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HipChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-10 11:07 PM
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How to get banned from MSNBC...don't mention Dead Intern to Joe
Edited on Sun Nov-07-10 11:14 PM by HipChick
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/07/markos-moulitsas-banned-f_n_639777.html

Writing on his blog, Moulitsas said that he felt Scarborough was inflating a non-story. So he shot back on his own Twitter feed, writing, "Like story of a certain dead intern," a reference to the death of Scarborough's staffer, Lori Klausutis, in 2001, when Scarborough was still in Congress.

This only escalated the Twitter war. Scarborough fired back, writing, "Unbelieveable. You have a long history of spreading lies suggesting I am a murderer. This is the 3rd or 4th time by my count." Moulitsas responded, "I've never suggested you're a murderer. I've noted media hypocrisy in going after Gary Condit . But he was Dem. You aren't."

The back-and-forth led MSNBC President Phil Griffin to email Moulitsas, telling him that the network would not be booking him on its shows for the time being:
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-10 11:17 PM
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1. Joe is as believable as not killing that intern as Obama is in
denying he is a Muslim
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