To everyone complaining about the Tara Reade questions for Joe Biden on MORNING JOE...

[brooklynite]

Biden knew what was coming and wanted to do the interview. And MSNBC appreciates your viewership...

[Demsrule86]

1. Mika was rude and obnoxious. She didn't have to be...very unprofessional.

[still_one]

4. He handled the interview fine. It's good it was an aggressive interview.

I didn't see the part where Biden called her out as a "fake journalist", working for a "fake network". Perhaps I stepped out of the room then.




Joe did just fine

[Demsrule86]

8. Doesnt matter...not the point. I think he did fine too. But Mika didn't.

[still_one]

10. Agreed

[thesquanderer]

12. I didn't see it. But if Biden did fine, then maybe it worked to his advantage.

That is, it is more impressive to see someone do well against unfairly aggressive questioning than it is to see him do well in a softball environment. Or to put it differently, the worse he makes her look, the better she's making him look.

[True Blue American]

2. Not really

I just heard the last couple of minutes where MIka had apparently been told Personnel records were not in the University papers. She really pretended to be tough. Instead she came across as not listening.

[PatSeg]

15. Bingo

That is how it appeared, that she asked questions, but didn't bother to listen to the answers. Or they weren't the answers she had prepared for, so she kept repeating the question. Very disappointing.

[Botany]

3. Mika was a complete p.o.s..

Her line of questioning was swift boats meets Benghazi meets Hillary's emails.

It was a hit job.

[KWR65]

14. She did a good interview. Biden Needs to be grilled for these allegations.

Let the American people decide the issues.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. This was a chance for him to deny the allegations on national TV.

He knew what to expect.

[dem4decades]

6. Not a fan of Mika or Joe but probably good batting practice for Biden. He'll see that pitch again.

[DrToast]

7. It's better that she was tough

If it was a softball interview, it wouldn’t look good for anyone.

[Siwsan]

11. That's exactly what I said, in another post

Joe can, and did, handle the interview with dignity and authenticity.

[LanternWaste]

9. Is anyone arguing Biden had no idea what was coming and didn't want to do the interview?

If not, your sentiment seems little more than "nyah, nyah, nyah..." as my five year old niece often argues,

[The Magistrate]

13. He Did Well, Sir --- The Show's 'Stars' Disgraced Themselves

We must make sure everyone knows we are having none of it, shaming any on our side who try and pretend there's something to this swill, and blanketing 'news' outlets who try and peddle these lies with angry protests and threats of boycott --- anything short of actual threats of lethal violence.

The time for this sort of crap is over. They cannot ruin our leaders without our help, and we need to get this through our collective heads. Well-meaning, good-hearted people who tend to the left need to learn not to allow their better natures to be taken advantage of by vicious scum on the right, and splinterest wreckers on the far left, who enlist them in their charges against figures of the center left, by exhorting them to 'be consistent' and telling them 'don't be hypocrites'. The proper response to attempts at this is a hearty "Fuck off! Nobody cares what a rancid piece of dogshit like you thinks!" Or words to that effect....


There are a damned sight more of us than there are of them.



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