What is Joe Scarborough's problem?

[Life Long Dem]

He tried to cut off Rachel Maddow, but she wouldn't let him then after the commercial break Scarborough confronted Maddow again. Here is the video http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/17/joe-scarborough-walks-off_n_97330.html

Huffington Post
Update from MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines to Huffington Post:
"Joe didn't walk off. He chose not to participate in the final couple of minutes of the discussion because he felt the conversation didn't fit his role as a political analyst."

Previously:
Did Joe Scarborough walk out of David Gregory's show "Race to the White House" Thursday night on MSNBC? It seems that way by the video below. Joe was a panelist on the show along with Air America's Rachel Maddow, CNBC's John Harwood and former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr.

The panel was discussing the effect of Sen. Obama's personal and professional relationships on his campaign when Rachel and Joe disagreed. Joe started to challenge Rachel's argument that relationships only become an issue when a political opponent makes them an issue, but she cut him off, "Let me make my point and then you can dismiss me." She then finished with an example of a McCain campaign co-chair in Florida's bathroom activities.

After a commercial break, Joe prefaced his rebuttal to Rachel's point by saying "I don't engage in Crossfire-type debates and certainly I don't want to talk about what people do in bathrooms." When he finished speaking, and after David Gregory had shut Joe vs. Rachel down, John Harrow came on camera. Then, viewers can hear Joe taking off his microphone (2:47 into the below video). When the panel picture came back, no Joe.

Watch Rachel and Joe make their points, hear Joe unplug, and then (after a jump) see the panel after Joe has gone:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/17/joe-scarborough-walks-off_n_97330.html

[greenbriar]

1. he is a repuke...that explains everything

they are assholes

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Ain't that the truth

:hi:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. What is Joe Scarborough's problem?

He's an assbag, that's his problem.

[kristopher]

3. Good riddance to bad rubbish. nt

[grasswire]

4. ego

and maybe narcissism.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. LOL

I called it too!

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Which problem?

Dead intern

Conservative

Narcissistic

Dead intern

Cocky

Republican

Dead intern

Take your pick! :spank:

[Justitia]

6. He has been ALL OVER HER, he loathes her because she's much smarter than him.

He's been incredibly rude and boorish to her since day one.

They need to boot his worthless ass and give us more Maddow.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. He isn't very nice to Nika on Morning Joe either

[AlCzervik]

12. maybe he has Mommy issues or maybe he just doesn't like women who won't

walk 10 paces behind him.

[Frustratedlady]

25. Amen! He really showed his hatred tonight.

She blows him out of the water and he doesn't know what to do about it.

He made an ass of himself, tonight. Now, I see why I've never liked him.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

8. One of Olbermann's primary specials, he was so aggressive with her that Buchanan was taken aback.

His M.O. is yell, laugh, yell, remind people you were congressman, but not too much in case they start asking questions, laugh, yell,

and pray for job security.

[Life Long Dem]

17. Well she stood up to him this time. Good for her. n/t

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

27. Hear, hear or here, here! He is nowhere near her intellectual equal. Nor as charming and

well spoken.

:toast:

[AlCzervik]

9. Tough shit Joe, it's not your show, suck it up and stop being a baby.

he takes his ball and goes home because on someone else's show they want play by his ground rules---Boo-fucking-hoo.

[DesEtoiles]

13. He is in love with her.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. Joe Scarborough's problem is he owes a great debt...

...to the men who covered for that woman who died in his office.

He will do whatever they tell him to.

Her name was Lori

[madrchsod]

15. he`s a prick that can`t stand a woman that has an opinion

that is different than his. rachel won`t back down and he can`t take it...

it was reported that mika was screaming "you go girl"....

[gore000408]

16. The Village Voice on Joe Scarborough

"Once Scarborough was in Washington and began doing the talk-show circuit blasting Clinton, a White House aide bumped into him on Capitol Hill and told him that the president hated his guts—a feeling he described as "mutual" in his book. "I can't even look at the man's face on TV," Scarborough told his staff. The ever-flexible Scarborough now likes to say that he's "spent the past five or six years second-guessing myself on whether I was unfair to Bill Clinton in the 1990s, why he bothered me the way he did," and insists that he "tries to be positive" about him. He says that he voted for only two of the four impeachment counts against Clinton while in Congress, though he made regular appearances on the talk-show circuit, including Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, to condemn the then president."

http://www.villagevoice.com/generic/show_print.php?id=396288&page=396288&issue=0814&printcde=MzYyNTQ3MjkwNA==&refpage=L25ld3MvaW5kZXgucGhwP2lzc3VlPTA4MTQmcGFnZT0zOTYyODgmaWQ9Mzk2Mjg4

[peacetalksforall]

18. He's a pretty pricky female intolerator. Edited to add - just like Imus (and Bernie).

[Jane Austin]

36. I think Little Joe

looks a hell of a lot like Big Bill.

