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WillyBrandt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:01 PM
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I Just Saw Scarborough County For the First Time
Edited on Mon Oct-20-03 10:02 PM by WillyBrandt
And it was terrible. I only recently got cable (graduated college a year ago)--I couldn't believe how horrible this guy is.

Does anybody watch him?
Does anyone know what his ratings are?
How does that schmuck have a TV show?

(Incidentally: He spent a large portion of the time ragging on my man Clark, calling him a Republican. Why do people on DU agree with this Scarborough creep?)
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:03 PM
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1. You know, some wingnuts have a natural talent... a presence...
Edited on Mon Oct-20-03 10:03 PM by wyldwolf
...as someone who works in the media, I can admit that even if I disagree with what they say.

Scarborough has absolutely nothing.
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WillyBrandt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:04 PM
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Agree--I see why Bill O'Reilly has fans
He has a brainless, bigoted, angry appeal. But Scarborough? What's he got?
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:09 PM
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7. what`s he got??
a dead intern in his office.....
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:12 PM
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10. At least O'Reilly is professional... Scarborough looks like cable access!
Amatuerish.
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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:55 PM
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15. You ought to see him on casual Friday
When the Repug geek has a white t-shirt under his shirt. I only see him in flipping channels. BTW his ratings are less than Phil Donahue had.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:03 PM
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2. his ratings are in the toilet
and I don't know why they keep him.
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:03 PM
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3. What are you saying?
Are you saying that he's just reading all that off of a teleprompter?

Please don't say its true ?!?
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:04 PM
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4. Would you like me to get you a cool cloth?
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Clark Can WIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:05 PM
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5. Poke your eyes out yet?
Edited on Mon Oct-20-03 10:06 PM by Clark Can WIN
Smite thine ears from thy head? Bet that's a mistake you don't make again huh. Did you actually make it through the whole program. I can't. Not without the mute button.
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WillyBrandt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:06 PM
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6. well, half the show
horrible, horrible.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:11 PM
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9. He's awful... but he also represents something awful
same time frame as the Chandra Levy story... another tragedy. Staffer falls at the home office... strikes head on corner of table... and dies (on a weekend in the office, i believe, and no witnesses). Contradictory initial reports - including she had a heart attack (after jogging) and hit her head (with enough force to kill her)... Now while there is a media circus going on around Congressman Condit... this other Congressman's name and this story barely make it into the news. The difference in media attention of these two basically concurrent stories... was... interesting.

Now guess who congressman got off the media hot hook was....????
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:10 PM
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8. Scarborough is an utter waste
I watched him for the better part of a week. He was in Hollywood, railing against those pesky lib'ral celebrities who think they have the right to free speech or something! Then he was cracking wise about Gary Condit, which is ironic, considering that he had a young woman die under strange circumstances too (in his office, no less).

Oh, and his rating is about 0.4 or something, which in MSNBC lingo is called "healthy." Donahue was pulling higher numbers (highest-rated show on MSNBC at the time), and they yanked him within a year. But they'll keep this jerk (Bill O'Reilly with better hair) until hell can accommodate polar bears.
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Katarina Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:14 PM
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11. "I Just Saw Scarborough County For the First Time"
You have my sympathies. Now repeat after me...I will not watch pig eyes, I will not watch pig eyes.....That man is evil and disgusting. And I am dreading taking a trip to the west coast of Florida because of the stench I am sure he exudes.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 05:51 AM
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19. Hi Katarina!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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Katarina Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 05:59 AM
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20. Thanks for the welcome newyawker99!
It's great to be here. :toast:
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SeveneightyWhoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:15 PM
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12. I hate it how...
..on The Daily Show, he made it a point to separate his show from "the mainstream media". He kept talking as if the "mainstream media" was doing one thing, but his show was on a whole 'nother independent, underground level.

Thats funny because its "mainstream media" to the extreme.

He reminds me a lot of Bill O'Reilly in that matter (ie. pretending to be a normal person with a non-mainstream show who cares about people and doesn't support any party or particular polical ideology--BULLSHIT).
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Langis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:52 PM
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14. I watched that also
And I thought the same thing. I can't stand him, he makes me sick. :argh:
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 10:39 PM
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13. I don't watch him
because I've seen him and I don't want to help his ratings.
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PlanetBev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 11:11 PM
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17. I hate those mean, squinty eyes
He must have been a miserable, rotten kid in jr. high school. You know, the kind of kid who is a hall monitor, squealing on other kids. Grabbing another kid's jock strap out of their gym bag, and sling-shotting it around the bus.

Yeah, Joe, I'm not one of your biggest fans.
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 11:08 PM
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16. Wherefore MSNBC? Dicks and idiots have Fox; no wonder they're last
They're not just last, they're waaaaaaay last. Olberman isn't as much of a tool as I thought at first, but Tweety's scum and Scarborough's just a pathetic transparent reactionary.

There's simply no reason for this network to exist. Anyone who wants massively skewed rah-rah fascism has Fox; there's literally no audience for this mistake of an enterprise.

It's like the "Slightly Silly Party" in the old Monty Python sketch: they get nought.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 11:30 PM
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18. Come to where the flavor is!
Joe's a scumbag and his show's ratings are low, low, low!
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Michael Harrington Donating Member (304 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 06:44 AM
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21. We can probably blame Bill Maher...
For always having this twit on his show when it was on ABC. Got him the necessary exposure for some fool to pretend he had an audience and give him his own show.
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