Scarborough attacks the "Cheetos Brigade" for calling him out
By SilentPatriot Thursday Jul 24, 2008 11:00am
On "Morning Joe," seemingly in response to this C&L post, Joe Scarborough denies he was talking about his colleague Keith Olbermann when he referred to a pundit who "ignorantly" reported on McCain's Anbar gaffe, and then goes on a hysterical little rant about the "Cheetos Brigade" without mentioning who he was talking about.
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"I was talking about someone on another network. [...] But again, you know the problem is when you're in the basement and you're blogging and you're eating Cheetos, sometimes the Cheetos dust goes up, ya know, and you get two choices: You can either keep typing, or you can stop for a second and wipe the Cheetos off your chest, clear out your ears and take a closer listen. But they don't do that. And therein lies the problem with the 'Cheetos Brigade.'"
What other cable news host reported on the story Tuesday night that Joe could have been talking about? Was it Andersen Cooper? We'll probably never know because although Joe may not be a keyboard-carrying member of the "Cheeto Brigade," he sure doesn't have the courage to name names.
Maybe Joe can lament about the evil bloggers with Brian Williams at the next DC cocktail party. I can just picture them yukking it up about guys named Vinny with "Cheetos-stained" shirts in their pathetic "efficiency apartments." Maybe our pads would be a little nicer, Joe, if we were handsomely rewarded for being wrong about everything like you are. Then again, I'll take my snack food, modest housing and clean conscience over your mansion and war-cheerleading record any day of the week.
Be back in a minute....my fingers are orange and the bag is empty. [Blue Gal has a Cheetos message for Joe, too]
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Joe, whoever told you you could work with men? *says in Al Pacino voice* You child. You hack.
Oh Joe, give it up already! You and your Republican co-horts are toast in November. Good-bye, We hardly knew you! (P.S. you want to attack someone for their bias, go after O'Liely and Limpballs.)
Anybody know Joe's mailing address? We outta send him a few bags of Cheetos. Just to let him know we care.
;-)
They should can him the way they did Imus...
Just how many blogs emanate from basements? Do a lot of people have their computers in basements? Are basements inherently evil?
Better watch it Joe, that sounds like quite an elitist comment to me.
man, why harsh on the Cheetos. Yum!
Joe hates the bloggers because some of them will say the words that must never be spoken......."Lori Klausutis"
She was the young intern that was found dead in Joe's office with a cracked skull after Joe announced his resignation from Congress (just months after getting reelected) amid allegations of marital infidelity.
The media then threw her body down the memory hole.
Scarborough, calm down and put the thorazine drip IV back in your arm. Again, you're just too stupid to work in a job which speaks to the public. The concept of time and logic may escape you, so I'll help you out. The Awakening occurred after The Glorious Surge. Not even your hero Bush has yet figured out how to go back in time to make the Glorious Surge occur before the Awakening.
Sorry we tried to teach you this. Logic is not your best suit. An empty suit seems to be your best suit.
Joe Scarborough - Epic Douche.
Well, I figure these guys are really upset with bloggers for another reason- they hate having someone fact check them. Makes their jobs so much harder, having to be honest and present, or be corrected by, those pesky facts all the time.
Of course, if these idiots did their jobs instead of spouting BS all day, maybe we wouldn't need thousands of bloggers checking and calling them on their inaccuracies.
Scarborough, calm down and put the thorazine drip IV back in your arm. Again, you're just too stupid to work in a job which speaks to the public. The concept of time and logic may escape you, so I'll help you out. The Awakening occurred before The Glorious Surge. Not even your hero Bush has yet figured out how to go back in time to make the Glorious Surge occur before the Awakening.
Sorry we tried to teach you this. Logic is not your best suit. An empty suit seems to be your best suit.
I was disappointed with Harold Ford for rolling over and not challenging Joe.
Joe is such a little bitch. The heat is directly on these conservative hacks and the one thing they can't handle above all else is being called out for talking right out of their own asses - unless they're regurgitating other websites, in which case they're talking out of other people's asses.
