Harvey’s looking at baby names.
No, really.
Don’t believe me? Go see over at his personal blog and see for yourself. Okay, it’s not quite like I made it out to be. (Or is it?) Anyway, you might want to offer thoughts about that over there. He’d appreciate hearing from you, I’m sure.
Here? Why, it’s time for Thursday Night Open Thread, of course. It’s where you get to choose the topics for discussion, tell jokes, share wisdom, share stupidity, whatever comes to mind. Because it’s YOUR time to shine.
Who wants to start?
CNN . . . who wants to be taken seriously . . .
. . . and not as Fake News . . .
interviewed Elmo this week.
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Nope, that’s not satire.
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CNN also interviewed John McCain. One is a liberal puppet who mouths what others say, and the other is a public figure whose popular image has been sold millions of times for millions of dollars.
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P.S.: If that “Deep State” is so powerful, why haven’t this website, my posts, and me been erased already? I’m somewhat surprised. Pleasantly.
I bet there its just a lot farther down their list of “Things to do” than you think.
I’m OK with tha…..
Riddle me this. Why is people, on both sides of the aisle, so upset at Trump making fun of the Morning Joe characters? They attack him on a daily basis but he can’t fire back? Do they think he’s French or something? smh
Was Trump justified?
Scarborough: Trump a “Schmuck”
06/07/2017 | Legal Insurrection | Mark Finkelstein
We get it. Joe Scarborough doesn’t approve of Donald Trump. Two weeks ago, we noted the Morning Joe host calling the president a “jackass.” Things are escalating, and there appears to be no sense of decorum left on Morning Joe. This morning, Scarborough called Trump a “schmuck” – a term that literally means penis in Yiddish, and is used as a pejorative to express contempt for a person.
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Scarborough: Trump Statement Sounds Like My Mother, Who “Has Had Dementia for 10 Years”
05/02/2017 | Legal Insurrection | Mark Finkelstein
The entire opening segment of today’s Morning Joe was devoted to Joe and Mika’s suggestion that President Trump is, literally, demented. The show repeatedly cited Douglas Brinkley’s claim that in his recent interviews, Trump showed himself to be in a “confused mental state.”
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Scarborough: Bannon “blew this”—”hack, stupid, biggest loser, idiot”
03/27/2017 | Legal Insurrection | Mark Finkelstein
Joe Scarborough spent the first half-hour of today’s Morning Joe blasting White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon for the failure of the health care bill. Excerpts: “I will call Steve Bannon a hack. When you go in and threaten members, you’re not only a hack, you’re stupid at your game . . . Bannon failed miserably. He is the biggest loser.” “The stupidity of Steve Bannon knows no end.” “He’s an idiot when it comes to how Washington works.” “He blew this.”
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Scarborough: My Dog Is Way Ahead of Trump With Black Voters
10/04/2016 | Legal Insurrection | Mark Finkelstein
Joe Scarborough was probably just trying to make the point that Donald Trump is very unpopular with black voters, but he wound up saying something that some might view as insulting to African-Americans. Interviewing Al Sharpton on today’s Morning Joe, he asked about the Rev’s view that Hillary has not been doing enough to appeal to black voters. As Sharpton prefaced his remarks by observing that Hillary is way ahead of Trump among black voters, Scarborough interjected “my dog’s way ahead of Trump among black voters.”
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Mika: Feels Like “a Dictatorship Developing”
06/23/2017 | Legal Insurrection | Mark Finkelstein
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Mika Brzezinski: I guess we can’t blame this “climate of hate” shooting entirely on Trump
06/16/2017 | Hot Air
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Mika Brzezinski: ‘Everyone Should Ban’ Kellyanne Conway
03/21/2017 | The Hill
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Dejected Mika has on-air Trump meltdown – “I have lost hope completely”
03/06/2017 | Canada Free Press
The MSNBC follies continue. As you probably know; Mika Brzezinski is a Democrat “journalist” who famously believes it’s the media’s job to “control exactly what people think.”
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MSNBC Host Mika Loses It on Morning Joe: “This Presidency Is Fake and Failed” (VIDEO)
03/06/2017 | GP | Jim Hoft
Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski went off on President Trump on Monday morning. The far left host told the MSNBC audience she has lost hope and her mind is closed. Mika: I had hope and an open mind and I have lost hope completely and my mind is closed. This presidency is fake and failed.
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Mika Tearfully Tells Viewers of Trump: “If People out There Feel Nervous, We Do Too”
03/06/2017 | news.grabien.com | Staff
‘This is not funny, this is really bad’ President Trump’s wiretap tweets struck an emotional chord with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinksi. The morning anchor fought back tears Monday morning as she told viewers that “we are all really nervous” about what the Trump Administration is going to do. “This is not funny,” Brzezinski told her audience. “This is really bad. Just for the record, we are all really nervous. So if people out there feel nervous, we do too. We don’t think this is funny.”
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Mika Brzezinski just insisted that it’s the media’s job to “control exactly what people think”
02/22/2017 | Bizpac Review
“Well, I think that the dangerous,” Brzezinski replied, “you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job.”
