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Um, Where Is David Schuster?

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Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough became a little embarrassed Wednesday when David Schuster missed his remote to discuss the latest in election news and an enterprising producer tracked him down...although exactly what his "special project" was is not something I want to speculate on.

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chili's picture

That was bizarre.

dadams's picture

i have been asking that very question for over two months now
and no one will answer at msnbc.

Dr. Bitter Hussien Matt's picture

Joe appears to have a stiffy for Obama. How many times can he say "Barack Obama" in one segment?

Mike35's picture

Put on Road to the White House. Joe is sitting there bashing Obama for showing exasperation with the questioning in the debate last night.

L.A. Confidential's picture

The Religion of TV

Church in a Tube

matx's picture

Do they ever ask him serious questions when he's in the studio? Come on, Mika, you can't have a conversation with someone who might be in their jommies(sic)? It was the loser producer's fault who didn't check to make sure Schuster was where he was supposed to be when the segment started.

marko's picture

he was out looking for Mika Brzezinski's soul and Scar's sense of Justice.

bigbrother2084's picture

Watch the telescreen.

StevePam's picture

By main stream media bashing Obama all they do is confirm my suspicions that they are scared sh1tless of him.

The closer he gets the worse they get. There is blood in the water and I smell fear.Corporate fear!

Yes we can(have) defeat(ed) them.

Hillary-MSM-McCain Loose!

L.A. Confidential's picture

Medias become the 700 Club of the Nation

L.A. Confidential's picture

You can put on a ape, put it in a suit, make up a name thats recognizable, Ape Hilton and you would have peoples eyeballs glued to the screen and listening intently to it's expert "opinion"

john's picture

Hey Nicole,
We don't care.
Seriously.
Could you not post this garbage? It's part of the pettiness that Greenwald talks about daily on his Salon blog.
Thanks.
J

dadams's picture

john @ 12:

Hey Nicole,
We don't care.
Seriously.
Could you not post this garbage? It's part of the pettiness that Greenwald talks about daily on his Salon blog.
Thanks.
J

some of us don't go to salon and appreciate the wider view
and variety offered here. thanks c&l

L.A. Confidential's picture

So what Joe say to Mika. You need to stop guzzling down them corn syrup sweetened beverages your face is getting puffy?

Pete&Pete's picture

MSNBC bloopers!! How...unimportant

brokenarrow's picture

Too yucky to even waste my time with...........However, am trying to recall the name of that female intern that was found dead in Scarbourough's office when he was in politics. Anyone out there know?

Trevor's picture

just google "Scarborough" "intern" lots of articles about it. died of blunt force trauma to the head, missed in first autopsy. Joe retires soon after to be with his family. Family of intern still looking for answers, etc.

abob's picture

Mika is cute.

Maldoror's picture

Yeah, I agree Mika is cute too. THIS Mika: http://home.att.ne.jp/wood/grot/mika_yamaguchi/

Ginger's picture

When are you Obama people going to wake up. He is a tool of Zib Brezinski and all you are going to get is another Bilderberger, New World Order Clone.

Hap Haploid's picture

Scarborough openly campaigned for Bush as I recall. Funny he should accuse Shuster of attending Obama events.

alex's picture

When are you Obama people going to wake up. He is a tool of Zib Brezinski and all you are going to get is another Bilderberger, New World Order Clone.

+1

StirFry the Latte' Elitist's picture

Speaking of MSNBC. On "Race for the Whitehouse" , Joe Scar. is crying because Rachel kicked him in the c*nt.

Sandra Hussein's picture

After ABC last night this makes sense. StirFry the Latte' Elitist - I didn't see the Rachel/bully thing but I am sure it will be on MaddowFans.com very soon. Joe, and so many others, cannot talk to strong women. Did we ever learn what happened with the dead staffer from Cong. Scar's office?

Orangutan.'s picture

Her name was Lori Klausutis...

"Unbelievably, that was it. The story was simply dropped. A young female employee of one of Florida's Congressmen had died unexpectedly in the Congressman's office. There were no witnesses to her death and the cause of death was not apparent.
Klausutis' boss, Joe Scarborough had recently resigned from Congress prematurely and unexpectedly, amid rumors about his marital fidelity and soon after a divorce. He had also abruptly resigned as publisher of the Independent Florida Sun, claiming that resigning from Congress and as publisher was necessary to spend more time with his sons."
link.

No wonder they can trust him to do their bidding on the national news network.

