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Morning Joe Panel Perplexed By ‘Smoking’ Herman Cain Ad: ‘That Wasn’t Serious! That Was SNL.’

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On Tuesday’s edition of Morning Joe, the show’s panelists were amusingly bewildered by Herman Cain’s quirky new political ad featuring his chief-of-staff Mark Block blowing smoke at the camera. It was enough to make host Joe Scarborough burst into laughter. “What was that?!” he guffawed incredulously. New York Magazine‘s John Heilemann passed around his Parliaments to the commentators, exclaiming, “Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em, boys!” Willie Geist summed up Cain’s message as “If you’re for Herman Cain, light one up.”

“That wasn’t serious! That was Saturday Night Live!” blurted Mika Brzezinski, taking away Heilemann’s cigarettes.

“What votes are you going for here?” an astonished Scarborough pondered.

“I don’t know what the stats are,” Heilemann surmised. “There must be still millions of smokers in America, right? How often do we get to see the campaign manager/CEO as the validator? Not an average American, not a prominent endorser. Someone that no one really– I would say most people in the political establishment –have ever heard of let alone any actual voters blowing smoke into the camera!”

“Followed by Herman Cain’s grin of approval,” added Geist.

“That grin takes like 20 seconds to come on!” exclaimed Heilemann

Watch the Morning Joe crew crack up over Cain’s new ad, via MSNBC:

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  • Anonymous

    Morning Klan Meeting .

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Silence and control…. Silence and control……. The liberals way!!!!!

  • Olcrackah

    A panel full of white people laughing at a black man. I laugh at the factual, irrefutBle train wreck BHO has been. So I am a racist. If you laugh at one black man…… BHO’s America in 2011. Congratulations

  • Jake Dort

    Exactly!

  • Jake Dort

    There are approximately 47 million smokers in the U.S.  If HALF of those voted for Cain in the primaries, he would easily win (MC Cain only got a total of 9,838,910 primary votes in 2008).

  • Guest

    Lately the Morning Joe crew has really turned their attention to the candidates but I rarely hear them speak of BO and what is going on in his administration anymore.  They never talk about Solyndra…Fast and Furious…all the campaign stops…the big stop in Hollywood last night…the new NBC White House sitcom from former BO speechwriter…the crimes happening at OWS around the country…BO going around congress…the new lobbyist hired by BO after he said no lobbyists…

  • TruDat

    Still no sleeves for poor Mika.  Will she survive winter?  Will daddy by her a blouse with sleeves?  Are we supposed to be turned on by the dried up, middle aged, old bag?

  • TruDat

    Morning Joe spends 25% covering East Coast sports events; 25% “playfull bickering”; and 50% bashing conservatives.  They don’t cover the news at all.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    So, the verdict here from conservatives is that the Cain Ad was flawless, effective and contained nothing remotely questionable.

      Really?

     ROTFLMBAO!!!

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    I think Herman Cain is just a really successful troll and the dumb Republicans are actually taking him seriously.

  • TruDat

    Not a single Republican has ever voted for him.

  • http://www.IndiaCurry.com Yogi Gupta

    May be its a dig at President Obama who is smoker and signed the Obamacare, may be its a dig at Laura Bush, first lady smoking in the whitehouse. It could be the speaker of the house who actually enjoys smoking and has no intentions to quit. It is a clever ad, it is everywhere on liberal as well as conservative websites. The ad puts leberals to take a deep breath as they criticize the ad because of smoker-Obama, it puts Republicans on defense as the speaker of the house and Laura Bush both smoke. If nothing else, the ad has changed the subject from abortion and 999. People are discussing the ad inlight of nanny-state. Mika and Joe have no moral-compass, they are against any body but Obama or Romney. Romney can not win so their criticisms only promote Obama. I wonder if Cain is a smoker ?, Romney?, Perry?.

  • Anonymous

    We laugh at you.  You’re probably too stupid to be racist.

