Post by Jaga on Apr 30, 2009 22:47:29 GMT -7
as you probably know she is a daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski who has Polish origin.
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Morning Mika
Set mates Brzezinski and Scarborough keep things light on MSNBC’s weekday talk show Morning Joe.
Joe Scarborough’s co-host is not an agitated, abrasive in-your-face sparring partner. Rather, she’s a politically complicated, personally contented TV pro who’s finally found her groove on a daily TV rumble.
By Meredith Nelson
“Mika’s not a wacko Marxist,” Joe Scarborough says. “She just plays one on TV.” It’s the kind of over-the-top, polarizing comment that gives Morning Joe its energy. The friendly ribbing on MSNBC’s weekday-morning talk show often pits the conservative Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, against ascendant sidekick Mika Brzezinski as a member of the much-derided “liberal mainstream media elite.”
Brzezinski takes it in stride. “If you tied me up and poked me with sticks and asked me questions on every ideological issue out there, I think you’d find that I’m conservative in ways that might surprise you,” she says.
Fresh off a Friday morning broadcast, Brzezinski is chatting while pulling off a sleek cashmere sweater and slipping into a T-shirt. Below the belt, she already is dressed down — jeans and daughter Emilie’s Uggs — one of the perks of being a newscaster who sits behind a desk. She and Scarborough work around the clock, so it’s strictly casual attire the minute they’re off camera.
As she takes off her TV makeup, she checks the time. She has one hour to go 16 blocks from her cluttered dressing room on the 17th floor of Manhattan’s storied 30 Rock skyscraper in Rockefeller Center to the WABC radio studios at Penn Plaza. No easy feat on a frigid day in January. Before she heads out, she grabs her cell phone for a quick chat with her nanny, with whom she “co-mothers” daughters Emilie, 13, and Carlie, 10. They make some last-minute arrangements for Carlie’s upcoming horse show.
“For the first time, I’m happy with all the pieces in my career and my life,” the 42-year-old says. “Up till now it’s been, ‘This will get me to this, and that will get me to the next step.’ Now I can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing.”
The daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter from 1976 to 1980, Mika spent her tween years sleeping over at the White House with childhood friend Amy Carter. As a kid tooling around Camp David in a golf cart, she once drove smack into Menachem Begin’s shins.
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w3.newsmax.com/a/may09/media/
Morning Mika
Set mates Brzezinski and Scarborough keep things light on MSNBC’s weekday talk show Morning Joe.
Joe Scarborough’s co-host is not an agitated, abrasive in-your-face sparring partner. Rather, she’s a politically complicated, personally contented TV pro who’s finally found her groove on a daily TV rumble.
By Meredith Nelson
“Mika’s not a wacko Marxist,” Joe Scarborough says. “She just plays one on TV.” It’s the kind of over-the-top, polarizing comment that gives Morning Joe its energy. The friendly ribbing on MSNBC’s weekday-morning talk show often pits the conservative Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, against ascendant sidekick Mika Brzezinski as a member of the much-derided “liberal mainstream media elite.”
Brzezinski takes it in stride. “If you tied me up and poked me with sticks and asked me questions on every ideological issue out there, I think you’d find that I’m conservative in ways that might surprise you,” she says.
Fresh off a Friday morning broadcast, Brzezinski is chatting while pulling off a sleek cashmere sweater and slipping into a T-shirt. Below the belt, she already is dressed down — jeans and daughter Emilie’s Uggs — one of the perks of being a newscaster who sits behind a desk. She and Scarborough work around the clock, so it’s strictly casual attire the minute they’re off camera.
As she takes off her TV makeup, she checks the time. She has one hour to go 16 blocks from her cluttered dressing room on the 17th floor of Manhattan’s storied 30 Rock skyscraper in Rockefeller Center to the WABC radio studios at Penn Plaza. No easy feat on a frigid day in January. Before she heads out, she grabs her cell phone for a quick chat with her nanny, with whom she “co-mothers” daughters Emilie, 13, and Carlie, 10. They make some last-minute arrangements for Carlie’s upcoming horse show.
“For the first time, I’m happy with all the pieces in my career and my life,” the 42-year-old says. “Up till now it’s been, ‘This will get me to this, and that will get me to the next step.’ Now I can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing.”
The daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter from 1976 to 1980, Mika spent her tween years sleeping over at the White House with childhood friend Amy Carter. As a kid tooling around Camp David in a golf cart, she once drove smack into Menachem Begin’s shins.
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