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‘Morning Joe’ host Mika Brzezinski: This is a ‘fake presidency’
02/16/2017 | businessinsider.com
Responding to President Donald Trump’s assertions that much of the reporting on his administration is “fake news,” MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski called Trump’s presidency “fake” during Thursday’s “Morning Joe” show.
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Mika Plays the Mentally-Ill Card: Trump “Very Sick, Troubled, Disturbed”
09/30/2016 | Legal Insurrection | Mark Finkelstein
Mika Brzezinski prefaced her remarks by saying she wanted to phrase them “carefully,” but then, in the most careless way, Brzezinski clearly accused Donald Trump of being mentally ill. On today’s Morning Joe, reacting to a depiction of Trump by New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters that Trump is unable to take criticism of his performance, leading his advisers to communicate with him via the media, Mika said that was “very sick” and “it sounds like they’re dealing with someone who, doesn’t—how do I say this carefully—is very troubled, is very disturbed.”
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Mika Wonders Whether Pence is a “Pansy”
09/14/2016 | Legal Insurrection | Mark Finkelstein
Can you imagine the absolute outrage on the left if a conservative pundit suggested that a male Democrat candidate was a “pansy?” The cries of “homophobia” would echo through the land, amidst demands that the offending pundit be defenestrated. But on today’s Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski wondered out loud if Mike Pence is a “pansy.”
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Dump-Trump Mika Tells Republicans: Get Your Heads “Out of Something”
08/04/2016 | Legal Insurrection | Mark Finkelstein
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MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski Smugly Predicts “Hillary Will Slaughter” Trump
07/21/2016 | NewsBusters.org | Samantha Cohen
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“Their Skin Is Crawling”: Mika Says MSM Can’t Be Objective About Trump
01/04/2016 | NewsBusters | Mark Finkelstein
Mika Brzezinski has let the cat out of the MSM bag. On today’s Morning Joe, Mika admitted that the press corps covering Donald Trump can’t be objective about him: “it’s like their skin is crawling.” Brzezinski said reporters “ooze with a lack of objectivity” when covering Trump, adding “you can sort of see it in their kind of like smiling, sort of slyly and uncomfortably and almost snarkily while they’re reporting on his rallies.”
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Best Bet to Beat Hillary? Mika Says It’s Trump
12/18/2015 | NewsBusters | Mark Finkelstein
The polls might currently be showing something else, but Mika Brzezinski’s view on which Republican has the best shot at beating Hillary Clinton might surprise you. On today’s Morning Joe, Mika said “If you want someone to beat Hillary Clinton, it would be Donald Trump. Because he will do things that none of those candidates will do . . . The Democratic party has a problem if Trump wins the nomination.” Mika’s comments came after Chuck Todd suggested that for now, Republican voters are looking for “bold colors” , but later might become more pragmatic
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Mournful Mika Wonders If Anyone Can Improve on Trump Ban
| 02/10/2015 | NewsBusters | Mark Finkelstein
The last person you could imagine backing Donald Trump’s Muslim ban might be Mika Brzezinski. Yet on today’s Morning Joe, a reluctant Mika came close to doing just that. Brzezinski springboarded off the news that the visa screening program failed to stop Tafsheen Malik from entering the country although she was already radicalized at the time.
While professing her opposition to the plan, she called the news “incredibly disturbing.” When former Obama car czar Steve Rattner admitted that the process in place “had failed,” Mika suggested: “are you saying something that might be in line with Donald Trump’s policy?” Mika went on: “I’m not sure Donald Trump’s concept is good for our country,” but “we just had a slaughter.” Concluded Brzezinski: “someone tell me something better than what Donald Trump is saying,” adding sarcastically “and there’s got to be something better because everybody has been sitting here for days, just lambasting him.”
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Mika: ‘I’m Going to Get Killed’ for Criticizing Hillary for Accusing Sanders of Sexism
10/27/2015 | NewsBusters | Mark Finkelstein
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Mika to Hillary Dead-Ender Dean on Email: “Your Partisan Whatever is Oozing”
08/12/2015 | NewsBusters | Mark Finkelstein
Partisanship oozing out of Howard Dean’s wherever! On today’s Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, exasperated by Howard Dean’s dead-ender defense of Hillary on the email scandal, told him “your partisan whatever is just oozing.]”
I like more traditional baby names – like Snowball or Mittens.
The most important thing to remember about baby names is that, whichever name you choose, it will be the same one the child will have in high school and at job interviews.
An ode to the master…enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tflkVVJL-PA
Wonderful! It’s a Gift is one of my all-time favorite movies.
Amelia: Funny thing they should call you up here at this hour of the night from the maternity hospital.
Harold: They didn’t call me up here from the maternity hospital. They wanted to know if this was the maternity hospital!
Amelia: Oh, NOW you change it!
[Rips pillow playing with dog.]
Amelia: Those were my mother’s feathers!
Harold: Never knew your mother had feathers.
Dave Van Ronk, a great musical scholar and one of the best pickers I’ve ever heard, was born June 30, 1936.
Here he is, picking and singing a song that he wrote: