Joe Scarborough, Condescending Twit
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Aug 27, 2008 4:30pm
If you thought Joe Scarborough sending his court jester Willie Geist to ask Big Tent bloggers if they eat Cheetos and blog from their mother's basement was a d*ck move, watch how he treats David Shuster in this clip from "Morning Joe." Has there ever been anyone more petty and condescending as he is here? I have to give props to Shuster; I would have gotten up and decked Joe if he ever talked to me like that.
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SCARBOROUGH: What about your party? What’s your party? David Shuster, David, what’s your party?
SHUSTER: I have no party. I’m a complete independent.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, you’re independent. Just like all..
SHUSTER: I’ll show you my voting card. I’ll show you how I’m registered later.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh...I feel so comforted by the fact that you’re an Independent. I bet everyone at MSNBC has “independent” on their voting cards. “Oh, we’re down the middle now.” Go ahead, David. No, no, go ahead. You’re an Independent David. Go ahead. Talk about my party. Go ahead.
Ummm, you served in Congress as a Republican, Joe. So, yes, your party is the Republican Party.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH: I will let you know that "my party," my party, loathes me, much more than your party, the Democratic party, loathes me.
DAVID SHUSTER: Well that's a whole 'nother issue, but the fact of the matter is --
SCARBOROUGH: No, it's not another issue, because you said --
SHUSTER: The party you served with in Congress have repeatedly suggested, they have ridiculed --
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I will let you know that "my party," my party, loathes me, much more than your party, the Democratic party, loathes me.
DAVID SHUSTER: Well that's a whole 'nother issue, but the fact of the matter is --
SCARBOROUGH: No, it's not another issue, because you said --
SHUSTER: The party you served with in Congress have repeatedly suggested, they have ridiculed --
SCARBOROUGH: What about your party? What's your party? David Shuster, David: what's your party?
SHUSTER: I have no party. I'm a complete independent.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, you're independent. Just like all --
SHUSTER: I'll show you my voting card. I'll show you how I'm registered later.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, I feel so comforted by the fact that you're an independent. I bet everyone at MSNBC has "independent" on their voting cards. "Oh, we're down the middle now." Go ahead, David. No, no, go ahead. You're an independent David. Go ahead. Talk about my party. Go ahead.
SHUSTER: Are you done?
SCARBOROUGH: No, I'm not done, when the fact is that I'm about as down-the-middle as anybody on television on any network, and you come in with a cheap shot, calling up "your party."
[...]
SCARBOROUGH: Do you never watch this show?
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: He's on this show!
SCARBOROUGH: You must be asleep. Oh, that's right. You usually sleep through the show.
BRZEZINSKI: Sto-o-p-p-p.
SCARBOROUGH: Because you didn't show up three times in a row! Three times you slept through your alarm and didn't come on this show.
SHUSTER [to fellow panelists]: That's how the argument works.
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Will Joe Scarborough ever allow Mika to complete a sentence? Scar has got to be the biggest douchebag on TV.
SCARBOROUGH would be a perfect fit in with Fox News. He's straight out of the factory that produced hannity.
No one wants to talk about your party Scar Boy.
But what about the ABC reporter arrested for taking pictures today.
YOUR PARTY made the climate of hate and fear that chokes our nation you fuck, you are your 1962 haircut and Cape Cod clothing.
Why doesn't MSNBC fire him? He is a washed up politician with no charm. It is getting interesting watching these Repugs implode.
Let's get the nomenclature correct; he's a republican douchebag!
The other "news" networks aren't any better. Read more, if you like. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/08/if-it-bleeds-it-leads.html
Joe is such a little baby. I thought that was one of the most unprofessional moments I've ever seen. What a hack. No wonder they dumped his prime time show and gave him the morning slot.
I couldn't make it through the long whining diatribe. Joe is such a lousy reporter, why doesn't someone reopen the case about the intern, so we can rid the airwaves of this bag of hot air. Please tell me he doesn't have kids.
wow..what a dick...
orcas @ 1:
Mika couldn't complete a non scripted MsM filtered sentence if her lonely life depended on it. Her mind is nailed shut.
MSNBC is about to disintegrate before our eyes, and what sucks is Olbermann, our guy, is kinda sparking the super nova.
J.S. has no idea how insignificant he is.
