Morning Joe: All Episodes Talk

[Eliot]

Lots of grumbling and clucking today on the set about the Time Person of the Year choice. Of course, none of those clucks or questions came up yesterday, when they had an actual representative from the magazine on the show. To her credit, Mika did comment on how uncomfortable the guy seemed during their interview with him. I thought the same thing. But they should have pressed him way harder yesterday.

Edited December 15, 2021 by Eliot

[oakville]

3 hours ago, Eliot said:

Lots of grumbling and clucking today on the set about the Time Person of the Year choice. Of course, none of those clucks or questions came up yesterday, when they had an actual representative from the magazine on the show. To her credit, Mika did comment on how uncomfortable the guy seemed during their interview with him. I thought the same thing. But they should have pressed him way harder yesterday.

It is surprising that Joe wasn't named Time's Person of the Year. Joe has over 2 million followers on Twitter, many of whom are real people. Joe is America's favorite pundit who wasn't afraid to criticize the former President of the United States. Joe helps combat disinformation  on the internet by replying to those that forward him controversial medical opinions .

MSNBC values Joe & keeps him safe in an undisclosed bunker in Florida. In the event of a nuclear war, Joe would become the lead anchor on the network.

 

[Lowcountry snark]

I won't listen to this KYV nonsense.  Is it as silly as it appears?

Who styles Mika?  Do we know?  Green jeans, a yoga half-zip, and a knee-length green velvet robe/cape/blazer?  With the boots, it's all pretty swashbuckling.  She and Aragorn son of Arathorn can ride off and chase orcs or Princess Buttercup.

[Kemper]

Tuned in to hear Heilemann, Sharpton, Joe and Katty Kay discussing how music used to span generations - it was a really really good discussion.  Meeka was present.  

At 8:40 or so she introduced a segment on the Women over 50, Under 30, Over 40, etc. Goody.  They showed an interview of her on a stage interviewing Jill Biden.  Visually, Mon Dieu! Jill B simply glowed ... clothes, jewelry, makeup, personality...what a joy to listen to her. Meeka was another story (but she is back to her 50 over 50 schtick).  She had on a drab what looked like gray or black shirt (it looked like a thermal with a zip front) and a drab jacket over it that looked too big...black leggings, really high-heeled boots.  She is a very attractive woman, I must say.  But please, network, how much do you have to suck-up to Joe that makes you prop her. On a cause most women are too busy to listen to lectures about.  But I will admit to the interview being a very good one - and that is mostly due to Jill Biden.  Meeka looked like she had just tumbled out of bed, threw on a jacket over the clothes she slept in, donned the sexy boots and hurried onto the stage.  If only this interview had gone to Katy Tur, Katty Kay, Hallie Jackson, Kasie Hunt. Meeka has her own pod cast starting today.  I think it is called "Straight Up"......tune in, why don't you.  Forgot - Meeka brought up Her Father and his service in Washington.  

[oakville]

Mika got a shout out on CNBC for ringing the opening bell at the NYSE. She was with a group of women who were over 50.

[Crashcourse]

I think Mika is dumb enough to think that wearing dark, dreary, drab colors make her look more serious. 

[Crashcourse]

I'm drunk, too.

[jacourt]

No Mika or joe. Katy looks so professional and speaks so fluently. Joe just stumbled over the same statements. I’m sure someone will say something and he’ll just reuse it. Yep he just did it reusing coming out if a cave. Please msn give Katy a show!!!!!!

[jacourt]

No Mika or joe. Katy looks so professional and speaks so fluently. Joe just stumbled over the same statements. I’m sure someone will say something and he’ll just reuse it. Yep he just did it reusing coming out if a cave. Please msn give Katy a show!!!!!!

Sorry I meant no Willie. Way too early for me. 

[Lowcountry snark]

Katty Kay is stunning.  She's awesome at hosting a round table political gab show.  Also looks-wise.  Yowza.  Goodness.

 

Mika's KYV segment, that she's not on for, is laugh out loud hilarious.  What nonsense.  It's just activity for activity's sake.  What do they actually do?  Who is helped?  What funds are raised?  Who is benefiting?  It is beyond ludicrous.

[Lowcountry snark]

When is someone going to champion already extremely successful middle-aged women at the tops of their industries???? WHEN?? I ASK YOU???  When will someone finally champion Forbes editors in hats from yesteryear?  When will someone champion that one MSNBC intern whose job it is to talk about her job?

^
This is the KYV business plan as presented to an NBC exec.

