Morning Joe = Fox Jr.

Even today, with Scarborough gone, Brzezinski gone, and Geist gone.
Mike Barnacle, who claims to be left of center, Donny Deutsch, who claims to be a liberal.
They just agreed that "The CIA needs to have secret assassination squads, and I don't want Nancy Pelosi to sign off on that."

WTF?! MSNBC is supposed to be OUR CHANNEL! Why can't we at least have a single representative voice in the morning?!

I guess I missed something.

When did MSNBC go on the D-payroll?

What's wrong with a balanced discussion? We can handle it. We can filter. The show still has the best guest line-up in the morning, perhaps throughout the day.

The same way that Fox actually is an arm of the RNC, MSNBC is allegedly a liberal-slanted news organization.

My point was that the discussion was not balanced. Morning Joe usually has Joe (RW Republican), Mika (supposedly liberal, but actually conservative on most issues), Mike (read Mika), Willie (not usually political, but conservative on most issues), and Pat Buchannan (nationalistic archconservative). Originally, there was balanced discussion, and I enjoyed it, but Mika and Mike have slowly shifted to become Joe Scarburough apologists. They agree with him, and defend him by saying "I'm a liberal and I agree with Joe!"

And today there was Mike Barnacle and Donny Deutsch (both supposedly left-of-center) and two far-right idiots. The most liberal of the four, Deutsch, proposed that the CIA should have assassination squads and shouldn't notify Congress about it. The other three agreed wholeheartedly. That's not discussion. That's not debate. I would welcome debate!

My point is that even on the most liberal cable channel (and I would argue that it is the most liberal in general), there is still a panel of 4 people ranging from right-of-center to very-far-right. Not a single liberal counterbalance.

Without Lawrence O'Donnell showing up in the last hour, I literally could have gotten more balanced debate from Fox & Friends. If MSNBC is going to take all the garbage about being leftist, why not follow through on it and have a decent morning show with left and right represented? Morning Larry (with Joe, Pat, and Mika).

I do give them credit for having people like Lawrence O'Donnell as guests. Yesterday Janet Napolitano and Kathleen Sebelius were on there. You wouldn't see that on FOX, especially O'Donnell, who made the rest of them look like complete idiots.

As for MSNBC being "our channel", it was not that long ago that it was being referred to as "MSRNC". Yeah, so they have on Keith, Rachel, David Schuster and Ed. That's only four or five hours out of 24, and another two or three if one counts repeats.

when these squads would be deployed domestically. Seeing as they're so useful abroad, why not use them stateside? ..short sighted morans.

JAy