Cruz Control: Mika Beats Morning Joe Scarborough at His Own Game

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cruz-control-mika-beats-morning-joe-scarborough-at-his-own-game/

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough has beenworking over Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) like a side ofRocky Balboa‘s beef lately, but on Tuesday morning, tried to even things out a little by having a go at President Obama. 

Counting on his panel to follow the usual rules of Joe Club, Scarborough tried to make a comparison between the freshman Senator with thesophomoric strategy, and another former freshman Senator named Barack Obama (D-OTUS), but co-host Mika Brzezinski bent the rules a little.

The rules of Joe Club are simple, and unlike Fight Club, do not include keeping quiet about them. The idea is to give the appearance of diverse viewpoints, while stacking the deck in favor of the host’s own conservative worldview. As Scarborough puts it, ““many times I’m the only conservative on that program, but count the words. 

I dominate the program. So it’s basically, if there are five liberals around the set, what makes the show fascinating is it’s five liberals against one conservative, and just to be blunt, given the authority that I am given on that show by the network and the format and by my co-host Mika, that’s usually a pretty fair fight.”

finally the real 411 on the early morning lean. it has become less and less balanced and the panel generally follows the leader, Mika used to have a voice drowned out at times but she would gether point out, now it's as the authors says it has increasingly become the joe club, wonder if that is to offer competition to Fox and Friends because they sure sound like them, MSNBC and Cousins.

the show is at it's best when Scarborough is not there.

Co-host Mika Brzezinski wasn’t able to, either, but eventually did serve Scarborough a decent cocktail of Shut-Up Juice and Trail-Off Whiskey, telling him “The parallel with the President is unfair. Can anyone name a president who passed health care? No. Can you name presidents who tried? Yes. No one has been able to do it.”

“Mika, what’s your favorite piece of legislation the president passed?” Scarborough smugly asked.

“Health care, actually,” Mika replied.

clearly he has done more than expected given the republican refusal to do their jobs and his own party seeming to not have his back most of the time, i'm putting him up at the top, and obviously so do republicans IMO that is why they are trying so hard to bring him down.

we are collateral damage, in that exercise of if you can't beat him destroy his legacy, fortunately we no longer are subject to re-written history, they cannot delete the entire Internet history, but out of tricks and sanity the will try, how many times the jury is still out.