After the Republican National convention, S.E. Cupp, who is billed as the lone conservative among three liberals on the MSNBC show The Cycle, expressed outrage over Clint Eastwood's bit with an empty chair starring as Barack Obama. Now, when the subject of a Barack Obama campaign ad that features Lena Dunham blatantly comparing sex with voting for Obama, Cupp is fine with it.
As I wrote at the time, Cupp seems to be coming down with Scarborough syndrome (named after Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough), which can be defined as follows (yes, it's satire):
A condition in which conservatives who are surrounded by liberals every day, find their views increasingly malleable as they incrementally cede what they believe to be minor points in the hopes of gaining acceptance and / or avoiding conflict. This often results in a slow transformation toward the adoption of a new ideology. An interesting dynamic that can help expedite this process occurs when conservatives attempt to challenge the subject on his / her new views. The subject can feel as if he / she is being attacked instead of warned. This, coupled with the subject being defended by his / her newfound liberal friends, facilitates that transformation. Thinking that the conservatives are the ones who changed, the subject identifies even more closely with his / her liberal friends.
In the case of Cupp, all one has to do is look at her reactions in these two instances. She was offended by Clint Eastwood's attempt to use humor at Obama's expense but she's not offended at the Obama campaign's attempt to compare voting for the first time to losing one's virginity in the name of humor.
What set the liberal Joe Scarborough off in this rant was the notion that conservative bloggers think Jeb Bush is a RINO after learning that Jeb said Reagan 'would have a hard time' in today's Republican Party because of the demands of its conservative base and its alleged unwillingness to compromise with the other side.
Of course, lost on folks like Jeb Bush is that the Democratic Party of today is far, far left of the Democratic Party of Reagan's time and the Republican Party - until the rise of the Tea Party - had gone much further left as well. We now know that Barack Obama lied about being a registered member of a Socialist Party (New Party).
As for compromise, perhaps someone should direct Jeb to the first two years of the Obama administration. Does the $787 Billion Stimulus or Obamacare ring a bell?
Anyway, here is Scarborough taking his liberal indignation up a notch, ripping conservative bloggers and telling anyone who thinks Jeb is a RINO to 'shut the hell up.' Lost on Scarborough is the fact that unlike him, we conservative bloggers aren't beholden to MSNBC Brass the propaganda arm of the Obama administration and don't sit next to a far left socialist (Mika) for several hours every day.
Before you watch the clip, keep this quote in mind (often attributed to Ghandi but origin unknown):
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they ridicule you, then you win.
Take heart, conservative bloggers. Joe Scarborough is in the ridicule stage. You're almost there.
It is truly phenomenal that Joe Scarborough and Company seemed to be completely oblivious to the Project Gunrunner scandal. After all, they are in the news business. Trumping that was a deer-in-the-headlights look on the face of the panelists as they were having the scandal explained to them for apparently the first time. CBS's Sharyl Attkisson first began reporting on it BACK IN FEBRUARY!! Scarborough's reaction to the very basic details of the scandal was inexcusable for a morning news show host.
I've been critical of Glenn Beck on many occasions but since the rise of protests in Egypt, he has been reporting the truth far more than anyone else with a significant audience. The truth is that the Muslim Brotherhood poses a grave threat to western civilization; leftwing groups will work alongside alleged Democratic uprisings in the arab world. The arab Muslim world has proven time and again that it will use leftwing agents to acquire power. Google, a far left organization, helped Wael Ghonim spearhead the revolution in Egypt, which has now all but fallen into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Meanwhile, Joe Scarborough over at MSNBC, once again demonstrates that he is unable to process ugly facts. Lines are being drawn again. Not so long ago, it was a line that divided conservatives and liberals. It is now a line that divides those willing to accept a dire reality and those who are not. Unfortunately, there is a significant bloc of supposed conservatives that has chosen the latter camp.
As early as 1933, Winston Churchill warned of the German threat. After Neville Chamberlain implemented a strategy of appeasement often borne of denial, he was disgraced and Churchill was installed as Prime Minister by King George VI on May 10, 1940 after Chamberlain's resignation. Like Chamberlain, Scarborough either doesn't understand or refuses to admit the stated goals of the Muslim Brotherhood, which ironically allied with Hitler in WWII.
That British moment that will forever live in infamy.
This really is an amazing piece of video from MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' program. It's amazing because it happened on MSNBC but more important, because of the sources that Joe Scarborough points to as having said it - several top Democrat Senators. The charge? Barack Obama 'has no idea what he's doing' and has completely alienated Republicans. Liberal spinmeister, Mika Brzezinski makes a lame attempt at a rebuttal and eventually realizes it's pointless but attempts to stick with her initial argument - Republicans have been allowed into the White House. She does so even after Scarborough outs her as having had the same discussions with the same Senators he said spoke with him. At one point, she looks straight into the camera and resembles a cross-eyed deer in the headlights.
Even co-panelist and staunch liberal Mike Barnicle admits to hearing from at least seven Democrat Senators that Obama is clueless. This is not small news. In fact, it seems to bolster the claims made by the alleged 'White House Insider' that Ulsterman has been talking to - more on that after the video.
