Morning Joe: A Panel of Snarky Prom Queen Runner-Ups

I am an unapologetic FoxNews Fan!!!  Yes, I know you Libs out there will think "Oh, they're biiiiiiaaasssedd!"  But, whenever someone says that to me, I always ask them if they actually WATCH FoxNews.  Their response is invariably "no."  That tells me they have bought into all the hype and brainwashing of the MSM.  I, too, used to buy into it years ago.  Finally, I decided to watch it for myself and see what all the hullaballoo was about.  I became hooked.

Since starting up my new morning exercise regime at the start of the New Year, and I proudly report that I'm still on track,  I've been using the time on the elliptical trainer to switch back and forth between MSNBC's Morning Joe and Fox & Friends.  Since my Lib colleagues ooh and aah about Mr. Joe Sanctimonious, I thought I would give the show a try.  Gotta keep an open mind, right?

I started the Monday following the horrible Tucson shootings.  It was very interesting to see how both programs reported on the events.  Now, since I alternate workouts (one day elliptical, one day weights, meaning I'm not watching TV everyday), how the reporting evolved over 3 days was interesting.  Over these past few weeks of flipping between the two morning shows several days a week, I've come to see what Morning Joe's basic shtik is:

• Uncle Joe, wearing his zipper fleece jackets, sits in front of ye old ski lodge fireplace and pontificates ad nauseum about whatever .... for way too long.  In fact, this morning he was still bitching about the same things from Friday morning regarding the Republican spending cuts.

• Mika sits and rolls her eyes, scrunches up her nose in a perpetual pissed-off look (my dad would say she looks like she was weaned on lemons), and makes an occasional snippy exhale as "the boys" go off on some tangent while she awkwardly gropes for a way to get the ship back on course.  She's the hormone-deficient mom of teenage rowdy boys getting no moral support from their do-nothing blowhard of a father Joe .... perhaps a 21st century version of The Cleavers.  She occasionally gives a non-biased shout out to some politician: "LOVE him!"

• The other panelists are usually stuck in the "Joe/Mika" vortex of pablum and snark, often left blinking unbelievingly, as if saying to themselves "Why, exactly, am I doing this?  Where's a knitting needle so I can jab it in my eye?  I need to call my agent ... Help me."

I love how Mika got her clocked cleaned this morning by Harvard professor Niall Ferguson after she naively stated about Egypt that "it actually seems like it went pretty damn well."

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Mika: word to the wise.  If you're gonna be a bad ass and assess political situations with something like "it went pretty damn well", you better have your ducks in a row .... especially when you've been spending your time rolling your eyes "Gaaaawd!" throughout the show.  People beating and killing one another is not "pretty damn well."