"The blogosphere has no impact and should be ignored!!!'
~reich-wing talking point 654,953
Buffy had a long talk with Scarborough last week.
He is a very unhappy person. He has had to watch his political faction melt like a Vampire in the sun.
He feels all ookie and stuff.
Now people think he is a Liberal because he has questioned the war.
Buffy lent him a pair of panties and a stake. He said he had his own Santorum.
You know... it's like, "some people say..."
I used to kind of enjoy watching/listening to Joe... I used to think he was somewhat of a moderate. But I can't watch the guy any longer (and haven't for months, now). I think he's been drinking the Kool Aid in his "Morning Joe" mug.
Hey flavor409 @8, not all of us have forgotten his intern but then again i'm not MSM (I don't even have the glory of being part of the Cheeto Brigade). You'd think that some a**hole with literal skeletons in his closet would learn to keep a low profile but I've learned that those with Narcissistic Personality Disorder rarely learn that trick. Remember, they really aren't political pundits, they're entertainers and glory whores.
Agreed..Joe is a talentless hack with no balls as at all, and nothing substantial to say whatsoever.."end ow western civilization as we know it".."locusts will descend upon cbs"...just shut the hell up already. Really.
When he finally did utter keith Olbermann's name, I think he peed his pants a little.
He uses a typical Rove tactic of insults rather then knowledge and wisdom. Btw, I love it when Rachel smacks him down!
I could really go for some Cheetos now.
I quit eating Cheetos when they quit working in my weight-loss program. That was a good 30 years ago.
Scar, you're a cypher. Less than a cypher. And a tiny tiny man with a mind to match.
How does Frito-Lay like having one of their products used as part of a put-down by a mental midget?
awwww poor widdle baby got caught wif his pants down and now he has to blame those who are calling him out of the playground.
Are you a man or a mouse Joe?
Time for morning Joe to retire
There are those of us who prefer pretzels because they cause less of a mess and I have discovered my keyboards are lasting twice as long now since I made the switch.
Louis @ 13:
Harold is disappointing continuously these days.
By the way, Joe Scarborough may want to stop with the psychological projection.
Looking at the people fitting the stereotype Scarborough tries to conjure up, a prominent name comes to mind: Chad Conrad Castagana. The guy who, at 39, was living in his mother's basement, blogging for Free Republic, and sending fake Anthrax to liberals.
So LMGTS (Let Me Get This Straight):
Joe slams an unnamed person (so cowardly), and when someone guesses wrong about his target, he shouts "You're SO stupid!"
What a juvenile attitude.
"What other cable news host reported on the story Tuesday night that Joe could have been talking about? Was it Andersen Cooper?"
Yes, I saw Anderson Cooper report the story the same evening that Olbermann did.
Because media is corporate in this country and anchors, journalists and pundits make too much money, you can never expect an honest self-evaluation from these outlets. They would also have to get over that self-important attitude and realize they don't own the news, they don't own information and they don't own opinion. They're feeling the heat and they're getting nervous. The media makes a huge deal out of every word spoken by the candidates, and make a spectacle whenever a celebrity stumbles. But when they're the ones under the loop, they start whining. These people need to get over themselves.
webegeeks @ 25:
Yes...pretzels are good...burritos...not so much.
I don't even have a basement. It would be difficult to find one down here in south fla.
Yeah, this wingnut is the "darling of the left" according to the NYT.
Is he still looking for the real killers?
Ol' two faced Joe. He's capable of spewing GOP talking point rhetoric when addressing Republicans, and adroit at faking rationality when speaking to Liberals and Libertarians.
Reminds me of a quote:
"The word politics is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'."
I promise I won't make any jokes about the coincidence of my favorite blogging snack food and my orange John Thomas.
Oops...
webegeeks @ 25:
Hey, if you prefer Cheetos to pretzels, they have those plastic keyboard protectors-like pocket protectors for your keyboard...No Cheeto dust filled geek cave should be without two or three...one for each keyboard!