Looks like Larry Flynt is one of the few Americans with the temerity to cover the story.

Bercebu's picture

He is at home planning on another attack on Clinton.

Susie's picture

I think David is just acting out since they suspended him. You hardly seem on air like he used to be... He would sit in with Joe and tear him apart on things like torture.

FastMovingCloud's picture

brokenarrow @ 16:

Too yucky to even waste my time with...........However, am trying to recall the name of that female intern that was found dead in Scarbourough's office when he was in politics. Anyone out there know?

Lori Klausutis

You're welcome.

FastMovingCloud's picture

Hap Haploid @ 21:

Scarborough openly campaigned for Bush as I recall. Funny he should accuse Shuster of attending Obama events.

Yea, I thought that, too. For a putz he sure has big, clankin' ones!

SassySandy's picture

Need a clip of Rachel and Joe on Race to the Whitehouse this afternoon. He got pissed because Rachel would not let him interrupt her and step on her conversation, like he does Mika every morning. Then was his usual condescending and sarcastic self. The way he does Mika every morning. I had to quit watching Morning Joe. Could not stand him anymore. Mika can't take up for herself, but Rachel knows how. When will MSNBC learn he is doing them more harm than good?

eric's picture

This is staged. Any 'Big Time' news outfit would never cut to a dark, empty scene. Not never, not nohow! There is a reason they did this...probably the only way they can fire that douche. Which is fine by me. So we all win?

Kevin's picture

For all this Joe Scar. intern thing

Wasn't he in DC, and she in Florida?

Goodness, just accuse him of either putting a hit on her or killing her with his telekinesis, and bring the proof, or shut up. This as bad as people accusing the Clintons of killing Vince Foster.

givemeabreak's picture

Hey was getting layed!

ChrisM70's picture

That was very strange.

If he overslept, why didn't he just own up and say so?
If it was an actual "special project" why would he make it sound so creepy?

Something seems really odd about this... Why would they show the live feed if they knew he wasn't there?
It appears Schuster screwed up, but why did they go out of their way to make their show (and MSNBC) look like amateurs?

Incredibly weird.

Jon's picture

By comparison to Mika and Joe, Imus was a Rhodes scholar. "Wow" "Gee" "Interesting" or simply groans or sighs are not comments in my view, and for the most part, that is all Mika has to offer.

Joe, by comparison, starts each and every comment with something from his resume (usually, "When I was in Congress ..."). Often Imus had something fresh or provocative to say. Joe offers virtually nothing.

I know that msnbc is looking for cheap programming, but there must be a threshold point where even cheap is too cheap.

Mud Hippy's picture

oh man, so obviously staged. I'm confused as to what exactly happened, but that was bogus. I direct a little bit and I can recognize scripts vs. off the cuffs comments. Those were at the very least pre-planned, if not scripted.

mswsocialwork's picture

Mika is hella hott. I lik-ee.

gary's picture

Hmmmmmmm

Doyuthink David was gettin' laid?

bullfrog's picture

L.A. Confidential @ 11:

You can put on a ape, put it in a suit, make up a name thats recognizable, Ape Hilton and you would have peoples eyeballs glued to the screen and listening intently to it's expert "opinion"

you could dye beaker's hair black and bring him in to the studio to fill in for joe scarborough for a week, and no one would notice a thing.

bullfrog's picture
Widespread's picture

john @ 12:

Hey Nicole,
We don't care.
Seriously.
Could you not post this garbage? It's part of the pettiness that Greenwald talks about daily on his Salon blog.
Thanks.
J

I concur. C&L often castigates the MSM, for good reason. If you hated the ABC debates, you should hate this post. Moreover, I hate that damn Morning Joe show, and the less you show of it, the better. It's a wankfest of the first order.

pinkobait's picture

Way to cover for your colleague you two bozos.
If you two were concerned about his "professionalism" well then the irony is rich.

Necadawg's picture

Does anybody else have a TOP 10 list of people they would imprison and allow them to be tortured?

via's picture

Welcome to reality morning programming. It is what now passes for news. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of being beaten by MSM's stupid stick.

Pat J's picture

Somebody just mentioned Imus. Since MSNBC does not carry him anymore I am curious to know if he is still in the tank for McCain. Talk about manlove! He loved, loved, loved McCain big time. I know he hated Hillary. Said so about once a day but how does he feel about Obama since he had to apologize for racial remarks? This is the same idiot who loved Lieberman, Harold Ford, Jr., George Allan and Mike Huckabee. It won't kill me not to know who he is slobbering over but if someone out there still is able to catch his broadcast I would be curious to know. Imus considered himself a kingmaker.

