Morning Joe is going for broke...

[PCIntern]

as the blast-fax-equivalent of today's media, they are on the warpath to defeat the President. they are arguably worse than Fox, because they are squandering their bullshit-reputation for "fairness" to pump the meme that their candidate is on the big move and is the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread. Never mind all the issues which surround this Rethug ticket - forget about those. this is a monomania by the Right to destroy America as we know it.

These people are teaching me how to hate. Really hate, like Barbara Bush really knows how to hate (according to Nixon).

[lalalu]

1. I can't watch them.

I stopped a long time ago. They make my blood pressure go up and steam come out my ears.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Turn. The. Channel.

Why watch this crap? Joe will NEVER support President Obama or the Democratic party. Mika will always sit there, out shouted by the others.

The show is a joke. Turn. It. Off.

[porphyrian]

5. +1. Vote with your remote. n/t

[99Forever]

12. But then..

.. they couldn't come here and complain about how bad it is.

[spanone]

3. i refuse to turn it on.

[RagAss]

4. Morning Joe ? .... I'd rather watch my dog take a shit.

[malaise]

6. Yep - today was even worse than usual

Really made me wonder how they're planning to steal this election - and still not a word about voter suppression and intimidation.

[geckosfeet]

7. Tax. Re. Turns. Tax. Returns. Tax returns.

Still waiting.

What's he hiding?

Why is he lying?

[leftyohiolib]

8. why are you giving that ass ratings

[spanone]

9. they have no reputation to squander. they pander to the right in the morning and left at night.

that's not a position.

[sadbear]

10. To me, if there's absolutely no way to make any sense of it...

then there's something else going on. In retrospect, does ANYONE even remember what Romney said at the first debate? Paul Ryan at the second debate? Seriously, Romney hasn't changed a thing about himself, his personality, his campaign. Nothing's changed and there's nothing to explain his so-called "surge". The only thing that makes sense to me is media manipulation. Unfortunately, even though it's morally wrong, it's still real and we have to deal with it.

[KurtNYC]

13. Some Righties are saying that the "liberal media" is just setting up to claim an Obama comeback

The really mind blowing thing to me is that people on Right distrust the media more than those on the Left. It is catering, pandering, spoon feeding them and they have far more distrust of the media than we do.



http://www.gallup.com/poll/157589/distrust-media-hits-new-high.aspx

[sadbear]

14. I actually wouldn't be surprised either if they were doing that.

Seems to fit the media MO --> generating political drama for higher ratings and advertising revenues.

Who knows?

[fugop]

15. OMG. Shoot me.

Because I actually agree with them. The media wants ratings. I fully expect the line tonight to be, "Obama did what he had to do tonight, and he's right back in it! It will all come down to the last debate, so don't miss it!"

OTOH, those right-wingers whining the media wants a comeback story are too dumb to realize the media is responsible for Mitt's comeback story, too. They think that was real momentum, and Obama's "comeback" is a manipulated one.

God, so much stupid. It's hard to keep up.

[sadbear]

16. The country's at the MSM's mercy, aren't we?

[Sugarcoated]

22. They don't really believe it

the liberal media. It's propaganda. Many actually do buy it, of course, the dildoheads and wingnuts, but the GOP elite know it's propaganda. It's why they get tied up in knots and contradictions when they cite "liberal" media when it's favorable for them. Anytime I hear anyone claim the "liberal media" thing, I shut it down as the conspiracy propaganda lie that it is.

[EnviroBat]

11. I am really starting to harbor a deep-seeded hatred

for these fucks. Their sycophantic, ass-sucking, corporate media spin is causing me to hate them and this fucking country. My hatred of this country due to the fact that shit like this goes on, and we do nothing about it. So fucking help me, if this asshole wins the election, my wife and I are DONE. Next stop, Canada, then eventually somewhere in Europe. The sheer level of stupidity is getting to be too much to take for either of us.

[PCIntern]

18. Yes, in toto...

getting beyond upset at this country's morans.

[Fawke Em]

20. But how does one immigrate to Canada?

Don't you have to have a job? And doesn't that job need to in a field few Canadians are trained to do - kind of like an H1B1 (only, you know, necessary)?

I'd move in a heartbeat, but I doubt Canada needs marketing/public relations people.

[LovePeacock]

27. Canadians view people in the United States

the way conservatives in the United States view Mexicans.

They don't want the folks south of their border, coming in, and ruining their country. I can't say that I blame them...

[Mike Daniels]

17. That show has always been a mess but until recently it made efforts to present both sides

Since the primary season ended though it's become a daily 3 hour commercial for Romney, his various campaign surrogates and Joe's big-boy crush on Scott Walker and Chris Christie.

Other than her daily health-police diatribe Mika now basically serves as a potted plant while the rest of the regular contributors either agree with Joe or struggle to get their opposing viewpoint in over Joe's constant interruptions.

I have a feeling that this show will be on life-support should Romney win since anyone who wants to watch a non-stop Romney love-fest from 6-9 a.m. will just turn on Fox and Friends.

[just1voice]

19. Here's my obligatory "MSMedia is propaganda" post

Here's the definition of propaganda on wikipedia, just replace "propaganda" with "MSM" and see how well it fits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

---Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.

As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political or religious agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.---

[Sugarcoated]

23. And as I posted above

Republican elite saying the MSM is liberal is another form of propaganda. It's alll a big Lefty Conspiracy, until it's favorable for them, of course.

[kentuck]

21. Joe is careful to have malleable guests at this time...

He doesn't really want anyone that might question his propaganda.

[CatWoman]

24. one thing I'm grateful for

at least you're focused on him rather than posting dumb ass faux "breaking news" items.

[RepublicansRZombies]

25. This is why I wrote this post "There is absolutely no way that Obama is going to win the Debate"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021549159

A lot of people think they are just trying to keep it a horse race, and they will let Obama win tonight....but I think they have to go all out for Romney, because if people stop and think about what he he stands for for one minute, their whole charade of Americans love Romney is over.

They are in a full out effort to manufacture consent to steal the election, they can't even afford a horse race. It's all Romney all of the time.

[fugop]

28. Nah.

If they hand the election to Mitt tonight, that's three weeks of ratings and bug bucks gone. Gotta keep both dogs in the hunt for a little longer.

[AlinPA]

26. Fox =100% garbage. CNN = 99% garbage. MSNBC = 90% garbage.