You will never see any conservative personality write something like that about a Fox News host.

M, I fail to see the logic in your statement, since this guy is a flaming lib. A more appropriate comment would be that he would never say this about keith olbermann.

“You will never see any conservative personality write something like that about a Fox News host.”

Invalid comparison since there no liberal Fox news hosts. If there were, I’m sure they would. Hell, some have even turned on O’Reilly.

Sorry, Mr. Sutherland, there is more intellectual diversity on Joe Scarborough’s morning show then there is
on the rest of MSNBC’s programs combined.

And Scarborough is no ruder than an Ed Schultz or Chris Matthews. Granted, low bar but stil……

My hunch is Sutherland, a noted leftist, opposes Scaroborough’s views and not so much his conduct.

There, I challenged both his arguments and his motives.

For your enjoyment, from the very first comment at Huff’nPuff:

“peggyanner 32 minutes ago (3:19 PM)
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Thank you, Mr. Sutherland. Within the first few months “Joe” aired, I wrote to MSNBC begging them to shut him down—–that in my opinion, he was a narcissistic, rude, flip-flopping, windbag!!”

Compared to whom on MSNBC, Peggy?

SteveMG says:
May 3, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Sorry, Mr. Sutherland, there is more intellectual diversity on Joe Scarborough’s morning show then there is
on the rest of MSNBC’s programs combined. And Scarborough is no ruder than an Ed Schultz or Chris Matthews. Granted, low bar but stil……My hunch is Sutherland, a noted leftist, opposes Scaroborough’s views and not so much his conduct. There, I challenged both his arguments and his motives.

Very well said and accurate but that doesn’t say much for Phil Griffin’s network.
I suggest reading:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/05/03/msnbc-president-phil-griffin-finally-comes-clean-channels-liberal-sl#comments

I’m no fan of “The Morning Joke” anymore than Sutherland, but for different reasons. The show is arrogant and pompus… with the exception of Peggy Noonan as the occasional guest… she ought to have her own show. Most of the liberal elite cycle through the show with their typical speaking points diarrhea… it’s warmed over enough to take a pass most mornings.

At least he was commenting from Huff Post, a totally unbiased source.

The headline is interesting…

“Jack Bauer’s Dad Is Sick Of “This Idiot” Joe Scarborough”

If I remember correctly, “Jack Bauer’s dad” betrayed the United States in Season Six, and died at the end of that season…

how ironic…

I like the wide variety of guests and the various views on Morning Joe, but he is an insufferable bore who steps over everyone’s lines.

That is the only real complaint I have about the show.

Except for Peggy Noonan. Could she talk even more slowly and self-importantly? I doubt it.

Wow! First Imus and now the original Trapper John, not a good week for Joe!

Nothing like some washed-up Hollywood star on his third marriage telling the rest of us how much smarter he is than the rest of us. I need to make sure to take notes, so I can memorize these pearls of wisdom.

Joe DID say that Colbert had bombed at the 2006 WHCD (comparing him with Leno).

Pffff.

Sutherland is spot on! We Liberals can’t stand Scarborough. He’s boorish and ignorant. He and the Star Search Model are pathetic. And she lets him shout her down when she doesn’t agree with him yet, they;re perfect for each other because she’s basically submissive. Both are cowards for comparing Keith to Limbaugh but, not having the guts to name Keith on the air. That’s because if it came down to it, he would be gone since Keith’s viewers nearly tripple Jethro’s and he gets 3 hours.

“I disagree with you, so you’re an idiot.” How progressive.

Who gives a fuck what a former Animal House star thinks about politics or MSNBC?

Actually… who gives a fuck about MSNBC? It’s not like anyone watches them.

“Actually… who gives a fuck about MSNBC? It’s not like anyone watches them.”

Great point!!!! This site should only cover FOX, THE MOST POWERFUL NAME IN NEWS!

That way you can masturbate to it when you don’t have a TV around.

I’m not technically a liberal but a left leaning libertarian and I do like Joe Scarborough. I also love Morning Joe best of all punditry panels due to it’s diversity of personalities and opinions. He’s fair (for a conservative) and attacks both sides duly. This is also why I like Peggy Noonan. You cannot get miffed every time someone who you agree with gets attacked. Sometimes even brilliant people say stupid stuff.

PS: I love Donald Sutherland. I urge folks to watch the movie “Land Of The Blind” in which he stars. It’s a great political movie that mirrors some themes going on today.

I was disappointed by Sutherland’s comment. Not because I disagree with it, or anything like that… but because he’s a quality actor, and his comment was less than dignified. When one of the younger members of Hollywood’s “acting class” says something like this, we all roll our eyes and move on. But Sutherland is a real actor… not a young jackass who thinks he/she owns the world.

Disappointing at best.

Sutherland sounds like a first class nutwad. Slobber-Mouth Chris Matthews CONSTANTLY talks over all his guests and makes a fool of himself. I can’t stand Joe Scarborough, but he is not as offensive as Olby, the fat red-headed putz, Chrissie Matthews or Maddow. MESSNBC seems to attract all the Loony Leftist Losers and their ratings prove there aren’t that many of them, thank God!

I think what bothers Mr. Sutherland the most is the same observation I have made about Joe S.

He bullies the guests he disagrees with by employing mockery and snide remarks … especially after the guest scores a good point while debating him. At other times he rocks back in his chair and laughs at his foe thinking he can fool the viewer into thinking the guest just made a silly laughable argument.

In a word he is rude.

I think BFD and Michael_T have summed up the situation very well. “Morning Joe’s” guests are vastly superior to any others in the morning, but Scarborough is such a self-important buffon that the value of that great line-up is lost.

I do think much the same can be said of Matthews.

I, for one, am heartened to finally have clarification as to exactly what Donald Sutherlands’ opinon is on this burning issue. Many a night America and I have laid awake pondering what his true feelings were and how our nation would be impacted by his opinions.

No opinion on what Sutherland actually said? Does Scarborough run over his guests? Does he shout them down when they disagree? Hell, just ask Mika. Oh, and Peggy Nooners is a pretentious lush who should stay off the air with her long winded word salad of bullshit.

“Idiot” is correct for this wing-nut evangelical phony.

I like Donald Sutherland as an actor a great deal, but his politics over the years have been at best, soft-headed. Wasn’t he dating Jane Fonda when she posed with the North Vietnamese tank? Vietnam may have been a horrible mistake, but you don’t diss your own country on another nation’s soil.

Sutherland is like any other celebrity on HuffPost — why take him seriously?

First: Anyone who would name their son “Keifer” should be arrested for child abuse.

Second: There is no second. His opinions are as relevant as any of 300 million, just not as intelligent.

What can one expect from another know nothing liberal hollywood nut. And as for Scarborough, he is just an old RINO that can’t get ratings. MSNBC and Newsweek are going down baby.

Remember November.

Matthew Broderick is a "Beach Lane" is a dark horse, sources said that the network may decide to pick up the show and reorganize midseason.
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