It seems like Scarborough wants to be ejected from his contract or something. Or he thinks he's king of TV and there's no way he'll be ousted. Or MSNBC wants KO and Shuster put on notice. (KO is getting a little extra in-your-face sometimes.)
Whatever, it makes for lots of embarrassed sidekicks taking deep breaths and typical right wing blustering overtalk of those on 'the other side.'
Where is that again?
Ok Joe, your party is the party that lied to the nation to involve us in an unnecessary war that has taken a huge toll on this nation in lives and economics. Your party is the party that ignored intelligence leading up to 9/11, and your party is the party that stood by and did nothing as a major American city was destroyed by a hurricane. Your party is the party that advocates imprisonment and torture of people who have not been charged with any crime and are not allowed to defend themselves in a court of law. Your party is the party that sends American troops off to war and tosses them aside when they come home wounded. Finally, your party is the party that causes economic collapse in this country everytime they get elected, Bush number 1 and record unemployment, Reagan and the rape of the savings and loan industry, and now, Bush number 2 and the pillaging of the mortgage industry.
I'd rather have a bald Manc twat host the show over Scarbs.
Whoa.... He is really behaving like a child right there. How much money does NBC pay this douche bag every year to throw temper tantrums?
I imagine this is how his intern was treated moments before she was offed.
I saw this yesterday morning and I thought Joe was gonna blow a gasket. Actually I kinda hoped he would. As he got totally out of control you could see and tell that the others on the show were getting very nervous and embarrassed that they were even there.
"SCARBOROUGH: No, I’m not done, when the fact is that I’m about as down-the-middle as anybody on television on any network, and you come in with a cheap shot, calling up “your party.”
I call serious bullshit on that statement. He may be down the middle of the right lane, but he is a hell of a long way from the actual middle of the road.
He should have lost his job over this fit he threw. He was totally unhinged. Totally and completely unprofessional in every single damned way.
Joe is God. Just ask him.
Seriously, for those who question Joe's ability to fly into enough of a rage to do someone harm (Lori Klausutis), watch the clip. Watch how enraged he becomes over what is nothing more than a verbal bust - Shuster busted Joe over the way he mocks people who don't agree with him. And Shuster was right, as can be seen by the manner in which Joe mocks Shuster towards the end of the segment.
But what's creepy to watch is both the disproportionate rage Joe not only displays but doesn't even try to check, and, even more disconcerting, the way the other people there reacted to Joe's tantrum. Look at the way they all turn their heads, lower their gaze, avoid the conflict, but NONE of them looked surprised by Joe's tantrum. I suspect they've seen it before. Notice the way Mika(?) tries in an ingratiatingly obsequious way to stop Joe at the start but then quickly backs down. Shuster's on his own.
Anyone from an abusive family will recognize the behavior here. When daddy goes into a rage, all the enablers leave the victim to his fate.
If Joe is so comfortable with bullying thru rage in public, what would he do in private?
"Your office in the Capitol, Joe, the office where they found that dead intern, said 'Joe Scarborough, Republican" on the door."
End of conversation.
orcas @ 1:
I think Bill O'Reilly holds this title with Sean Hannity in a close second.
I watched all 10 minutes of this the other day. Scarborough makes a reference to Crossfire (such as, this isn't Crossfire or I didn't know I was going to be on Crossfire); my point being that his show should follow Crossfire in being canceled and his career should follow Tucker Carlson's in being washed up.
Bill @ 5:
Republican douchebag, suspected murderer.
This idiot also seemed to think criticizing Michael Phelps, currently a national hero, for being a doofus was a smart move. MSNBC aint making any friends among the American people with this dipshit.
Joe Scarborough is going the way of old Joe Pine. I don't expect him to be on the air much longer if he keeps up this sarcastic whiney abusinve bullshit.
Leadership @ 9:
It's a paradigm shift. Olberman & Maddow get it. Shuster tries. Tweety & Scarborough are irrelevant and don't know it. they know something's up so they just pontificate harder and longer. But they're dinosaurs. They're already extinct.
Hey, guys.
Watch TV and be manipulated.
Watch TV and be fed shit: say, thank you.
Just ask Joe how he would bury his embarrassments!
I have never heard a grown man sound more like a child having a temper tantrum in my life, much less a supposedly professional journalist on national tv. I hope he watches the tape and suffers the humiliation of realizing what a whiny ass titty baby he was.
If McSenile gets elected we are going to see a lot more rage like this.
Was Scar Boy ever prosecuted for killing that young woman that worked in his office?
