Scarborough - "(Olbermann) is too stupid to be on television"- Protecting McCain; Pounding Obama

[GreenTea]

Protecting McCain; Pounding Obama

On Wednesday morning, right-wing former congressman Joe Scarborough essentially said that Keith Olbermann is "too stupid to be on television."

Here is the story, which is much more important than the rantings of former right-wing politicians who become cable television politicians.

The soon-to-be-fired, low-ratings CBS anchor Katie Couric did interviews Tuesday night with both McCain and Obama.

In the McCain interview, the candidate who makes a growing list of factual errors wrongly said the Sunni Awakening was a result of the surge. He referred to a conversation between Sunnis and then-Col. (now Gen.) McFarlane that he falsely claimed resulted from the surge.

Problem is, the conversation McCain quoted happened long before the surge.

The Sunni Awakening happened many months before the surge. In fact, Sunni leaders approached the U.S. military more than a year before the surge, but were rebuffed.

In short, the Sunni Awakening happened well before the surge, had zero to do with the surge, and McCain had his facts (again) completely wrong.

Enter Ms. Couric, who used the McCain interview on the evening news, but edited out the McCain misstatement. Enter Olbermann, who did what is far too rare in cable political news: real reporting. He pointed out and documented the latest McCain mistake.

Of course, this was too much for Scarborough, who foamed at the mouth, did not intelligently discuss the McCain misstatement or the Couric protection of McCain when she kept his mistake out of the broadcast.

No, Scarborough said that the issue had been raised by others on MSNBC, and that anyone who raised it (referring to Olbermann) is too stupid to be on television (his phrase).

(Full Essay at Consortium News)
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/072308b.html

[LSparkle]

1. Considering KO's ratings are the highest on MSNBC ...

Scabrous Joe needs to watch his mouth ... or he may be joining Rita
Cosby at "Inside Edition" one day soon ...

[thepurpose]

9. Joe's ratings are pretty bad. Sqawk Box and HLN morning show beats him .

[LaPera]

13. Maybe that's where MSNBC will slip in Raquel Maddow....

[rhett o rick]

14. It'd be funny irony if Rachel replaced dippy Joe. He is soo threatened by her. nm

[Oceansaway]

2. fuk dead intern Joe....n/t....

[SoCalDem]

3. Morning Keith, anyone??

the NEW BOSS is very pro-Keith..and Joey Dead-Intern is always tellgin us how much he HATES NEW YORK and LOVES Pensacola... I say we let him go HOME...permanently

[Cassandra]

16. Keith doesn't do mornings.

Keith has had too much class to diss the other MSNBC hosts. Joey should be careful that he doesn't become the exception.

[fascisthunter]

4. Scarborough=irrelevant

[monmouth]

5. Joe is not handling his irrelevancy too well is he. I believe Imus

had far better ratings than that cartoon group in the a.m. I tuned into CNN these days, I can stay with them for at least twenty minutes..lol.

[Faygo Kid]

6. Uh-oh. Not his jealousy of Keith - his defense of the indefensible CBS whoring.

Bizarre. I'm going to look for the video or transcript now.

[Blue Belle]

18. Maybe he's after Katie Couric's job...

he's proving himself redundant at his current gig.

[librechik]

7. We all know who's too stupid to be on TV, Joe: you and McGrandpa.

sour grapes taste so good, don't they?

[Lex]

8. Scarborough is so jealous of Keith

that it's palpable.

LOL.

[LaPera]

11. Yeah, I believe you are correct, Scarbough's ego & as other here have pointed out his irrelevancy!

[Wapsie B]

10. Dead intern Joe.

nuff said

[annabanana]

12. I do believe that Scabrough is ~*this close*~ to a

"we'll do it live"-type meltdown. I hope it's live, on air. And I know just who could send him over the edge.

Rachel Maddow. She's exponentially smarter than him and far better informed and PLUS.. she's a woman and a gay one at that. Joe is a misogynist and an unreconstructed bully who's treading water on a show that's fading fast.

He's jealous as all hell.

[TexasObserver]

15. "Can we have one conversation that doesn't involve what's on your Ipod, Joe?"

--- that was Brian Williams this morning, on the phone with Joe Scarborough, trying to talk about Obama, while Joe kept babbling on and on, the way he does.

[blogslut]

17. Here's a picture of Joe Scarborough