Does Scarborough Leave The Set After Rachel Maddow Hurts His Feelings?
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Apr 16, 2008 9:00pm
Today on "Race to the White House" Rachel Maddow and Joe Scarborough got into a little argument after Rachel called him out for being rude and interrupting her when she criticized John McCain. At the end of the show, when guests are supposed to make a final prediction about the presidential race, Scarborough instead opted to take a shot at Rachel. After Rachel gives her response, Scarborough is nowhere to be found.
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Scarborough: I think I may blow all my time to respond to Rachel. I don't get engage in "Crossfire"-type debates. [...] Again, I don't do Crossfire, so if we want to yell back and forth, then Rachel will have to find somebody else to do that.
Rachel: Joe, I wasn't trying to yell back and forth with you. I was starting to make my point and you cut me off before I started my first sentence.
(a few moments later, sans Scarborough)
Rachel: Me and Joe are gonna get a beer and hash this all out.
UPDATE: Jeremy Gaines tells the 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."
What a weak excuse. Joe's job as a "political analyst" is to analyze the political race. That's what the entire show is about. Rachel got under his skin, plain and simple. It was probably when she made that face after he said he didn't want to be condescending, which he was clearly being.
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Baby Joe.
Oh, and Frist!
Joe Scarborough is a loser. No wonder GE hired him to do their bidding on MSNBC.
Rachel's the best. Joe's, well....a putz.
Joe's afraid of girls!!!!
Silly SilentPatriot, Republicans don't have feelings.
Been in love with Rachel since I saw her first Campaign Asylum vid on you tube.
Tough, smart, and funny as hell when she wants to .
Check out her Fred Thompson Camp.Asylum vid. purrrrrrrrrrfect.
you can tell it frustrates him to me outsmarted by...gasp...a girl!
What the hell is he whining about? And excuse me, but Joe Scarborough getting upset about someone "cutting him off" is the height of hypocrisy.
Joe is not used to talk to people who are smarter than him
Cheech @ 5:
Joe had one die in his office when he was a congressman . . . luckily there was no real investigation of the death
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Lori+Klausutis&btnG=Search
joe is just like billo, he makes his opinion heard
and then just cuts off any descent...period
these two BOYS have never grown up except for their
immature egos which are as large as their balls hang down.
somebody tell Rachel to avoid going near any tables
Baby joey is a pussy. No wonder he isn't in Congress anymore - he probably didn't like the fact that +/- half of the people he spent time with most days (Democrats) thought he was an asshole.
Well joey, you ARE an asshole - a rude one at that!
Avid Reader @ 11:
make that two die................
nirak @ 10:
What? Everyone is smarter than him, well sep W!
Joe is out of his league when he mixes with Rachel.
Joe is used to cutting women off, or being condescending- He does it all the time in the am ( on HIS OWN show) to Mika....But Rachel is so smart and well spoken, and she knows the issues. Joe sounded like he was being paid to an ad for McShame ...EVERY scandel/ Questionable relationship that Mcshame has been within spitting distance ( the fella in Florida, also one of the people on his committtee in AZ, Hagee, the MISSING Medical Records etc etc) The MSM gives a BIG pass to him....and it is Journalistically pathetic...and dangerous in the end...( and that is not about "Crossfire", that is about Fair Honest Reporting - which we have not seen in years..) Joe wants to act like an arrogant Frat Boy- he should head over to FOX- he and George Stephonoplis could have a show together...
Personally I wish that MSNBC would give Rachel a show...she did Countdown last Friday and did great...
nirak @ 10:
Really I find that hard to believe. It's certainly rare, but refreshing that your
media allows someone on smarter than Joe. But trust me, he talks to people
smarter than he is about every 10 seconds.
ha! i hadn't seen this... rachel talked about it on today's show...
she said she didn't hear what he had to say because her producer was talking in her earpiece... she didn't know he'd left... today she said something like, "i hear he walked out"... she didn't know why and she wasn't sure what to do about it, but seemed to think that she SHOULD do something...
Rachel might have a beer, but I bet Joe's gonna order an appletini.
ferrofluid @ 13:
LMAO
Canuck @ 19:
doesn't talk much then?
Awwww! poor wittle scar.
Gregory and co. didn't like it when Rachel brought up McCain's former Florida campaign co-chair and buddy Bob Allen arrested for attempted butt burglary.
Scott Hussein M @ 21:
I heard Joe likes bloody marys!
lol He walked? out too funny was he crying like a little girl " I HATE YOU RACHEL I HATE YOU !!!!!" lol!!
Little Joe doesn't mean to be condescending, it's just his way.
joe - "um-mmm yea... ... i don't wanna be condescending..." but i just am.
what a beady-eyed blinking chump... waaay too big a head.
Joe is a pathetic ass and he really proved it with Rachael. He knows people really like her and he can't handle it so his "manly" way of handling her is to be a big ass baby instead of a man. You could hear him throw his mic when we walked off. What a pussy boy.