Was that supposed to be journalism?
That was like a bunch of drunken blowhards at some dumpy bar.
groucho @ 7:
He does have kids. I know he has a teenage son and a brand new little baby.
Joe is not a reporter in any sense of the word. He's a washed up redneck, ex member of the US house of representatives from Florida. No offense to red necks but that's even what he calls himself.
To listen to him, he knows all the secrets to running a good campaign, writing a good campaign speech and how to deal with lawmakers. So where is he today? Shooting he shit on a lousy cable news channel show.
I have only one question after witnessing Joe's behavior on television...
Joe? What do you want to be when you grow up?
Scarborough is right. He is down the middle. The CFR owns both sides. Hahahaha! The freaking ego on this guy.
i already wrote msnbc asking for his removal. Him being a tool is one thing. Him embarrassing his co-workers is another- just makes it obvious that his behavior is inappropriate and he shouldn't be there.
As a Canadian, I really have no need for a gun.
But if my fellow Canadians were anything like Scarborough, I can understand the need to bear arms.
Annoyed Canuck @ 28:
He does seem a little drunk here. From alcohol or himself, I'm not sure.
Joe Scarborough, Oozing pustule.
The amazing thing is that at the end he coaxes Shuster over for a makeup hug and then simulates thrusting a knife in his back - repeatedly. Even says something about getting the knife out of his hand. Unhinged.
if the chickenhawk joe would put his actions,
and by that i mean actual military service, where
his head has been most of his life, and by that i
mean so far up his and cheney's asses, he might
be worth listening to, but for now the stink is
so bad i can't imagine getting any closer to him
than 5 miles.
Today Scarborough country is cloudy with a high chance of bitchyness.
Medical Diagnosis by Video @ 27:
Prosecuted?? Ha! She was disappeared faster than Cindy can say, "Vicodin!" Everything disappeared, the media covered up, the medical examiner lied and was later disbarred, after being fired for incompetence, and Lori Klausutis' body was cremated within days.
And her obituary, which listed all her Republican Party positions and affiliations, conveninetly failed to mention that she was an aide to a US Congressman.
I'm sure it was just an oversight.
Joe was so tore up that he joked about killing her on Imus.
Scarborough is wrong about Maliki's government being endangered by the departure of US troops. Iranian troops would replace ours.
Wow, very akward. All Shuster did was challenge Joe. Scarborough seems like a very delicate person. He's blown his lid from confrontations with Maddow and now Shuster. I'm surprised this hasn't happened with Olbermann yet. His show reminds me of Hannity and Colmes. There's an outspoken right winger, Joe Scarborough, and weak liberal who lets herself get ran over, Mika.
You just know that joe is into wearing leather panties, heels and chains. He has his blow-up doll Mika, who sits there while he whips and abuses her, which seems to turn her on, as she smiles demurely. just imagine if the show was Mika and Alan Colmes. They would have to cal it Sub and Subber!
"Hey, guys.
Watch TV and be manipulated.
Watch TV and be fed shit: say, thank you."
Amen...our choices, our votes via the information flow the average viewer gets has been fixed for a long, long time. Long live net neutrality!
Why do Republicans get so defensive when you call them Republicans?
Joe is the epitome of a Fascist!!! This guy is a coward who hides behind a mic and thinks he is God. Good for you Shuster! My respect for you has gone up emmensely. Joe, you are a coward! Why didn't you asnwer the simple question you A-HOLE??
roooth @ 16:
Exactly. My dad had some of that in him and often he would direct it at me for really truly no reason. My mother and my sister would quietly leave the room and I would have to listen to his rant until he was ranted out. Then he would send me to my room to punish me for crying.
Jesus, that show is just unwatchable.
The thing that's so amusing to me about the timetable for withdrawal from Iraq is that the plan was NEVER to withdrawal. The neocon plan expressed in their mandate, "Present Dangers," expressed direct and permanent military establishment in the middle east (clearly stated as military presence everywhere in the world there is an important natural resource (oil, natural gas, the poppy)). They didn't build all those bases in Iraq to get kicked out. They were/are trying to pull off another Korea. 40,000 or so troops there constantly. Just in case we had to invade Iran or Syria or.....Russia.
To think that someone actually pays this guy to offer his political insight is embarrassing! Observations from my 4 year old daughter are more astute than anything that filters out of Scars mouth. What an ass!