A blog called Nice Deb has made an excellent connection between what was discussed on that video and the revelations given by an alleged 'White House Insider' to an anonymous blogger 'Ulsterman' in part three of the initial interview between the two. Here is one excerpt from that interview, originally posted on September 18th:
Insider:…we got Congressmen and Senators running for re-election right now whose political careers are about to be ended because they supported a president and a Democratic Party leadership that told them to do so. They trusted they would be politically protected, that the American people would agree with the agenda. Well guess what? That hasn’t happened. Good people, good Democrats, are being tossed aside like so much trash – and this White House DOES NOT GIVE A DAMN. In my eyes that is absolutely unforgivable. You just don’t do that to your own people. And some of these politicians are talking. They are – but for the most part the media is ignoring them because they don’t want to hurt the administration. To that I say enough! Do your damn job. Report what is going on within the Democratic Party. We need to clean up this mess, and it starts by getting the truth out there. That is my motivation.
Click HERE to read the entire interview in Part three of the initial series.
On the July 6th Morning Joe program over at MSNBC, to subject of Nevada's Republican challenger to Harry Reid, Sharron Angle was on the table during a panel discussion. Earlier, Angle had appeared on a radio show and made a comment about the Second Amendment that Chris Matthews seized on during the panel discussion. When he brought it up, Scarborough admitted he knew nothing about it. He then asked Matthews to clarify by telling everyone what she said.
When Scarborough asked Matthews to repeat Angle's quote, this is what MSNBC's resident Alinskyite had to say:
SCARBOROUGH: What was her exact quote since it's been brought up twice?
MATTHEWS: She said she understands why people think of and resort to Second Amendment solutions to the Democrats in Congress they don't like. It is pretty frightening.
Take note that Scarborough asked Matthews for the "exact quote" from Angle. You've just seen Matthews' response to that request; perhaps he should have had a transcript of the quote because that's not what he gave to Scarborough.
Here is the actual quote from Angle:
You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact, you know, Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.
I hope that's not where we're going, but, you know, if this, this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies, they're saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? And I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.
The more telling thing here is not that Matthews misquoted Angle in a very partisan way. It's that Scarborough relied on Matthews as the sole source for the quote before making a personal value judgment about Angle based only on Matthews' take; he then relied on that source to hurl an insult at Angle, calling her a "jackass".
It doesn't take any genius to see that Matthews completely misquoted Angle but done so in a highly partisan manner. It's worth repeating that Scarborough asked for the "exact quote". He did not get that, not even close. Matthews quotes Angle as saying she "understands why people....resort to Second Amendment solutions to the Democrats in Congress..." In reality, Angle quoted Thomas Jefferson - a much revered founding father. Perhaps that's why Matthews didn't include that part.
As for Angle's quote, perhaps she could have chosen here words more carefully but she's not a career politician with a degree in parsing them with the intent of avoiding as much accountability as possible. That's one of the reasons Tea Party candidates have so much appeal.
That said, her first two sentences are simply factual. The third sentence merely identifies a logical conclusion if you believe the first two. The last sentence is likely the one that caused the stir. That is, "...the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out."
Ok, does anyone honestly think that Angle is calling for people to take up arms against Harry Reid? She's in the middle of an election campaign. She's obviously talking about voting him out of office. Did she choose the wrong words? Perhaps, but again, Scarborough relying solely on Matthews to quote a conservative Senate candidate accurately without taking that quote out of context is very telling indeed. It gives us a look inside the liberal media bubble, where the word of highly partisan colleagues - in this case, a colleague who considers Saul Alinsky a "hero" - is believed without checking the facts.
As far as poster children for leftwing media, Joan Walsh of Salon magazine fits the bill as well as anyone. Her inability to name a vitriolic leftwing talk show host is trumped only by the reaction of Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski, who mocks Walsh's ignorance. Are we witnessing the subtle long term genius of Joe Scarborough here?
Many - myself included - wondered if Scarborough was being poisoned by the leftwing cesspool at MSNBC as he has repeatedly come across as more moderate but maybe he's having the opposite effect on his co-host. I'm really starting to like this side of Brzenzinski. Not only does she slam a lefty in Walsh better than anyone on the right could but she is un-phased by the producer in the control room who is visibly exasperated by the exchange.
Mika delivers a leftwing smack down!
As for those wacky left wing talk show hosts revealed to Walsh off-air...
Howard Dean is the masthead for the far left kooks and if his support of Obama begins to sour, he could take those kooks with him and if there's a group of people Obama doesn't want pitted against him, it's that group.
Nonetheless, two parts of this exchange between Dean and Joe Scarborough worth noting.
1.) Dean says he will vote for Obama in 2012 but "not vigorously". 2.) Scarborough laughing at that comment coupled with Dean's serious demeanor about it.
Joe Scarborough may have totally succumbed to the MSNBC bubble that surrounds him. Maybe he's been attacked by liberal spores. If you'd like a microcosm of what happened to the mainstream media over the years, look at what's happening to Scarborough at MSNBC. When you put one conservative in an outfit like MSNBC, he is going to change. You're either part of the Chris Matthews inspired leg thrill pack or you're alienated. Maybe Mika is having an effect on him that he's unaware of.
In any case, Scarborough seems all too willing to buy into the anti-Glenn Beck fervor that is raging on the left instead of looking at the facts.
So it's come to this? The limberal media has had several days to come up with talking points that might explain why they didn't cover the Van Jones story. MSNBC reporter Chuck "call me shameless" Todd is unable to use the argument that Van Jones isn't a communist; he's just someone the right wants to smear.
So what does he do?
He attempts to diminish the stature of Jones in the Obama administration, calling him "number 600 down the list". Ok, so the right is guilty of picking on a guy who didn't have much pull, is that it?
Unbelievable.
CLICK HERE for the exchange between Scarborough and Chuck Todd.
