Mika should be glad she wasn’t found dead in his office after crossing him.

As for those who believe that a studio cameraman’s impromptu zoom is proof this incident was staged… well, you probably believe Dubya’s lies about Saddam, bin Laden, The Air Guard, Gitmo, etc, etc, etc… suffice it to say that a college intern could execute that zoom.

My question is: why do the anchors on MSNBC & CNBC refer to the Democrats (a three syllable word) as “Dems” but never shorten Republican (four syllables) to “Reps” (rhymes with creeps)?

It is not just clebrities.

There is Jefferson with ill gotten cash in his freezer, Mark Foley chasing male pages for sex on the peoples payroll, Ann Coulter that has a mental illness of hatred for certain Americans, A Vice President that cannot figure out what branch of our government he is in after being there for quite some time during a time of war, A President that thinks there are too many OBGYN’s out there that want to share their love with wemon across this nation, Rush Limbaugh who condemns others with drug problems but himself with Oxycotton takes a vacation to a place where child boy prostitution is amok and he takes plenty of viagra with him.

So go figure why you fixate on the so called glamour world while Halibuton steals from the nations treasury, Blackwater kills innocents in the name of the US military unrestrained, and Alberto Gonzales our Dept of justice head has so corrupted the justice dept that anarchy is around the corner. So let Rome burn while you fiddle with yourselves……………………………….

First of all, your comment has nothing to do with the subject of this thread.
Secondly, thanks for the laugh. Oh, yes, you folks down South are known for scoring so well on academic tests. (sarcasm off)

Scarborough says, “you know what she’s thinking, she’s thinking ‘How can I further the Kingdom of God in Heaven.”

MSNBC — no longer even taking itself seriously.

Believing in Bush has destroyed their brains.

That makes 2 on msnbc and 2 on comedy central.

They are employing the kind of news-meets-talk stream-of-consciousness coffee-klatch format pioneered by Howard Stern, ripped off by Don Imus, and perfected for television by KTLA in Los Angeles.

Calling this “staged” is giving it too much credit, and that they rehearsed this. They didn’t rehearse it, but all the people knew what each one of them was going to do. They are encouraged to inject large amounts of their own personalities and their own opinions into a rambling conversational presentation, and go “off script.”

The producer and or the executives in charge probably had no problem with Mika playing the role of the righteous offended journalist and tearing up the story to stir up some publicity for their show. It was a silly story and everyone knew it, but all the producers on every news show felt obliged to cover this shlock, because “that’s what the public wants to see.” In any event, the story was played out, at its end, and there was no risk in refusing to cover the story any more BECAUSE THE STORY WAS OVER!!!

So, to summarize: not “staged” as such, but certainly “posed.”

But I do appreciate her setting fire (or trying to) to the copy and I like her a lot.

No. Just a “stupid” bias.