Scartwit and all the other rethuglicans are seeing first hand how much America hates them and their war mongering bullshit. They all know that they can only shout, cheat and steal to get their way. I am going to love to watch them cry about all the taxes they have to pay when Obama fixes their wagon.
The rethuglican party is the party of war mongering Nazi religious freaks. I think we should use the telecom spy data to track them on a daily basis and discover what crimes they are planning. They are the "terrorists" that they have been telling us about.
You should have spelled twit with an a.
Gee, this is the kind of rage that could turn violent, say, if you took it out on an intern working in your office.
I think Joe Scar is trying to get fired, to collect a settlement check, and get hired by Faux.
I don't know if Joe drinks but think about this. There are all sorts of big parties every night this week in Denver for all sorts of reasons for all sorts of people . Maybe Joe went to one of these big parties the night before, drank too much, stayed up too late and was still buzzed when he went on the air.
I'm not saying it did happen, just wondering if it did.
Underground Pirate @ 50:
Yes, the ultimate irony. Using their own unconstitutional acts/laws against THEM.
Scarborough is really losing his mind.
However, I wish Alan Colmes would behave like Joe Scar once in awhile on Fox.
VietVet8666 @ 23:
You must be one of those folks with the "Think for Yourself" bumper stickers, right? Heedless of the irony there I'm sure; by taking your advice, I can't take your advice...
Joe Scar - Republican't
What a prick.
DavidNYC @ 40:
Nobody has said that Blackwater would leave yet. I smell a rat. I think that they and KBR may be there permanently unless we elect Obama.
roooth @ 16:
Very perceptive. I was joking in my post, but I do believe that Joe is a sadist. I have seen anger problems and how they manifest in a home and Joe definitely shows the signs of being an abuser.
As for the dead women in his office, with a fractured skull, that he seemed to help cover up, one has to wonder.
I recall when I first began seeing pissy little children in the place of actual news reporters and how completely disgusted I was.
After a while I got used to the juvenile half-wit celebutards that replaced reporters and journalists on every channel.
Thanks to this idiot I can relive the disgust all over again.
Honestly, I wouldn't tolerate this kind of behavior from anyone. Why do this fool and people like borly the magic douchebag still have jobs? What the hell happened?
All part of the big 'dumbing down' I guess. When you're trying to convince an entire population that being intelligent is some kind of crime you don't want them faced with someone talking about issues and facts all the time.
Just put a big pair of boobs on screen with a guy in a suit and have them banter like a pair of chickens for an hour and call it news.
doorman @ 21:
doorman, wow a reference to Joe Pine, hadn't thought of him in many years. Most of these kids will have no idea of who you are talking about. I watched him on an old B & W set in my bedroom just after L.A. T-birds roller derby was on! Joe S. has none of the charm of Joe Pine. Now that was real theater!
Joe is an underperforming whiner and somehow wants everyone to forget that he was a Republican congressman. What do you mean "what party?" He'll move on from every job he ever gets and will simply disappear.
Now Glen Beck, that's the REAL douchebag.
Charles @ 48:
Or as I like to say: Neocon agenda = Utter failure
So Joe says "we'll" leave if Maliki really wants us to? Since when does Joe have a say in what the US gov't does?
Shuster wins and Scar fails . I think Joe's going to get walked or he's going to walk about in the next week or so.
bateman @ 55:
You assume there was something there to lose in the first place.
Charles @ 54:
Yes, and look at all the new powers of the executive branch..thanks to chimmpy man . Perhaps we could torture the Bush administration officials that refuse to appear after they have been subpoenaed..especially Bush and Cheney.
What a freakin DICK.
When Scar commented about how his party hates him dude should have responded with, "maybe it had something to do with the a dead intern that you were suspected of having an affair with whose body was located under you desk you arrogant fuck."
Joe is a rectal cyst and needs to be lanced!
Joe takes on all the shit of his amazingly stupid counterparts. Give him a break. He may have anger issues but just imagine why he was put on MSNBC in the first place. Do we really want to be fed ONE ideology all day long. I hate you dumbfounded asshole who will believe anything and everything people like Keith Olbermann say. Joe adds a different opinion to the table. He is extremely intelligent. None of you seem to acknowledge that. Leave Joe alone! MSNBC has become just as ignorant as Fox. Is that the kind of media you want?