[Kemper]

Sadly, KYV rearing it’s ridiculous head after we have had a break from it has soured me on the network. Again. It has gotten to the point that I get a glow if I see CNN beating the network in any ratings; especially the all-important demos. The hand-basket awaits.

[Lowcountry snark]

This morning Joe and Katty watched two airline CEOs testify to Congress that masks on airplanes aren't really necessary.  Joe's and Katty's faces were pretty priceless.  
Also, one of the CEOs tested positive today.  

Give Katty this job, NBC.  Do it.

[oakville]

14 hours ago, Kemper said:

Sadly, KYV rearing it’s ridiculous head after we have had a break from it has soured me on the network. Again. It has gotten to the point that I get a glow if I see CNN beating the network in any ratings; especially the all-important demos. The hand-basket awaits.

It would be funny if Mika admitted that she is letting Joe handle their contract negotiations.

What would happen if the network gave Joe what he wanted but demanded that Katty Kay replace Mika ?

Mika could go on Peacock TV & spare those that recap the show on this forum from getting frustrated with her poor Teleprompter reading skills.

[plumbago blues]

5 hours ago, oakville said:

What would happen if the network gave Joe what he wanted but demanded that Katty Kay replace Mika ?

I might start watching the show again.

 

[jacourt]

Mika’s peacock show should have segments on remedial reading. 

[oakville]

3 hours ago, jacourt said:

Mika’s peacock show should have segments on remedial reading. 

Mika & Levar Burton could co host Reading Rainbow. Levar could teach Mika to read the Teleprompter.

 

[neona2]

I missed a coupla days and I'm slightly confused now, why is everyone drunk (not that i don't approve). Apologies for my lengthy Christmas tree comment (?) but if you watched the segment that "chick fil-a tree" thing was how Joe & Willie actually described it, and I was just saying, in real life a lot of thought goes into it, that's all... 

anyhoo, just caught up on our Khaleesi Katty, queen of the known universe, co-hosting from DC, it was so good! the delay was a lil clunky buuuut we got the best Katty! shade!

Joe: I went with Mika and did my best Dennis Thatcher impression, standing quietly in the corner.

Katty: Dennis Thatcher STFU for 15 years. You were quiet for FIVE MINUTES.

Joe: But everything I say is impooooooortaaaaaaaaant

Katty: Uh-huh.

LMAO. Actual queen.

idk what to think of Mika's project thingy. In general I think it's probably a positive thing, she does seem to be encouraging women around her to stop accepting shit and ask for raises etc and she supported people like Kasie & Nicolle.

For me the KYV thing is not so relevant because I feel maybe a bit philosophically removed from this idea of feminism being a dark and serious and severe thing, for me light and colors and being alive are positive and healthy aspects of life and work and even integral to being a feminist in many ways. Like when Mika said the Finnish Prime Minister shouldn't have gone clubbing (she obviously had a babysitter!) or when they all do the coordinated darkness thingy in response to twitter trolls etc I find it all so counter-intuitive. And it makes me feel like they probably wouldn't think of what I do as being a real job 🥴 

But on the other hand, there's really nothing wrong with having a movement that's very specific to specific jobs in the corporate world or whatever that might be a very narrow kind of experience, idk. and she did produce that list which actually really did have a lot of interesting people on it and is bringing interesting people together, so i think that's a positive

Heidi P was there!! i like this thing where they were serious about doing a good show even though two out of three hosts were off. There have been days in the past where everyone was kinda half on vacation and phoning it in and there was this sense of, it might've been better to just hand it over for a few days to enthusiastic energetic guest hosts, bc that isnt the end of the world and often a great experience for viewers....

Edited December 18, 2021 by neona2

[oakville]

Monday recap with Gin & Tonic.

The show started with a clip of SNL. Tom Hanks & Tina Fey without an audience.

Joe enjoyed SNL. Mika laughed at Joe.

Mika is wearing a dark turtleneck.

Mika's brother has been appointed Ambassador to Poland.

Mika was visiting her brother. Mark has been working on Constitutonal law in Poland.

Mika told the story of  a young Dr Z fleeing Poland with his parents before the Nazis invaded & going to my hometown Montreal . Mika's grandpa was the Polish Consular officer in Montreal.

Dr Z went to my alma mater, McGill University before going to get his Masters at Harvard.

Mika's dad almost ran for President of Poland in 1991, but Bamba said no.

Mika would have been the First daughter of Poland

 

 

 

 

Senator Joe Mancin won't support the BBB plan.  He said he can't explain it to West Virginians.

