MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: Fox News Fan

by Steve Krakauer | 8:28 am, September 10th, 2009

scarborough_9-10 You may wonder if cable news personalities actually watch their own network when they go home at night. Well now with Twitter, we’re able to find out.

In Joe Scarborough’s case, it seems he’d much rather watch Bill O’Reilly on rival network Fox News than Keith Olbermann on his own network MSNBC.

Scarborough was very active on Twitter during Pres. Obama’s address to Congress last night, but it was his tweets after that drew attention. Right after it ended:

Bill O’Reilly is sounding somewhat supportive of the President’s insurance reforms right now. Opposes the plan but likes some parts.

A little later:

Monica Crowley gives the President’s speech a B+ politically but a D on substance. Crowley says the plan doesn’t pay for itself.

Then he checked in on CNN:

Valerie Jarrett talking about the plan being deficit neutral on CNN. “He is open to new ideas.”

The total would be four Fox News related tweets, two about CNN – and a big goose egg when it came to his own network.

No one would ever claim Scarborough and Olbermann are BFFs – here are a few examples of some on-air moments proving that. But by making the point he isn’t tuning in to MSNBC to watch the speech and post-game reaction, he only drives those who enjoy seeing the rift storyline continued.

Maybe it’s all part of his campaign strategy for 2012.

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4 comments

m says:

September 10, 2009 at 9:50 am

Scarborough is conservative, MSNBC’s prime time is liberal and Fox News’ prime time is conservative. You can’t blame him from not wanting to watch his own network all the time. I bet Alan Colmes does the same thing and flips over to MSNBC. Channel flipping doesn’t exactly constitute an endorsement.

Zakk says:

September 10, 2009 at 12:35 pm

Looks like he can’t stand to watch that craptastic station either. Sometimes I wonder if anyone other then media site people watch MSNBC.

Nachi says:

September 10, 2009 at 11:48 pm

Joe S. has always been an ultra right-wing extremist. A born-again “Christian” from Fla’s panhandle at that. How quickly the rancid American masses forget – or never learn. No wonder he enjoys FOX. Duh.

Ben Linus says:

September 21, 2009 at 11:50 am

“Joe S. has always been an ultra right-wing extremist”

I don’t know how Scarborough can be an ultra right-winger when so many ultra right wingers complain about him so much. That doesn’t make sense.

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