Hussein Hussein's picture

Jeeze, lighten up peoples.

I watched this live (up with the flu), and was impressed that Scar could bash Obama with such fervor from the moment he sat down. Makes the naste he touts the rest of the day seem tame.

longnow's picture

"I'm so uncomfortable" oh my, in his jammies oh, I don't want to think about it
oh the thought. Where do they come from, please tell me?

Andy K Jong Il's picture

gary @ 38:

Hmmmmmmm

Doyuthink David was gettin' laid?

No. He was hung over. And Scarborough's team decided to go live to embarass him.

Kinda shitty behavior from both paries.

Andy K Jong Il's picture

Andy K Jong Il @ 48:

gary @ 38:

Hmmmmmmm

Doyuthink David was gettin' laid?

No. He was hung over. And Scarborough's team decided to go live to embarass him.

Kinda shitty behavior from both parties.

Fixed.

motorfingaz's picture

I think ole right wing racist Joe is creating some enemies over at MSNBC.

This should be good!

iso's picture

Wow! That was weird? Why would they even put him on air? Why didn't he just say he was sick? Why were Scar and Mik so intent on deliberately savaging him?

Was this before or after the oh-so-dignified, high-minded, esteemed Representative Scarborough was subject to the offenses of that uppity girl that looks like a boy (drives Joe crazy, he's attracted but afraid it means he's gay), with manners as though raised in a barn, Rachel Maddow who interrupted him on Race for the White House??

I don't think Joe is adjusting to the new world and the new MSNBC very well! LOL It's gotten so Democratic and (ghast!) Liberal!

Jiminy Jilliker's picture

He effed up and was late to work because he was hung over. Awesome. I knew I liked that Schuster fella. Regular folks, you know?

Kysen's picture
TJJS's picture

Decoding the subtext:

Schuster: p**sed off because of his suspension and loss of airtime after the "pimp" comment, doesn't really give a shit about his job. Was gunning for a show before and now MSNBC is trying to push him out by banning him to this early morning show that nobody watches. He totally slept in but was trying to save face and make it a "joke" instead of really uncomfortable by saying it was a "special project". They weren't having it.

Scarborough: Reeling after the loss of his primetime show and pissed about having to share the stage. Wanted to humiliate Schuster because he COULD--it gave him status and let Schuster know how low he is in the pecking order. Mentions Obama fundrasers several times to poke at Schuster because of his liberal politics, he also poked a bit at Mika about Clinton but she cuts him off because no journalist likes being called out on their political leanings.

Kahoneez's picture

I think ABC did a GREAT job with the debate and have some questions for them , if they do another .

Sen. Obama , you live on the planet earth the same planet that produced Hitler , Saddam and Mao , will you explain your connection and will you leave earth ?

Sen . Obama it has been reported that you once owned a Beatles record , how badly will this hurt you with African Americans ?

Sen Obama the Drudge report reported you refused the Nascar Channel when you had your cable installed , how is this not an insult to middle America , hard working patriots who love their country and the sport of NASCAR ?

Sen Obama , Fox reported that the flag in the front of your home is ONLY 5 x 10 , is this another indication of your lack of patriotism and hatred for America ?

Yo, E Rocks!'s picture

Woah, "special project" at that time in the morning would refer to, me thinks, bodily functions. No one who's had a crazy schedule and heavy drinking bouts (of caffein or alcohol) can deny they've had strong urges in the morning.

The real question is: is the Scar being incredibly racist here, or just a total jerk?

Mug's picture

Oh good, maybe that means he'll go away now.

WWwwwwwaaaaaAAAAAAAA!!!!

I understand David's absence was due to his having a latte with Chelsea Clinton.

Jake's picture

He was hungover from the Washington Journo Pig Fest held for the Pundit Class of stenographers. No big mystry there.

ysbaddaden's picture

Joanie @ 56:

Mika is a flirty bimbo. She uses her "little girl act" and pouting to get her way. I don't know how she ever had enough skills to be on this show. Probably because everyone is impressed with her father. East Coasters suck up to anyone they think is "elite". She has very little substance...she is so obviously anit-Hillary that she takes every opportunity to bash her. Probably Mika is jealous of someone with brains.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugX1o2UZd4w

miss skeptic's picture

David's been talking to Ed Schultz a lot lately, so MSNBC sent him on a snipe hunt.

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