[oakville]

At 6 09 am, Mika struggled to read the word Wilmington & called it Willington.

Mika should realize that President Biden lives in Wilmington . It's a widely know fact.

Psaki said that Mancin & Biden had a framework for a deal.

Joe asked David if Psaki's criticisms of Mancin were  harsh. He agreed but Mancin will not be a caucus of one.

Joe said you could impeach Clinton on Monday & he would invite you to golf on Tuesday.

Joe warned Democrats that Mancin could switch to the GOP.

Senator Jim Jeffords did it to the GOP in 2001. Bush lost control of the Senate.

Lemire said Biden was betrayed by Mancin.

 

[oakville]

Joe warned Biden's aides that Mancin wanted to see the language of the bill before approving it.

Mancin is tired of death threats from progressives. He has 24 hour security.

Joe has become Mancin's spokesperson. Mika & Joe have dined on Mancin's yacht & let Joe take Mika for a spin in his Maserati.

Democrats are mad at Mancin. Mancin sent lumps of coal from his coal mine to other Democrats as a Christmas gift. They were not amused.

Bernie Sanders is mad at Mancin for not lowering drug prices.

Bernie wants a vote even if they lose.

 

 

[oakville]

Joe said Trump is very popular in West Virginia. If Mancin switched parties, Senator Mitch would take control of the Senate.

Eddie Glaude said Democrats need progressives. They did their part to help Biden pass the Infrastructure bill.

Eddie is mad at Mancin.

 

David said Biden was elected because he could govern & make bi partisan deals.

 

[oakville]

Mika is worried about the voting rights bill.  Mancin's vote is needed .

Joe supports Democrats getting federal judges appointed.

Joe is confused by Democrats.

 

[oakville]

Joe said he would never tell Mika to use her inside voice. Joe told progressives to use their inside voices.

Joe wants piece by piece legislation. Romney is open to childcare for kids. He has many grand children.

[oakville]

Joe said there are long lines for restaurant in NY. Joe admitted there are long lines for covid tests.

Joe said people are going to basketball & football games.

Lemire is excited about vaccine passports to eat in restaurants.

Its nice to see Joe downplay the virus now. Mika hasn't started cry reading the Covid numbers yet.

Joe said people are ok with a booster. He doesn't realize that Jim Cramer on CNBC today. t tested positive & had to work from home  despite having the booster.

 

[oakville]

Joe laughed at the European lockdowns.

Joe wants schools to stay open.

Mika is happy that bakeries & candy stores are open.

 

Eddie can't visit his parents because there is a breakthrough infection at his home.

[oakville]

Joe said younger workers need to get back to offices . They can't stay at home & work remotely.

Joe mocked people working from home. Younger people need socialization & help from mentors.

 

Charles Colman is a new msnbc contributor. He is a legal analyst.

 

[Kemper]

24 minutes ago, oakville said:

Joe said younger workers need to get back to offices . They can't stay at home & work remotely.

Joe mocked people working from home. Younger people need socialization & help from mentors.

 

Oakville - please tell me you are making this up. Please. 🤡

 

[oakville]

16 minutes ago, Kemper said:

Oakville - please tell me you are making this up. Please. 🤡

 

No it isn't a joke . He said it.

Joe complained about offices being empty in NY but restaurants and bars are full.

Mika said if the younger people have time to socialize, they have time to show up for work.

 

Edited December 20, 2021 by oakville

[Kemper]

Two middle-aged slackers working out of their seemingly cramped home studio and getting paid millions. Instead of KYV, they should give seminars (together) on how to fool some of the people all of the time. Meeka lecturing young people to stop socializing and show up for work! 

[oakville]

1 hour ago, Kemper said:

Two middle-aged slackers working out of their seemingly cramped home studio and getting paid millions. Instead of KYV, they should give seminars (together) on how to fool some of the people all of the time. Meeka lecturing young people to stop socializing and show up for work! 

It days like this why I find it so amusing to recap the show. There is no one else on cable tv news that could get away with saying this nonsense.

Morning Joe has been on the air for almost 15 years which is a long time in the tv business.

I am surprised that they agreed to allow AOC on their show despite their personal friendship with Senator Joe Mancin.

Joe was excited about Mancin not believing the numbers in the BBB bill. There are gimmicks with the various programs being funded in different years to lower the overall cost of the programs.

Joe continues to defend Mancin at the 7 am hour.

Ed Luce said Mancin was opposed to tax increases , so the net cost of the programs will be higher. 

