Scarborough: smug, sarcastic redneck smartass with a big chip on his shoulder

[DeepModem Mom]

He was just on MSNBC with David Gregory, Dick Armey and E.J. Dionne. (Yes, E.J. is a soft-spoken guy who was outnumbered.) Joe was all of the above in the subject line, IMO, in this appearance.

I used to kind of like Joe, when he first started on "Morning Joe." Lately, I've found him one of the most repulsive human beings I've ever watched on a TV screen. Unfortunately, I think I read that his ratings are rising. I don't see how anybody enjoys his kind of vitriol first thing in the a.m. (And, as someone here observed at some point, there's battered wife Mika, looking blankly into the camera when she's not trying to be cute.)

Then there's Joe's bizarre obsession with Sarah Palin. Start with any subject, and it leads back to Sarah -- the future of the GOP and of the entire universe. The sun rises and sets just for Sarah Palin.

She's a drag on the ticket, with a soaring disapproval rating? Not in Joe's world.

Joe hates Manhattan, which showed the world what the people on that island were made of on 9/11 and in its aftermath. (Just listen to the contempt with which he says the words "New York," "Manhattan," "New York Times," and, especially, "Upper West Side.") He hates a lot of things.

Maybe inside he hates Joe.

And I do turn Joe off in the Morning, not long after I click him on.

Sorry -- Joe has been discussed quite a bit here recently -- I just needed a personal vent/rant.

[TennesseeDem]

1. He is a piece of shit, but...

I will always remember his rants against/calling out Bill O'.

[DebbieCDC]

2. I hate that scum

Every sentence begins with...."When I was in Congress...."

A one-term loser who ended up with a dead intern in his office, but we don't talk about that.

On edit: excuse me, a three-term loser

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. I always imagine him saying

"When I killed my intern"

[colonel odis]

3. you can take the redneck peckerhead out of alabama, but you can't take the alabama

out of the redneck peckerhead.

[genna]

17. I thought his people were Kentucky.

No disrespect to Kentucky folks... but Mitch McConnell and his ilk make me think KY is deep country with big hills.

[DeepModem Mom]

22. Somehow I thought Panhandle Florida. Where IS Joe from? nt

[colonel odis]

34. i think both his parents went to UK. but he went to the univuhsuhtee of alabama.

and kentucky is certainly an ... interesting ... place. but louisville is a gem of a city. i lived there about a year and a half.

[skooooo]

4. Mika..

(never knew her name) is always cut off when she tries to say anything. I guess it's a paycheck, cause otherwise, I don't know why the hell she'd want to sit next to Joe and take his abuse.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

7. I think Mika likes Palin. I used to think she was for Obama, but

not so much anymore.

Her dad advises Obama and her brother works for McSame's campaign.

She disappoints me.

[RagAss]

12. look at the eyes....no soul there !

[Cha]

5. I saw what you wrote and then I saw who

wrote it and I had to click on! Knew it must be bad.

I don't have cablen00ze but can imagine the honchos gave joe the mouthpiece permission to be as ugly as he wants to get the election closer.

Morning Joe - Feedback page-very bottom right column http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789 /

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Thanks, zidzi! Yes, Joe dominated the conversation, with Dick Armey next.

Joe was sarcastic with E.J. Dionne. He talked about Obama's funding, and said he knew that E.J. was a critic of the way campaigns are financed and that he was eager to hear what E.J. had to say about Obama's money and buying the election. E.J. is very mild-mannered and answered in a polite, pleasant way, saying that Obama did get much from small donors, but that his large donors concerned him a bit -- even conceding part of Joe's point.

[Cha]

11. Well, they can stew in their concern while

mccain burns Rome.. or something like that.

[Tribetime]

8. let me guess he talked about his days in congress also

you sum up almost exactly how I see him.

[childslibrarian]

9. Well Palin just sold out her running mate...

Which shows her true colors, a person with more ambition than sense (and also really mean and unprofessional to her running mate) and dear Joe can sink his ship with her. A fitting end.

[bluedawg12]

10. Just saw that segment with bubble head Joe

and he was very arrogant and angry.

His little rant about Obama buying the election is sour grapes- as the contributions were from regular folks.

But worse was dickie armie's implication that there was some donor fraud doing with credit cards-- I smell the RW Clinton-zing the next Pres. in the manner of the bogus White water BS,etc.

so it begins...

[DeepModem Mom]

15. I noted that from Armey, too. Coupled with Joe's comments on financing, you're right --

they're getting something going.

[bluedawg12]

27. After watching Obama's 30 min spot- it's like watching good vs. evil

played out on TV.

Burned out repug lies or a man who is a born leader and offers us a chance to rise above and be better.

[DeepModem Mom]

32. I so agree. I keep thinking of Lincoln's, and now Obama's, words --

about "the better angels of our nature." There's something wrong with those people on the other side. I don't think they have the capacity to summon the better angels.

[WinkyDink]

31. Obama can paraphrase JFK, to wit: He wouldn't buy any more states than needed!

[K Gardner]

13. I hate to analyze from the sidelines, but after years of working around

dangerous and explosive, violent people, I sincerely believe this man is dangerous. I mean that in the strict sense of the word.

