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Over 22 letters on this topic so far and with the exception of BGRASSO, MAGOO, and a few others, you all are as oblivious as Koppelman, who actually took "Average Joe" seriously.
Now get this through your heads:
Joe Scarborough is an ENTERTAINER. He makes a six-figure salary by yanking you back and forth - one night he's fanning the flames of war, pulling in all the trained seals who bark and clap for Bush. The next night, he makes up a shocking question "Is Bush an Idiot" and all of a sudden, he's got the lefties tuning in to see if Average Joe has finally come to his senses.
Don't you get it, you morons?
He's playing you! Scarborough is a money-making sociopath. He doesn't have any real convictions save one: Make Money For Joe.
The one thing you can always count on is that Joe will go where the wind is blowing.
The American public was soured on Clinton? Average Joe was there to make hay.
The American public is sour on Bush? Average Joe is adjusting his show to get the best Nielsen and Arbitron ratings.
Joe is just like Matthews, like O'Rielly, like Coulter and yeah, you simple-minded suckers, just like Olbermann. They are all just hookers standing outside the corporate-owned media whorehouses trying to get you to come in and get your right-wing or left-wing nuts off. It doesn't matter. A whore will play any role you want - French maid, cheerleader, barely legal, even your mom, as long as you pay for it.
Koppelman sits through this interview with a straight face while Average Joe explains that he doesn't run for Congress again because of his sons. What horse shit. Koppelman should have had the balls to ask, "Well that's great Joe, but doesn't it have something to do with the fact that you're making so much loot now you'd be crazy to leave?"
I've got to hand it to Scarborough, just as I have to hand it to Ann Coulter and to the latest arrival Glen Beck: They all know how to get you into the GE, Viacom and Time Warner whorehouses and show you a good time.
