Scarborough calls Ted Kennedy a garish Irish pol and bumbling.

[Walk away]

I made the mistake of tuning into MJ this morning. As usual it only took five minutes to piss me off and send me to the goofballs at CNN. Joe was doing his usual "I have so much respect for...." while he insults whomever or whatever he is refering to.

[Justice]

1. childish joe

[Stephanie]

2. I think the word he was looking for was gregarious

But instead he said garish. Twice.

[City Lights]

3. Joe Scarborough is a classless jerk.

I cannot stomach him. At all.

[stray cat]

4. He corrected himself immediately - clarifying it to gregarious

[Walk away]

11. no he did't. he just said garish again.

[kenny blankenship]

29. garrulous, maybe?

[rhett o rick]

28. Once again to the defense of the right wing-nuts. Whose side are you on? nt

[Buzz Clik]

5. Wow! Yet another thread started on why we should not watch Scarborough. NEWFLASH!!!....

Most of us don't watch him, will never watch him, and we don't need multiple updates every hour reaffirming our decision to tune him out.

[drm604]

6. I don't like to defend Scarborough

but I think he was looking for the word "gregarious". He did say that "garish" wasn't the right word.

[CTyankee]

8. Joe is an idiot! Oops, did I say "idiot"? I meant "idealist". Sorry....nt

[drm604]

20. Don't get me wrong, the guy often infuritates me.

I just think that accuracy is important. I heard this and he obviously was attempting a compliment and didn't mean "garish".

[xultar]

7. I don't expect anyone to have any class when anyone dies. After being on DU

and seeing what people post about people after they die I often wondered how thin skinned DU would be when someone we love dies.
After seeing all the shit posted about Michael Jackson here I don't think anyone has any right to be thin skinned.

I must be naive but I always thought Liberals had heart and really cared, kinda like Kennedy. After seeing shit posted when people on the Right die I had to question what I thought Liberals were all about. But I guess now after thinking about it I've found the difference between Liberals and Progressives.

[JohnnyLib2]

15. I wish I didn't agree with you, but......

you hit it.

[Mike Daniels]

17. And the knee-jerk justifiers of the hypocrisy will say "well, our guys do good so it's different"

Somehow I think that people on the opposite side of the spectrum say the same thing - "well, our guys do good so it's different" - when it comes to defending callous remarks about someone dying.

To a certain extent it would be nice if people on both sides could follow Kennedy's lead as far as being able to disagree with people and still have some sort of personal connection to them socially.

[Bluenorthwest]

23. Oh man do I have to agree with you on that so strongly

I'd even say forget what they said about Michael, even what they said about his family was often vile. And in my view hugely racist. There are people on DU I can no longer read because of that stuff.
Michael was a Democrat, he did much good, and he donated quietly to Democrats. The song that wound up being his last ever invokes MLK Jr and FDR, by name. The song is about media and government lies. His last words were "all I want to say is that they don't really care about us." This was a message he gave to millions of people, and it is a truth.
If Mike had been white, people would have noticed what he was singing about. Who sings about FDR? He did. And Democrats did not even notice, because the media told them not to. But the media, they don't really care about us. As a good Democrat once told us, in a most entertaining manner.

[tabasco]

30. Are you equating people like Strom Thurmond and Ted Kennedy?

Newsflash, genius: Some people deserve scorn and others deserve respect.

I know you can grasp it if you try really hard! You can do it!

Oh, one more thing. If you don't like it here, go away.

[1776Forever]

9. Yesterday Joe brought up Ted's tragic accident & I thought what about your issues with your aide?

If anyone doesn't know about that here is the story:

From All Hat No Cattle website where you can read many articles on this:

http://www.allhatnocattle.net/congressman_joe_scarborough.htm



...........

I wouldn't have brought it up except I think Joe is an ass in more ways then one!

:hide:

[Jennicut]

19. Joe has his own skeletons....don't judge others unless you want to be

judged, right?

[1776Forever]

27. Right - We are all human but some judge others with indifference to their own human faults.

That is why I posted this.

:fistbump:

[JonLP24]

10. I have no idea why I keep reading Scarborough threads at GD at this time of day

I always watch Robin Meade Morning Express on HLN. She's not in today but it's a good show. Not a lot of chit-chat, they get through a lot of news quickly. They do repeat some headlines or stories over but it certainly is the best show IMO at this time. It may not be the greatest but it's miles better then Morning Joe.

[tsuki]

13. How can you stand all that emoting that early in the morning? She lost

me when she made murdered a five syllable word grand opera style.

[JonLP24]

14. Don't think I was watching when she did that

Emotion seems pretty normal to me but I do like how she regularly says "good morning sunshine." for some odd reason.

[ErinBerin84]

12. he keeps using Kennedy against Obama

like "Kennedy said the dream lives on, but does it really...Obama has seen just how CONSERVATIVE the country really is and how far they are willing to go these past 9 months, and they are all saying SLOW DOWN!" Never mind the amount of lies about health care reform that the ignorant fucks are believing.

[47of74]

16. That slot should've been for Stephanie MIller instead of

Morning Schmo.

[Mike Daniels]

18. Then perhaps Miller should have gotten better ratings during her time in that slot

MSNBC did what any business would do in that case. They went with the person who was going to make them more money.

[Zen Democrat]

21. With Joe Scrotum, I think he knew the right word, but wanted to get that other one out there.

You know, the old Freudian slip trick. He turns my stomach.

[JaneQPublic]

22. "garish Irish pol and bumbling": Could also describe Reagan (nt)

[OHdem10]

24. There is a political strategy: Never let the Democrats have any

strong significant leaders. Liberalism is the better philosophy
for American People and Conservatism is better philospophy for
Business. Therefore, Conservatives can never let any Democrat
appear significant and strong. Forgiveness is not natural to them
they have to work at it. Committed to man's fallen nature and
not big on redemption

Never let any Democrat get a stronghold on the American Imagination.
This threatens Conservatism.

I am surptrised there was not more dredging up the past by GOP than
there was.

[stanwyck]

25. I saw the show just long enough to see Joe has dyed his hair

again. Looked better gray.

[truebrit71]

26. Who gives a damn what the intern killer says?

..the guy gives a bad name to douchebags around the globe...