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Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 07:26 AM Apr 2016

On Morning Scar today: what a "mean girl", nasty, snarky snake Mika B. can be.

Her father should disown and disinherit her for besmirching the family name.

Her "Hillary-Hate&quot TM) has overwhelmed any semblance of objective professionalism she might once have claimed.

Her smirking, sneering, simpering segment on HRC this morning, in a back and forth with Harold Ford, was a new low, even for her.

"KNOW YOUR WORTH"
, she says in her faux-feminist book. Perhaps she should take her own advice and get out of the "newz biz" right now.

What a totally worthless and useless butt on a chair.




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On Morning Scar today: what a "mean girl", nasty, snarky snake Mika B. can be. (Original Post) Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 OP
She sounds like a mean jealous girl. Cha Apr 2016 #1
Oh, là là. Can you imagine what a vile, vicious viper she must have been in high school? Ewwww! Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #2
Indeed... Mike Nelson Apr 2016 #3
And, it's not even done with any finesse or finely-honed wit. Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #5
And, says everything about her and nothing about her target. Cha Apr 2016 #18
Boom! Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #19
Think she's been promised press secretary? HillareeeHillaraah Apr 2016 #4
It's been disconcerting to watch. I get the feeling she actually would prefer Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #8
Oh I think she absolutely is pulling for Trump HillareeeHillaraah Apr 2016 #10
And, that sort of wide-eyed, worshipful side glance she affects when he Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #17
OMG sarae Apr 2016 #28
But, she "loves" Jane Sanders, don't cha know? Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #29
Mika probably thinks sarae Apr 2016 #30
Well, HRC obviously makes her see red...for some deeper reason than just politics. Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #31
I've noticed that HRC sarae Apr 2016 #32
The continous auditioning by Mika and Joe for a FOX position drove me away fro. Thinkingabout Apr 2016 #6
She doesn't even pretend to be objective. Let the name of HRC be brought up, Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #9
She stated at one time it was because Hillary would not go on their show. Thinkingabout Apr 2016 #15
IIRC, Mika and Joe did an interview with HRC a couple of months ago sarae Apr 2016 #33
I recorded that one, didn't changec Mika's mind, might be some jealously. I Thinkingabout Apr 2016 #41
I've never understood why MSNBC keeps Morning Joe on the air. You are so right....If I want to hear skylucy Apr 2016 #40
Watch CNN in the morning!!! Walk away Apr 2016 #7
I know. But, I got in the habit of Morning Scar back when it first launched. Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #12
She is still hurting from being fired at CBS years ago. livetohike Apr 2016 #11
She is a simpering, sneering contradiciton of evey premise in her book. Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #14
I watch Bloomberg. I gave up on MSNBS and CNN long ago still_one Apr 2016 #13
As I explained up-thread, it's a week-day morning habit...LOL! Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #16
Too bad for Mika SharonClark Apr 2016 #20
She's doesn't have the intellectual heft to counter Scar's overbearing bombast, Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #21
Per Rolling Stone, she's nothing but a BlueMTexpat Apr 2016 #22
"Ménage a trois"...bwaahaaaa! "bumlicking and softballing"...hilariously true! Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #23
That summed it up nicely, BlueMTexpat Apr 2016 #24
She's gone from merely mediocre to embarrassingly bad. Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #25
It is such a shame that some women BlueMTexpat Apr 2016 #26
"...not a good role model at all!" In a word. Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #27
Think about Charlie Pierce's nickname for her ladym55 Apr 2016 #34
"Squint and the Meat Puppet"...devastatingly funny! LOLOL! Surya Gayatri Apr 2016 #36
She wasn't too bad the 1st year or so, but definitely has been infected with the Bernie Bro syndrome Fla Dem Apr 2016 #35
She's the token straw lefty set up for Joe Scar. Blue Idaho Apr 2016 #37
You folks might need to switch over to CNN CajunBlazer Apr 2016 #38
Mika has to have permission to speak. Loki Apr 2016 #39
I agree. She could be a real role model for women. Instead she comes Fla Dem Apr 2016 #42
 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
2. Oh, là là. Can you imagine what a vile, vicious viper she must have been in high school? Ewwww!
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 07:46 AM
Apr 2016

And, you're so right. There's a definite "green-eyed" vibe in all of her vitriol.

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
5. And, it's not even done with any finesse or finely-honed wit.
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:13 AM
Apr 2016

Not adept or clever...just ham-handed and heavy.