Surging Blue Lensman @ 64:
On the local news this evening, a reporter was interviewing an Italian reporter at the DNC. The Italian reporter claimed that around 80% of Europeans are for Obama because they are sick of the Bush administration. Utter failure indeed. On a global scale.
Biggus Diggus @ 52:
Perhaps.
It doesn't take a great leap of imagination to realize that Joe's exceptional demonstration of a 6 year old's uncontrolled tantrum was eventually put on simmer - only - because he was on national television and his producer was likely shouting a break time in his ear piece. Had this 6 year old in an adult body not been in front of the cameras, I have no doubt that he would have turned violent. There is a real story here on this kind of melt down from someone in his position. If it was a Democrat who behaved like Joe did, he/she would be off the air before you can say: Experiencing Technical Difficulties. Please Stand By"
Underground Pirate @ 68:
And declare them "enemy combatants" or "rogue terrorists." And keep it all secret. Hahahaha! No one has to know Cheney and W were tortured until years later. Hahahaha!
Who is that lady there with Joe? Is she the Joe Lieberman for Joe Scarbourough?
Nada @ 67:
Lol, I was asking for that ...
VietVet8666 @ 23:
We are TVless by choice now but initially by circumstance, have been since our local TV antenna got bumped off for a microwave tower. I'd be as big a zombie as anybody if it had been available 20 years ago so I'm not pulling the "I'm superior to you" BS that some folks get off on. That said, I've got to tell you that after seeing the difference between my child ( and the children of neighbors) and the children of bright, capable relatives of ours, freakin' TV is evil. It does something very wrong to developing minds. My kid's was no smarter than any of her cousins when she was little, now at 22 she's articulate, inquiring, able to reason logically and think through issues. Her cousins: not so much. There is something about that medium that dumbs people down. I've seen it first hand and it's not a pretty sight. I think as a society we are in some serious trouble just on that issue alone.
Joe S. is creepier than John McCain. Didn't realize that could be exceeded.
Amy Alkon's Testicles @ 17:
Actually, it was his office in Fort Walton Beach, but yeah.
Is there something in the water at msnbc?
Scarborough losing his poise (and his sanity) with a colleague. Matthews and Oberman getting into pissing contests with one another on air. Brokaw pontificating. The hiiring of Luke Russert as an "expert" on the youth vote. What the heck is going on here?
My guess is that Tim Russert was the undisputed top dog at msnbc, and when he died, a power vacuum arose. Nobody's running the place now, and all of this strange behaviour reflects a power struggle.
Joe .... poor poor Joe... Your losin it buddy, your acting paranoid. you have to stop listening to the voices in your head. I'm tellin' ya joe, keep it up and you'll go the way of the guy Rachel is replacing.
Damn, Scarborough sure punked the hell out of Shuster, eh?
See, this is why I hate fact-free arguments that depend on nothing but spin or sarcasm.
On a junior high school sound bite level, one could argue that Scarborough "won". But on a factual level, Scarborough's got jack shit except the ability to dominate the dynamic.
Brendan @ 57:
Brendan,
Follow the crowd. Go where the Official tells you to go. Over there. Please move along.
Chicken "Hussein" Little - Not! @ 76:
TV is evil.
Are we slaves really expected to care about our masters' feelings?
Why would anyone other than Faux Noise give this asshat a show?
I have heard NoJoe refer to himself and the republicans as "us" and "we" on numerous occasions. He's so just full of sh*t.
What Shuster should have addressed is how independent third parties are either ignored or marginalized by the cable and mainstream television networks. What Shuster could have said is how his party will be completely shut out in the upcoming presidential debates, which should effectively put to rest the lie that the United States functions as a democratic country.
Joey is becoming overly sensitive. He has walked off one MSNBC show because he did not like a comment made by Rachael Maddow. Another time he made very sarcastic remarks to her on a seperate MSNBC airing. Joe uses his show & guests to insert the Republican talking points of the day and people like Pat Buchannan give him the ammo he needs. Mika is pitiful and is like a plastic doll just sitting there. Shuster & Olbermann are both right to put him in his place.
Joe's just getting worse and worse. He started out at least attempting to be neutral but he' just openly rude and obnoxious now.
If I see a day when he's gone I'll watch the show. Mika can't come from the family she did and not know a lot. She's no dummy, but it's not her job to make Joe look sane.
VietVet8666 @ 83:
TVs aren't evil, most of the programming and all of the commercials are.