Scarborough is a man who sees his future, his own mortality.
The television crowd is a dying breed. Every year more and more are pushing up daisies. (Well, the ones who might watch this clown, at least.) He knows that his time of getting paid multi-millions for lying to the public are numbered. Most young people get their 411 from the Internets. Many boomers do, too. Joe's primary audience is the rotary dial crowd, you know, McCain's generation - we all remember the advent of television, don't we?
Go ahead and hate us bloggers, Joe. As long as you see your own mortality, you lying sack of shit, I'll even eat a bag of Cheetos (baked to a delicate crunch, please), just for you.
Chomp, chomp!
I don't know which was worse, the former black congressman
saying "yes SIR", "yes SIR" as in yes massa to Killer Joe or Joe's screwing up
the awakening/surge time line. Killer Joe talking down to the
women on the show who are teemed with him so he will look good,
Killer Joe talking down to a black congressman.
Maybe he should show up drunk on air like he did during the last election.
How the hell does he get away with it?
i admit... i caught this slow trainwreck this morning. when i feed my little puppy i turn the tube on, and *zoiks* the tv was turned to msnbc.
and i think willie hit the nail on the head: joe takes the blog criticisms personally.
which is great. knowing that a compromised, paleocon with some suspicious skeletons in his closet (see, old congressional office) gets offended by blog comments is encouraging.
squintborough is desperate to try to inject himself into the upper eschelons of the news whore line-up. too bad no one takes him seriously. squinty is more like that annoying kid on the school bus who thinks that making fart noises (see, parroting corporatist BS) will make him popular. not. working.
Better a basement than an office with a dead intern. Better Cheetos than a dead....ugh.
Che's Lounge @ 28:
Thing is-It WASN'T the wrong target-he's just a liar. The shouting gives it away.
Shorter Joe Scarborough:
"Shut up, you ignorant peasant! I'm a former Congressman! I get paid more than you'll ever see in your lifetime! Bow down and worship me like the media god I am!"
Clearly, Joe could benefit by getting off the caffeine for a few days ...
"Cheetos Brigade" is Joe's derogatory codeword for the pot smoking junk food eating youth on blogs.
Its nice to know he is thinking about me. This toke and snack is dedicated to you Joe. Only it's not Cheetos my asshat friend, its granola with fresh strawberries and organic yogurt.
It's long past time for this guy to go the way of Tucker Carlson.
C-span is real entertaining this morning hope C&l gets some of it up...
Scarborough is a total wad. I honestly don't know how he presumes to criticize anyone. If he had any other occupation than talking stooge for the MSM, he would be out of work and trying to mooch some cheetos from someone.
Think about is a second. What other gig could you have and totally suck at it 90% of the time, and still keep getting paid?
From the war in Iraq to the democratic primary, this obstreperous toad has been wrong on the issues. He should be grateful that MSNBC needs some vapid right winger with a pulse to at least make a show of trying to balance out Olbermann, or he would be asking people if they want fries with this order.
Oh, and the contrast between this pedestrian nitwit with an authentic intellect like Olbermann? You've got to be kidding. Scarborough's monosyllabic grunting compared to the lucid, thoughtful, articulate content from Olbermann is like comparing the Boston Celtics to a middle school boys team in Gopher's Anus, Alabama.
And one more thing ... the lame-assed attempts at humorous cross-talk with Mikka. How lame can you get. She is reasonably bright and even charming sometimes, but Scarborough is like a fart in church. He just doesn't belong on that stage. He belongs in a bowling alley somewhere holding court with a bunch of right wing trousered simians, explaining why they are right and noble to hate everything.
What a total wad.
I am a proud, lifetime member of the Orange Fingers party.
Joe Scarborough, you're fucking with the all-powerful Frito Lay company. Don't be too surprised if from now on your chips are all a little stale, not quite enough salt, etc. Nobody wants that, Joe. Apologize before it's too late!
MsJoanne @ 36:
OOOH! Nailed it!
Joe sounds worried. He's not used to accountability.
