Morning Stupidity on Morning Joe
by Chris Edelson

Willie Geist, one of Joe Scarborough’s several sidekicks on Morning Joe, ran a piece this morning where he was standing in his Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City, wearing a McCain-Palin t-shirt and recording the reactions of passers-by. The theme was that elite, close-minded Upper West Siders are lock-step for Obama–Geist only found one couple who were McCain supporters. After the piece ran, Peggy Noonan remarked that it highlighted the “pissiness” of voters, and others wrung their hands over how “humorless” and single-minded Upper West Siders are.

The thing is, if this was supposed to show how nasty people were toward poor Willie, it simply didn’t rate. The harshest comment I saw was someone who told Geist to “change his politics”.

Geist should join me in Virginia, where I have been for the past two weeks. I encounter a mix of Obama and McCain supporters when I make phone calls and put up Obama signs, but I can tell you that the McCain people are a bit less polite than Geist’s craven New Yorkers. Here are a few examples. When I was putting up an Obama-Biden sign in McLean, one driver going by screamed “socialist”. Another driver gave me and my companions the finger. One of the guys I was putting up signs with told me a number of them had been defaced with racial epithets. When I made my first voter identification phone call last week, I spoke to a woman who said abortion was like the holocaust and Jesus would be deciding her vote for her. A fellow phone banker reached a voter who cheerfully said “fuck you”.

(This is not to say that I am not reaching Obama supporters–there are plenty, and I am cautiously optimistic about Obama. But the McCain people are often something less than polite).

It may be fun for the Morning Joe crew to bring the hype on elitist New Yorkers, but, in my experience, McCain supporters can be pretty “pissy”.

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