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Obama Gets Nothing But
Softballs From Morning Joe's
Scarborough and Brzezinski

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard

Original Article

Posted By:JoniTx, 10/29/2012 7:01:22 PM

On Saturday, NewsBusters asked if it would be fascinating if Barack Obama's interview with MSNBC's Morning Joe ended up being an easier one than he recently got with the ladies of ABC's The View. We got our answer Monday, and in the end, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski asked absolutely nothing of the President that could be perceived as a hardball (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary). After Brzezinski set the taped interview up, her first question to the President was, "Why has it been so easy for critics to say

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: BaseballFan, 10/29/2012 7:04:55 PM     (No. 8973159)

Ldotters: Please remember this the next time someone calls Scarborough a conservative.

With these softball questions, he's nothing more than a card-carrying member of the Obamedia.


Reply 2 - Posted by: mominNoCA, 10/29/2012 7:05:57 PM     (No. 8973162)

Maybe their legs were tingling too much to ask him anything substantial.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: beca, 10/29/2012 7:06:25 PM     (No. 8973164)

didnt watch...toss up who makes me more nauseating...joe mo or blow


Reply 4 - Posted by: earlybird, 10/29/2012 7:08:45 PM     (No. 8973170)

Good grief! I had Scarborough pegged for a ringer ages and ages ago. Have wondered why conservative LDotters would have any interest in him and/or his program.

Don't we have better things to do?


Reply 5 - Posted by: lanczos, 10/29/2012 7:11:09 PM     (No. 8973178)

Uhhh, President Obama, would you say that you are incredibly talented, or maybe incredibly brilliant, or simply incredibly omniscient?


Reply 6 - Posted by: god of irony, 10/29/2012 7:12:53 PM     (No. 8973183)

Once again Scarborough chooses popularity of professionalism.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Bubbasuncle, 10/29/2012 7:21:36 PM     (No. 8973204)

The Limp Noodle (0dumbo) can only handle softballs.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: uno, 10/29/2012 7:31:07 PM     (No. 8973222)

Was Joe Biden still crawling around under the desk looking for Chrissy's hardballs - or was that cue balls...


Reply 9 - Posted by: formerNYer, 10/29/2012 8:09:25 PM     (No. 8973297)

If anybody really believes that MessNBC would hire a true conservative please call my cell, I have waterfront property in Kansas I'd like to sell.


Reply 10 - Posted by: mercedesops, 10/29/2012 8:15:10 PM     (No. 8973310)

Gutless Joe. He was nailing Obama last week and now he kisses his feet. How much longer will Comcast pay him $4mill and her. $2mill per year for a show nobody watches?


Reply 11 - Posted by: Hotrod, 10/29/2012 8:19:03 PM     (No. 8973322)

Scarborough went to Washington as a self-described conservative. He was bought. He has no credibility on any subject!


Reply 12 - Posted by: pineledger, 10/29/2012 8:27:16 PM     (No. 8973348)

The only person I know who calls Scarborough a conservative is Scarborough himself. It's his schtick. Unfortunately it's just not true.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: judy, 10/29/2012 8:29:43 PM     (No. 8973351)

All two viewers are soooooo disappointed...


Reply 14 - Posted by: LouD, 10/29/2012 8:54:35 PM     (No. 8973400)

Does anyone here thing Odumbo would actually answer questions he had not vetted first? Most likely they were handed a list of questions that could be asked, and J&M went along with it.


Reply 15 - Posted by: Passion, 10/29/2012 9:15:37 PM     (No. 8973447)

Give Joe a break. His diaphram fell out of his purse yesterday....


Reply 16 - Posted by: lana720, 10/29/2012 9:26:11 PM     (No. 8973459)

I never, ever watch LSDNBC. This clip shows two fawning anchors and some black/white guy lying his head off.

I watched the clip of Andrew Sullivan on the site - managed to tune in to the last part of ABC's Sunday program with stuffin-envelopes and saw a completely deranged man. I just figured out it was he from the clip. Like my Daddy used to say, "If he's right, I don't want to be!"



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