I'm not going to go into why, or offer up a complete amateur analysis. But if you watch him closely, the look in his eyes, the uncontrollable flashes of sudden anger, the tone in his voice, the disrespect for everyone, the narcicism, the sociopathic behaviors.. all the indicators are there.

I would not want to make this man angry away from cameras. Underneath his barely controlled exterior, he is a time bomb waiting to go off.

[DeepModem Mom]

19. I have been getting a feeling something like that, and I appreciate your sharing your view.

There IS something about the look on his face and in his eyes, his tone of voice. He seems to have so much bottled up resentment that it could definitely explode. He's always talking about New Yorkers and liberals saying Palin is dumb -- which I haven't seen as the case. Ignorant in the sense of uninformed is what she's criticized for -- among other things.

He must think people think he's dumb, maybe because he didn't grow up in the Northeast or go to elite schools. That's my guess for the chip on his shoulder.

[Raine]

30. That would explain how that dead

intern came to be. :-(

[beachmom]

39. Does anyone have any evidence to provide? Rumors do not mean there is any truth to it.

[beachmom]

38. I doubt it. I think these TV personalities are entertainers, and you

shouldn't read too much into their "performances". Plus, Joe gave up his career for his son who has Asperger's, so I just am not going to criticize him in that way.

[DeepModem Mom]

43. I didn't know that, beachmom. Thanks. nt

[rufus dog]

16. He knows the loss is imminent

Thus the constant NO MANDATE meme. So Bush wins by a couple million out of 125 million and has a mandate. Obama with a potential 7.5 million win out of 140 million isn't a mandate. FUCK OFF JOE.

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. "When I was a Congressman" he killed his intern

A Death in the Congressman's Office
Does Anybody in the Press Care About Lori Klausutis?
By Denis Wright and Chris George


Three Pivotal Questions
by the Editors
September 1, 2001 (APJP) -- Over at The American Prospect's message board thread concerning this very article, Phoenix Woman has asked a trolling Scarborough "defender" three pivotal questions. We'd love to know the answers ourselves:

1) If Lori's death was just a simple accident, then why did Rep. Scarborough and his spokesman Miguel Serrano feel the need to go to two different local TV stations within three hours of her body's being found and invent a nonexistent history of chronic medical conditions for
her -- in other words, why did they feel the need to lie about Lori's health?

2) Would you trust without question the word of a Medical Examiner who lost his ME license in two separate states (Missouri and Florida) because he LIED about his autopsy work (for instance, saying he had autopsied some brains when he hadn't)?

3) Why should whoever wrote Ms. Klausutis's obituary feel it was appropriate to mention nearly everything about her life -- EXCEPT where she'd been working since 1999?




http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html

[DainBramaged]

20. Morning Schmo, the media Ho, it's expected, no bother

[Hieronymus]

21. You're description is accurate. Unlike you, I never liked him.

[DeepModem Mom]

25. I thought after Imus he seemed anxious to present a "gentler" tone. He...

for example, told Hillary Clinton very early on that the impeachment episode was not his best moment. But that kind of dialogue is in the past, for sure.

[budkin]

23. Once a puke...

[vaberella]

24. He hates my home town and location....let him know we hate him back!!! n/t

[Hieronymus]

28. Joe calls his own hometown, the redneck riviera ... it is.

[stillcool]

26. He reminds me of somone..

that I grew up with, so I've never been able to watch him.

[ShortnFiery]

29. Morning Ho-Jo is going to be one big Pity Party tomorrow morning ... I think I may watch for

ENTERTAINMENT. :evilgrin:

[polichick]

33. Joe Scabface and Joe the Plumber are two of a kind - both creep me out!

[ShortnFiery]

Sorry ... Dupe

[ShortnFiery]

35. In another thread poll I voted Joe Scarborough as the most DANGEROUS because he

can turn on that ole' Southern Charm. It's a thin facade to me but it fools many people. I know that underneath that thin veneer is a right wing authoritarian patriarch. I met many "Joey the Scars" when I was active duty Army. They make me wrench. I couldn't spend five minutes in the same room with him. :thumbsdown:

[JoePhilly]

36. He is an embarssament to all Joes ... and here is how to smack him down.

He likes to say that the US is still a "center right nation" ... and he's always looking for indicators that the race is "tightening".

He's wrong ... Obama's electoral college lead has EXPANDED in the last 4 weeks ... not contracted.

Every Dem who talks to him should point out his this fact ... if the race was tighter ... McCain would not need robo calls in Arizona.

[underpants]

37. Is going to wear the same sweater again tomorrow?

two days in a row the same sweater

I watched it the last two days and they are going out of their way to try to keep McCain going

[ecstatic]

40. Joe doesn't strike me as a redneck

more like a spoiled overly sensitive snob.

[IsItJustMe]

41. I can't watch him anymore.

[Undercurrent]

42. .

Scarborough is looser. To paraphrase Edwin Edwards, Joe actually did end up with a dead girl (not a live boy) on his hands. He got away with that, but exposed what a scum he is.