I only watched a little bit this morning, but I never saw Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe today. Was this a scheduled vacation or did MSNBC keep him off the air to keep him from unloading on Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews?

Either way, he’s going to have to comment on it sooner or later. Some might even refer to it as a “special comment” that will send “thrills” up the legs of viewers who thought the move was long overdue.

And just one other thought. MSNBC’s president Phil Griffin should be fired/disciplined/demoted, too. There was nothing that Matthews and Olbermann did at the Democratic or Republican conventions that was any different from the way they acted during the primary fight between Obama and Clinton. By firing the two now from anchor duties is an admission that it was never a good idea to give a job that is supposed to be non-partisan to fierce partisans.