Joltin Joe! Scarborough F-bombs on MSNBC

Good to see Joe Scarborough is feeling really relaxed in his role as the morning man on MSNBC. So relaxed that, out of nowhere, he dropped this one on live television about an hour ago:

Mike Barnicle's reaction is instantaneous and priceless. Joe's delayed, stunned reaction as he receives word of his transgression in his earpiece is just about as good.

And yes, we have a television reference for this television reference. Seems that what Joe (who was beamed in from D.C.) was trying to say was that the new Democrat press secretary will be nothing like that guy Rahm Emanuel who used to work for Bill Clinton. The more we're learning about Rahm, the more we're put in mind of Ari Gold, the character on "Entourage" widely thought to be modeled on Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel, whose brother is Rahm. Told you we had a TV reference.

Anyway, Scarborough was trying to get Time magazine Washington bureau chief Jay Carney to tell the story of when he spoke to Emanuel for the first time and it became a scene from "Entourage" with Ari's brother Rahm yelling "Eff you eff you eff you!"

Only it didn't come out that way on MSNBC today.

Perhaps because he was in D.C. and everyone else was in New York, it took a little while for Scarborough to come to the awareness that he had said a word he is probably all too comfortable saying off-air (I know the feeling!). Finally he groaned in mock horror, "My wife is gonna kill me!"

At the end of the show, the daily wrapup "What Have We Learned Today?" included this signoff from cohost Mika Brzenszki: "Thanks very much for everything today!" while the rest of the gang laughed.

Thanks to alert-eared Richard Handal who caught the F word and the YouTube viewer.