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you post a picture of your wife and we can all decide who the old bag is?

  • Anonymous

    “The ad puts leberals to take a deep breath as they criticize the ad because of smoker-Obama…”

    Yes.

  • Anonymous

    Dude, she just destroyed like $5 worth of his cigarettes.

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    I just KNEW I recognized that smile!

    http://tinyurl.com/cainlulz
    Thanks innarnedz!

  • Anonymous

    I’ve noticed the MSNBC Frights are all fired-up and ready to go, in their show of  support for the Dems’  2012 Campaigns. I dedicate this to all the MSNBC Frights, courtesy of JibJab software. LOL.

    http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/N3sZeE5nhFZThsDh

  • Anonymous

    ‘Blowing Smoke..’

    This may well be the correct analogy…

  • Anonymous

    What a bunch of hypocrites, I didn’t hear one word when barry was sucking down on his Newports.
    One wonders if barry ever quit his habit, and if he didn’t the taxpayers are probably paying for it.

  • Bob

    These idiots are like a bunch of high school kids snickering at other people. C’mon Joe… run for office again and lets see how you hold up with all the crap from your past. Geesh, I really despise these pukes.

  • Anonymous

    Herman may well have the last and best laugh.

  • Anonymous

    Seeing how it’s in NYC, it’s probably closer to $10.  

    I’m not sure how she thinks that will help him quit smoking.  If anything, as a former smoker, I would get pretty upset with her if she did that to me.

  • Anonymous

    It’s obvious that this group (whose ratings suck, btw) can’t defend barry, so all they have left is going on rants about conservatives.  I can’t wait until closer to the Presidential election when they really take their rants off the deep end.

  • ganymede

    My one serious vice is being a light smoker and the Cain commercial really blew me away.  Herman Cain is beneath contempt and I wouldn’t normally waste words on him, but this commercial, if it’s real, and it probably is, perfectly demonstrates the disconnect that exists in many American lives. What Cain is telling us in this commercial is that he’s stupid, arrogant and contemptuous of his fellow countrymen. Blowing smoke in our face says it all about most rightwingers, doesn’t it? And some of you on this blog actually think he’s a great American. Wow!

  • Lizton

    Cain is nothing more than a crazy minstrel show, proof that today’s right is intellectually bankrupt. 

  • Lizton

    Cain is nothing more than a crazy minstrel show, proof that today’s right is intellectually bankrupt. 

  • TruDat

    Racist.

  • TruDat

    You’re my wife you liberal sperm eater.

  • TruDat

    You’re not; your racism is as clear as day.

  • Anonymous

    NO, actually he is a presidential candidate ….but don’t let facts get in the way of your hatred 

  • Anonymous

    There’s an alternate version, where the guy burps and then vomits into the camera.  Wait ’til they drop that one.

  • Go Navy

    Only a lib could have logic like that.  LOL!

  • Go Navy

    The cleaners called, your pointy hat is ready for pick-up. Bigot.

  • Go Navy

    “What Cain is telling us in this commercial is that he’s stupid, arrogant and contemptuous of his fellow countrymen. Blowing smoke in our face says it all about most rightwingers, doesn’t it?”

    Do you lemmings actually believe the tripe you post, or is it all an act?  No one can be that ignorant.

  • Anonymous

    ‘That Wasn’t Serious! That Was MSNBC.’

  • Anonymous

    My only complaint is the implication that SNL is funny.

    That ended about 20 years ago.

  • Bubbles

    Were did you get a picture of Reveen?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2UVIVT46ZFSPHFY6T6QHJIKQME Christine Lewis

    I love the ad.. it’s very ‘French’. I would think liberals would like it, as it has  kind of a ‘union thuggish’ feel about it.