He probably saw himself in Bill, and at least one school of psychology avers that you hate whats bad in you when you see it in someone else.

They say that if you dislike or hate somebody on sight, you probably see something in them that is like you.

[LowerManhattanite]

19. The woman is a Rhodes Scholar—BRILLIANT!

Went to Stanford, Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford and is so much smarter than that slit-eyed, disingenuous little bot for evil that it enrages him. She's also telegenic and doesn't take any shit from an intellectual or moral lesser like him.

She routinely embarrasses him AND the slow-footed Buchanan.

Thus their petty anger.

And I LOVE it! :)

[dorkulon]

30. Honestly, I think Buchanan is relatively respectful toward her.

Scarborough's the one who's always trying to shut her down.

[Justitia]

31. She has charmed Buchanan somewhat, but do you remember him telling the other woman to "Shut Up!"?

That blew my mind! I was shocked that he wasn't fired for that, and to my knowledge he never apologized either.

Rachel handles him like a pro.

[dorkulon]

33. I DID catch that.

I was actually thinking of mentioning it in the previous post. That was way over the line. What I liked about that was how Rachel actually scolded him for it, and he didn't really reply at all.

[Justitia]

34. Yes, she told him she was shocked by his behavior & he went mute.

If I had been that woman (I'm so sorry I can't remember her name), I would have let the old buzzard have it. Of course, that's why I'm not on teevee - LOL!

[DJ13]

20. None of you people must have watched that clip

Yes he is a prick, yes he's everything you've said, but the real reason he left was he got mad because Maddow made a point about the inequality of coverage Obama was getting compared to McCain.

She went into a litany of things McCain has done, or people he's associated with that are far WORSE than anyone Obama is associated with (McCain's rascist preacher endorsement, his Florida Chair who was caught soliciting a police officer in a public bathroom among other things) and Joe didnt like it.

THAT was the reason he was pissed, he's just another whiny Republican that loves to see it dished out to a Democrat, but cries like a baby if its turned back on a Republican.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

28. As one of "you people" I must disagree, having watched the clip.

:hi:

[Divine Discontent]

21. SEVEN SECONDS

that's how long Rachel was into one sentence when Joe tried to shut her up and tell her REALLY what this was all about in JOE'S mind!


asshat.

and I loved her saying, "then you can dismiss me". HA!

[Muttocracy]

22. yep, she shut him down right there.

And then he....talked... really....slow.....so.....she.....couldn't....respond.....before.....he.....unplugged.

[Divine Discontent]

24. she is amazing

and I agree, he either has the hots for her b/c he knows he cannot have her, or, he just hates her for her intelligence and her sexuality. Regardless, he's really spiteful towards her for whatever his reasons are, and it needs to stop.

[BurtWorm]

23. He had his feelings hurt by an upstart who's smarter and stronger than he is.

What more needs to be said?

[seabeyond]

26. what really pissed him off.... the florida campaign dude getting blow jobs in florida

probably a friend of his. lol

[dorkulon]

29. He's stormed off his own show too.

I remember it happened towards the end of the show once. It was maybe just after one of the primaries, because they were talking about how they'd been up forever. They came back from a break, and Mika had this stunned look, and basically said that Joe had just gotten really pissed during a conversation during the break and walked off. Then when they did the "what have we learned today" bit at the end, it was just her and Willie, and they still looked freaked out by the whole thing. Joe was absent the next day also.

I think he really does have issues with women when they stand up to him and argue.

[alittlelark]

32. It could be that Lori Klausutis's spirit is haunting him.

"FORT WALTON BEACH, FL. - Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old office worker for Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-Fl), was found dead in the congressman's district office. Police said preliminary findings from the medical examiner's office showed no foul play or any outward indication of suicide."



He could be experiencing Kharma.......




:shrug:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

A dead woman in his office. Move along, nothing to see here.

[AlCzervik]

35. you mean the intern they claim he didn't kill? The cover up at the coroners office

that intern?

[SoCalDem]

37. He's a snarky, piss-ant bully

:(

[Ino]

38. "Mika, don't make me backhand you"

video of Joe's threat
http://mediamatters.org/items/200801300002

[johnnydrama]

39. i'm almost sad Rachel is on MSNBC

That means she can't be on CNN & FOX and ABC, and CBS. She's that good. I wish she worked for the DNC and her job was to go on every show.

[Roxy66]

40. He's used to Mika and her passive/giggling crap every morning..

He's not used to women actually standing toe-to-toe with him. He reminds me of a passive/aggressive over-oppressive husband or father.