Joe Scar

Scarborough. Morning coffee.

He's ready to bully right from the first word. He goes on the attack in one sentence, puffs confidently. He looks, checking the other guests in this first sally. His eyebrows are raised. He is checking to see if someone might call his bluff, come out and tell him immediately the truths that he is guilty of refuting in gross error. He is checking to see if someone might not take his lead--all spin toward his own ends--and stand up manly and set the conversation right. He is very careful to, in his charming rational-sounding introduction, say just the right thing, just where he can start, and then in two sentences he is ranting. He doesn't state clearly what criticisms he is about to offer. He hides what he has to say, reveals little, and goes on the attack without looking back.

How MSNBC has employed him as a fair commentator is beyond me. He has been hired to deliver a message people like to hear, go "yeah" too. And even Mike Barnacle--well, I don't know the history of Mr. Barnacle and what he stands for--is, as the three other 'newspeople/guests', even as they 'try' to be 'impartial and fair' are all serving as props for Mr. Morning Joe-the-awakened-eye-opener of confidence and deep good sense, little more than a diluted ingratiating Yes Man.

The studied eye of Mr. Scarborough as he looks at potential opponents for someone who might offer a sound and practiced wisdom rather than a pointed opinion--check it out next time you're watching TV--is akin to many conservative rhetorical weapons that in the end decidedly serve special interests at the cost of the general public. The news is scripted these days, to allow for a lot of smoke that serves those ends opposite to the middle ground of thought and careful consideration.

Take down the opponent. Take down the opponent. Even if he would begin to reform a world of many systems that work inefficiently and corrupted for the sake of profits for few.

This is the voice that does not want change, does not want the possibility of changing out something that is gross and broken. All the while saying, 'we are defending your rights.'

Next time you see Joe, look at him. He's often berating someone who is a good man, putting the other down, in order to make himself aggrandized and better. It's a job, I suppose. Little more.

Morning Joe-ga/Yoga, a slow stretching toward the light of truth, they do not call it. That would require too much thought.