 

HillareeeHillaraah

(685 posts)
4. Think she's been promised press secretary?
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:12 AM
Apr 2016

In a Trump administration?

Is there a White House liaison to NeimanMarcus?

Sheesh, she used to actually stand for something. I remember her best day when she shredded that Lindsey Lohan news bit she was supposed to read and instead said no more, this is not news.

We applauded her.

How far the fall.

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
8. It's been disconcerting to watch. I get the feeling she actually would prefer
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:18 AM
Apr 2016

a Trump victory, rather than see her female hate-object in the WH.

 

HillareeeHillaraah

(685 posts)
10. Oh I think she absolutely is pulling for Trump
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:23 AM
Apr 2016

Through her thinly veiled discretion.

She turned out to be such a disappointment as a role model to young girls and women, the way she cedes her thoughts to the mouth on the right.


 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
17. And, that sort of wide-eyed, worshipful side glance she affects when he
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:40 AM
Apr 2016

starts one of his rants.

Then, when he inevitably goes over the top, she clucks like a mother hen--oooh, you bad boy...tsk, tsk.

She's an embarrassment to female news people everywhere.

sarae

(3,284 posts)
28. OMG
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 09:52 AM
Apr 2016

I agree!!! Mika has an obsessive hatred for HRC. She strikes me as someone who can't stand seeing other women succeed. Maybe it's because she knows that she's a bad female role model herself? She seems to enjoy performing the role of a "mother figure" to the guys on the show, without any opinions that contradict the Chief Jackass she sits nexts to.

It's hard to watch, because it seems like her favorite pastime is making snarky, cutting remarks about successful women she doesn't like. AND have you noticed that she ALWAYS comes to Bernie's defense? I'd bet all my money that she'd hate Bernie Sanders if he was a woman.

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
29. But, she "loves" Jane Sanders, don't cha know?
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 10:02 AM
Apr 2016

She can't stand HRC because she's jealous of her obvious intellectual and professional superiority.

Jane, not so much.

sarae

(3,284 posts)
30. Mika probably thinks
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 10:17 AM
Apr 2016

that Jane Sanders acts like a politician's wife should - smile, act demure, sweet and soft-spoken, and always put your husband first.

I think driven, super-intelligent women who make lots of $$ piss her off (or threaten her sense of self).*



*in other words, women who act exactly like the successful men she drools over.

sarae

(3,284 posts)
32. I've noticed that HRC
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 10:23 AM
Apr 2016

seems to strike that chord within a lot of people...like Rosario Dawson, Susan Sarandon, etc.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
6. The continous auditioning by Mika and Joe for a FOX position drove me away fro.
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:17 AM
Apr 2016

MJ. I can not imagine what her problem may be, she sells her seminar "Know Your Value" and is working overtime to disparage Hillary. Hillary knows her value, Mika needs to know her value.

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
9. She doesn't even pretend to be objective. Let the name of HRC be brought up,
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:22 AM
Apr 2016

even obliquely, and she'll trip over her tongue to get in some kind of insult or innuendo.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
15. She stated at one time it was because Hillary would not go on their show.
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:29 AM
Apr 2016

Hillary has not spent the time on the talk shows as Sanders has but rather meeting with voters and not shouting at rallies.

sarae

(3,284 posts)
33. IIRC, Mika and Joe did an interview with HRC a couple of months ago
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 10:41 AM
Apr 2016

So she can't claim that anymore. But I noticed that Mika was much more restrained in expressing her obvious dislike during the interview. Guess she didn't have the courage to put her money where her mouth is...

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
41. I recorded that one, didn't changec Mika's mind, might be some jealously. I
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 09:43 PM
Apr 2016

Think she wanted Elizabeth Warren to run, did not happen, just wished she wasn't hypocritical. I got tired of hearing JS telling over the top of guests. He tried his damnest to get the qualified real going, Hillary did not bend to his questions.

skylucy

(3,739 posts)
40. I've never understood why MSNBC keeps Morning Joe on the air. You are so right....If I want to hear
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 09:00 PM
Apr 2016

right wing talking points I'll turn to FAUX (Fox) News. Joe S. is a arrogant, sexist #%&@ and Mika is useless. He treats her like %&*# and she just sits there and takes it. If MSNBC puts Joe and Mika on in the afternoon again tomorrow to cover SuperTuesday 3, I will have to turn to CNN until Rachel Maddow comes on.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
7. Watch CNN in the morning!!!
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:17 AM
Apr 2016

They are relatively "Balanced" and not a bunch of braying Jackasses. Joe & Meeka just wanna be TV Stars.

