JOE SCARBOROUGH’S EGO in full flight is something to behold.
As you see in the exchange from “Morning Joe,” complete with priceless Jon Stewart mocking, Scarborough won’t back down even when Willie Geist gives him proof he’s wrong. Scarborough doubles down instead. It takes a lot of hubris to keep vamping on videotape when you’re busted. No doubt it’s exhausting.
Scarborough believed Romney was getting more negative spreads in the Times than John Kerry ever did and that’s that! What’s hilarious is that he claimed the New York Times was “thin-skinned” when they pushed backed. The Times dug in, tweets flew. But Joe Scarborough’s gut trumps the facts, just trust him.
“It’s about how they frame these stories, which is the image that lasts with people,” he said. “They may have a database showing how many articles they did on each candidate. I have to talk extemporaneously for three hours a day. But the general impressions of people like myself and [MSNBC contributor] Mark Halperin, that does count in the prespective that active news consumers have.” [Politico]
What’s funny, besides Scarborough proudly sticking himself in the Mark Halperin category, is that Joe Scarborough calling anyone else “thin-skinned” after his DM exchange with me takes Donald Trump size gall. We’re talking about the tip top of the maniacally egotistical club.
During the contraceptive mandate explosion Joe Scarborough made an astounding assertion. The conversation went like this:
SCARBOROUGH: “… I think women should be deacons as well as men. …But if the federal government, if the Justice Department offers a mandate ordering Southern Baptists to make women deacons, I would be the first to say get the hell out of our business.” (Joe Scarborough, 9 February)
BRZEZINSKI: “…This is not a parallel.”
SCARBOROUGH: “It is a parallel, too.”
I challenged him openly. He went berserk, sending me over a dozen DM messages over the weekend (read a few). It wasn’t the first emotional outburst I’ve read from him through DM.
Just like on the video above, he wasn’t capable of self-correcting when called on the absolute bullshit he spews, which everyone’s supposed to suck up because he’s Joe Scarborough. Oh, I mean, Joe Scarborough, the former congressman.
Salon’s Alex Parene responded to the latest Joe Scarborough egospasm:
This is Scarborough’s argument: He is right because he has a sort of vague, general impression that he is right. And also you can’t expect him to actually be factually correct when he says things every day because his job, his actual job, is to just spew bullshit for hours.
The back and forth between Scarborough, who is wrong, and the New York Times is one for the ages. Dylan Byers has got it.
This guy needs an intervention. He makes Keith Olbermann look shy and retiring.
I don’t hardly ever watch Morning Joe no more. I tune in to Current Tv and watch Bill Press every once in awhile also tune into The Stephanie Miller show, even though her Obama worship gets on my nerves sometimes she is funny and is very smart and the callers are also a hoot also like when she does stuff without even knowing she is still on the air at least on Current Tv when she is on a break from her radio show. Current Tv in my opinion is way better than MSNBC, especially their primetime line up. At least the hosts on Current tv hold the President Accountable if he does something right or wrong, especially Cenk.
I gave up on Stephanie Miller more than a year ago, when every other sentence out of her mouth was an ad for her Sexy Liberal Tour and every third sentence was a non sequitor ending in that ridiculous breathless laugh of hers. Miller is not a liberal, she’s a lapdog for the corpo-Democratic party and an Obama Can Do No Wrong stooge.
Joe Scarborough certainly must be exhausted at the end of each three hour show- it takes a lot of talent to balance being condescending toward Mika, yukking it up with his Alpha Male wannabee pals, telling old war stories about How It Used To Be When I Was in Congress, and doing terrible Bill Clinton impersonations while dreamily cooing over Chris Christie for 180 minutes a day.
“telling old war stories about How It Used To Be When I Was in Congress”
Yeah, back in the good old days when finding a dead congressional page in your congressional office was no big deal.
What is the story on that sec? The most I have ever heard is what you just said but no more facts. I am just curious.
While ol Joe was in the House not to long after the impeachment debacle a young female page was found dead in ol Joe’s office. Frankly I never heard what the end of the story was but ol Joe didn’t run for re-election. I think that was the chain of events, there was never much in the papers about it.
From Wikipedia so you can bet it’s been cleaned up my wingers…….”On July 20, 2001, one of Scarborough’s aides died after hitting her head on a desk when she fainted while alone in Scarborough’s Fort Walton Beach, Florida, office.[23] According to Scarborough, soon after her death, allegations “spread all over the Internet” that he had been involved,[23][24] although there was no evidence of foul play. In 2003, he joked about the incident with Don Imus on Imus’s radio program.[25] In 2004, it was the subject of a public spat between Scarborough and filmmaker Michael Moore.[26]“
Don’t forget how exhausting it is to talk over any guest with an opposing view and to make his BS last for the length of their segment. I was so glad the other day when Tina Brown was on and he was absent so I could hear what she had to say.
He personifies the rethug style: talk louder, longer and more aggressively than your opponant,make sure you have belittled them before you get going, fill your time with favorite memes that the audience could repeat ad nauseum and assume you are speaking for everyone..
Thanks secular
Folks like Joe have repeatedly demonstrated that you can build up endurance if you do enough reps.
“It takes a lot of hubris to keep vamping on videotape when you’re busted. No doubt it’s exhausting.”
I donknow….ask Mittens.
Completely with jjamele on Stephanie Miller. Can’t stand her. Put her in a room with Ann Coulter. Maybe they’ll cancel each other out.