There are two things that haunt my brain if I fear I am running out: toilet paper and coffee. Thus, after dropping off my daughter at school I stopped at a store and ran in for both items. To my utter horror I saw bags of Starbucks Morning Joe 
coffee on the shelf. WTF?
I have a love/hate relationship with MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Of course, I never watched Imus who was on prior to Morning Joe. I switched from CNN in the morning to MSNBC when they changed their programming after the “nappy-headed” incident.
It seems bad enough to have the entire show sponsored by Starbucks; especially after Mika continually ridicules Joe for drinking the fattening versions of coffee beverages. Product placement gone awry.
So to be fair, if Joe gets his own coffee blend, which will not pass these lips, the other MSNBC personalities should get blends of their own. After perusing the Starbucks menu, I offer the following:
- Mika Brzezinski Breakfast Blend – Bright, clean, light-bodied with a mild intensity.
- Willie Geist Guatemala Casi Cielo – Rich, smooth and slightly sweet with medium intensity.
- Andrea Mitchell Espresso – Rich, dense, and caramelly sweet with bold intensity.
- Chuck Todd Ethiopia Sidamo – complex, distinctively lemony flavor with bold intensity.
- Chris Matthews Shade Grown Mexican – A crisp, slightly nutty taste with medium intensity.
- Ed Schultz Organic Kenya – Big, juicy notes of grapefruit with a bold intensity.
- Keith Olbermann Gold Coast Blend – Big, full-bodied, complex with extra bold intensity.
- Rachel Maddow Sumatra – Intensely earthy and aromatic with extra bold intensity.
And last but not least…
Pat Buchanan Instant – Like decaf, what the hell is the point?
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Ok, come on, life MUST be interesting enough for another post. LOVE reading them. Life is a bit boring in the woods, on the mountain top, in my tiny town of NH…even an ex-morman in Utah has a more exciting life, isn’t that saying something, lol! Write girl, I’m awaitin’. Susanne
Don’t feel bad–I suppose many Utahns raised Mormon haven’t been exposed to popular coffee vernacular–but “morning joe” is a phrase that means the coffee you have in morning, as in, “Sorry I was out of it yesterday, I’m a mess without my morning joe!” The television show is a play on that because it’s a guy named Joe that you encounter every morning (or at least, the network hopes you do). So don’t worry, Starbucks isn’t endorsing the TV show–the TV show is based on a common name for morning coffee, and that is what Starbucks is referring to.