Soledad O'Brien: Somebody should do a show on all the ways Joe & Mika helped to elect Trump

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien

Just an aside: Somebody really should do an entire show on all the ways in which Joe and Mika went above and beyond to help elect Donald Trump.

Just so people don’t forget.

Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC

“To remain silent is to be complicit.”
~@HillaryClinton

9:03 AM · Aug 21, 2020

[malaise]

1. Thank you my sister

[Illumination]

35. Ok malaise...Now I REALLY UNDERSTAND why you don't like those two! OMG!

[OnDoutside]

2. Lol ! Well said Sol !!!

The hypocrisy was dripping from Joe today.

[aaaaaa5a]

3. Truth! nt.

[Greybnk48]

4. They sure did. He phoned in to their show almost daily for a while

and droned on and on and they chuckled and joked with him like he was a normal person.

[dalton99a]

16. Morning Joe helped Trump control the narrative and gave him the springboard to dominate the media.

It was a sickening spectacle. There was zero critical thinking or questioning.

The rest of the time was spent on attacks against Democrats

[agingdem]

17. They knew he was a sociopath, a depraved narcissist,

a sexual predator, a deviant but they hated Hillary...Mika and Joe normalized and legitimized their party buddy...they turned him into a viable candidate...they convinced their viewers that yes he sounds like an illiterate mafia thug but have no fear he will rise to the office once he's elected and he was elected...imagine their disappointment when instead of rising to the office he debased and diminished it....and when they shared their disappointment Donnie went after them like a playground bully...their affair, her nip and tuck, Joe and the dead intern...so Mika and Joe did what they were good at...rebranding....they became "never trumpers", the Lincoln Project prototype..but like it or not Donnie is their "albatross" hung around their necks like a wet wool blanket..I hope they scratch until they bleed ....

[uponit7771]

19. +1, ... or should've known. Epstein himself would've made me stay the hell away from Red Don

[happy feet]

36. Yes, especially Mika hated Hillary

It grated on me that they had Hillary on this morning acting as if they were big supporters in her corner

[llashram]

49. this

[dchill]

5. I am, and have been, in complete agreement.

[lapucelle]

6. They were fawning away today calling HRC Madame Secretary during the interview.

I always thought that early on Joe hoped that Trump would ask him to be VP.

Joe and Mika...we have the receipts.

[SharonClark]

11. They were calling Soledad O'Brien Madame Secretary?

What am I missing?

[padah513]

15. HRC

Hillary Rodham Clinton

[SharonClark]

41. Thank you,

[Trumpocalypse]

31. Actually he did

Scarborough wanted to be VP but Trump went with Pence instead to make the party happy. This led to a period of bad feelings during the summer of 16. They made up after the RNC and Joe and MEka became Trump sycophants again. On New Year’s Eve they went to Trump’s party seeking jobs in his administration. They felt Trump owed them for all they did to get him elected. Joe wanted a cabinet position and MEka wanted to be press secretary. Trump again said no. They felt betrayed and left the party early. Since then they have been attacking Trump relentlessly.

[The Magistrate]

7. I Agree, Sir

Short of seppuku it's hard to see how they could atone for what they did four years ago.

[Hekate]

21. Well said, Sir

[burrowowl]

25. They have no idea of honor!

So there will be no atonement, lock them up!

[Jakes Progress]

58. There are many who fall into the same category.

Dems that didn't vote.
Dems and independents who only half-heartedly backed the ticket in 2016. Often it was because of the same reasons.

Those that are preaching unity and pragmatism now would have stopped the trump win had they been as effusive and supportive of HRC as they are of Biden.

[stillcool]

8. damn straight...

they'll retreat back into their snakeskin in a moment's notice. I hope that sooner rather than later, the big media conglomerates get broken up, so independent journalism can return.

[BComplex]

13. That was why I wanted Elizabeth Warren to be our candidate. She would have reinstated the Fairness

Doctrine, for one thing...among many things...that would have instantly made the world a better place.

[Mr.Bill]

30. If we take back the Senate and get rid of the fillibuster,

she can write the bill. I'm sure it would pass and Biden would sign it.

[BComplex]

34. I sure hope so, MrBill.

There sure seems to be a mountain of work that has to be done to fix this broken country.

[AlexSFCA]

48. will shumer be the senate majority leader?

can we get someone else for this role? Like Warren?

[Mr.Bill]

56. I would be all for considering someone besides Schumer. n/t

[Beaverhausen]

9. well, why doesn't she do it?

[Mr. Ected]

10. Buyer's remorse

Too late to change the outcome. Thanks for inviting a virus into our body politic and then championing a cure.

[calimary]

33. There are SOOOOOO many "former Republicans" and "independents" on TV now

and I yell at them all! What I usually yell is "YOU BUILT THIS." "YOU BUILT IT!"

Four-and-a-half years ago, it was Pile On Hillary! Open season on that poor woman. All this trump whining about what he has to put up with, and they're-not-saying-nice-things-about-me, and other pathetic shameless snivelings! The horrible things that were said about her. The lies that were not just told but screeched.

I'm STILL angry about it.

Lo these four years later.

Sorry/not sorry.

I will NEVER believe or be convinced that she wasn't robbed. She wasn't the only victim. WE ALL were robbed! America was robbed.

Democracy itself was robbed.

So all these talking heads - ARE THEY REALLY "reformed"? HAVE THEY REALLY seen the light? Or is it that they just don't like this guy because he's vulgar and gross and a shitty manager and doesn't tell the truth, and makes them look bad? But they still believe in the despicable and thoroughly UN-Christian "principles," selfishness, greed, and short-sighted and mean-spirited policies that form the bedrock of the GOP-belief system.

