Morning After "Tirade," Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski Received Cupcakes From Dick Cheney (VIDEO)

Strange moment on today's edition of Morning Joe, when the MJ gang received a delivery of cupcakes from Dick Cheney. Yes, this sounds like the opening scene of some psychosexual thriller movie, but stay with me. The cupcake delivery, facilitated apparently by Start-Up Nation author (for a detailed take on the book, Rachel Sklar has one on offer) and Cheney defender Dan Senor, was made after the Cheneys watched yesterday's show, and determined that Mika Brzezisnski seemed "a little cranky" after she launched into what Senor called "a tirade." All of this raises a question: why wasn't Starbucks smart enough to get a pastry-based non-competition agreement with MSNBC when they agreed to sponsor this show?

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The "tirade" in question refers to a moment from yesterday's show, when Brzezinski criticized the former Vice President for his remarks that President Barack Obama was "dithering" on Afghanistan:

BRZEZINSKI: You really think is was a good idea for the former vice-president, who was one of the architects of the war we are still in, because they didn't finish it up correctly...you really think it was good of him to say the President is dithering, and you really think that our White House right now, the administration, shouldn't fire back at the former vice president for these ridiculous low blows?

This whole argument continued over Dan Senor's contention that nothing had "changed in the last two months," and that it was pointless to delay the decision to, as I often put it, "LOLSURGEOMGZ" by sending more troops to Afghanistan, and then sort out the actual strategy later. Mark Halperin got it right yesterday, and deserves credit for understanding that there's nothing to the ongoing strategic decision-making process that suggests the administration is going to "abandon" Afghanistan or "imperils the national security of the United States." Rather, the administration is attempting to decide on the way forward on strategy and tactics before anyone commits to a troop increase.

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As I appear to be one of the few people in the media willing to point this out, I'll do so again: General Stanley McChrystal is getting precisely what he asked for from the administration. Allow me to quote from McChrystal's review:

[I]t must be made clear: new resources are not the crux. To succeed, ISAF [the NATO command in Afghanistan] requires a new approach -- with a significant magnitude of change -- in addition to a proper level of resourcing. ISAF must restore confidence in the near-term through renewed commitment, intellectual energy and visible progress.

So, when Dan Senor asks, "What's changed in the past two months?" the answer is: The general "on the ground" in Afghanistan asked for a "new approach -- with a significant magnitude of change."

At any rate, I'd be careful, eating those cupcakes.

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Comments

[bluemirror]

11:17 AM on 11/01/2009

How about we all just abandon the Morning Joe show?

[GrizzlyBowman]

08:25 PM on 10/30/2009

Kool aid cupcakes.

[Bucket-Of-Love]

03:07 PM on 10/30/2009

LOLSURGEOM­GZ?

[HenryGuo]

12:27 AM on 10/30/2009

I guess the expenditur­e of 100,000 troops in Afghanista­n is 50 times more than the living costs of 20 million Afghanista­n people.
(henryguo2­[e-mail]­t)

[seted]

12:26 AM on 10/30/2009

I would have trashed them. I wonder what poor intern was ' volunteere­d' to be the food taster?

[Billyguitar]

05:07 PM on 10/29/2009

When will Cheney go away!

[ssfahrer]

12:59 AM on 10/31/2009

When will the even more useless Joe Biden go away?

[magic3400]

01:20 PM on 10/29/2009

Who cares, there are more irrelevant people in this story than you can shake a stick at...start­ing with Mr. Irrelevant - Dick Cheney

[Tags]

01:14 PM on 10/29/2009

Probably made of High Fructose Corn Syrup and Hydrogenat­ed oil (trans fat).

He only shoots his friends.

[capricorndevil]

01:08 PM on 10/29/2009

what a note!...th­ey thought she was hungry...a­nd she ate, uh?

[RichPort]

12:13 PM on 10/29/2009

At least it wasn't an invitation to go hunting.

[djd099]

12:07 PM on 10/29/2009

"LOLSURGEO­MGZ" - uh, what are you trying to get at by using pre-teen valley girl slang out of context? It really doesn't make any sense. Must be an inside joke...whi­ch you probably shouldn't use on a major news site.

[algomajoker]

01:10 PM on 10/29/2009

Just because you don't get it, doesn't mean it's out of context. Actually, it contextual­izes the entire reasoning process utilzed in past decisions quite admirably.

[djd099]

02:32 PM on 10/29/2009

The only context in which such slang is appropriat­e is .....nowhe­re.

[Dugwood]

11:14 AM on 10/29/2009

Cup cake news entertainm­ent on... Huffington Post. A written story created about a TV show creating a story about cup cake event created by Dick Cheney created by his PR staff at FOX.

[OLEGAR]

07:44 PM on 10/30/2009

God had to rest on that eighth day also . And God said " whew all that creating just wore me out"!

[alice09]

11:02 AM on 10/29/2009

Senor is a neocon who advocated the disasterou­s policies that have led to thousands of unnecessar­y deaths.
He should be ashamed to show his face but neocons aren't like that. They have an endless supply of gaul.
And what is with the hypergroom­ed eyebrows?

[leftjab]

01:47 PM on 10/29/2009

A good point about the ayebrows thing. I totally missed it. My wife on the other hand raised the possibilit­y that he was butch gay, that real men don't tweek eyebrows like a woman!. LOL.

[JenniferEccles]

06:54 AM on 10/30/2009

I think Senor is gay.

[Pammy2]

02:16 PM on 10/29/2009

It's 'gall', not 'gaul'. Just saying.

[Reiner-von-Sinn]

10:41 AM on 10/29/2009

Is that a tirade? Tirade by what definition and whose standard?

Someone in broadcast media should be questionin­g Cheney and Cheney's motives and Cheney's record.

[Scratchimus]

11:00 AM on 10/29/2009

Thats the thing that infuriates me - Cheney has for years and years been using words wrong, twisting their meaning in all sorts of directions­, and people in the media almost always react directly to what he says, rather than cutting through the BS and simply dismissing his statements as patently wrong

[BluzySuzy]

10:49 AM on 11/05/2009

because she's a girl!

[dawlishgal]

10:16 AM on 10/29/2009

Isn't Senor the husband of Campbell Brown? How can she continue to pretend to be unbiased?

[georgiaR]

04:26 PM on 10/29/2009

Her father was a democratic congressma­n