Joe Scarborough Hints to Newt Gingrich: 'Shut Up'
Former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough is wondering if somebody should tell former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to "shut up," in his newest Politico column. In referencing a 1996 best-seller by David Maraniss and Michael Weisskopf, "Tell Newt to Shut Up," the MSNBC host writes that "maybe it's time for someone to deliver that message again" in lieu of recent controversial soundbites from the former House Speaker.
Ironically, a cable news show host who has trouble thinking before speaking his mind is calling out his former colleague for making outlandish statements – as if Gingrich wasn't already infamous for those as House Speaker.
Scarborough's column is titled "Gingrich's Rhetoric Will Backfire," and the former Florida congressman spares nothing in attacking his former colleague for "political hate speech."
"These days, Newt Gingrich's modus operandi is to smear any public figure who fails to share his worldview," Scarborough writes. "His insults are so overblown and outrageous that after the rhetorical dust settles, the reputation most damaged is his own."
Gingrich, "the cartoonish cable news fixture" as Scarborough calls him, is hurting the chances of the Republican Party to make a lasting impact with this election, just like he did in 1994, Scarborough argues. "If he doesn't temper his remarks soon, Gingrich will permanently damage his political credibility and once again do his own party considerable damage."
Scarborough attacked Gingrich on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" for, among other things, comparing a mosque near Ground Zero with a Nazi sign outside of a Holocaust memorial. He also called him out in his column for saying that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebellius was acting in the "spirit of the Soviet tyranny."
Scarborough laments that Gingrich didn't give evidence "that the Kansas moderate dug mass graves or masterminded decades of bloody show trials to kill off her political enemies." He also warns that Gingrich's comparison between a mosque and a Nazi sign is like comparing the entire Islamic world with Nazi Germany – and endangering the lives of American soldiers.
While Gingrich's comments were obviously outlandish, he was comparing Sebellius' operation with the cold utilitarian bureaucracy of the USSR – not the mass graves or gulags that were shrouded from the rest of the world for decades. He also cast the mosque as a signifier of the 9/11 terror attacks by radical Islamists, in the spirit of Nazi terror – he did not compare the whole of Islam with the concentration camps and Jewish holocaust of Nazi Germany.
Thus Scarborough's response is rather outlandish in itself, as he takes outrageous comments from Newt Gingrich and then blows them out of context.
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Hey Joe.......
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 4:55pm.
Before you cast aspersions on anyone else for "rhetoric". Take a long look in the mirror, you hypocrite.
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Contract renewal Joe?
Submitted by Bluegill on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 4:56pm.
No matter how bad your ratings are, this ought to keep you on MSNBC a while longer. As we all know ratings don't matter, all that counts is how well you attack the GOP and the tea party. The Bush insults are passe
".is like comparing the entire Islamic world with Nazi Germany."
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 5:16pm.
Either this goober knows little or nothing about Islam, or else he knows little or nothing about Nazism.
I suspect it is a whole lot of both.
And while Sebbelius' actions may not quite reach the level of tyranny that was the former USSR, intimidating private health insurance companies into silence while telling them they cannot increase their premiums isn't all that far down the totem pole from it.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Just Give Obama Care and Sebbelius' Ten Years
Submitted by Avitar on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 4:42am.
The take over in 1918 did not lead to the Gulags in the 1920's but the mass graves, starvation of the Ukraine and Gulags of the 1930's Even Hitler's in his first four years, 1933 to 1937 did not kill 1% of the people he would kill. Progressives start slowly.
I'm no Newt fan, (I think
Submitted by mattm on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 5:18pm.
I'm no Newt fan, (I think he's a self-promoting opportunist, i.e. a politician), but I don't remember him smearing or insulting anyone. He uses hyperbole, which rubs liberals raw, because that's a method they have reserved for themselves - but that's not a smear.
A smear is when you make false derogatory claims about someone, as Scarborough is doing. Hey Joe, Shut up!
Gingrich and Scarborough are both . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 5:19pm.
. . . increasingly irrelevent to the Republican Party because they fail to grasp what is happening. Scarborough is worse than Gingrich because the latter can formulate intellectual arguments, while the former merely regurgitates his own rhetoric.
Gingrich is clever enough to analyze the situation and try to harness the Tea Party energy for the party, but he'll use the wrong tools.
Scarborough lacks the capacity to correctly fathom what is going on.
Time for Joe to be told to Shut-Up
Submitted by Free Stinker on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 5:26pm.
Time for Joe to be told to Shut-Up Actually, it's long past that time . . ./// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Hard to be overblown when talking about liberals!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 5:49pm.
