morning joe meets the heathers, 2012

joe, mika, and willie

when fox news replaced the dearly departed e.d. hill, some moron hired a minnesota beauty pageant contestant and it was all downhill from there.
 i was never religious in my fox viewage, but it was part of a morning line-up that included: fox, msnbc, cnbc, and if i was super hard-up, cnn. i would switch to a local nbc affiliate for philly stuff, and the www. for wordly stuff.
every morning from 6-9 am est., i filled my head with news and politics, my stomach with folger's french roast, and my lungs with enough smoke to choke an asian.

the departure of hill meant the departure of my viewership and i  remain completely happy with my decision.
i was left with joe or robyn meade.
now, may i first say that robyn meade is absolutely stunning, and if there was any female i would have a beer with, she would be in my top 10. i think robyn knows how to have a shit-kickin' good time.
but not at 6am.
fuck that. way too early.
so i am left with msnbc.
to my surprise, i was really beginning to enjoy joe, except for one little thing-

her

this is mika.
mika hates: twinkies, wendy's, 'hoarders', rick santorum, fairies, and glitter.
mika loves: rolling her eyes, trying to get a word in edgewise, and her dad.
i had a very difficult time adjusting to the mika.
fox's hill was feisty and dominated the conversation; robyn is miss congeniality on happy-crack; and then there's this old stick in the mud.
after several months and 800 interviews with her dad, i realized mika is simply a by-product of her boarding school universe and cannot be held responsible when she thinks arcade fire requires an extinguisher and a red truck.
 
as a registered libertarian i began searching for a political fit, and the closest i've come is morning joe. this is where i have settled and this is what i have learned.

mornin' joe enjoys a quiet moment

i like this place

more often than not, i found myself wanting more.
i could no longer sit and merely listen, i wanted to participate!i took the plunge, committed to liking joe, and took a ride on the 'morning joe' chat thread.
https://www.facebook.com/MorningJoe

super vagina

to make my guilty pleasure legitimately productive i commenced an impromptu social experiment: how do republicans and democrats really communicate when there are no censors, no cameras, and have the freedom to express themselves within the confines of the msnbc sponsored chat thread, of course. 

that was my idea.
after several posting days, i was anointed 'threadwench' and my social experiment began to resemble an episode of 'survivor'  and these bitches were trying to vote me off joe's island!

i was no longer keeping track of unbelievable, partisan attacks.
i was defending my right to have a vocal vagina and not be hated and despised because i happened to have the newest vagina on the chat thread.

which leads me here.
bullies leaning left is an expose' of grown-up bullies. 

we tell our children, "it gets better".
ok.
it starts here and it starts now.

phoebe prince - bullied to death

cmk