What do you expect from a "pundit" who uses the term "we" when refering to Republicans ? Again, fuck you Joe, and the media you rode in on .
OMG Johnny Mac Is a "Pink Pillow Bitter"
That's an abomination of God
We must stop John McCain and his secret Homosexual agenda.
(please know that I'm trying to be ironic here. Also I'm white and i think what Obamas pastor guy said was fine. Black people should be pissed off, oh and basically anyone else who has spent any time in the USA in the last oh 7 and a half-OT years. If your not totally pissed at what bush has turned this country into you asleep at the wheel)
WHY!!!!!!!
She always kicks his ass and it's beautiful.
joe only likes white wine?...float away you fairie
September 1, 2001 (APJP) -- Over at The American Prospect's message board thread concerning this very article, Phoenix Woman has asked a trolling Scarborough "defender" three pivotal questions. We'd love to know the answers ourselves:
1) If Lori's death was just a simple accident, then why did Rep. Scarborough and his spokesman Miguel Serrano feel the need to go to two different local TV stations within three hours of her body's being found and invent a nonexistent history of chronic medical conditions for
her -- in other words, why did they feel the need to lie about Lori's health?
2) Would you trust without question the word of a Medical Examiner who lost his ME license in two separate states (Missouri and Florida) because he LIED about his autopsy work (for instance, saying he had autopsied some brains when he hadn't)?
3) Why should whoever wrote Ms. Klausutis's obituary feel it was appropriate to mention nearly everything about her life -- EXCEPT where she'd been working since 1999?
http://www.apj.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=72
StirFry the Latte' Elitist @ 24:
get the facts right please, offering random scary black bloke in a public toilet $20 to perform a blow job on the undercover police man.
Only in Florida and only to a Republican :)
Joe is such a putz! As if having run for political office means that no one else in the body politic can determine when issues being discussed about one candidate and not the other is nonsensical or hypocritical.
Go Rachel, go!!
ferrofluid @ 35:
were you that republican? just asking.
A reich-winger having a hissy fit!?!?! No waaaaay!
Wonder how the Joe spoke to Lori Klausutis.
Two weeks ago Rachel got in a litany of facts that msm ignores about McCain after Joe said there weren't things out there to be discussed. I think this has been building since on some level (but not top level because he is so dense) Joe gets that he cannot win this contest of his own making.
It is a full day of contacing msm. Feedback for Road for the White House: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23598392
beer and hash sound good to me.
You can keep on walking Joe.
Poor little white boy conservatives. The nineties are so over.
Hey Rachel PLEASE take this as a compliment, I loved watching good ole boy Scarborough get bitch slapped.
Rachel you're the best!
Unfortunately, just like that other hack who walked off, he'll be back.
Go Rachel, you go girl!
Joe has been looney this political season. He attacks Barack, boost Hillary, and becomes overly sensitive when someone speaks bad of John McCain at EVERY TURN.
If he can't handle Rachel Maddow attacking John McCain (the only person attacking McCain at this time in the media), then doesn't he fear his head will explode when the entire left and most Independents start calling him the third term of George Bush and highlighting how much he HASN'T been a maverick since the 2000 election?
I saw the show and wondered what happened to Joe. This show has to be pre-recorded or else Rachel's Air America show is not live as they both start at the same time. Which one is taped? Does anyone know?
Joe= typical repub = a bully.
Bullies do NOT like to be treated the way they treat others.
They either walk out or flip the checkerboard.
OMG, I just saw a commercial with Rep. Pelosi and Newt Gingrich sitting on couch pretending to like each other and care about the environment. I almost puked.
EliteLemming @ 48:
I will be sending Cindy Sheehan some cash all the way from Illinois
Uh, Crossfire has been off the air for several years now...somebody better tell Joe.
Joe is a damn neanderthal. Learn some manners fool.
G @ 33:
my best laugh of the night. thank you.
He's a pussy.
Avid Reader @ 11:
No doubt.
EliteLemming @ 48:
I haven't seen that one, but I've seen the one with Pat Robertson and Rev. Al Sharpton. ...wierdness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_Crossfire
Rove "defined" McBush pretty well (in his own way) after South Carolina in 2000, didn't he. And McCain let him.
Seems that McCain had a long enough track record back then as well, if you believe Joe.
Joe's point is garbage. A long, weak and two-faced record doesn't hold a candle to a shorter record of quality decision-making.
EliteLemming @ 48:
StirFry the Latte' Elitist @ 55:
They were selling wecansolveit.org.
Remember "The Computer loves you".
he can't help it. he's a pussy.
StirFry the Latte' Elitist @ 55:
lie down with dogs get up with fleas, perhaps its part of some 'faith based initiative' money grab.
