The Media Capture Is Complete; Morning Joe Has Gone From Bending Over Backwards to Bending Over Forward

The Last Best Hope For A Corporate Media Resistance To Trump Did Not Last Two Weeks After The Election

Here is the good news: When Joe Scarborough took his wife and Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski down to Mara Lago to make up with Donald Trump, he reports that the men did not see eye-to-eye on a great many issues. What a relief. But here is the bad news: You cannot see eye-to-eye with a man when you are behind him, down on your knees, and tenderly kissing both sides of his ass.

Since Joe and Mika went down to White House South after requesting a meeting with the newly elected Trump, rather than requesting an interview, smart money says that is exactly why. It is one thing for the world to know that you and your wife bowed and scraped, and shucked and jived, and rolled over and begged for another man to give you a treat, but it is another thing for them to SEE you do it. Your reputation might survive the former, but it could never survive the latter.

Joe is egomaniacal, which does not make him a bad guy in and of itself. Trust me, I should know. So he will take the firestorm of criticism from every corner of media to mean that people give a damn about his personal failure to hold the line for this next and most…