Posted on 02/27/2009 7:51:52 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
I’m going to go out on a limb and say it was done ever-so-slightly tongue in cheek. But there was Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe today, sporting a Team Sarah button and identifying herself as a proud Palinite. Joe Scarborough spoke at CPAC yesterday, and Mika accompanied him, stopping by the Team Sarah booth along the way. As she told it . . .
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I went to the Team Sarah booth. I got a couple of things. I’m thinking my dad isn’t watching yet, so I’ll share: I got my daughter Team Sarah hats. I got my husband one. And I went home to my parents house yesterday and put a pink “I Love Sarah” bumper sticker on my dad’s car!
(Excerpt) Read more at finkelblog.com ...
Mika the newest member of Team Sarah ping to Today show list.
I accidently was watching Morning Joe this morning (hope springs eternal, and I was totally not interested in seeing what all Fox and Friends could deep fry). I heard Mika say that, but I also heard them all yucking it up when Tina Brown called Rush a Blowhard Bullfrog (or something like that). I just can’t watch Joe.
Ya know, since the election Mika has been all over the Obama administration. Its very clear she doesn’t support the spendulous package, nor the bank bailouts, nor the auto maker bailouts.
You can literally see it on her face as each topic is discussed.
Not saying she isn’t a liberal folks. I’m saying I think she realizes this is how Carter was a one term failure, and Obama and the Dem controlled Congress is on that same glidepath today.
Mika was mugged, or madoffed? Libs don’t go conservative spontaneously.
Is she trying to do satire or what? Has hell frozen over?
What’s the other pin? Anti-RINO or anti-elephant?
IIRC, a couple of weeks ago on the Morning Joe show, she said something like “You assume that I’m pro-choice because I’m liberal, and I’m not” or words to that effect. So maybe she’s a closet pro-lifer?
That’s what I was thinking too.
Seems to me I recall her being hostile towards all things Palin. (but I may have a faulty memory.So many were attacking her, one loses track.)
Do the conservatives have some sooper secret kool-aid, too?
I was just about to ask the same thing. Anybody know?
For what it is worth, she sided with Palin and called some other liberal hacks were attacking Sarah of pushing the “working mom image”, as elitist.
“I just can’t watch Joe.”
Joe isn’t so bad, he’s a RINO who tries to be objective. (Being on MSNBC makes him look like a hard right conservative). But at least they talk about current events on Morning Joe. It is the best morning show.
Libs are the enemy:
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
- Sun Tzu
This makes me suspect that there is grumbling in Mika’s social circle re Obama’s performance. She wouldn’t do this without feeling like it was acceptable to her cocktail party me-too-ers. Can The View be next?
Thank you.
One needs a scorecard to keep the facts straight, the attacks were so numerous!
(still, I’m suspect. But one can’t help that, these days, I reckon.)
bttt
LOL. You must be jesting. Except for Hasselbeck, they won't get caught even thinking something positive about Sarah.
I really really tried to watch them, a year or so back (I get tired of the adolescent banter on F&F) but Joe just doesn’t usually show any spine, and the libs on the show are insufferable. I wish there was either a completely unbiased morning news show, or something like Fox that didn’t think we needed to hear inane jokes about Brian’s sexuality all morning. But, I know I’m in the minority.
“But, I know I’m in the minority.”
Maybe a minority, but not alone. I find F&F to be unwatchable. It’s all silliness, and quick hits on things. Nothing of substance, and the personalities don’t appeal to me.
Apparently, it’s some sort of rule, morning shows have to be silly. Morning Joe tries to be serious without beating you over the head.
That said, I do bounce between Mike&Mike and Morning Joe in the morning. Sometimes Morning Joe will have someone on I just can’t watch, such as Bob Hebert. I know the enemy of his ilk, and don’t need to hear any more of his garbage.
I wonder if this isn’t just the beginning of a strategy, the strategy being, if a great number of leftists associate themselves with Sarah, might it sully her image and make her unacceptable to the right?
Mika is a shrewd liberal. She’s betting that Palin will be an embarrassing Republican Presidential nominee, paving the way for a big Obama re-election. Please don’t be fooled. This is their strategy - advocate the weakest opponent.
Speaking of cocktails,somebody my have hidden her morning vodka bottle!
Joe may give us hope from time to time that he is standing up for conservative ideals on a network which is the antithesis of conservative ideals but he will never put himself out on a limb and put that paycheck in jeopardy. And Carlson? He's got Stockholm Syndrome over there and never found his niche among conservatives.
This was definitely their strategy in the 2008 Republican Presidential primary:
No way are they going to endear her to "moderates". They need to portray her as a arch-conservative redneck.
Well, too bad for them that Palin is the strongest opponent to zero.
To me, it looks like a map of the world. Maybe a button opposed to world government or something?
Did you see the caption on the photo? The Post deemed it necessary to make sure that we knew which one was Mika.
Wonder why there’s a dearth of intelligent seriousness in the morning? Ah well, we muddle thru. I had to go mute the tv anyway since the big O is talking again. He seems to talk every single day.
I couldn’t say...all I know is since Bush left the Whitehouse, Mika has been ‘balanced’ in her views, and very critical of the new administration.
I’m still wary, but every morning ‘something’ sticks out to me.