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
12. I know. But, I got in the habit of Morning Scar back when it first launched.
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:25 AM
Apr 2016

Hard habit to break--but, if this keeps up, I may just take your advice! LOL!

livetohike

(22,147 posts)
11. She is still hurting from being fired at CBS years ago.
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:23 AM
Apr 2016

(I think it was CBS). She allows herself to be disrespected by Joe and has been allowing that for years. Too bad she doesn't believe in her book title.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
20. Too bad for Mika
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:53 AM
Apr 2016

She's in a position to do some good for women and political discourse but she either won't or can't on MJ.

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
21. She's doesn't have the intellectual heft to counter Scar's overbearing bombast,
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 09:02 AM
Apr 2016

and she's genuinely green with envy about HRC's career.

She knows that HRC is her intellectual, political and professional superior, and she cannot bear it.

BlueMTexpat

(15,370 posts)
22. Per Rolling Stone, she's nothing but a
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 09:05 AM
Apr 2016

"lapdog" for Trump, as is Joe Scar. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/morning-blow-how-joe-and-mika-became-trumps-lapdogs-20160223Stone

Nobody who's covered the Trump run could fail to notice the increasingly hot-and-sweaty ménage a trois between the candidate and Mika and Joe. After hearing Trump give the duo chummy shout-outs at multiple campaign-trail events, I wrote about them in an upcoming piece for Rolling Stone. (Ed. note: Here it is.) My idea is that they would be the royal media under the upcoming Trump monarchy/dictatorship. It's easy to imagine Joe in an official state journalist uniform, with epaulettes and a flying Trump-mane insignia.

Even their on-air performance at the town hall last Wednesday was such a craven display of bumlicking and softballing that media critics all over the country denounced them for it.


 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
23. "Ménage a trois"...bwaahaaaa! "bumlicking and softballing"...hilariously true!
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 09:12 AM
Apr 2016

Thanks for that, Blue. LOLOL!

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
25. She's gone from merely mediocre to embarrassingly bad.
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 09:21 AM
Apr 2016

Except for the FOX "nooz guurlz", I can't think of any other female news personalities who appear to be as abjectly out of their depth as she does.

BlueMTexpat

(15,370 posts)
26. It is such a shame that some women
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 09:29 AM
Apr 2016

always feel that they've gotta play along with the "good old boys" to get along.

She's not a good role model at all. She pulls the "snarks" because that's what the "gobs" want. If she actually believes them, she is in even worse shape than I thought. But again, a waste of time.

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
34. Think about Charlie Pierce's nickname for her
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 11:12 AM
Apr 2016

She is "Meat Puppet" to Joe's "Squint." They are Squint and the Meat Puppet. That puts their news cred in perspective.

Fla Dem

(23,698 posts)
35. She wasn't too bad the 1st year or so, but definitely has been infected with the Bernie Bro syndrome
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 11:18 AM
Apr 2016

She is not a fan of HRC, probably because she kisses up the that cretin Joe Scaboro. Have turned on a few times and they both have become unbearable.

Blue Idaho

(5,049 posts)
37. She's the token straw lefty set up for Joe Scar.
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 01:29 PM
Apr 2016

It's all set up to advance his right wing agenda. They learned this little trick from FOX noise.

CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
38. You folks might need to switch over to CNN
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 03:04 PM
Apr 2016

Apparently, if I am understanding this situation correctly you news is being undergoing filtration by news commentators/personalities as well.

I know that you are intelligent and well grounded enough in politics to handle the news without passing it through a liberal filter.

How can we complain about conservatives who get all their news from FOX News if we get all of our news from MSNBC?

Loki

(3,825 posts)
39. Mika has to have permission to speak.
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 03:13 PM
Apr 2016

She's intellectually lazy and a coward. So much for "Know Your Worth". She couldn't hold a candle to most of the women I know.

Fla Dem

(23,698 posts)
42. I agree. She could be a real role model for women. Instead she comes
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 09:50 PM
Apr 2016

across as the cowered wife under the thumb of her domineering spouse.

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