"Prancing in the streets" Really, Mika?

So I turn on MSNBC's Morning Joe at 7:00 AM, because I'm an idiot, and co-host Mika Brzezinski -- speaking about the overturn of Proposition 8 -- announces that people were "prancing in the streets" in California yesterday.

The whole zoo crew laughs with her and act like it was some naughty anti-PC joke (or postmodern attempt at irony?).

I believe it was Joe Scarborough who said something about "going deeper into a hole" so perhaps Mika was riffing on something said in the 6:00 - 7:00 hour, but I find it hard to understand how anything previously said on the show could justify her use of the word "prancing" in conjunction with gays celebrating a ruling regarding their due process and equal protection rights.

Thanks for adding a layer of ugly to a civil rights victory, Morning Joe zoo crew!

UGH!
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Oh, Maria!

Maria Bartiromo was just on MSNBC's Morning Joe. She made the claim that she wasn't talking about Medicare when she infamously asked a 44-year Congressman why, if he liked it so much, he wasn't on it. She claimed that she was talking about the insurance he did have.

Huh?

Oh, Maria! You have your own TV show. Surely you know that tape (and YouTube) exists.

So, let's roll the tape:


Sorry, you're still an idiot.
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"Real Americans"

On yesterday's Morning Joe Brewed by Starbucks, Mika Brzezinski explained how soon-to-be-former Gov. Sarah Palin connected with "real Americans."

[P]eople were coming to those rallies because they agreed with her. Look at the polls out there. Look where people stand on life. Look where real Americans think and you will find that in the, you know -- God, I hate to say it -- but in the cites where there's a little more liberal elite populations you're not going to find what is representative of America.

First Mika, urban America is not just real America, it is the vast majority of America as far as where Americans actually live (from the 2000 Census):

U.S. Population Living in Urban vs. Rural Areas
Population living in Urban Areas: 79.219%
Population living in Rural Areas: 20.781

Urbanized Areas over 200,000 population = 58.274%

Second Mika, that Gallup poll that made the news back in May which supposedly showed more people are now anti abortion than pro choice had respondents identifying as Republicans by 32% and as Democrats by 32%. However nationwide, less than a quarter of the population actually identifiy themselves as Republicans while 35% identify as Democrats (this means the Gallup poll was crap as it was unrepresentative of the population).


(from FiveThirtyEight)
Third Mika, obviously enough "real" Americans did not connect with Palin's views:



Adjusted to reflect population:

So naner, naner, naner!
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