to leave his comfy studio.

[Cha]

63. Kick for Wesley Lowery..

[lordsummerisle]

64. I stopped watching Morning Joe

when I realized I wanted to keep my TV a bit longer. And don't get me started on that vapid bunch sitting around the table...

[Beartracks]

65. When will Ballcap Hannity go to Ferguson to tell the real story??

Oh, wait -- it's far too soon for Hannity to show up. The area is dangerous, ffs!!!11!!


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[mackerel]

66. It's good to see a real journalist defending journalism and these talking point chit chat guys

getting called out.