Fox News chief Roger Ailes spared a few kind words for his competitor MSNBC this week, in particular his fondness for the “Morning Joe” duo of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
“I flip to MSNBC occasionally to make sure their blind pig didn’t find an acorn,” Ailes joked in a profile published in the Hollywood Reporter on Monday. “But they never have once.”
“I tell you who I do like at MSNBC — I like Joe and Mika,” he added.
In recent years, Scarborough has kept up a dodgy rapport with Fox News personalites. Megyn Kelly ridiculed him when he appeared on “The Kelly File,” last May.
“If you want to see more of Joe, you can join his four viewers and see it tomorrow morning,” Kelly joked. Scarborough admitted that Fox enjoyed a vast number of cable viewers.
“That’s why I came here, thank you Roger,” Scarbrough said, referencing Ailes. He turned to the camera and blew a kiss.
“You are paying homage to the right men,” Kelly said.
During the interview, Scarborough insisted that he was on good terms with Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck while admitting he wasn’t so sure about Sean Hannity.
As for Fox’s crown prince of punditry, Bill O’Reilly, Scarbrough recently defended the host of “The O’Reilly Factor” after reports surfaced that O’Reilly had manufactured and embellished stories of covering wars and riots.
is he willing to pay cash for them since there isn’t anything on his team to trade… maybe $1000 and a couple bats?
“I tell you who I do like at MSNBC — I like Joe and Mika,” he added.
Well, now, I’ll just bet you do. Joe and Mika have sucked up to the likes of Scott Walker, Chris Christie, etc., and recently blew the Kochs. Joe is nothing if not a control freak who must always have the last word and Mika has morphed into a smiling bobble head. Most all of the shows guests and panel shut up and let Joe walk over them. I stopped watching a couple years ago when Joe had a hissy fit with regards to the SCOTUS case involving Proposition 8, lamenting “Well, what about all the millions of voters who supported Prop 8? – they don’t have a say?” No, Joe, you can’t be so dumb as to not know that ANY law is subject to Constitutional scrutiny – laws enacted by state legislatures, Congress or executive orders by sitting presidents and governors, or ones voted in by the voters themselves. Seriously, I lost what little respect I had for you that day when you got butt-hurt over the Prop 8 supporters losing. I just know you know how our government works – but the animosity you have toward marriage equality shined brightly. Asshole. Oh, Ailes is an asshole as well.
well, of course, ailes like that msnbc line-up. they’re getting crushed in the ratings… morningbro consistently comes in last … hell, even headline news usually out performs that horrible show.
Thanks to Mika for allowing Joe to continually remind us that he is a small government conservative who was elected to Congress by the Uninformed voters from the panhandle of Florida in the "90s. Mika, I don’t know how you put up with the know-it-all in your face ego that is Joe. Just don’t sell out and go with Joe when he goes over to the Murdoch/Ailes unfair and unbalanced channel that is masquerading as news.
Ailes likes an intern-killing former Republican congressman and his blonde weak-willed sidekick? What a shocker.