[llashram]

47. this

[gulliver]

12. There's time to discuss that after the election. Stupid and Trump-aiding to do it now.

[CrispyQ]

14. She's wonderful!

[uponit7771]

18. I agree, can we take this up after the election though ... need everyone on board

[smirkymonkey]

32. Exactly. I think we have better things to focus on right now and bigger enemies to

defeat. Joe and Mika shouldn't even be on our radar right now.

I really get sick of people bringing this up at a time like this. It's like people go looking for past grudges and things to be pissed off about when we have a crisis on our hands right now and need to focus on WHO and WHAT our targets should be TODAY.

Not whining about who betrayed us in the past. There is time for that later, when Trump and his swamp have been purged from the White House.

[Hekate]

20. Kudos to Soledad

[Cosmocat]

22. Joe is a prototype self indulgent Con and Mika's disregard for HRC was palpable

Joe is/was what he is is. As noted will turn on a moments notice.

But, Mika for all her pathetic fawning of him running counter to her GO GIRL schtick, was relentless in her scorn of HRC. They absolutely fed into whatever bullshit was being fomented on her during the first half of the campaign, when the damage was done to allow people to justify voting for the sociopath because Hillary Clinton was "that bad."

[bucolic_frolic]

23. And let's not forget how the network hosted Trump's horrible celebrity show

the hokiest game show ever. Business school visuals.

[AlexSFCA]

51. the show wasn't bad

it’s hard to look back at it now but over a decade ago when I watched, I liked it for the celebrities who participated. Note that trump had nothing to do with the show, everything was written and arranged for him. He just read the lines, made no decisions.

[LisaM]

24. They weren't the only ones. She could call out a lot of people, including her own network.

Start with the excessive coverage of Trump's rallies. He got so much more coverage than other candidates. Someone monetized it - he got billions of dollars of free coverage.

And then move on to the debates. Natural disasters and pandemics were clearly something a president should be prepared to handle, and not one single question, in any debate, was asked about those things. Not just disease, but hurricanes, forest fires, anything FEMA would be dealing with - stuff that has the most immediate impact on peoples' lives, and none of these were ever mentioned. Everyone catered to him and what he wanted to talk about.

[Marcuse]

26. Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: "It May Not Be Good for America, but It's Damn Good for CBS"

Not that the CBS executive chairman and CEO might vote for the Republican presidential frontrunner, but he likes the ad money Trump and his competitors are bringing to the network.

"It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS," he said of the presidential race.

Moonves called the campaign for president a "circus" full of "bomb throwing," and he hopes it continues.

"Most of the ads are not about issues. They're sort of like the debates," he said.

"Man, who would have expected the ride we're all having right now? ... The money's rolling in and this is fun," he said.

[link:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464|

[malaise]

37. I never forgot that comment

Greedy scumbags with no love of country

[helpisontheway]

55. Oh he got it all back when he lost that cushy job..His

wife quit her talk show but she still hosts Big Brother. However, she dutifully added Moonves to her last name to stick it to CBS. Julie Chen for all of her career but added Moonves after he was fired.

[Wounded Bear]

27. I always kind of liked her...

since back in her public television days.

[Joinfortmill]

28. They're trying to make up for it, I guess.

[Skittles]

38. they can't

unless they know how to bring###,### back, they are forever guilty

[catbyte]

29. Yeah, it's true but I'd prefer to prosecute it after 11/3.

[Blue Owl]

39. K&R

[pecosbob]

40. Athenian ostracism

Basically voting someone off the island for ten years.

[FakeNoose]

42. Totally agree ... and yet ...

Even though I'm still burning with anger over Joe Scarborough's naked pandering for Chump during the last election ... I'm still thinking that we need every vote we can get in November.

We can't afford to turn away anyone who might have had a change of heart (or mind) since 2016. We need the journalists and TV pundits especially now, because we had SO FEW of them in 2016.

Joe and Mika should roast in hell for helping to elect Chump, but we need them now. We also need the Lincoln Project guys who have been awesome, and anyone else who can help Biden win. We'll sort the rest out later!

[sellitman]

43. Somebody should ask Lori Klausutis what she thinks of Joe

Yes I'm going there.

I have never watched one minute of his show. I believe he murdered his intern. I'm shocked he has a show on a major network.

[Trumpocalypse]

44. Rolling Stone article from 16

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/morning-blow-how-joe-and-mika-became-trumps-lapdogs-90992/

[Dios Mio]

45. Never watch them

Can’t stand the way he dominates with his long winded opinions.

[llashram]

46. YES! this

[llashram]

50. they were and

always will be DINO's

[Politicalgolfer]

52. And after Biden is elected....

....I predict 5 seconds after his hand is lifted off the Bible, they will begin tearing him, Kamala, Jill and every cabinet pick to shreds😡 They will have a whole lineup of Repubs spewing their hate every day on the show.

[helpisontheway]

57. Most of the never Trumpers will turn on Biden..

Some have admitted it. I don’t care.? I will use them to get Biden elected (and hopefully control of house/senate). We need to get Trump out of the White House.

[helpisontheway]

53. Oh I did not forget..nt

[Paladin]

54. Joe & Mika's fawning treatment of trump: unforgivable.

When it really counted, when it might have made a difference, when some serious amount of guts was required---they were trump enablers. To hell with both of them---along with that right-wing pet of theirs, Willie Geist.