“ Joe Scarborough seemed like a poor man’s Bill O’Reilly on his old prime-time MSNBC show, Scarborough Country. When the cable net moved him to the morning shift, it seemed like a desperate stopgap in the wake of Don Imus’ sudden ouster. Then a funny thing happened: Scarborough lightened up.
TVGuide - When Don Imus was fired for that dumb little spat last year, I was without anything to watch in the morning, but I’ve been watching Morning Joe for the past few months and really enjoying it. I rarely watched Scarborough’s evening show because it felt like a Republican Talking Points hour, but towards the end of his run when he started lightening up the show and showing his personality, it became semi-watchable.
Morning Joe is a lot more of that and the dynamic between Joe and Mika Brzezinski is much more enjoyable to watch than the happy-go-lucky garbage on Fox or the suit-and-tie stuff on CNN.