Landsnark

Any discussion of his Twitter dust up with Sen. Cruz?

I wondered what they were going to say about the Ahmaud Arbery case and how much time they devoted to it. Did they go into it much or just some easy sanctimonious platitudes? Did Joe say anything about his Southern brethren?

You all are the best. Thanks for taking this morning's shrapnel for me.

I think the bigger takeaway is that a sitting President is watching morning chat shows while a pandemic ravages the planet. Mind boggling. Fucking terrifying.

I enjoy snarking on Mika, but she really looks lovely and happy in that picture. Is that picture current? Florida or CT? It looks like Connecticut to me. The flora and the sweaters suggest it's April in the north, not April in the humid climes of south Florida.

Aw shucks. I came here to make the same observation. She should have fun with her roots. It's like an advent calendar of sorts. A visual reminder of how things are not normal. Joe had on a former security official or diplomat who has a book coming out, and a film maker who produced a piece on the conditions in Italy. I watched Joe pontificate about China and Trump then the WHO for a good 4 minutes before he kicked it to the former diplomat, then Joe pontificated again for a while. I couldn't hang in there. I wonder if the journalist/film maker ever got her chance to be berated by Joe? Joe spoke for about 6 minutes, the former official roughly 25 seconds. I want to snark on Mika's roots and seemingly ever-growing bosoms. About how perfectly "Florida" the roots'n'boobs are together. But, as I think about it, why be derisive? I think I'd like to be a dominant blowhard still honeymooning, locked in a house with a Floridian woman with two tone hair, monstrous implants, who I used to cheat with, and who knows how to appeal to the boss in Louboutins and tiny pencil skirts. Also who drinks vodka like it's gatorade. I could have a lot of fun with that.

Is that the only face Babka ever makes? Sweet terrifying grimace. Sweet Senior Living Garanimals they're both wearing. Heard just before and after that picture: "You look stupid in those clothes, Mika" "This is 'Pinot Noir'? It's disgusting. I hate American wine. You know I do." "You're disgusting, Mika." "Where is your 'husband,' you harlot?" "Stop eating so much cake. Why do you eat so much cake? The cake you bring over is disgusting." "Why don't you come see me more? I hate you. So does the dog." "Why can't you be smart like your brothers? Why are you so stupid?" "Hand me some of those mashed potatoes you keep in that massive bra, cake face."

When the vodka is warm and served out of a gigantic ice cream containing bra, it's referred to as a "White Pole." (because she's Polish. ba dum dum)

I take severe offense to this oft-repeated theme. Yes, they are redundant, they're full of bullshit, and she eats cake by the fists-full. So much cake she hasn't had implants, she stores cake in her super-large falling-to-her-waist bras. What I take offense to is the notion that it's wine they drink. I'm 100% their lubricant of choice is vodka.

I'm convinced the purpose of that bit was to show Joe without socks and to show Mika's skirts and 5" Yves St. Laurents. It's odd that they stopped. I bet the reasons are entertaining. Before Cuomo came on, Joe was lecturing Willie for... 6 minutes? 8 minutes? He covered every topic. Willie's face was placid but I thought I saw his eyes screaming for help. Joe looks pretty good. Not swollen and ruddy. Mika's yoga sweater cape pajama thing is... odd. How often do you see a news anchor and say out loud, "What is (he/she) wearing?"

RE: Nicole, back in the day she was VERY full of herself, an ideologue, and thought of herself as a hardened PR flak owning the libtards. She sought out conflict and would toe the company line even when she knew she was wrong... being a flak for the "other team." She was a little rough around the edges, always looking for a fight. Smart, veteran with real game experience, but immature. And she was going to parlay her growing notoriety into media fame/fortune on The View. And the real world smooshed all that. She got fired quickly. Afterwards she took the time to reflect and prepare. You can tell she's grown up a ton. She's level headed, well-researched, measured, thoughtful, and gracious. She's aggressive when it's warranted. It seems minor, but she took the right steps to cultivate her look as a professional anchor. Her outfits, hair, and makeup are perfect. She looks professional. She looks like she has gravitas. It's a visual medium, men need it too. Cable knits, punchable faces, weird hair prevent men from being taken very seriously. Heidi P is going to be the next Nicole, I think. Stephanie could do whatever she'd like.

You can't just write that without including anecdotes!!!! 1 demerit.

They've always read articles from those pubs and others. it's possible they are being read with more recent frequency because of the niche expertise required to best understand the many aspects of the pandemic. Joe can wear a white coat and can riff in anger, but he's not an epidemiologist. The show anchors segments on articles such as the ones you describe. It's like the WaPo and NYT are co-producers.

I've not seen 1 person on any channel speak via a land line. I work from home and have a desk phone. Know who always has ideal audio on wacky conference calls? This guy.

Well, someone blew it out on Nicole's show yesterday afternoon. As someone was speaking, someone off camera had on a hot mic. Big flush.

Gwyneth believes it. Her stuff is expensive but effective, the health and beauty and fitness stuff anyhow. Gwyneth and Mika would've been in high school together. They're 4 years apart. Mika looks old enough to be Gwyneth's mom. Fwiw, a vagina scented candle as a way for a woman to symbolically (if vulgarly) embrace the center point of her womanhood, her femininity, is a hundred million times more legitimately empowering than Mika's KYV word salad horseshit.

I think she asked DeBlasio to tell us all how terrible and frightening this is and how much worse it will actually be in reality. Scare us, Mike! I need you to be hysterically over the top. It's not the time for hyperbole, you dunce. Did they show footage of those wildly moronic 20 somethings on spring break in Florida? Did they have anyone from Florida on the show to explain why the state is open? Did they talk about the Senators who expected the pandemic and traded stocks on that foreknowledge?

YES!

I watched this segment, and heard parts where they talked about Fox and the right wing propaganda chamber, and that shit is straight up terrifying.

Ask yourself, WWMD? And do the opposite.

May we, for a moment, imagine Mika's mother's incandescent rage and fury upon learning the news Mika had been boinking Joe for years and she's ditching her family for Joe Scarborough? I wonder if as a gift Babka has gotten Joe a hollowed out log yet in his likeness? I wonder if they put the log of the previous hubby in the outdoor fire pit?

She's addicted to drugs in order to deliver the news in the early AM? I have a solution. Quit your job. Know your value, toots. But, if you took the more sensible path to pursue your own personal happiness, your harpy of a monther (I just made that up! Mother + Monster! I'm a genius!) would dig her talons deep into your soul and just rip you apart. So instead you pretend, you self-medicate, you fake it, you struggle, and wrestle with your self-manifested anxiety. If your mother doesn't approve of who you really are, fuck her.

Who needs therapy more, Mika or her gratuitously cruel mother?

Did he say "provide?" Either he's profoundly ignorant or he's purposefully spreading conservative propaganda.

I watched the top of the 8am block and it was difficult. Joe was screaming at a defeated Eddie Glaude about how much better Joe knows "blacks." It was off-putting and bizarre. Which is what their names should be and the name of their show. I thought Joe was *this close* to tell Eddie that "blacks aren't as woke as you." He went on a stereotypical rant. Very uncomfortable. Click