I think Joe is happy that the original tax increases proposed on those making above 400K will not be implemented.

Eugene said progressives are mad at Mancin.

 

 

 

 

[oakville]

Joe said Democrats have to have more than 50 seats in 2022 to get things done.

Joe said Biden & Mancin shook hands on a deal, so Mancin should propose his own deal.

Mara Gay lit her Christmas tree for her appearance on Morning Joe. She said Mancin only represents 1.8M W Virginians. Mara should realize that a Senator can only represent the state they were elected in. You can't be a Senator of more than 1 state.

Donny is wearing a striped gangster suit. He is in a studio with Lemire.

Donny said Mancin wants to be the center of the universe. He wants to be popular on cable news.

Donny said Mancin would have no power as a GOP Senator.

 

 

Eugene was happy that Biden visited Orangeburg South Carolina. He grew up there.

Eugene said the voting rights bill should be passed.

[oakville]

Joe told Mara Gay that he was the first class of integrated student in a Mississippi elementary school.

Joe supported having African Americans at his elementary school.

Joe taught the African American kids at his school to play baseball & basketball.

Joe said the hit 1970's show "The White Shadow" was based on his life story.

Ed Luce doesn't use a hair brush to comb his hair.

 

 

[oakville]

Joe used his Foghorn Leghorn accent to make fun of Democrats unwilling to be as tough Republicans.

 

[oakville]

Mika does not like Donny's gangster outfit.

Joe told people to stop freaking out over Omicron unless they are unvacinated or are immunocompromised.

Joe said it will be less worse than the flu.

All hail King Joe, chief medical strategist.

Donny said Omicron should be branded as not your fathers coronavirus. Its like the Oldsmobile commercial

Donny said people should not be in bubble wrap.

Joe admitted that hospital administrator are concerned. Why won't they listen to Joe ?

Its amusing how sanguine Joe is about this virus compared to Mika & Joe crying throughout 2020.

They used to have a chyron showing daily infections & deaths in 2020 & stopped doing it this year.

 

 

[oakville]

Mika & Joe agreed to work live at 8 am to conduct the AOC interview.

Mika correctly pronounced her name !

AOC wanted both bills passed at the same time.

AOC said Democratic Leadership has to get the bills passed.

Does AOC realize that Nancy Pelosi is a member of Mika's prestigious 50 over 50 club.

Does AOC realize that she better be nice to Mika or forfeit being mentioned in KYV ?

 

 

[oakville]

I was impressed with AOC. She strongly defended her views. She is worried about the child care tax credit expiring.

She mentioned that Joe served in the Congress. He laughed .

Watch out Mika ! AOC could be the 4th Mrs. Scarborough .

Joe called the Senate, the House of Lords !

Joe & AOC joked about the Senate.

 

 

[oakville]

Joe complained about Senator Ted Cruz delaying Ambassador appointments . LOL!

 

[oakville]

Joe let AOC talk without interruption !

[Lowcountry snark]

https://twitter.com/therealfunnyjoe/status/1473265963244134405?s=20

 

Edited December 21, 2021 by Lowcountry snark

[plumbago blues]

12 hours ago, oakville said:

Mika does not like Donny's gangster outfit.

So she's showing us how to dress appropriately today by wearing the robe again...seems to have it in regular rotation now.. for the world's snarking pleasure. Wonder if she'll wow the elitists at her Abu Dhabi shaminar for her global KYV "movement" by wearing this dreck?! Maybe the guy from Forbes in the pork pie hat is her stylist. 

 

18 hours ago, oakville said:

Mika's brother has been appointed Ambassador to Poland.

To the relief of us all.

This show wastes so much time on her family and Joe's civil rights pioneering...there really is nothing to see here. I saw on SM that Bank of America sponsors her "podcast"...guess Barnicle serves a purpose after all via his well-connected wife.

[oakville]

10 minutes ago, plumbago blues said:

So she's showing us how to dress appropriately today by wearing the robe again...seems to have it in regular rotation now.. for the world's snarking pleasure. Wonder if she'll wow the elitists at her Abu Dhabi shaminar for her global KYV "movement" by wearing this dreck?! Maybe the guy from Forbes in the pork pie hat is her stylist. 

 

To the relief of us all.

This show wastes so much time on her family and Joe's civil rights pioneering...there really is nothing to see here. I saw on SM that Bank of America sponsors her "podcast"...guess Barnicle serves a purpose after all via his well-connected wife.

I remember reading Mika's first book where she admitted that CBS executives told her to stop wearing frumpy outfits. She was in her 30's then & presumably was more aware of fashion trends back then.

