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talking heads

this is a collection of background info on various media personalities and institutions and will continue to be updated.

MSNBC

Morning Joe (6-9am, M-F)

scarborough

joe scarborough

  • wiki Joe Scarborough
  • legacy: Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Baptist, father engineer for Lockheed-Martin
  • education: bachelor’s degree from the U of Alabama 1985, law degree from the U of Florida in 1990
  • member of: New Federalists (supports sweeping cuts in the U.S. gov’t [...] plans to “privatize, localize, consolidate, [or] eliminate” the Depts of Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing and Urban Development)
  • key issues: ANTI-abortion, ANTI-United Nations (wants US to withdraw), ANTI-Public Broadcasting, ANTI-Medicare, ANTI-small business, ANTI-minimum wage increase, ANTI-”liberal” media, ANTI-Bill Clinton, “very, very conservative” on economy and defense, “pretty green” on environment
  • misc: called a “little O’Reilly”, played in rock bands: Regular Joe (during 2000 presidential campaign), Basement Boys (in his teens), wrote and produced a satirical musical about televangelists called The Gospel According to Esther

scandal dossier – Lori Klausutis’ death

  • 2000.11 election and possible collusion/compliance with Katherine Harris to elect George W Bush?
  • 2001.07.20 death of aide Lori Klausutis, Hustler article
  • 2001.08.08 Two months after his [resignation] announcement, an intern working in his Fort Walton Beach, Florida office [28-year-old Lori Klausutis] was found dead from a blow to the head due to an apparent seizure resulting from a long standing heart condition. source
  • 2001.10 married Susan Waren (a former aide to Florida Governor Jeb Bush)
  • worked for law firm of Fred Levin (U of Florida’s School of Law renamed for Levin – Frederic G. Levin College of Law, supporter of John Kerry and Bob Graham [FL governor 1979-87, FL Senator-Dem 1987-2005, possible VP for Kerry], tobacco litigation)
  • graduated from law school named for Fred Levin. worked at Levin’s law firm which (eventually) supported Kerry’s 2004 campaign, while his 2nd wife worked for Jeb Bush
  • 2005.08, Scarborough confirmed reports that he had been asked to consider a challenge to U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris for the Republican nomination to challenge Senator Bill Nelson’s reelection bid. However, he announced later that month that he was renewing his contract with NBC.
  • 2006.07, former aides to Harris’s 2006 Senate campaign claimed that Harris had called potential Scarborough supporters and raised the death of an aide [Lori Klausutis] in his home district office as a means to prevent his entry into the race. Scarborough, who had never intended to enter the race, initially considered suing Harris but decided to let the incident pass. He later told Nelson that drawing Harris as an opponent in the race made Nelson “the luckiest man in Washington.”
  • 1991 passed Florida bar exam
  • 1994-2001, House of Representatives, Rep-FL (resigned during 4th term, 2001.09.05)
  • 1999, founder, publisher and editor of The Florida Sun newspaper
  • 2001.09.05 resigned during 4th term in House of Reps, “to spend more time with my children.”
  • worked for Beggs and Lane, the oldest law firm in Florida.
  • on Dubya’s Iraq war: “I am the hawk’s hawk. I believe the President was right in Iraq, and I think he’s right to be threatening Syria. Of course, I don’t think he’d ever go into Syria, but it is certainly good to be waving the bloody club.” source
  • 2003.04-2007.06, Scarborough Country (with Pat Buchanan), replaced by Dan Abrams in 2007.04 when he started hosting Morning Joe
  • 2004 book: Rome Wasn’t Burnt in a Day
  • 2005.05 reductio ad absurdum: criticized Arnold Schwarzenegger by repeating an allegation in a British newspaper that the California governor had advocated blowing up the moon as a way of controlling women’s menstrual cycles. Scarborough apologized after learning that it was a comedy skit on the Howard Stern radio show and not an actual Schwarzenegger interview.
  • 2005.06 While interviewing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, expressed concerns about the possibility that one of his sons may have suffered vaccine damage, perhaps attributable to the sharp increase during the 1980s in the amount of thimerosal injected into infants: “My son, born in 1991, has a slight form of autism called Asperger’s. When I was practicing law and also when I was in Congress, parents would constantly come to me and they would bring me videotapes of their children, and they were all around the age of my son or younger. So, something happened in 1989.” wiki
  • 2007.04, Morning Joe host (replaced Imus in the Morning after “Nappy Headed Hoes” scandal)
  • 2008.11.10 Morning Joe “F” bomb scandal, In discussing the Obama transition team, Scarborough contrasted the reputation of Clinton era staffers with Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel by saying “These were decent steady men who don’t go around flipping people off or shouting ‘fuck you’ at the top of their lungs.”
  • 2008.12, Joe Scarborough Show on ABC radio (with Mika Brzezinski, M-F, 10am-12pm)
  • 2008.12.30 Morning Joe, debate over Israel-Palestine with Zbigniew Brzezinski: “You know, you have such a stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on that it’s almost embarrassing to listen to you.”

mika brzezinski

mike barnicle

pat buchanan

chuck todd

carlos watson

willie geist

andrea mitchell

courtney hazlett

CNBC

rick santelli

  • wiki Rick Santelli
  • CNBC FED puppet
  • Chicago School economist
  • Institutional Financial Futures and Options at Sanwa Futures, L.L.C. There, he was a vice president handling institutional trading and hedge accounts for a variety of futures related products.
  • worked as VP of Institutional Futures and Options at Rand Financial Services, Inc.
  • served as managing director at the Derivative Products Group of Geldermann, Inc.
  • VP in charge of Interest Rate Futures and Options at the Chicago Board of Trade for Drexel, Burnham, Lambert
  • began his career in 1979 as a trader and order filler at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in a variety of markets including gold, lumber, CD’s, T-bills, foreign currencies and livestock.
  • He is a graduate of the University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana with a Bachelor of Science degree.
  • Santelli has been a member of both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade.
  • Known for the “Rant Heard Around the World”, on 2009.02.19, Rick called for a “Chicago Tea Party.” Rick said “the government is promoting bad behavior.” His statements came at a time when the mortgage bailout of $275 billion, by United States government, had been fiercely debated. The rant occurred live on the Chicago trading floor of CME Group (formerly the Chicago Board of Trade), shortly before the market opened. Cheers and boos could be heard by a crowd of traders on trade floor, throughout the broadcast.

dylan ratigan

mark haines

erin burnett

maria bartiromo

Hardball

Chris Matthews

  • wiki Chris Matthews
  • 1968-70 Peace Corps in Africa to avoid Vietnam war
  • brother Jim Matthews, a Republican, is a County Commissioner in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
  • 2002 hospitalized with malaria

newspapers

The Washington Post

  • voice of the Federal Reserve

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