I flip from Fox to MSNBC, usually because Fluff and Friends programing is ‘morning lite’.
post 21 - *sigh*
WOW, now that is a sleeper account.
You signed up in 2005 made 6 posts over the next two years and now made your first post since 2007, just to bash Governor Palin. Cute.
When I saw Scarborough’s and Tucker’s names on the Agenda, I thought, “WTF?!?” Then Scarborough’s lame, self-serving, off-topic, blather made me almost puke. Who can watch this goofball’s show?
See post 32.
She also had this to say.
Note: Mika mentioned that Joe’s speech at CPAC was well-received by HuffPo, which as Joe acknowledged could be problematic for a conservative. But here is an excerpt that any conservative should agree with:
“Before we yell at the Democrats for what they are doing… think about, when Republicans were in control we passed a $7 trillion liability to Medicare, a program that was already going bankrupt. That is not what conservatives do.”
But maybe the "B" family ( don't ask me to spell it ;-) ) may be in a higher bracket than we realize and she knows they are going to get creamed and it is starting to sting....
I like Mika, she’s too cute to be a lib.
Wasn’t she mugged right before the elections at some hotel as she waited for a cab or something?
Try to think a little, it will do a lot of good.
Whenever the media supports a conservative, they support the weakest candidate the GOP has to offer, like John McCain. Who does the media hate? Strong conservatives like Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin. Are you thinking yet?
If Sarah was weak, the media would love her and put her up in a pedestal because if she would eventually win, she would be easy to manipulate, and on the other hand, if she is weak she wouldn't win elections. Case in point: John McCain, So either way, supporting a weak conservative is a win-win for the Media.
Their objective is to defeat conservatism. So if she was a weak opponent, the media wouldn't trash her the way they do.
The media attacks her because she is a true conservative, a true pro-life individual, a fiscal conservative, and a smart woman. They hate her because she has charisma and good looks, is likable, and she threatens their socialist world view.
I see all these phony conservatives on FR jumping on Sarah Palin, and they don't know the meaning of the word 'conservatism,' because if they knew, they wouldn't react to Sarah with the same negativity as the liberal media. Very telling.
Points well-taken - yes the MSM trashed her because she had the image of being very conservative and it shattered their idea that a woman President has to a Hillary Clinton type. But at the same time she stumbled on the global warming questions from Charlie Gibson and didn’t seem to know how to answer Middle East conflicts, etc. So the question is - does she really understand conservatism completely and can she articulate the message? If not, then she might not get as many conservative votes in a general election as she needs.
You’re right, the MSM wants to destroy conservatism. But is Palin really the best advocate for it? The MSM might be betting that she’s not and has become too much of a caricature for the majority of the electorate to take seriously.
Having said that, the latest Rasmussen poll as of January 29, 2009 shows...
Excerpt:
Coming off a shellacking at the polls in November, the plurality of GOP voters (43%) say their party has been too moderate over the past eight years, and 55% think it should become more like Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in the future, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 24% think failed presidential candidate John McCain is the best future model for the party, and 10% are undecided.Regarding the future of the party, 46% of unaffiliated voters say follow Sarah Palin, while 26% like McCain. Just five percent (5%) give the nod to Bush, and 22% are not sure which way the party should go.
Put them all together, and 42% of voters say the GOP has been too conservative in the last eight years, 29% say too moderate, 16% about right, and 13% are not sure. Thirty-six percent (36%) say the party should become more like Palin, 32% like McCain, seven percent (7%) like Bush, and 25% are undecided.
For Palin, her favorables are 52% (28% Very Favorable) and her unfavorables are 46%, with 26% who see her in a Very Unfavorable light.
Palin fares better with unaffiliated voters, too. For McCain, unaffiliated break 10% Very Favorable and eight percent (8%) Very Unfavorable. But 35% of unaffiliated voters have a Very Favorable opinion of Palin, compared to 15% who have a Very Unfavorable view.
Even right before Election Day, Republicans were happier with Palin, their vice presidential candidate, than with their presidential nominee McCain.
Just after losing the election, 69% Republican voters said Palin helped McCain’s bid for the presidency, and nearly two-thirds said she should be the party’s 2012 presidential nominee. Sixty-five percent (65%) of GOP voters had a Very Favorable view of her at that time.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of conservative voters say the Republican Party has been too moderate over the last eight years, while 56% of moderates say it’s been too conservative, a view shared by 75% of liberals. Fifty-five percent (55%) of conservatives like a GOP future with Palin in it, but pluralities of liberals (48%) and moderates (42%) say McCain is the model to follow.
Younger voters are more likely than their elders to think the GOP has been too conservative during the Bush years, but voters in nearly all age groups are more closely divided on the future direction of the party between McCain and Palin.
Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Evangelical Christians say the party should become more like Palin. Other Protestant voters are more closely divided, giving Palin just a four-point edge over McCain, while Catholics prefer following McCain by eight points. link
As you can see from this latest poll, Sarah is popular with conservatives, ranking number one in the field. However, we can't let our guard down because the mainstream media will always relentlessly trash our leaders. They will do it to the next conservative, and the next, and the next. They simply will never be fair to our side and we can't expect them to treat our side with any kind of fairness and respect. We need to toughen up and keep our minds open. We need conservatives on our side fighting for us. If we start attacking our own, then don't expect Republicans to regain power any time soon. And that's just what the Democrats and the mainstream media want.
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