Mika should take a lesson from Katty Kay who is a bit older than her but is putting an effort into dressing & looking great for her tv appearances.

Morning Joe has made an effort to have more African American guests on the show in the past few years . Rev Al Sharpton, Eugene Robinson, Corey Booker & Harold Ford Jr. & Wes Moore used to be the only regular contributors to the show.

Since Mr Floyd's murder, the show brought on several new African American guests. Joe has tried to show that he has been leading the civil rights movement in Mississippi since he attended an integrated elementary school in 1969.

Joe also brags about playing sports with African Americans when he was in high school.

I would love Joe to invite his classmates from those years so they could discuss how Joe was an inspiration to them.

I am curious because when I started watching the show in 2008, Joe would always talk about Southern pride & defended General Lee & had a Confederate Flag in his bedroom in College. This version of Joe is at odds with the civil rights leader Joe Scarborough that he talks about now.

I am amused how little Barnicle talks about his wife's job. He often sounds like he is an expert on "Blue Collar kitchen table issues " whereas he probably has a house on Martha's Vineyard.

 

 

[oakville]

Tuesday mini recap with egg nog.

Mika is dressed in her burgundy bath robe. Joe & Willie have the morning off.

Al Sharpton is a special guest .

Mika is wearing makeup & lipstick.

Mika is reading very quickly.

I am waiting for the first TelePrompter flub.

DiBlasio is opposed to a lockdown.

Psaki said Biden will not announce a Christmas lockdown.

Mika is having trouble with The TelePrompter but no flub yet at 6 04 am. Her eyes are blinking

First Flub. Mika mispronounced overflow and called it over. Her head veered closer to the screen to try & read the TelePrompter.

 

 

 

Mika bit her lips at 6 05 am.

Lemire had his hair colored & extra makeup applied.

I wish I had gone to Cosmetology school instead of studying Accounting so I could provide better commentary on makeup miscues.

 

[oakville]

Meacham said he didn't write the speech that Biden will gave later today.

Biden understands rituals & grieving.

Meacham said Biden will have candor when speaking today.

Mika said that Trump took a booster shot. Trump was booed at a town hall for taking the booster.

He is on a road show with Bill O Reilly.

Trump said the vaccines saved lives.

 

 

Mika blamed Trump for allowing hundreds of thousands of lives.

Meacham admitted that MSNBC does not like it when he calls Trump by name.

 

[oakville]

Mika blamed Facebook for spreading lie about the vaccines.

At 6 15 am Mika botched the term vaccinated & called them vaccins & then blamed the unvaccinated for spreading the variants.

Mika doesn't realize that  vaccinated people can spread the variant to each other.

Jim Cramer of CNBC admitted today to  have infected his co host Carlos Quintaniilla. They have both been boosted & now are reporting from a home studio.

 

[oakville]

Senator Mancin was worried about parents buying drugs with the child tax credits.

He was also worried about people using paid leave to go deer hunting.

Mancin is pro deer.

[oakville]

Mika read Joe's tweets about Mancin supporting repealing the Trump tax cuts 7 the carried interest loophole.

Jacui Allemany said Mancin could come back to the table & agree with some of BBB.

 

[Rickster]

2 hours ago, oakville said:

I remember reading Mika's first book where she admitted that CBS executives told her to stop wearing frumpy outfits. She was in her 30's then & presumably was more aware of fashion trends back then.

Mika should take a lesson from Katty Kay who is a bit older than her but is putting an effort into dressing & looking great for her tv appearances.

I feel compelled to point out that some recent morning, Katty was in the Washington studio as part of a group discussion, the camera pulled back as they  went to break, and I was shocked, shocked to see that she was wearing jeans.

[oakville]

20 minutes ago, Rickster said:

I feel compelled to point out that some recent morning, Katty was in the Washington studio as part of a group discussion, the camera pulled back as they  went to break, and I was shocked, shocked to see that she was wearing jeans.

Ha ! Katty has been complaining about some of servants asking for time off during December, so its possible that they didn't have time to iron her dress pants. Katty still looked great from the waist up whereas Mika looks ridiculous in a bath robe.

 

Edited December 21, 2021 by oakville

[Kemper]

6 hours ago, Lowcountry snark said:

https://twitter.com/therealfunnyjoe/status/1473265963244134405?s=20

 

Did someone actually put this on Twitter? Someone from this MJ board?  Please tell me it isn’t a hoax;  because if this was actually posted with the caption …. then Christmas truly has come early.