Joe Scarborough reminds me of a saying they have in France - "the guy farts higher than his asshole."
I would eat Joe's face like a wolf, long before I would eat a cheese MSG stick.
Joe Scarborough: 2008 Beady-eyed champion of the world!
CONGRATS JOE!
You can just sense the rage and latent violence that boils just beneath those dead narrow eyes in Joe Scar. He really can't handle Rachel Maddow. He may one day have a "We'll Do it Live!" Bill O'Leilly moment. Oh, I almost forgot -- google Scarborough's name and the term dead intern if you don't already know that story.
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Please cover the House Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Limits of Executive Power.
The future of the Republic is at stake.
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Once again, MSNBC should can the Scar and get Rachel her own show ASAP!
The implication of this is pretty weird. If you really follow the thought to its completion, Scarborough isn't cool with anyone that's not on TV putting their opinions out there... whether it's a blog or not.
Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 54:
thats wut Im talkin bout...
[Back on topic. I'll delete anything else about this in this thread-Sitemonitor]
Hey Joe! That's something we say about the conservatives, not vice-versa. Your guys have the Cheetos and the Dungeons & Dragons online video games, our guys have the day jobs as scientists (more or less).
For a sum-up of my long-time view on the WH's Iran policy, check out my blog today.
[Don't blogwhore outside an open thread. It's not polite-Sitemonitor]
Morning Joe, the biggest bag of BS on the air. Pretends to be middle of the road when in fact he is most obviously a right wing hack. When are these morons on the far right going to come to terms with the correct definition of "mainstream" and "center" as it exists in our country today? Poll after poll indicates a progressive majority and still they insist that their positions are what American believes. Enjoy it while it lasts Joe. It wont be long now.
Swan @ 58:
Hey...are you dissin' D&D?
well gimme another thread... joe scarborogh sucks...
[If our threads aren't to your liking, you know what you can do-Sitemonitor]
I can never figure out how a no personality, no brains, pathetically boring hack like Scarborough was ever given a job. Oh I forgot, he's another Irish/Catholic boy at NBC. Yes, as someone mentioned above, this D.C. cocktail circuit crowd must talk a whole lot about bloggers, because it's clear the MSM just hates the internet. If he wasn't talking about Olbermann, then who exactly was he talking about? Of course he was talking about Keith. All of those fake reporters/personalities at NBC/MSNBC can barely hide their distain for Keith's success. Everyone from Brokaw on down the food chain hates Keith. They can't handle the truth...in the D.C. cocktail circuit crowd.
P.S.
Joe, some of us crazy bloggers actually live in reasonably nice homes and actually make real money or made real money doing something else, though we care enough about our country to blog.
I've lost any modicum of respect I had for this guy a few year when he abandoned any real pretense at journalism and became MSNBC's resident right wing hack.
Republican=scumbag liar
Is this news to anyone?
Productconsumer @ 51:
No doubt, can't wait until the public finally wakes up about the food they put in their bodies. Monsanto and MSG = Crime against humanity
If 'Morning Joe' is reading this blog right now, I only want to say, JOE, I THINK YOU'RE A HUGE DOUCHEBAG!
BTW...any more dead chicks laying around the floor of your office these days???
Cheetos. Cheetos? Cheetos!
Thanks Joe! You just showed how a talking head descends into comic bathos.
If you knew anything about blogs, you would know that the "Cheetos Brigade" are made up of bloggers associated with National Review's, The Corner for nearly 5 years now.
Now Joe, who was that intern that was found scragged, err I mean dead in your Congressional Office?
Monie Hussein @ 33:
It amazes me how disconnected the MSM is from reality. The talk from their Broders about "the common man I met in my neighborhood on a weekend back at home" or "the Gate 11 people I met at the airport".
Yes, the Orange Underground!
Now just imagine this guy is Joe,
and he can only breathe through his nose.
You have tools to fix this.
