Mika Brzezinski is at it again. As noted here and here, the daughter of Jimmy Carter's former NSA is inclined to inject her own political views into her MSNBC newsreading role.Posted on 06/26/2007 4:25:35 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Mika Brzezinski is at it again. As noted here and here, the daughter of Jimmy Carter's former NSA is inclined to inject her own political views into her MSNBC newsreading role.
At 6:10 am EDT on today's "Morning Joe," Mika read an item reporting that Sen. Richard Lugar [R-IN] had called for a change of course in Iraq and expressed support for the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by James Baker and Lugar's fellow Hoosier, Lee Hamilton.
Mika couldn't restrain herself.
MSNBC NEWSREADER MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Whatever happened to the Iraq Study Group, because I believe President Bush asked for those pieces of advice, correct?
Host Joe Scarborough immediately called Mika on her editorializing.
MSNBC HOST JOE SCARBOROUGH: The thing is, Mika, if you write for the front page of the New York Times, they don't let you go into the editorial room.
View video here.
Brzezkinski refused to recognize the obvious.
BRZEZINSKI: I'm not . . .
SCARBOROUGH: You don't write editorials in the lead story. Mika, you're going to have to decide. You're going to be an opinion person or you're going to be a news person.
BRZEZINSKI: Whoah, whoah, whoah, whoah.
Trying to return Mika back to her newsreading roots, Joe ordered that she be handed the Paris Hilton story to read [which she had declined to do at the top of the news report, though it had been scheduled as the lead story.] As pictured here, Mika promptly ripped up the report.
BRZEZINSKI: Here's the deal: I asked a question, a question. It's not editorializing. Journalists are allowed to ask questions.
SCARBOROUGH: OK, ask me a question.
BRZEZINSKI: OK, whatever happened to the Iraq Study Group? Wasn't it -- and I may be wrong -- sanctioned by the president?
SCARBOROUGH: There are two types of questions, Mika. There are questions, and then there are rhetorical questions.
MIKA, unrepetant: That's not a rhetorical question!
SCARBOROUGH: You asked me a rhetorical question that you know the answer to . . . You know what? It's sort of like, Willie Geist [the likeable MSNBCer, back from a brief leave as his wife gave birth to daughter Lucy], I remember that I was covering the McCarthy hearings back in I don't remember was it '56, '55 or '56 [Scarborough was born in 1963. A running gag on the show is its, and Scarborough's, longevity. He often refers to the show, on the air only a matter of weeks, celebrating its 20th anniversary], "have you no shame, sir?" That is a rhetorical question.
Even then, Brzezinski wouldn't bow to reality: I think it's an interesting question. Especially now, in light of what Sen. Lugar is saying. I just would like to connect the dots.
SCARBOROUGH had the last laugh: What, is she following Olbermann now at 9 o'clock? Are they clearing that space for her at nine o'clock [a bit of self-deprecating humor, given that MSNBC's 9 PM slot is hosted by none other than . . . Scarborough himself. Unless, of course, his morning gig becomes permanent.]
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Brzezinksi’s-latest-blast ping to Today show list.
With luminaries like Sandy Burglar in the Study Group, who cares?
They've been consigned to policy oblivion, whence they came.
Same thing that happened to the 9/11 Commission... the money was paid to them... they spent like a drunken sailor... they lied, changed and revised history, obfuscated, protected elites... then they disbanded and went home to spend their ill-gotten loot!
LLS
How can Mika “make a difference” if she just reads the news?
Why do all “newscasters” have to be liberal Democrats? I’m disgusted by this. The Left has to control everything, or it feels insecure.
She may be the only person in America who remembers the Iraq Study Group.
Yes, Mika. And he promptly rejected it.
From a press conference on December 13, 2006 (a week after the Iraq Study Group released it's report):
Question from reporter: "You've been gathering advice, as you said, from leaders here and from leaders in Iraq. As you've gone through that extensive process, have you heard any new ideas at all, anything that would change your thinking?"President Bush: I've heard some ideas that would lead to defeat, and I reject those ideas--
LOL
Can’t stand her. She’s always preening for the camera. Very much taken with herself.
People like Mika never thought 12 years was long enough for the U.N. “Inspectors” to verify that Sadaam had no WMDs either.
I’m surprised Scarborough was so adamant in calling her on it though.
Great FReeper comments/links. Thanks to all.
MSNBC is the only news channel I can get with my limited cable package (I really am not supposed to be getting it, but that is the last channel that comes in somewhat clearly), so I’m stuck with it. Every time I see this self-righteous little twit, I want to scream at her about how her idiot father helped Jimmy Carter screw up the world.
I cannot decide if she is even attractive anymore and now I know she is just a left leaning wacko on MSNBC doing the same old same old.
“MSNBC is the only news channel I can get with my limited cable package”
Let me guess. It’s called the “DU Package”.
“Trying to return Mika back to her newsreading roots, Joe ordered that she be handed the Paris Hilton story to read [which she had declined to do at the top of the news report, though it had been scheduled as the lead story.] As pictured here, Mika promptly ripped up the report.”
At least she did one thing right.
I thought Bush dismissed it as a recipe for failure and threw it in the garbage. Didn’t he do this publicly?
HA! Yes, good one! Nope, we just want the basic TV channels that you can get with an antenna (not allowed in our condo rules). Unfortunately, the channels include three Mexican ones, and a shopping channel, as well. I wish I could get Fox News, but I can go to the Internet to read whatever I wish to there.
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