SeanBug

So I've been rewatching "The Newsroom", the Aaron Sorkin HBO series about a cable news network. I realize this is somewhat fictional in that it covers actual news stories, BP oil spill, Tea Party, Gabby Gifford shooting, Bin Laden, etc. but since all these events had already happened, Sorkin has the luxury of writing the coverage with the hindsight of knowing what went wrong and how to cover it better. I keep thinking "if only Joe and the rest of the media had the courage and integrity of these fictional characters". Jeff Daniels' character goes to jail for 52 days for refusing to reveal a source. Joe and Mika ran to Mar A Lago with their tails between their legs because they were scared to death Trump might sue them. Let's just say JoMika won't be winning the Edward R Murrow Award for Excellence in Journalism any time soon. Fun fact, Daniels' character Will McAvoy is a former district attorney and...wait for it...Republican. It's a fun watch; to see reporters recognize how cowardice, putting ratings and winning elections over facts and failing to speak truth to power leads to the issues we are dealing with right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WVn2ubwIVM The heck with a reboot of The West Wing. Reboot The Newsroom, maybe the media will learn something.

I think they were the Secret Service detail and there are a lot of them assigned to each protectee, as they work in shifts. So 20 or so isn't out of the question. I don't recall how many were in that scene when X told them what was going on. There could be more protecting that building where all the tech stuff was happening.

Was Atlanta really hit, or is this part of Sinatra's bs plot? Agree re the catastrophe. I thought it was like a meteor or something. Every episode I love Sterling K Brown more. Can't wait for Jane to be taken out.

I think Sinatra kept X's wife from being able to escape Atlanta. (JMO). I loved her in the principal's office re the whiny couple's kid. "Put his ass in the car and take him to school". So now evil Jane has X's daughter so that Sinatra can stop him. Did you guys know the actress who plays Jane is the daughter of David Bloom? He was a reporter for NBC News and died in Irag from a deep vein thrombosis while covering the war. He was a favorite of mine. She's engaged to Justin Theroux. I'm feeling more and more like this is a bit of a commentary on current affairs, what with a bunch of billionaires running things behind the scenes. I hope we find out how Sinatra got all that power and what her deal is. I'm telling everyone to watch this show, it's so good. But it's hard to explain it without giving too much away.

I read last night that various cast members are defending her, saying she was one of the best hosts ever. She was just reading the lines the writers prepared for her. She's not Tina Fey, FFS. She wasn't in the writers' room all night working out sketches. Now I will admit I heard her on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me years ago and she was very pleasant and laughed along with the host and panel in her interview. You know, like a regular human being. That's fine. But she doesn't need to be in the opening sketch on the anniversary special of a show that means so much to people.

Thank you!!! Why not just have her in the audience asking TFey & Amy a question. Or not at all. It was hilarious to see her next to Scarlett. A very talented actress and a woman who first became famous because her mother leaked her sex tape. Kim had more make up on her face than Anna, Scarlett and Kristin combined.

Probably downstairs begging Lorne Michael to let him perform with Paul Simon on the SNL 50 Anniversary special. Lorne to Joe: "Sorry, Pal the only person the cast dislikes more than Chevy is you". Mika wanted to do Weekend Update til she realized she has to be able to read the cue cards and can't dig thru her purse during the segment.

Same. I watched a little today, Mika was giddy about the Congresswoman who is running for Governor of NJ. She was in the military so Claire asked her about Hegseth and his misogyny. I think the main topic, or one of them, was Trump and Pete H giving away the farm to Russia re Ukraine, BEFORE THE NEGOTIATIONS actually start. And they talked about since the war is definitely not over, Trump's statement re ending the war on Day One, or even before Day One, was, as usual, bullshit. Apparently Russia bombed the Chernobyl site, because it's near the Ukrainian border. And we got a HS teacher back from Russia and gave them their cyber criminal. Has it dawned on people who visit Russia to not take your weed, edibles, etc with you? Being jailed for years is, of course, utter bullshit, but pot is illegal in Russia and they are looking for any reason at all to jail Americans.

