Morning Joe On Media Bias: Deutsch Bashes White House; Mika Talks CBS
There was another discussion of Glenn Beck and the Fox News vs. White House battle today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and disagreement on the set brought some new angles to the debate.
Donny Deutsch talked about message – and the White House’s mishandling of it. And Joe Scarborough brought up some unnamed liberals who went after the Bush administration.
“They are elevating Fox,” said Deutsch. “Think about this, it’s the President of the United States, the commander of the free world, versus a television network with a couple million viewers. It’s a ratings bonanza, it’s insane. They should just be dismissive about it.”
Co-host Mika Brzezinski disagreed with the assessment, but then Scarborough made a Bush administration comparison while discussing the charge that Beck and others like him are “dangerous”:
I heard that about certain TV people on the left, every day, from Republicans. What did the Bush White House do when they were compared to Nazis or Fascists? We heard every day that they hated the constitution, that they were evil people. The Bush white house did nothing, they were quiet. They didn’t elevate them.
(Fascists? I wonder who Scarborough could be referring to…)
Newsbusters reports on a different part of Morning Joe, when Brzezinski got very real about bias. Even though she said NBC and CBS (her former employer) “try their best to be objective,” she could only “think of one” fan of George W. Bush out of all the producers and anchors she encountered during 10 years at CBS News. Check out the clip on Newsbusters.
Scarborough took to Twitter to defend Brzezinski’s comments today.
Here’s the Deutsch segment:
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8 comments
CaptainAmerica says: FNC only has a couple of million viewers? Then why do they have around 60 million viewers a month? No wonder Donnie’s show got cancelled.
bones47 says: It,s not an ah,ah,ah news organization. Get real Alexbone and Rhambo. They are trying to get the MSN to dislodge Fox from saying they aren’t news but they are ignant to say the least. They aren’t even ignorant. Keep it up Obama world, your not on a campaign anymore, your in the real world, not in Chicago!
Sunnyr says: Good Lord, does ANYONE watch the poor losers on PMSNBC? The White House is still stinging from the butt-kicking they got from Glenn Beck last week and it was hilarious to watch. Glenn obviously enjoys every minute of it and so does his vast audience of MILLIONS! Hear that, Donnie Boy? Poor Mourning Joe’s opinion counts for Bupkiss!! He is clueless, out-of-touch and oh so jealous! Eat your hearts out, little fellas!
SFPhoto says: This clip is humiliating… “Mourning Joe’s opinion counts for Bupkiss!!”
Fox News and Glenn Beck are going to bring down Obama and his whole (Maoist?) administration. If today’s clips of Anita Dunn, the ones where she explains how Obama controlled the press, don’t humiliate the news media, they will resonate with the country at large. While responding to something by Rachel Sklar, I ran into this quote from Ryan Lizza’s piece on the Obama Campaign in Sklar’s article (on the Huffington Post) about the famous Barry Blitt New Yorker Obama cover:
“[P]erhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them….he has always played politics by the rules as they exist, not as he would like them to exist. He runs as an outsider, but he has succeeded by mastering the inside game.”
Talk about controlling the press!
Bulletinizer says: Nobodies watching MSNBC and nobodies reading Mediaite… I just registered to tell my fellow Obama hating patriots not to worry about this dump created by NBC alum Dan Abrams. We need you where the eyballs are.
hkyplayer says: I bet any one of these people if they had a chance would jump over to Fox in a heart beat. They are so jealous it flows out…. You can tell, the woman Mika can’t stand it that she is on the lowest rated cable and news network out there.
Jim R says: Joe Scarborough peddles his false left-right equivalency drivel incessantly, it’s really getting tiresome but I realize that’s all the right has.
I get it, Joe, it’s all the same. Illegal preemptive war – saving GM – same same. Illegally spying on Americans – getting a prize – same same.
Kicking FEMA from the cabinet and then letting an American city drown – saying mean things about a propaganda arm of the RNC – same same.
Assigning a stooge to run the SEC and refusing to investigate financial fraud leading to the Great Recession – appointing good people who said stupid things twenty years ago – same same.
Etc, etc, etc…Thanks, Joe, we’ve got a lot more equivalencies to discuss (torture-get a dog) when you get your Shtick on. Anyone in the “liberal” media care to call him on it? I didn’t think so.
Donny Deutsch is correct in pointing out that the White House is shooting itself in the foot by taking on Fox News.
He’s wrong in attributing it to the White House top aides being human and just getting ticked off at the unrelenting attacks from Fox News. The Obama team’s attack on Fox is an orchestrated response. Alexrod, Emanuel et al are speaking from the same script. Someone–Anita Dunn?–wrote and disseminated that script and the Obama people signed on.
Unfortunately it was a stupendously stupid script.
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