Our weekly Joe Scum meltdown...

[leftynyc]

3. Because I also hate

these kinds of OPs - the ones that refer to something we can neither see or hear - I'll try and give you the short version. There was controversy yesterday about a picture in the NY Times showing how male oriented the Obama administration is (although Valerie Jarrett was there, you could only see her leg). Joe tried to say, on the basis of that picture and the fact there are so many men in the President's cabinet that Obama only talks a good game about women and we're all hypocrites for going after Mitt Romney's binder remarks during the debate. Mika and Katty Kay (from the BBC who was also on the panel although remotely), took exception and tried to reason with Joe - Mika mentioning that both Supreme Court picks were women, that the first thing the President did after inauguration was sign the Lily Ledbetter act, etc. Joe went nuts, I mean crazy nuts - wouldn't stop interrupting, screaming and carrying on and finally Mika called his behavior chauvinistic and that's what really set him off. The two of them left the set and when they came back, Mika apologized to Joe for calling him a chauvinist (which she didn't do) and went on about what a great boss he was. Instead of repeating the 6AM hour at 8AM as they normally do, they started it with Mika's apology.

I've already sent two scathing emails to the network about it. Joe was a crazed animal this morning and owes Mika, Katty and all women an apology for his behavior.

I may have missed one or two things here but that's the gist of what happened.