Scarborough Tells 'Terminally Stupid Ideologues' to 'Stop Using the Tea Party as a Piñata'
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) set off a liberal firestorm when he called Standard and Poor's U.S. credit rating change the "Tea Party Downgrade."
On Monday's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough told "terminally stupid ideologues" that "really don't understand" anything because they're "so dogmatic [they] can't think for [themselves]" to "stop using the Tea Party as a piñata" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
JOE SCARBOROUGH: So this is sort of my closed-caption for the terminally stupid ideologues out there that have just listened to what’s gone down for the past three minutes and you really don’t understand because you’re so dogmatic that you can’t think for yourself.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Alright, be nice.
SCARBOROUGH: I am not blaming the President exclusively. We have blamed the Tea Partiers here for not moving. We have blamed Republicans. We have blamed Democrats as well. But please – I know it makes you feel better, but, you know, stop using the Tea Party as a piñata. We’ve got systemic problems in this country. The President could have done something for two years when he had Democrats controlling the House of Representatives and controlling the United States Senate. He did nothing on entitlement reform.
Indeed.
What was marvelous about this segment was that Scarborough spoke some inconvenient truths to his co-host, guests, and viewers that few in the media dare.
In particular, with the help of charts provided by MSNBC economic analyst and former Obama administration car czar Steve Rattner, Scarborough demonstrated that the real problem in our budget is the unfunded liabilities associated with Social Security and Medicare.
He then went on to accurately note that contrary to the liberal media meme, the President really never offered cuts to such programs in his so-called "grand bargain" because no specifics were provided and nothing was put on paper.
More importantly according to Scarborough, Obama knew full well that Democrats in Congress would never have go along with any cuts to entitlement programs thereby making this "offer" a cynical one the President knew would never go anywhere.
In Scarborough's view, Republicans would have been wise to call the President's bluff, agree in principle to raising revenues, and then allow the entire deal to be scuttled by Democrat intransigence over Social Security and Medicare reform.
Instead, by Republicans backing away from the poker table with a clearly winning hand, the Democrats and the White House have been able to blame everything on them and in particular the Tea Party while demagoguing Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) for having offered the only budget that attempted to solve our long-term fiscal problems.
For those interested, this was a very informative discussion that should have happened on the Sunday talk shows but didn't because it would have interfered with the media's ability to blame the S&P downgrade on the Tea Party:
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This is going to make one very special boy very happy.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 11:29am.
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Yep---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 11:49am.
dude will be dining out for months at NB's on this article.
I wonder, though, how well it will meld with his constant harangue about how NB's is so incredibly slanted against the Scab with their "normal" coverage.
MD
I've already given my wife the good news:
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:35pm.
Tonight...Red Lobster!
Jer
Try the 'Endless Shrimp and Norwegian' combo.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 6:41pm.
It's new, and I hear it's excellent.
Thanks for the rec, SoL...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:21pm.
The wife always opts for the 'all the popcorn shrimp you can eat' deal, but I'll try the combo. I just can't understand the lackluster reviews from high and mighty critics who fail to appreciate quality cuisine at an affordable price.
No one was manning the 7 second delay button again...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 11:34am.
...at MESSDNC. Wonder if Joe will get suspended from his own show for speaking the truth?
Mourning Schmoe oughta watch what he says.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 11:39am.
Someone's gonna mistake him for a conservative!
Scarborough's weird
Submitted by fenngibbon on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:01pm.
Left to his own devices, Scarborough tends to drift into that John McCain/Chuck Hagel "let's get attention for attacking conservatives" territory, but when reacting to some liberal dumbassery, he's almost always reliably conservative. It's like the stereotypical dysfunctional family that goes at each other hammer and tong when alone but bands together when anyone from outside goes after them.
Nice!!
Submitted by PJRyan on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:02pm.
He called Mika terminally stupid while sitting right next to her! I'd like to be a fly on the wall in a couple hours when (if) she realizes it.
Sailed right over her ditzy head
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:12pm.
...per the usual.
The human emote never fails to deliver, though. Did you see her puff up to say something, then clam up?