So any word on where Joe is? Working on his new celebrity interview show? I noticed they booked Chevy Chase this morning. Assuming this is as SNL promotes the 50th anniversary show. Of course they get one of the most disliked members of the cast, who left after one season.

It amazes me that Joe's comments on Musk/DOGE were "it's really important he be in front of the press as much as possible, and he should be doing everything legally and according to the Constitution". DUH. But that's not what's happening. If what we saw Tuesday is an indication of what Joe thinks is great about Musk being in front of the press, and explaining what he's doing, he has lost it. Hopefully he's doing things legally? No shit Sherlock. Except we know he's not. The courts are stopping almost everything he's doing. . Instead of being terrified Joe thinks it's awesome Musk did a press conference. Joe said nothing about the fact Musk had to retract the statement he made about the US sending $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza. Musk said he's doing and saying a lot things and a lot of them will be wrong. Musk also said the voters want Congress and the President to be in charge, not some bureaucrat who wasn't elected. Again, no shit Sherlock. And guess who wasn't elected? Irony much? Apparently Joe Scarborough is the only person in the media who didn't pick up on the utter insanity of the entire thing. And yet MSNBC continues to let Joe Scarborough have three hours on live tv, at least when he decides to show up.

Listening to Jon Stewart's "The Weekly" podcast with Jen Psaki. Jon is saying MSNBC shouldn't be a mouthpiece for Democrats, but should operate more like Fox with a more coherent message, instead of every show in the evening saying the same thing, just with a different host. Also said daytime and evening shows should in essence be on the same page. The mic drop moment: Four Hours of Joe Scarborough ever day should not be allowed in this country. You get whiplash between MJ and Rachel Maddow. A four hour circle jerk, and twelve hours later, insightful measured commentary and interviews. How are they on the same network? This is akin to Stewart's Tucker Carlson take down.

I was also wondering if this show is a commentary on billionaires, but wouldn't it have been filmed at least a year ago, before a certain billionaire was so blatantly courting a person running for POTUS. I'm not going to worry about the dog, I think it was just used as a ploy for Xavier to have a reason to ask James for a favor. I actually thought he was going to ask James to take the of the kids. What James actually did blew my mind. I have had a mild crush on Sterling since "The People vs OJ Simpson". I love Marsden, too.

I have to remember to keep a towel nearby when I watch this, as the last two episodes my head has exploded. This show is bananas. And I love it. Xavier is such a quiet bad ass.

I don't find anything Joe Scarborough has to say remotely interesting or relevant. He just repeats the same bullshit over and over and it's boring and stupid. I know some like a more rousing style of show, but IMHO, and it's just me, I like the show with Willie and Lemire. I don't need yelling and cry talking at 6 am. I just want a little news and conversation. JoMika's sell by date expired in 2015. They were barely tolerable before that, but the Trump ass kissing in that campaign, then the hatred because he made fun of Mika, then the re upping on the ass kissing, now the tap dancing around it shows they are nothing but opportunistic assholes and I have enough assholes in my life. I don't need to watch the millionaire versions of them. I'll watch Nicole and Rachel if I need anything in depth. I might turn on MJ in the morning for a minute, but I don't spend a lot of time on it unless there's breaking news and Willie and Lemire are handling that.

It always amazes me that Joe is so delusional he still brags about what Newt Gingrich did to this country, like "balancing the budget" is on a par with curing cancer. We are living the nightmare Gingrich and Joe, since he likes to claim credit for this hellscape, were the architects of. https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/burning-down-house-newt-gingrich-fall-speaker-and-rise-new-republican-party This is a two paragraph summation of a book about Gingrich, here's the first sentences. When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump “is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party.” In Burning Down the House, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path toward an era of bitterly partisan and ruthless politics, an era that was ignited by Newt Gingrich and his allies. So yeah Joe, you should be really proud of what you did to the country. Most people with an ounce of self awareness would stfu about being involved with Gingrich, but Joe is such an egotistical idiot he brags about it. This is like bragging about loading the dishwasher before you set the house on fire.