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CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
6. Joe was outnumbered, tho. After his little tirade there was pushback from the panel
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 08:34 AM
Sep 2013

members. Joe pretends he is in an echo chamber but he isn't and he learned that again today on the show. Even Craig Shirley, Reagan's biographer, was kinder to Obama. I was surprised!

Chris Matthews wasn't having any of it either...

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
9. I love the way Scar talks about his opposition to the Iraq War. Here was a guy who
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 08:47 AM
Sep 2013

went on TV in the early run up to the Iraq invasion supporting it and Bush all the way. The videotape still exists! I've seen it and it is relatively easy to find by Googling.

Mika was interesting today, I thought. She looked like even she wanted to throttle Joe...

malaise

(268,999 posts)
10. Joe Scum has no memory of himself
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 08:52 AM
Sep 2013

You see a good LIAR has to have a good memory and he has reinvented himself starting with the dead lady in his office.

http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/19/scarborough-remembers-some-iraq-words-but-not-his-own/
<snip>

On April 9, 2003, the very pro-war Scarborough bashed the media outlets he thought were too negative about the war:

I doubt that the journalists at the New York Times and NPR or at ABC or at CNN are going to ever admit just how wrong their negative pronouncements were over the past four weeks.

The next night (4/10/03), he went on a tear against anti-war activists:

I'm waiting to hear the words "I was wrong" from some of the world's most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types…. I just wonder, who's going to be the first elitist to show the character to say: "Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong"? Maybe the White House will get an apology, first, from the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. Now, Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war….

Maybe disgraced commentators and politicians alike, like Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Dennis Kucinich and all those others, will step forward tonight and show the content of their character by simply admitting what we know already: that their wartime predictions were arrogant, they were misguided and they were dead wrong. Maybe, just maybe, these self-anointed critics will learn from their mistakes. But I doubt it. After all, we don't call them "elitists" for nothing.

Scarborough's lack of self-awareness about Iraq isn't new; in a Politico column (12/19/11), he wrote:

I cannot resist returning to the scene of the crime to take one last look at the shameless hypocrites and liars on both sides who used this tragedy for their own political benefit.


CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
11. At some point someone has to face him down on HIS show and read from his
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 09:01 AM
Sep 2013

words, shove it into his face, and demand a response from him.

You are absolutely right. To succeed at lying you have to either have a good memory or have someone confront you with your LIES and inconsistencies. One of these days that is going to happen to him on his show, face to face. I just hope I am watching at the time. It will be EPIC!

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
14. Colbert has gotten in some digs...remember those two economists who were
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 09:16 AM
Sep 2013

thwarted by a grad student who totally exposed the phony math...Colbert had the student on his show to talk about it. He had a LOT of fun and even played a clip of Joe just mouthing what the economists had said, as if it were etched in stone. Try to find the video of that segment...

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
12. Has Morning Scum EVER held Dimson accountable for any of his innumerable crimes??
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 09:03 AM
Sep 2013

If so, I missed it.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
15. All he says is he was against the Iraq War...
Wed Sep 11, 2013, 09:18 AM
Sep 2013

I guess he figures we are too dumb to check him out using the Google...that kind of monumental hypocrisy and lying is bound to catch up with him. I wait patiently for the day of reckoning for Joe Scarborough and will do a happy dance when he falls...

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