I'm posting this Before I read The Comments. But how F-ing condesending can a man's voice be than Joe's ? If i were Rachel ,I'd envite Joe out for a beer and slowly pour one over His lap in full view of the barcrowd.
Maddow is the most rational voice on TeeVee right now. I'm impressed daily by her depth and ability to parse information other panalists just really don't get.
dadams @ 37:
I woundnt be seen drunk in Florida
abob @ 63:
You need glasses.
Joe seems a bit rude.
numfar @ 53:
He's hiding under your table.
look at that. that's why l love rachel maddow. good for her. she's happy and strong.
what happens here? she does what men do allll the time to each other and to women on tv but let a woman do it to him, and the poor widdle fella gets his feelinz destroyed. and leaves. please!!! he tried to friggin interrupt, she didnt let him! wtf? and he storms off? now imagine that the other way? exactly. and behold the gross imbalance of values. tweety demonstrates it more blatantly, and so does scaroborough betray the same lean in his own way.
nezua @ 69:
Well said
nezua @ 69:
Is this Barney Frank???
joe is such a sissy ass. He finally has met a "woman" who isn't going to let him push her off the mic, and it drives him f*cking crazy.
Go Rachel!! His time on the tube is up. It's time for joe to go out and run for repug office again, he's such a shill on the network anyway.
wheeeeee @ 71:
Don't bother little one. It's a school night.
Rachel Maddow is aces, but the subtler message at work here is that McCain is the old warhorse insider that we all know and trust, and Obama is the unknown outsider about whom we can't be too sure. That was the water Scarborough was carrying for the Republicans and we will be hearing this politics-of-personality issue from now until November.
wheeeeee @ 68:
*sprays RAID under the table*
I thought this was exactly the kind of stuff progressyves were all so enraged about today, no?
500 lefty blog stories and 500,000 angry commenters sure seemed to think so. Far as I could tell, anyway.
What about Joe and the murdered secretary that was found in his office? Shouldn't we be asking about that?
Joe, pull up your skirt and grow a pair. Sissyboy.
rollotomasi @ 74:
'Politics of personality? You mean 'hide yer wayt goils the n.......r takin over?
Somebody give Joe a pacifier.
abob @ 63:
You are so right. Joe doesn't know how to handle himself.
dennis @ 76:
NO
I saw that little dust up when it happened. You could tell immediately that Joe was pissed off, he always is when Maddow gets the best of him. This isn't the first time, either. He has done this before. He does not like Maddow, she is smarter than he is and generally always gets her message across without shouting or cutting people off. I can't figure out if it is just Maddow or all smart females that piss off Joe. Whatever, I would take the word of Maddow over anything Joe has to say. BTW David Gregory wasn't much help, he didn't quite know what to do. I am betting this is last time you see diva Joe and Maddow together.
Snowball @ 77:
People do ask about it here all the time, Snowball. What about it? Is there anything to know?
dennis @ 84:
Well, what does Joe know about it? Nobodies asked him that question. It's as relevant, if not more so, than Obama's having met Ayers.
OY! here we go. Stupid questions for stupid people
Rachael should be barefoot and pregnant, not having an opinion and by all means not challenging a conservative, white, heterosexual male. No wonder Joe cut and ran.
EliteLemming @ 43:
You mean Bob "PlameGate" Novakula who threw a hissy fit and stormed off the CNN set when Carville told him that he was only trying to look tough for the WSJ editorial page?
It seems, uncomfortable questions are only relevant if it happens to be a Democrat, Republicans get a free pass and triple digit salaries.
Acting like he would never sink to talking about "stuff that goes on in bathrooms" HA! Guaranteed if one of Obama's staffers offered $20 and a blow job to an undercover cop, (and one of mccain's never had) he'd never STOP talking about it.
geeezz ruthy We agree on something!
FWACK! Rachel slammed that out of the park!
VegasRage @ 92:
Lefties Love LOW OUTSIDE pitches. It went 410 I think
This is what Republicans and their air horns are most afraid of, that people like Rachael Maddow and Barack Obama will expose their sleazy interruptions and diversions.
If elections are about educating the public, then this one needs memorable lessons on media propaganda.
I may be a gay man, but I'll say it - Rachel is sexy as hell, and proves you don't need long, blonde flowing hair to be beautiful. :)
ferrofluid @ 65:
good for you. two thumbs up
jwf @ 88:
no actually I was talkin 'bout the other fox news hack, but maybe, if we're lucky, this will become a trend.
joshdavis @ 95:
I second that emotion. deep brown eyes and smart means a good night.
Not only did McCain's spokesman solicit a cop for oral sex, he blamed it on his fear of black people. As weak as his rationalization was, the Corporate Media is willfully oblivious to it because he is a Republican. If such an event had happened to the Clinton or Obama campaign, we'd never hear the end of it.
EliteLemming @ 97:
That's a fairly large group. Could you be more specific? :)