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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAny thoughts about Morning Joe (the show)?
Something's awry. For the past few weeks, there have been multiple unexplained absences and there seems to be an unease. Just a gut feeling something's wrong somewhere...
I could be wrong...I once made a mistake and said "Nobody's perfect.".
Yeah...I know...dumb joke.
But seriously, any thoughts??
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)could care less
PCIntern
(25,691 posts)And I dont watch Barney the dinosaur reruns
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I'll post my explanation of why not there and watch here for answers to your very interesting question.
All I've noticed is that Joe's opening seems to have become a very long and tedious verbal polemic against Trump, and the show interspersed with more, their trudging repetition replacing real energy and excitement, so that I've wondered if they're losing confidence or hope. That's just a vague notion from someone who doesn't actually listen to it, though. Maybe trouble in their private life is wearing them down. But I'd love to know what Joe knows. If he were scared, I would be also.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)He does seem more hysterical than usual. I think a lot of the excess is because, unlike most never Trumpers, he was supposedly a friend of Trump even up to the election. Stayed at maralago. So shame creates defensiveness.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Republicans in power. Shame at what the Republican leadership have become and what they're doing to our nation seems reasonable.
Fwiw, my take is that he was never a friend of Trump himself. Trump has plenty of users, but frankly, I have trouble imagining what kind of mind could feel friendship for a cruel, disordered creep, a career criminal who literally didn't know what congress did or how to pronounce Yosemite.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Republicans in power. Shame at what the Republican leadership have become and what they're doing to our nation seems reasonable.
Fwiw, my take is that he was never a friend of Trump himself. Trump has plenty of users, but frankly, I have trouble imagining what kind of mind could feel friendship for a cruel, disordered creep, a career criminal who literally didn't know what congress did or how to pronounce Yosemite.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Demsrule86
(68,935 posts)year. And with three hours, they have the time to do it properly. IMHO it is worth watching.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Jane Austin
(9,199 posts)Joe takes other days off, too. I've been wondering if he's writing a book or something.
One of his kids has asthma or some other issue that would be bad in combination with Covid 19, so I think Joe's been keeping closer tabs on him.
But I'm leary every time somebody's MIA these days. I'm always afraid they were exposed to Covid.
GoCubsGo
(32,116 posts)Everyone takes breaks around now. Haven't seen Stephen Colbert in going on two weeks, other than in the public service announcements he's doing for South Carolina's PBS. Rachel Maddow took long a vacation, too. And, with the election coming up, and everything that is going on, people need to recharge. I suspect that's mostly what's going on. They need the mental health breaks more than ever these days.
underpants
(183,165 posts)All of Europe is off. It was amazing to watch when I was there.
The ruling class here pretty much does the same.
Demsrule86
(68,935 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I hadnt watched it in years.
Mike Nelson
(10,003 posts)... I've seen this with Rachel, also. These TV hosts are very successful and have many contracted are days off... the bigger hosts can take their days w/o explaining, I think. And the network doesn't want viewers to know when or why... so Rachel takes a week off, and adds a day. The sub is not allowed to say that, even when they know... Joe & Mika do the same, and they probably have something to do today. They probably work an average of 4 days a week and take a lot of "personal" days. MSNBC doesn't want viewers to know, feeling many will not watch, if the host is absent.
PCIntern
(25,691 posts)See, this is an answer to the question I asked. I didnt ask who is watching the show, who refuses to watch the show, who hated Joe and Mika, who doesnt like their presentation, or anything else. I grant everybody their opinion and they are more than entitled to it as I myself despised him for years, but still watched the show. The problem in America is that the media so dumbed down that by contrast the show was provocative And interesting.
SallyHemmings
(1,825 posts)They may be taking a break while they can.
The chronic unease because of this so-called presidency and fear of another four year is exhausting.
Paladin
(28,299 posts)It's unlikely, but that would damn sure make me uneasy.
Prosper
(761 posts)area.He could very easily parrot and praise Trump. But he doesnt. I give him a lot of credit for for his anti Trump stance and especially because of where he is from. They used to try and patronize Trump. Now 180 degrees away from that course he holds Trump accountable. Was he reformed my Mika??? Probably. Can he change if he and Mika breakup?? Probably. Remember that he is a lawyer and lawyers can supposedly defend either side of an argument. Joe has worked for one of the richest most powerful lawyers in the USA. That is the lawyer that smoked cigarettes throughout an interview with John Stossel about his part in the huge lawsuit that got billions for states.
Both Joe and MEka were Trump sycophants. They only turned against Trump because they wanted jobs in his administration and he said no. And MEka is no liberal. She's an anti-choice, pro-gun conservative like Joe and always has been.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)They were gone a lot last year as well. Must have a lot of vacation days built into their contract.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)NCDem47
(2,260 posts)251 X 3 hours each day = 753 hours to program.
That's a lot. Each block (time between commercials) needs to be thought out hours or days in adavance. Joe and Mika can't be in all of them. They are both driven poeple so I assume they work on side projects when off the air. They have leverage with MSNBC because they deliver viewers, so they can get favorable contracts with time off camera. They can come and go unexplained to the viewer. I call this a "Houdindi" - create an impression they're always around, but they're not.
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