If only Mika Brzezinski had a forum in which she could correct her comments...
July 13, 2009 8:37 am ET by Jamison Foser
On today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski quoted Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg saying of Sonia Sotomayor, "think of how many times you've said something that you didn't get out quite right." Brzezinski then said as an aside, "I can think of something I said recently."
That was apparently a reference to Brzezinski's comment last week about "real Americans." Well, if Brzezinski didn't mean what she said, there's a simple solution: She could make that clear during the three-hour television show she hosts each day. Instead of defending her comment, she could have said "I misspoke. I don't think Sarah Palin's fans are any more or less American than any other Americans. I regret echoing the common smear of progressives and urbanites as less American than their conservative and rural counterparts." That would have taken about twenty seconds.
Instead, Brzezinski defended her comments, digging herself a deeper hole in the process, as I explain in my latest column.
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I've said it before and I'll keep saying: Mika has a huge woman crush, similar to Matthews with Bush in a flightsuit, on Palin.
can credit their looks for their success;
share a distorted sense of self-importance;
are in a line of work for which they're not intellectually equipped;
are always confused/surprised when people question assertions that aren't based on anything factual.
The reality is that when Brzezinski says "I can think of something I said recently.", although ostensibly in agreement with Ginsburg, she actually means "I can think of something I said recently that others didn't get quite right."
She made it clear last week when she said "If you guys don't understand what I'm saying ... please.", that she considers the burden of understanding her attempts at communication to be on the receiver. This was just another self-referential poor me! moment meant to highlight how misinterpreted she was.