Liberal Idiot of the Week
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 4:57PM 
Joe Scarborough - MSNBC Commentator & David Brooks Conservative
Joe Scarborough has been wearing on my last good nerve for several months. He has always been a pompous blowhard and frequent defender of Obama and the communist Left. However, his recent defense of Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill has devolved into nothing short pandering to the far-left.
His relationships with those inside the White House, which he references often on his Morning Joe show, are clearly more important to him than his professional integrity. Joe actually referenced his good friend "Gibby" earlier this week. For those who don't know, Gibby is Robert Gibbs, the idiot press secretary for Barack Obama. From what I've read, you couldn't find two journalists that would give Gibbs a dixie cup of water if his brain was on fire, yet Scarborough and he are tight. Should a political commentator really be calling the White House press secretary by a cheesy nickname on national television? Not if they're to be taken seriously.
Scarborough also frequently goes out of his way to create moral equivalencies. If Democrats are caught in some sort of controversy - which they frequently are - you can always count on Joe to reference a similar Republican controversy to ease the sting for liberals. If he were paid for every out-of-left-field insult he threw at conservatives, he'd be a very wealthy man.
For this and the fact that he is about as conservative as I am purple, Joe Scarborough is our Liberal Idiot of the Week.
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Reader Comments (10)
Generally, if a person's eyes are that close together they've lost the IQ lottery. As for being tight with the Star Wars loving, pompous, obvuscating, lying blowhard Gibbs.....that speaks for itself. An excellent nomination and very disappointing for a former Republican Congressman. The disease Olbermann has must have gone viral at MSNBC.
Oh yes Pundit, Joe has been a idiot for a very long time, especially since he's been over
at Miss MSNBC and lets not leave out Mika the other half of Dumber and Dumber..
Where will poor old Joe go when the last flush goes down the crapper at MSNBC,networks
wont touch him after this last chrade against the conservatives...
Joe, you are the guy that killed your golden goose and it couldn't happen to a more wretched
soul..
Folks, Some respect please, you are referring to the new Comment-tator Czar, who is anxiously awaiting his appointment.
Scarborough is a pathetic excuse for a person. He is a sellout through and through.
wait. this just occurred to me.... but, isn't "Liberal Idiot" redundant?
Good point GG. Can't argue that one.
Isn't it interesting that while Morning Joe and David Brooks defend the administration, people the likes of John Stewart and Bill Maher criticize the president almost without restraint?
When I once tried to listen to Morning Joe, I thought it would be a point - counterpoint show, a la the old "60 Minutes" gig. Instead, Joe and his sidekick Mika fall all over themselves trying to out do the other in coming up with excuses for the current regime and congress. I gave up after suffering about an hour of the show, and haven't returned.
I tried for months to like Scarborough, just couldn't do it.
Good point, Girlie Girl! I wish I was able to think like that, life would probably be better for me. Naw, I would have to get new friends.
This liberal hack was put in place so mspms would SEEM like they were balanced in their reporting. An excellant choice for L.I.O.T.W!