TYT: Conservatives Mock Homeland Security Report

[mystieus]

Run time: 03:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3hEXMNRM-E   Posted on YouTube: June 12, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 12, 2009 By DU Member: mystieus Views on DU: 1199

 
Check out Joe Scarborough....

[ihavenobias]

1. Great clip.

K & R

[bulloney]

2. What's Scarborough saying about all of this now? Is he still letting out his fake laughs?

Especially considering he represented a pro-life extremist as an attorney. This is one of the very groups DHS warned about.

I'd love to see them re-open the investigation of the death of his congressional aide and watch him squirm on TV. Or maybe he'd take a leave of absence pending the outcome.

[checks-n-balances]

7. He talked around it today, and I would've considered it bizarre

except we've heard countless rightwingers use the same kinds of tactics countless times for years. I posted about it below and here's something from another thread (about halfway down in the comments) that will answer your question:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5831389#5831440

I would've replied to you directly before but somehow I missed it the first time...

Oh yeah, and I missed this other thread, too, that more directly addresses that show this morning:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8466101

(Edited to add the 2nd thread)

[democracy1st]

3. Why did she give in to these fools !

[izquierdista]

4. DSS

Democrat Spine Syndrome. Harry Reid has it, Pelosi has it, I'd say most Democrats have it, with the exception of people like Dennis Kucinich and Barney Frank, but they are hard to come by.

[TheWarIzaLie]

5. KnR

Once again, the reich wing media whores are all wearing egg on their faces

[checks-n-balances]

6. Interestingly, Scar commented (indirectly) about this again today

Willie Geist read part of Krugman's latest column, quoting the part about the DHS report that he had previously ridiculed, and here's how Joe answered:

“I’m just gonna say it. As somebody that has to sort through a lot of hate mail, a lot of hate email, a lot of viciousness. Paul Krugman’s name is attached to a lot of those emails. They use Paul Krugman as their shield for their left-wing hate. This is because Paul Krugman, like a lot of extremists on the right, they only see their side. They have a closed-minded world view. Paul Krugman uses this tragedy, uses this death to try to knock down his opponents on the right.”

Here's what followed the quote on the Plumline blog this morning:

Hmmm. Krugman is the equivalent of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and other conservative commentators who traffic in the Obama birth certificate nonsense, insinuate that he’s a closet Muslim, and accuse Obama of being a socialist? Intriguing.

As I noted yesterday, Scarborough dismissed the DHS “right wing extremists” report back in April by chortling that DHS chief Janet Napolitano was “nuts.” Instead of saying, “Whoops, guess I blew that one, sorry, I’ll be more careful next time,” Scarborough’s response is to label someone a hate-monger for running the correction that he should be running.

As a side note, Scarborough’s claim today that critics of the DHS “right wing extremists” were mainly upset because it supposedly targeted veterans is a complete revision of history.

More, including links to JS's comments, at
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/political-media/joe-scarborough-paul-krugman-is-fanning-left-wing-hate/

(Edited to correct website address)

[FiveGoodMen]

8. K&R

[Seldona]

9. K&R