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Thank God some people can see
Submitted by ant on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:05pm.
Thank God some people can see through the BS. Doesn't change the fact that the TeaParty and Thomas Jefferson (to a lesser extent) are responsible for the shooting of Gabriel Giffords, the lunatic in Norway and other murderous madmen.(sarc)
Is there a word for an idealogical group that would blame figures in history for pulling the trigger in a mass-murder if cited in a manifesto, rather than the murderer? A group that would tag a segment of the population as being the equivalent as a killer for reading the same books or recognizing history or noticing that a problem is a problem? If not, there needs to be one. A little off-topic, I apologize, but I was searching for a definitive word for the wide-net of the lib-blame -machine and couldn't think of one.
"Weldschmerz", ant---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:18pm.
if I spelled it right.
German for 'world pain', every bit of which is attributable to conservatives. :o)
MD
As a matter of fact...
Submitted by Tom1969ca on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 3:28pm.
...an ideological group that ... blame[s] figures in history for pulling the trigger in a mass-murder if cited in a manifesto, rather than the murderer; a group that ... tag[s] a segment of the population as being the equivalent as a killer for reading the same books or recognizing history or noticing that a problem is a problem...
It's so simple that I thought it was a trick question.
The word that best describes the above is "LIBERAL'.
Ironic, bitterly
Submitted by hayate1 on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 11:16pm.
That you are using a quote that refers to the nature of stereotyping to describe liberal's as stereotypists themselves while you yourself are guilty of exactly that practice!
"Facts are not decided by how many people believe them. Truth is not determined by how loudly it is shouted."
Not exactly talking
Submitted by ant on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 12:06am.
Not exactly talking stereotypes here. My point is probably inchoate and poorly phrased. What I'm attempting to understand is this gem of liberal logic. For example, lunatic goes on rampage killing innocent people + it's discovered lunatic has talked about Thomas Jefferson or read 1984 + Tea Party admires Thomas Jefferson, Bachmann or other "enemy" has also read 1984 = TeaParty types are possible deranged killers too = Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell are no damn good = Maybe anyone who talks of Founding Fathers, Jefferson, the threat of a derelict, tyrannical, over-bearing government is insane and should be silenced/marginalized and , just maybe, we should review the appropriateness of people being allowed to read 'certain' things. This logic has been thrown out there, and it is this deliberately convoluted way of thinking that, I thought, should have a word of it's own.
BTW, this logic does not apply when someone on their "side" is ACTUALLY hanging out with domestic and islamic terrorists, racist haters, socialists and other idiots.
Ahhh
Submitted by hayate1 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 8:48pm.
Sorry, I get ya now.
Whow is hanging out with terrorists? I know that a republican congressman ahs supported a terrorist group in the past and that a a group of prominent U.S. Republicans went to Paris this year to attend a rally of the French Committee for a Democratic Iran. This organization just happens to be intimately connected with the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK).
And what is the MEK? It is an Iranian exile group, originally Marxist in ideology, that has been on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations since 1997. And, our "prominent Republican" visitors knew of this connection – knew it and apparently were not put off by the fact at all.
"Facts are not decided by how many people believe them. Truth is not determined by how loudly it is shouted."
The day of reckoning is
Submitted by wendybar on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:16pm.
The day of reckoning is coming. I hope the liberals keep on calling everyone names, and blaming everyone else, as people are now waking up to the assault on America from the Marxists.
I can't wait to see Mika's face then!!! I'm so sick of her eyerolling whenever anyone talks about the teaparty.
Hey Mika...Abraham Lincoln wasn't a founding father (she claims he's her favorite)
Mika thinks "founding father" means "sugar daddy".
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 8:55pm.
That's why she likes Lincoln. He's on the $5 bill. Other than that, she knows nothing else about him.
"I'd like to be a fly on the
Submitted by SonnyPalermo on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:40pm.
"I'd like to be a fly on the wall in a couple hours when (if) she realizes it."
A good line to not be reading while sipping a Pepsi.
Thanks . . .
Mika
Submitted by ChicagoSteve on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:36pm.