  • Robert Bayden

    Cain seems to be the enhanced version of Sarah Palin. He is selling his book while campaigning and using campaign money to purchase his own books. He aiming for the lucrative speaking engagements and Fox guest spots

  • Anonymous

    Mika is an unprofessional hack.  She performs her smelly cheese face whenever she dislikes a message.  She should be sent to timeout if she does it again

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes they make it too easy.

    (Actually, they nearly always make it too easy.)

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Bull shit. He hired a lobbyist, who is by definition a political operative, AS a political operative, for a political operation, his re-election campaign. His point was, all along, that lobbyists ARE political operatives and so should not be treated a government assistants or guides. He said lobbyists should be out of governance, not politics. There is precisely zero inconsistency here.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I think she’s kinda hot. The only thing about her that’s dried up, middle-aged and old is her politics, which are that whenever she gets the least little bit moist, it’s always over Romney. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    “Not a single Republican has ever voted for him” … other than, you know, actual Republicans. 

    Because he’s run before, for a Republican nomination for the US Senate, and he did get votes.

    And if you’re saying NO Republicans will vote for him the primaries, you’re going to have to explain all those polls which show him LEADING among the candidates, among REPUBLICAN voters.

    Let’s step back a bit here, and consider what this means:

    1. It means a plurality of likely Republican voters prefer this clown to actual governors.
    2. It means a huge majority of likely Republican voters don’t want Romney – so many, in fact, that they prefer a clown over Romney.
    3. It means an even larger majority of likely Republican voters are dismissing Perry, an actual sitting governor of the one of the biggest states in the country, and actually prefer a guy who a majority don’t want so bad they prefer to vote for a clown.

    This is the same party that says Obama is going to be defeated next year, that it’s their #1 priority, something they feel so strongly about they’re not just willing not just able but actually are destroying the economy over.

    Look, you can hate on Obama all you want. But these are clown fans he’s up against, and he can beat clown fans. Those who say he can’t win are going to have to essplane what he’s doing there in the first place. The man knows how to win presidential elections, by definition he does. By the same definition, not just Romney but Cain also know how to LOSE presidential elections, and there’s no evidence they know how to win them. And Perry is trailing both of them so bad he’s turning into Huntsman.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    That’s just too confused. Here, take this little pill and sit in the corner for a while; a little quiet time can’t hurt.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    This comment above deserves more attention and love. That is precisely what Cain is saying: I’m leading in the polls for this thing, and I’m not even serious, I’m not even trying, I’m not even doing a single thing to win – all I’m doing is blowing smoke up the GOP’s collective ass. 

    If you just consider the way he’s done all this and nothing more, he could well be a plant by the Obama campaign to show everyone what the GOP has come to be. No wonder Rove is tearing at his scalp.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Close: it’s high school snarkers snarking at a snarking fake candidacy. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    He’s already laughing. He’s set no matter what happens. He’s got his negotiating position for a show on Fox News. He’s got his national pundit status. He’s got his book out there. He’s got full free ride wall to wall sponsorship from the Kochies. He’s floating on air, man. And he’s laughing all the way to the bank. All he needed to do was pretend to run a candidate for the Republican nomination and the rest just fell into place naturally. He won’t win, because the GOTV counts for a lot and he doesn’t have a GOTV team, by design as much as anything. But he’s going to get lots and lots of votes, millions of them, and he could well take the GOP to an open convention – which is really going to screw up the RNC plans for how to go after Obama next year. He’s the William Hung of this contest, and he’s loving it, because he could even get to the finals and be the kingmaker – or at least make sure the Kochies are the kingmakers, because he’s totally in the bag for the Kochies. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    It’s a valid point he makes, shown by how you can’t deal with it.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Hey, Darryl Hannah did a great McCain in 2008, and Kirsten is consistently genius; plus Jason Sudakis is starting to get uncanny with his Romney. 

    It’s just easier to clown on GOP candidates and presidents, because GOPers are already halfway to being clowns already. And of course wingers don’t find that in the least funny, even tho the rest of us find it hilarious.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Yeah, it’s like she’d want to cover you up entirely with a condom and then say she’s got a headache.

