Pontificating from his privileged perch as an MSNBC host with a multi-million-dollar contract, Joe Scarborough loves to sneer and condescend to what he views as his journalistic inferiors: bloggers.
For years, Scarborough's standard shtick was to brand bloggers as losers littered with Cheetos crumbs, living in their mother's basement. As a NewsBusters blogger, that always offended me. My mother's house didn't have a basement. I lived in a loft in her garage. And Cheetos? No way. Pringles have always been my main food group.
Besides, not all bloggers were conservatives. What about the Daily Kos leftists?
Scarborough was back at his supercilious worst on today's Morning Joe. He repeatedly said that he would speak slowly so that bloggers could understand. His condescension came in the context of saying that federal judges do have the authority to enjoin actions by the federal branch, and in particular, that Judge James Boasberg had the authority to order the Trump administration to cease deporting members of violent gangs illegally in the US by flying them to El Salvador.
Scarborough wondered if bloggers even existed anymore. The word is out of fashion, but the blogging websites, from NewsBusters to Daily Kos, continue.
And it was thanks to bloggers that stories like the cover-up of the origins of COVID was uncovered, while "prestige" outlets like the New York Times were [willingly?] "badly misled" into buying the story that the origin was in live animal markets in Wuhan.
And it was bloggers who helped expose Joe Biden's incapacity for office, while a prominent pompadour pundit insisted that this was "the best Biden ever, and f-you if you don't believe it."
And let me say this very slowly so he'll understand. That member of the liberal media who attempted to deceive the American public? That was you, Joe Scarborough.
Note: The screencap shows Scarborough imagining that those backward bloggers still use typewriters. Ya got me there, Joe, like I do still bang out my stuff on my trusty 1957 Smith Corona, before faxing it to my NewsBusters editors.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
3/18/25
6:00 am EDTFOX NEWS HOST: It doesn't look like you're getting support from the Democrats on this. You're going against the judges now. What's next?
TOM HOMAN: Another flight [host laughs.] Another flight every day. The teams are going to be out there every day. Every day the men and women of ICE are going to be in the neighborhoods of this nation arresting criminal, illegal alien, public safety threats and national security threats. Lawrence, you're not going to stop us. I'm proud to be a part of this administration. We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the left thinks. We're coming.
WILLIE GEIST: A defiant message. That's Tom Homan, the border czar in the Trump administration, after deporting migrants to El Salvador without full due process. We'll bring you the latest on the legal fight over those flights, which a judge ordered to return to the United States before they reached their destination. So far, the Trump administration ignoring that.
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JOE SCARBOROUGH: Willie, we just saw a member of the Trump administration saying he doesn't care what judges think. I, um, newsflash from James Madison, you don't really have that choice.
You know, the thing is, I hear a lot of people being shocked about, how could, how could a federal judge do this? Why, Donald Trump won by one-and-a-half percent. How could, heh?
Well, for bloggers, I'll say this slowly. This is what happens in Madisonian democracy. Federal judges iido have the power to question the authority of a presidential action. And then, as some Republican senators, I think John Kennedy from Louisiana said, you know, that's why God created the appellate courts.
But just, again, for our blogging friends. Do people still blog, Willie? I really don't know. Do people blog?
GEIST: I think so, yeah, with the typewriter.
SCARBOROUGH: [Imagining what a blogger might be writing about] I had this sushi last night.
So for our, I'm going to talk a little more slowly than usual so they'll understand it. [Speaking very slowly] This happens under America's Constitution.
