MSNBC's Joe and Mika on Their 'Sexual Tension'

"I'll be watching Barack Obama's speech and there'll be 10 reporters tearing up and saying, 'My God, he could be the son of God.' And I'll be sitting there saying, 'It's a pretty good speech, but I don't know that he's the son of God.'"

That's MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, still beating the "Journalists are liberals and they all love Obama" drum at the TV Newser Summit last night, where BusinessWeek's Jon Fine interviewed him and co-host Mika Brzezinski. As usual, Scarborough did most of the talking, while Brzezinski mostly communicated her views in the form of wry faces. Fine asked Scarborough why he doesn't let his sidekick talk more. Scarborough: "It's called Morning Joe."

"I have a couple of different roles on the show and they're always evolving," said Brzezinski after Scarborugh finally yielded the floor. "There are times I speak up, and there are times when...all I'll be doing is moving people around and trying to generate the balance in the conversation."

But the interview's best and strangest moment came during the audience Q&A when Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby (and Fine's wife) seized a microphone. "There's a lot of sexual tension between you," she observed. "Do your spouses ever get jealous?"

"Look at me. Who wouldn't be jealous of me?" joked Scarborough before both quickly went on to deny any feelings of the sort on either side. Added Scarborough, "Her husband actually thinks I'm sort of a joke, doesn't he? A loudmouth?" Brzezinski didn't contract him.