No mo Morning Joe Show for Me
For many years I had the early morning habit of watching MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” news show with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. They come on the air at 5 and I’d have the program on for about an hour before switching over to the WGN Morning News on Channel 9. (Full disclosure: Me and my parody song pal Al Flash have become sort of Dutch uncles to Channel 9’s show, contributing many music videos on sports, pop culture and the a.m. hosts themselves.)
Well I’ve had enough of the Joe show. I’ve grown more than tired of Scarborough, Mika, Willie Geist, Mike Barnicle, John Heileman and the other usual suspects they have on as guests. The program leans as far to the left as the Fox and Friends Show leans right. However, I’m not turned off so much by the politics of the show, I’m just tired of the same old same old from the show.
I’m weary of the fact that no matter how much these talking heads yak their heads off about the state of Washington politics and nothing, and I mean NOTHING ever gets solved or reflected upon with any wisdom or even novelty. Often times their conversations of angst against the Trump administration would get me so amped up I’d start my day in an agitated mood before I even left the house! More disclosure: I am by means no fan of Trump and his minions but don’t need to hear any more about what a lousy POTUS he is.
This is no way to live. I can be informed on what’s going on in the world with a quick scan of the internet or a half hour’s worth of network news. There’s no need to get charged up by the armchair quarterbacking and opining of these goofs. It’s wasted time and wasted energy on my part.
For those who don’t know, hosts Joe and Mika are engaged to be married and their blooming romance was obvious to even the most casual viewer years before they owned up to being a couple. This will be Joe’s third marriage, maybe this one will stick, and on a personal note I wish them the best as man and wife when they get hitched.
So now I get to say farewell to former Congressman Joe Scarborough’s sanctimonious ideals and his bizarre accent. The guy hails from the Florida pan handle yet he sounds like some faking piker from an Ivy League school. For Joe, ‘go’ sounds like ‘geauu’ and ‘start’ sounds like ‘stort.’ What the hell kind of affectation is that?
And let’s not leave Mika out of the guilty dull party hosts. I’ve had enough of Mika; from her thinly veiled disgust at the shape of D.C. politics to every eye roll and flustered sigh she offers when Joe talks about the Red Sox, college football or music. We get it Miss Prissy Snooty Uptight Schoolmarm, the only thing worth talking about is politics. Everything else is junk food waste. Ugh. I once read a comment that Mika Brzezinski’s job is to rope Joe in when he gets off track and spend the rest of the program counting all the calories she’ll never eat; cruel but accurate.
It’s enough and I’ve had enough. So after Friday September 28th I will close out tuning in to MSNBC channel 59 at 5 a.m. Come Monday October 1st, I’ll just click into the WGN Morning News an hour early. I know I’ll be much happier for that.