"His insults are so overblown and outrageous that after the rhetorical dust settles, the reputation most damaged is his own."
This is such crap. The far left is literally selling this country down the communist river. Just how the hell can the rhetoric be overblown when that is taking place?
We must not, we cannot, look at what is going on with the mindset that the far left really cares about this country remaining free. They want to "fundamentally transform this nation."
Oh, is that too overblown rhetorically for you? Them's the words of da Imam Obama hisself, yo.
A RINO telling other's to
Submitted by Thoreau on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 6:08pm.
A RINO telling other's to shut up. His conversion to the Dark side is now complete.
Oh Yes! Silence the critics with spite and malice! Never talk about the facts! Allahu Obama! Obama Ahkbar! Lullululululululu lululululu!!
I'm so proud of you 'scared bro?'. November is coming you RINO hooker.
NB...all that money you raised...
Submitted by shooter on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 6:37pm.
...and you couldn't improve on the comments to include a thumbs up/down? Sheesh!
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Joe is funny
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 6:41pm.
Gingrich, "the cartoonish cable news fixture"
That is how I have always perceived Joe.
Hey Joe, as they say, when your house is made of glass, drop the stone.
Sickening...Boring.....
Submitted by The_Pumpcrop on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 6:49pm.
Hypocritical..... Self righteous..... MSNBC Sock Puppet. Joe, just like his Cheese Cake For The Old Liberals side kick, and everyone else on this network, he merely panders to his kind, whining to the chior and dancing to a loop of an old U2 song., cuz there ain't nobody watching. So who cares.....
Ever since the host of
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 9:20pm.
Ever since the host of Scarborough Country had the sex change operation he/ she's a real bitch.
Barack_Must_Go.....
You can tell when Joe is
Submitted by Captain Repus on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 7:21pm.
You can tell when Joe is pretending to be a Republican - his eyes get squinty
You can tell when Mika's IQ has risen above plant life - the abmient temperature of hell drops below 32 degrees
Joe
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 7:24pm.
When a man no longer has core principles he can say anything and the next day say the exact opposite and still tell himself that he's a good person.
I am truly sorry for you -- you've become a living pinata without the candy.
Pretty Sure ...
Submitted by LibertyAtStake on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 8:30pm.
... there are more comments on this article than 'Morning Joe' viewers. Next.
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
"Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive"
Manufactured hate vs true hate
Submitted by cestes on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 9:13pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVsr-_-v2sI
I get tired of repeating myself. Hate is when you behead someone and post it on the internet, disagreement on opinion or failure to embrace someone's chosen lifestyle is not hate, it's just disagreement.
This Blockhead...
Submitted by JPR1 on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 9:28pm.
...reminds me more of David Schuster every day.
Joe, regardless what your friends tell you, you have a very ordinary intellect. Don't give yourself too much credit. K.
Yo Joe hate to burst your fat bubble...
Submitted by jdripper on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 11:45pm.
The gulags were not shrouded from the world. Millions of people knew of them but the left wing press of which you are a paid up member in full never reported on them.
Jack
Hey Crist...er... I mean
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 12:07am.
Hey Crist...er... I mean Scarborough, how's the retooling of your radio show going? The man's a complete joke and I have far more respect for a flaming leftist like Matthews because he's open about being a leftist. Scarborough is just a mouth for hire.
BTW: I'm not even a fan of Newt Gingrich. Anyone who would sit in a commercial with Nancy Pelosi for Global Warming shows that he's either gullible or the enemy.
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Dr Gingrich World View Expert of the Current Era.
Submitted by Avitar on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 4:17am.
As one of the world's top living historians Dr. Newt Gingrich PhD. should castigate those whose express sophomoric opinions about what is after all his field of expertise. Contradicting Newt Gingrich's “ World View” is like contradicting Dr. Dick Army about economics or General Norman Schwarzkopf about military topics.
World View according to Newt Gingrich is on par with Physics acording to Stephen Hawkings. Why the New York and Washington gossips cannot grasp that there are giants in fields who can step on their intellect and never notice I do not understand.
The world view according to Joe Scarborough just has to beat Physics according to Jon Stewart.
Just wondering...
Submitted by troglodyt on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 5:15am.
How many re- and paraphrasings of Gingrichs words were necessary to come up with that:
"He also cast the mosque as a signifier of the 9/11 terror attacks by radical Islamists, in the spirit of Nazi terror – he did not compare the whole of Islam with the concentration camps and Jewish holocaust of Nazi Germany."
?
I have to say that is quite an elaborate exegesis.
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