Thomas Roberts Kvetches: Joe & Mika 'Eviscerating' Christie-Accusing Hoboken Mayor

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Where is Willie Geist when we need him? Thomas Roberts—who has replaced Brian Schachtman as Way Too Early host—is seemingly also taking over much of Geist's turf as Morning Joe sidekick.

And whereas Geist was, at least in the MSNBC context, a voice of affable equanimity, Roberts is an unabashed liberal advocate. Witness today's Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski questioned the character of Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer. Joe and Mika wondered how, after assertedly writing in her personal diary that Chris Christie's corrupt nature "literally brings tears to my eyes," Zimmer could then take to Twitter to paradoxically proclaim that she was "very glad" that Christie was governor and that he has "done a great job for NJ & Hoboken." Rising to the defense of the Dem mayor, Roberts accused Joe and Mika of "eviscerating" Zimmer, whom Roberts described as a "whistle-blower."

View the video here.

[red river jack]

I’ve been watching this with somewhat detached interest, but most agree that NJ politics is a corrupt sewer on both sides of the aisle. The Hoboken mayor was interviewed by the US Attorney’s office last night and if she lied to them that is a federal crime assuming, of course, that this US Attorney’s office in NJ is not corrupt itself. When you turn over a political rock lying on the ground all sorts of critters scamper about.

[Sooth2222]

"assuming, of course, that this US Attorney’s office in NJ is not corrupt itself."

That's more of an assumption than I would be willing to make, considering who's running the Department of Justice.

(There have been more than 300 dead Mexicans resulting from "Fast and Furious". Has anyone been prosecuted for that crime? Will anyone be?)

I'd be interested in seeing Zimmer's telephone records and the rest of her diary.