  • Anonymous

    He’s going to come into a very rude awakening, when he finally sees that he’s been used and then tossed out like an oily rag.

    Karl Rove wants a serious and genuine candidate to be reckoned with…

    Unfortunately for Rove he’s dealing with troublesome extremes in his Party. 

    …It really is blood letting.

  • Anonymous

    Hi Bubbles,

    I just stole it on the internet somewhere and cropped it down.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Well, offer your critique of the ad, since none of your fellow cons seem to find anything whatsoever wrong with it.

    –Cobra

  • SayyyyyWhat

    Sorry Joe Blowhard, but you and Miss Aiorhead are SNL. Nobody on the planet takes anything from your sorry show, seriously. It is like a bunch of clowns auditioning for the circus caravan that is going to tour Cuba.

    BTW, Joe…why are you not running for President LOLOLOL???LOLOLOL You struggle to get 350,000 viewers (LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL) daily. That is awfully low in the ratings dept. Joey. In fact the worst at msnbc. Maybe you could get a job as a traveling preacherman. You yell and scream loud enough. LOLOLOL

  • SayyyyyWhat

    Sorry Joe Blowhard, but you and Miss Aiorhead are SNL. Nobody on the planet takes anything from your sorry show, seriously. It is like a bunch of clowns auditioning for the circus caravan that is going to tour Cuba.

    BTW, Joe…why are you not running for President LOLOLOL???LOLOLOL You struggle to get 350,000 viewers (LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL) daily. That is awfully low in the ratings dept. Joey. In fact the worst at msnbc. Maybe you could get a job as a traveling preacherman. You yell and scream loud enough. LOLOLOL

  • Anonymous

    If I had created this ad, and I were Herman Cain, I would’ve been thinking: Put forth a straight message, then a twist – something that needs to be thought about and even deciphered…

    This is my response if I were Herman Cain: “So what? My campaign manager smokes just like our President, and he has every right to do so, as they are both of legal age. My campaign manager and the President have the Constitutional right to do so and shouldn’t be told otherwise. As well, neither should be taxed exorbitant rates to do anything of which they are afforded by the Constitution of the United States of America… Period. I propose that the Federal Government, in bed with the IRS be put in check.” Etc…

    (by the way, this comes from a non-smoker)

  • SayyyyyWhat

    Mika is starting to look as old as old Chrissy Tingles. On FOX News there are so many intelligent young cuties and dolls I can’t figure out why any redblooded American male would spend 30 seconds watching PMSnbc.

  • SayyyyyWhat

    Mika is starting to look as old as old Chrissy Tingles. On FOX News there are so many intelligent young cuties and dolls I can’t figure out why any redblooded American male would spend 30 seconds watching PMSnbc.

  • SayyyyyWhat

    Well the two racist bigots are at it this morning. Joe Blowhard & Mika Airhead are acting like little racist children Sickening! Time to head back to FOX & Friends where the ADULTS are. LSDnbc is probably enjoyed by the trailer trash crowd out there. Really sad situation at 30 Rock.

  • Rachbaby72

    Joe and Mika are fabulous.  If this Herman Cain and that rag-tag group of candidates is the best that the Republican party can do, then Obama has got it in the bag.  Seriously.  The only candidate who could remotely come close to beating Obama is Romney, and even then it would be a long shot.  The country fundamentally is a centrist country.  Not ultra-left,and not ultra-right.  Pretty much right down the middle.  Luckily, the ultra right wing will continue to plow forward with their Bachmannesque wild-eyed crazy rhetoric and they’ll lose the election, and then wonder how it all went wrong. Its all actually working out beautifully.  Keep it up right wing folks!! :)  You’re crazy…we love ya!  Its a hoot watching this whole thing.

  • Anonymous

    You can tell a lot about a candidate by who they hire to represent them to the public.  I don’t think too much of this campaign manager. 

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