Why I love and admire MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski: she's not a one-dimensional ideologue. On Sarah Palin: "I was transfixed by her. Here’s a cool, attractive woman with five kids who is wired to work — 150 percent. Not 80 percent or 50 percent. Not flex time. Not half time. She jumped into it without a shred of guilt on her face. I respect not only the fact that she shows no guilt about who she is, but that . . . her husband has no issue with it.”
Newsmax mag: “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."
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. At 16 she accompanied her dad on a secret, well-armed meeting with Yasser Arafat in Tunisia.
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