Is it me or is Mika'a nose getting bigger? If this libtard wacko-nut job non-watched station doesn't do something quick, like pulling her for some better looking babe, they'll lose their five watchers!
NO sorry that WON'T happen
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:46pm.
They would never lose the 5 Lesbians that watch Morning Joe (And fantasize about mika) they are the same 5 that watch Maddow...........
Haven't watched it yet {still
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:40pm.
Haven't watched it yet {still catching up on the Sunday shows} but here's a tip for anyone who wants to see Joe standing up for conservatives: Fast forward with your eye on Mika. When she makes her "sucked a lemon" face, you've found it!
Ronald Reagan
Mika Hated This Comment Almost As Much As...
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:41pm.
Her shabby wardrobe that she can barely afford. Boo-hoo.
It was priceless to see the slack-jawed and vacant-staring facial expression on her while Jo-tard was yapping away. She didn't like what he was saying and she was tsking and eye-rolling like a libutard having a seizure. It was priceless.
Mika, what would Daddy do?
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
"Bobblehead" Brzezinski
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 11:14pm.
Mika "Bobblehead" Brzezinski doesn't have the mental horsepower to formulate a response.
PS Nice housedress, Mika.
how refreshing, for a
Submitted by kinijane on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:45pm.
how refreshing, for a change.......
Joe might not be a
Submitted by jessieH on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:56pm.
Joe might not be a conservative, but he gets it.
Bravo Joe, Bravo
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:58pm.
I saw this, this morning and I was stunned the who, what and where of the people and lies he was calling out.
He was on point and fact based, something liberals hate.
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeka as expected was picking her nose (she was) and it went over her quasi pretty little head.
The leftists in studio panel had NOTHING TO SAY, again, because everything Joe said was the TRUTH.
He deserves CREDIT HERE.
Why did it take so long?
Submitted by Conservator on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 12:58pm.
Joey Scarborough at last finally supports conservatives tentatively. Nevertheless, he relied on "former Obama administration car czar Steve Rattner" who regularly stated his far left opinions on 'Morning Joe' while Joey nodded approvingly. Today he finally took issue with Steve Rattner and progressives like Mark Halpern who still tried to defend Obama. And let's not forget Joey still blamed the 'Tea Partiers' while including Democrats and Republicans for his leftist audience. Thus, I'm not pleased with Joey and his sidekick, the Obama loving co-host, Mika.
Yep, has to qualify it lest
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 3:08pm.
Yep, has to qualify it lest he's mistaken for a *gasp* TP'ier!!!
Ronald Reagan
To be honest, Joe has
Submitted by bassndude on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 3:18pm.
To be honest, Joe has surprised me here. Just when I think he could not get any deeper into the dark side, he throws me a loop.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Yep
Submitted by Rukus on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 8:33pm.
He's the proverbial "broke clock".
Leave it to Mika . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 3:23pm.
. . . to utter quips like "Alright, be nice" to the host of the show. She doesn't say that when Al Sharpton or Mark Halperin launch into Fantasy Land.
"Be nice"
Submitted by Model850 on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 3:36pm.
So Mika admonishes Joe to "be nice" when he calls out "terminally stupid, dogmatic ideologues" but laughs like a loon over a video portraying former VP Dick Cheney struggling to breathe.
OK. Glad Mika's got her priorities straight.
Notice how she cocks her head and bobs it around while Joe is talking. Reminds me of an inquisitive bird trying to figure out its reflection in a mirror. It knows there's "something" there but it doesn't really understand exactly what's going on.
Interesting - at the top of
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 4:32pm.
Interesting - at the top of hour 2, they usually replay the 1st block, but they cut out the beginning and end, so no Seal story, and no Joe rebuttal.
Ronald Reagan
Yes, Scarborough was somewhat coherent today. However,
Submitted by Rush Fan on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 2:01am.
if you evaluate the body of his work since he has been on MESSNBC, where he has railed against Republicans, Conservatives, and Idiot Bush, you can't help but come to the conclusion that Joe Scarborough is a SCHMUCK.