Republican water-carrying about how it did matter that we traded those 5 for 'a deserter' and not, for instance, a 'war hero' or 'a senator' or 'Joe Scarborough'. Which tells you exactly why the Republicans want to paint Bergdahl in the worst possible light - it heterodynes with their need to paint this as a scandal, even a crime.

Scarborough rarely disappoints in his job as the GOP standard bearer, in his morning mini fox and and friends on MSNBC.

Saw that too. Joe tried be all tough and sure of himself punctuating each question (to himself) with "Damn straight!". He was really arguing about a matter of degree.

Joe was nothing if not edgy today...someday there's gonna be an incident...hope Joe doesn't keel over from a heart attack! He really needs to keep his bp down...

at the time.

Must be some cheap brew.

I seem to get nothing but Cialis commercials lately...they drive me nuts...

Cocaine IS cheaper these days....

room when tweety was going off about something Bergdahl. What's up with Todd?!

I don't watch tv just keep up with some of the political theater through DU.

He walked it back a little later which disappointed me...maybe he feared he wasn't going to be invited back on the show...I dunno...

Sam Stein was funny in that segment. Before he started Joe snapped "Don't say something that will make me turn off my TV!" And Sam replied "I'm going to say something that will make you turn off the TV..."

Joe is an asshole who can't be controlled andChuck is a super wimp. So it goes in b-cast news.

Meet the Press

of a grown man who was half a world away. Also, if he thinks that Daddy can call up a soldier's commanding officer and said "pull him out of there, he needs help" and have that demand acted upon, he's delusional. It's amazing what great lengths people will go to in order to justify their positions.

Joe, of course, only served in the 101st Chairborne...

I'll never forget when he threatened to backhand Mika cuz he didn't like something she said.

It sickens me that he's still on the air after that.

We'll get a full dose of tweety on his show tonight...they are like bookends on MSNBC...except that tweety is getting better on lots of issues and Joe just stays right where he is...

To become a morning- zoo version of the news they started to lose me . Once last year's "Joe and Mika are the Tracy/Hepburn of cable news" PR campaign flopped the show finally came off the rails and it's been a total disaster since.

why he killed that girl who worked for him, I know there isn't any proof but I assume he did it.

Perhaps one could say something, in a nice tone of voice, "I know you've had your share of upsetting, unexpected experiences in YOUR life, Joe...just sayin'"

very quiet while Joe was ranting...maybe he had some sane thoughts while watching Joe melt down...

I did notice that he was quiet during the clips I've seen, and Kristol is the ultimate "chicken hawk." Of course George W. Bush also "served." Actually, having grown up in the era of Viet Nam, and having a brother and many friends (usually desperate not to flunk out of college) who ended up serving, I know that the realization that this war was not about patriotic service to the country made a big difference that our parental "greatest" generation either "got" or didn't. I have never had the right to feel harshly about those who felt gung-ho about joining up, any more than those who avoided serving (if you enlisted you had an extra year but were supposed to have some choice in training). What I do feel is that those, like Dick Cheney, who took every deferment possible, but became war mongers when in a position of power are beneath contempt.

Kristol was enjoying it because it was everything he was thinking..

I always wait for someone on the panel to tell Joeasshole where to get off and for someone to kick his ass on live tv..

Bad enough MSNBC kept on racist Pat Buchanan until after he published his second or third Ayran manifest0.

And their soulless political machine and their child loving and their sandals and their peace signs. They'll kill all u bloodthirsty Republicans with their wimpiness. Which is exactly equivalent to Fox's warmongering.

NBC News is the boss of them; and NBC news is not leftist by any stretch. But NBC thought it could make a dollar by pretending to be the left's answer to FOX, especially when Bush's approval ratings dropped to 30% and Olbermann became MSNBC's highest-rated show.

However, NBC News never let go of its rightist preferences, or of Scarborough. Even held on to Pat Buchanan until it could no longer even pretend to be unaware of his racism and xenophobia.

Fox and MSNBC are apples and oranges. But the RW wants to say they are the same so they can level the same sort of attacks on MSNBX "liberals" that they imagine we are slinging at Fox. Because it's all about firing back and firing with those fire-eaters in the RNC which runs Fox.

