I was invited for a guest appearance today on the Morning Joe on MSNBC. They are a great crowd and I can see why our Managing Editor for the Web, Barbara Martinez, is addicted to Joe Scarborough’s daily show. It’s a lot of fun. I have been on a fair number of talk shows, and not every body out there is exactly well informed or hip or gets it. Everyone at the Morning Joe — Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Pat Buchanan and my old buddy Mike Barnicle — gets it. As proof, they chose two brilliant video clips from our field correspondents Greg Warner in Afghanistan singing “Ring of Fire” and Josh Chin cruising the streets of China to find out what people think of America. Before I came on, I listened in the green room to an excellent discussion on the Middle East with Jordan’s Queen Noor, the wife of the late King Hussein, and Council on Foreign Relations’ Richard Haass. It’s great to hear a show that combines intelligent insights with a sense of humanity and a sense of humor. And that makes them an immediate ally of GlobalPost.