Joe Scarborough

A Huffington Post luncheon at the Nicollet Island Inn earlier today explored how "the new media are impacting the '08 race." Hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the panel was conducted like a TV show, the hosts agreeing with each other and sometimes talking over the panelists, who included Tony Blankley, Huffington, Laura Ingraham, David Kralik, Cyrus Krohn, and Peggy Noonan.

The hot topic for discussion was whether the Internet drove the Sarah Palin pregnancy story.

As in any media panel, discussion also touched on how to make people pay to visit web sites. "Usually the only people pay for online is porn," Huffington said. "And weird porn."

"People come on the show and then they just stay," said Joe Scarborough. "This happened in Iowa, too, and New Hampshire. It has just sort of turned into the place to hang out."

It was shortly after 9 a.m. on Thursday morning, and Mr. Scarborough had just finished co-anchoring five hours of Morning Joe for MSNBC live from Sam's No. 3—a breakfast-burrito-serving bar and grill in downtown Denver.

"You look over this morning, and you have the head of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, having breakfast with Tom Brokaw, having breakfast with Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post, and on and on," said Mr.  read more »

Barack Obama's campaign managers are focused on keeping celebrities off the stage and out of sight of cameras in order to prevent further "celebrity" attacks from the McCain camp. [NY Daily News]  

That's not stopping them from coming to Denver, though. Rosario Dawson, Jessica Alba, Eva Longoria, Fat Joe, Wilmer Valderrama and Sofia Vergara will reportedly party tonight at the Voto Latino DNC event in Denver. [P6] 

Richard Price, author of Lush Life and Clockers, compared his creative process to the way that a woman "of a certain age" feels when she has not yet had a child and her biological clock is ticking. [P6]  read more »

MSNBC has ordered a second helping of Morning Joe.

The New York Times reports this morning that Joe Scarborough has extended his contract with MSNBC until March 2011. Last summer, after a successful tryout, Mr. Scarborough took over Don Imus' old morning slot on MSNBC, beating out the likes of David Gregory along the way.  read more »

Herein, a funny tidbit from Alissa Krinsky's "5 Questions With ... Joe Scarborough" on TV Newser.

Despite being on television and having served in Congress, I'm still a 'Regular Joe' because...

Scarborough: I allow my yacht captains and airplane pilots to bring their children on set once a year around Christmas. There are boundaries though. They still are not allowed to make eye contact, because I don't want to do anything to encourage extended conversations with the help.  read more »

Via The Huffington Post, Joe Scarborough of MSBNC went after CNN this morning for allowing someone with ties to the Hillary Clinton campaign to pose a question at Wednesday's GOP debate.

"Don't tell me that CNN didn't know" that the questioner -- retired Brigadier General Keith Kerr, who asked about the issue of gays in the military -- was associated with the Clinton campaign.  read more »

Dan Abrams will stay in the MSNBC anchor chair in the 9 p.m. slot, instead of managing the cable network's news report, The New York Times reports; that means that Joe Scarborough will remain in the morning position previously occupied by Don Imus.

MSNBC said today that Dan Abrams, who has been the host of a 9 p.m. news hour called “Live with Dan Abrams” temporarily since July, will stay in the job permanently, leaving behind the managerial position he had occupied for a little over a year.

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