Louis @ 13:
What!!! Don't you realize Harold Ford is a disappointment to begin with? He was the only Democrat I'm glad lost his bid for the Senate in '06! He thought if he jumped on the right-wing GAYS, GUNS & JESUS bandwagon, he'd win. Sorry, but I guess them good ole boys don't hold them uppity African American folks in much higher esteem than they do 'deh gays!'
Sorry Joe, you cant use Cheetohs. It is proprietary to the left for describing the diet of pear-shaped morons like Pantload and K-Lo. I know it's tough, but think up your own stuff jackass.
Wasn't this the same guy that was herald as some sort of hero for the Left... and he lashes out against the "Cheetos Brigade"?
The damned fool.
I eat my cheetos straight from the bag so that I don't have touch them... and just keep typing.
So if Bloggers eat cheetohs what do forum trolls eat?
(hussein)moondancer @ 71:
He's paying homage to his role models.
Joe is much happier as a member of the Bullshit Brigade.
displaced @ 73:
boogers.
Lori @ 59:
I notice that intern murderer Joe, Lou Dobbs, even that shit hole O'Reilly, claim to be centrists or independents, yet when one listens to their right wing bullshit it's obvious that they are liars.
Joe is under a lot of stress. Apparently he has a interest-only loan on his mansion, and can't sleep because of worrying about going bankrupt. He's said so on Morning Joe a couple of times.
So dumb he believes his own propaganda.
Don't ever betray Scar , he'll murder you.
Most bloggers have a lot to learn about journalism. Most journalists have a lot to learn about blogging.
Thomas Stone @ 50:
I had never heard that before, but I'll be using it frequently, crude as it is. There are lots of extremely crude people who deserve it. Can you give it to us in French, so we can be *real* elitists?
Cellar? Cheetos? I'm on the second floor balcony overlooking turquoise Bahamian water and eating fresh-caught tuna with wasabi. (But I love parmesan-and-garlic Cheezits.)
I'm also old enough to remember when television news people were actual objective newspeople. Fella, you ain't it.
haven't had cheetos in years but i want me some now
displaced @ 73:
Whatever mommy is cooking for din-din...
Joe was eating a bag of Cheetos while listening to one of W's speeches and panicked when he noticed afterwards that his genetalia had turned orange.
Criticizing a newsperson for reporting the news is an odd way for someone who has the same job to behave. Maybe Joe doesn't fully understand his job description?
Couldn't watch it. The guy's a total idiot.
Hey fellow cheetos eaters,
I find it's better to eat them with chopstick! THen, not everything becomes orange!
SilentPatriot - now THAT'S SATIRE.
It has been a great week for cheese.
S'matter with Cheetos???
I like Cheetos.
They're better than the pork rinds this guy probably eats.
I switched to fritos.
Dear Frito Lay,
I used to enjoy eating your products in my basement but Joe Scarborough made fun of me so I'm afraid I'll have to stop.
yours truly, former Cheeto Eater
What a putz.
Did anyone hear him say how republicans would attack Obama in the fall, "truth be damned"?
I ASKED MY DOCTOR WHY MY JUNK ARE ALL ORANGE...
he said wash my hands more often OR stop eating cheetos while watching the Joe Scarborough show...
Someone (not me, I'm not blogwhoring, honest) at TPMM did a great blog post on Scarborough. Here is a little of it, but this shows what a total douche ol' Joe is:
Sheer politics, eh? You mean HORSERACE? Good lord, let's not discuss any ISSUES. Let's not delve into anything which is not monosyllabic. Let's not actually disseminate any real information.
Joe, you total piece of shit...may you not RIP. Someone tell me that MSNBC is in the bag for Obama. Bullshit!
joe, joe, joe...tsk, tsk, tsk...
a blogger would have had the guts (cheetos filled)to name the colleague referred to in your segment as you chose not to do. it seems you so called main stream media types that are self touting as being oh so superior have as of yet to advance past swilling cheesy poofs i see.
Everyone knows that bloggers love Doritos, not Cheetos.
And does that make the media anchors the "OxyContin" brigade (or whatever drugs they pop)
miss_kitty @ 40:
More than likely.