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How did this start?


Tuesday, July 22nd (Day) CBS aired an interview with John McCain that. One of the answers McCain gave was considered a gaffe to some people. CBS chose to use the question, but air a different answer than the one John McCain gave to that question.

Tuesday, July 22nd (Night) Keith Olbermann brought this to everybody's attention on Countdown that night.

Wednesday, July 23rd (Morning) Joe Scarborough said this on Morning Joe: "Look let me tell you.and I know a couple of hosts ran this last night and made a huge deal because some liberal blogger picked it up. I will guarantee you the host that ran it, were waving their arms, had no idea whether the Sunni Awakening, or, or or, the surge began at the same time".

Crooks and Liars clearly thought Joe was talking about Olbermann, and wrote about it later in the day. Joe never named names, but Olbermann was the only host on MSNBC to cover the McCain / CBS story that night.

Thursday, July 24th (Morning) Joe got mad on Morning Joe for "liberal bloggers" jumping to conclusions about who he was talking about. He insists he was not talking about Olbermann specifically. In the end he dives into a rant about bloggers: "But again, you know the problem is when you're in the basement and you're blogging and you're eating Cheetos, sometimes the Cheetos dust goes up, ya know, and you get two choices: You can either keep typing, or you can stop for a second and wipe the Cheetos off your chest, clear out your ears and take a closer listen. But they don't do that. And therein lies the problem with the 'Cheetos Brigade'".



Friday, July 25th (Morning) Joe and the crew have a "Cheetos Brigade" quiz. A blogger who was offended called in and had a chat with Joe. It's clear Joe thinks all bloggers live at home in their parents' basements, and he uses "Cheetos Brigade" as a general term to refer to any blogger he doesn't like.



Thus, the basement blogging cheetos brigade was born.

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July 25th 2008 @ 11:41 pm
Alex Weidmann
Joe, as I said before I think you should re-think the term. Maybe not now since I own this website, but it's something to think about. You don't like bloggers so you draw general assumptions about them. Then when you get called out, you have a blogger on Morning Joe to show "hey, they're not all bad".

You remind me of Bill O Reilly when he found out black people actually use forks and knives when they go out to dinner. He found a group of people he didn't like and drew assumptions about them that were so ignorant, people put him to shame for thinking and saying it.

Your assumption about bloggers isn't different. While every group of people have bad apples, but referring to the entire group in a demeaning manner isn't helpful.