Scarborough Trumpets ‘Morning Joe’ As ‘Safe Haven’ of Debate, ‘Switzerland’ In a Polarized News World
October 25, 2010 No CommentOn Monday's “Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough cast Fox News as an unabashedly conservative network while trumpeting his own show as a neutral voice of sanity in a polarized news environment. “In this world of Balkanized cable news outlets…it is kind of nice being Switzerland,” he gloated, asserting the neutrality of his “Morning Joe” program. “This show is a safe house where people can come and talk whether they are on the right or the left,” Scarborough described his MSNBC morning show. “But there aren't many places left like that outside these three hours.” “Morning Joe” by-and-large leaves guests the freedom to express their own opinion. But Scarborough's assumption leaves out the fact that an overwhelming number of liberal guests and analysts appear on the show. Jon Meacham of Newsweek, former MSNBC host Donny Deutsch, and Tina Brown of The Daily Beast are three of many liberals who appear regularly on “Morning Joe.” In contrast, a far-right conservative appearing on “Morning Joe” is rare. MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan is one of the few conservative voices appearing regularly on the show. RedState's Erik Erickson appears infrequently and contributors from publications like National Review appear rarely if ever.
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President Obama has accomplished so much during his tenure with so little gratitude from the American people, lamented the Monday panel for MSNBC's “Morning Joe.” What is to blame? Poor marketing by the White House, the panelists answered. “Where is the celebration over what has been done and accomplished in the face of all this anger and vitriol in Washington?” complained co-host Mika Brzezinski. “No credit. No credit at all for what he's accomplished,” lamented “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl. Like something from the novel Frankenstein, Stahl cast Obama's rescue of the economy as a doctor saving the life of a horrible burn victim. “He saves the guy's life – this is our economy…but the guy wakes up and he's got scars all over his face, and that's all he sees, that's all anybody sees,” she described. “And how – what's the doctor supposed to say? And that's what [Obama] is fighting, he's fighting an economy that just won't give him anything.” So after so much has been accomplished, why are the Democrats not campaigning on the Obama agenda?
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