The comment that jumped out to me from Dick Morris’ brief interview with Piers Morgan on Feb. 6, 2013 [http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/...] was his statement that he thought that Scott Walker would be the GOP’s ideal presidential nominee in 2016. Scott Walker?
At first I just thought that this was another in a long string of Mr. Morris' ridiculously wrong punditry. The Guardian’s Harry J. Enten has written several articles about his hilariously wrong punditry: http://www.guardian.co.uk/... http://www.guardian.co.uk/.... However, a Google search of Morris and Scott Walker pulled up a recent article by Media Matters which probably best explains the Dick Morris phenomenon: http://mediamatters.org/.... It explains Mr. Morris’ love of Scott Walker as well as much of his punditry. It’s not so much that he is so incredibly stupid; but rather, he’s so incredibly “unethical” (in Media Matter’s words and opinion). Everyone who pays for him (in particular his email list) gets the Dick Morris imprimatur.
Now I doubt that Mr. Morris’ firing by FOX news has anything to do with his ethical lapses. Rather I suspect that he (and Palin) finally reached FOX’s obviously high threshold limit of buffoonery. However, without his ability to use FOX to sell his mailing list, his future must be dim. I believe he truly looked like a broken man on CNN. His shaking hands were a give-away (assuming there is not a physiological reason for this symptom). I must say, I’m shedding a few tears -- of the crocodile nature -- today for what I suspect is the end of an extremely entertaining career.