However, that very same Sunday, Tavis Smiley was on one of the shows and I do think he is a traditional Democrat, of the Christian variety.

Other than Smiley, though, there are not many traditional Democrats on TV, let alone liberals. It's usually a center right Democrat, who is more right than center. And, sometimes, not even the best and the brightest or the best debater of that group, either.

And that is what passes for balanced TV journalism anymore.

are defining. The bile and filth they are spewing is nauseating.

I am ashamed at what they are presenting to the world.

Republicans -- the American Taliban.

ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN are the four channels I have watched the last week and I see them acting more and more like Fox News everyday. This Bergdahl story is making the entire news media a conservative place.

For me, it was all about the President of the United States coming out with a mother and father announcing their son will be freed from captivity in a hostile nation we are fighting a war in.

What has followed is so outrageous and twisted, I don't know how the Republicans sleep at night.

Any Democrats jump on this crazy train, we'll know who they really are.

It got its liberal rap when it finally started reporting on the civil rights brutality in the 1950s and 1960s, even though it took a while before they started exposing it.

And then, there was Cronkite, correctly (and probably belatedly) pronouncing the Vietnam War unwinnable and shedding a tear on camera when he was notified, while on air, that a father of two young kids who was a Democrat and had had his brain shot out in Texas had just been pronounced dead.

Those events formed the alleged basis for the right to insist that media are liberal. And, conservatives being as obstinate and dishonest as they are, the liberal rap has never gone away, no matter how much it diverges from reality.

If ever mass media deserved, even a little, to be described as liberal, it sure stopped deserving that label once most mass media in the US got concentrated into the hands of about only four or five large corporations. But the Big Lie about liberal media continues anyway because it is convenient for rightists to continue it.

Why is it convenient? Because, like facts, news has a liberal bias.

And he is completely clueless about how stupid his rants are.

she knew what was coming and her Dad would be epic...

parents would like a word with you Joe.

I don't and will not watch them....haven't for years..so, the thing that jumped out for me...was the toddler like exchange about their clothes.."I'm a girl"?..WTF is that? And they say you need a college ed to do the work yet there are No psychological standards nor requirements of - oh, I dunno--some sign of maturity, self respect, professionalism etc?
If one is good enuf as a "Parroting Distractor" then I guess it's all cool.......

bested PK in a debate...I wonder if Joe even knows what an economist does...he keeps mocking Dr. K for his "charts."

Yes, Joe, economics is all about charts and you know, algebra...oh, and about Dr. K's Nobel Prize...hey, Joe what was your Nobel in?

So many of them are quite open about their assholery. Proud, even, at least until it bites some of them in the re-election ass.

Scarborough, on the other hand, likes to pretend he is above them, as well as being above, of course, partisan Democrats. But, he isn't. He's only more cynical and more of a hypocrite, desperately needing to be seen as more rational than most of the population and therefore superior to most of the population.

One of the things Joe said this morning was that it should have mattered (in thinking about the exchange) that the Sgt was (according to Joe) ashamed of the US mission in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Joe has been condemning that mission and so-called "nation building" for years. Well, for some of the years Obama has been in office, anyway.

Joe claims he, like other "real" conservatives, disapproved of it when Bush did it, too. Funny, though, I never heard good ole post-partisan Joe say that on air until Bush was well out of range of having it affect him (Bush) at the poles.

Sleazy Joe, thinkin' he's slick and pulling off his act. But, those of us whose memory still functions don't have a lot of trouble seeing him for the uber partisan, uber hypocritical, uber ideologue that he is.

eliminating the no man left behind doctrine of the military, and the military is pushing back. The military can do anti-propaganda just fine.

I stopped watching 'Morning Joke about three months ago. I'm gonna click through my 'NoWhere TV app" and check it out. Thanks for the heads-up.

many emails about some of the simple minded points he was trying to make about this administration. he was more than likely getting a hole chewed in his ass by us. Joe is a maggot. He feeds off dead and decaying matter. Ask the intern. oh we can't because she is no longer with us. Hey Joe, are you ever going to explain that Dead Woman in Your Office?????

he's just another scabrous repuke...

If Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers..."

Joe would scream, "More liberal nonsense....let's get in a circle and sang Kumbala...!!"

Jesus would shrink back into the woodwork until the Republicans would need him to make a point about how moral and religious they are...