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Ed Schultz Claims White House E-mails "Morning Joe" During Show


MSNBC's Ed Schultz claimed Friday that the White House communicates with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski during their "Morning Joe" program.

Schultz said he observed this when he was on last Thursday's program:

So Mika starts looking at her Blackberry and so does Scarborough and obviously the White House is texting them or emailing them or whatever and they didn't like the show. Because Arianna had been on there, I'm on there, Howard Dean had been on there and they wanted some balance.





Now think about that - here's the White House getting in contact with "Morning Joe" because they're afraid there's too many lefties on the air! Now if that's not sensitivity at its highest level, I don't know what is! I told ya a few days ago they had rabbit ears! They don't like anything that's being said right now, they're getting beat up!

In reality, this isn't as shocking as it might seem.

NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein reported in October that the White House e-mailed NBC's Savannah Guthrie while she was on the "MJ" set.

According to Guthrie, a senior White House advisor wanted her to tell Scarborough to "stop being an a**hole."

Honestly, you can't make this stuff up.

*****Update:
Ed Driscoll has an October video of Mika receiving an e-mail from the White House.




Shuster: Baucus Sober, Drudge "Repulsive"


Wow: David Shuster really lets it all hang out on Twitter . . .

In current tweets, the MSNBCer accuses Karl Rove of "hypocrisy," calls conservatives "wingnuts," claims Baucus wasn't wasted, and denounces Drudge as "repulsive" for supposedly suggesting otherwise.

Excerpts from Shuster's current Twitter feed:

* Thank you Wingnuts! By mentioning my tweets, you are bringing more attention to @karlrove hypocrisy

* Wingnuts, just because you want to believe something is true does not make it so. Obama wasn't born in Kenya. Baucus wasn't inebriated.

* Baucus speech was at 430pm in the afternoon. He was incensed at Wicker. He was emotional. To smear him, as drudge does, is repulsive.

* Re Baucus emotional floor speech last week: He always speaks in a halting fashion. The wingnut claims are lies and disgusting smears.

And as for David's countless fans among NB readers, worried he might disappear from the MSNBC airwaves: never fear . . . Shuster assures us that when MSNBC's 2010 line-up is announced "I'll be fine." Whew!


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