Scarborough on MSNBC right now: "Is Bush and Idiot?"

[Stinky The Clown]

Showing clips of every stupidism he's ever uttered!

After the clips, Scarborough cited an unnamed source (Repub) who says Bush is every bit as incuruious and smirking as he seems.

Watching it now ....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It can't be ALL the stupidisms he's ever uttered,

because that would take hours, maybe days. But it's pretty damn funny, in an awful way. Especially the "sovereignty" bit. :rofl:

The important thing is that the issue has been brought up in the first place, and on a rightie's show, at that. John Fund is trying desperately to defend him, and his defense is so lame that he looks almost as stupid as Bush. Scarborough doesn't seem to buying it -- and even Fund admitted that he's incurious.

This is really good!

[Skittles]

19. get real, ocelot

it would take f***ing YEARS

[demosincebirth]

2. He seem like the kind of guy that if he was with a group that I hung out

with, I think he would just irritate the shit out of me.

[Bjornsdotter]

3. Must be rapture time

....I thought the world would end before Scarborough would ever have that on his show.

Cheers

[Iwasthere]

4. That was GREAT!

He even said one could go back through the years and would have a hard time finding a democratic President that was painted stupid or dimwitted like the many recent Repub presedents. Scarborough then said Bush is in a league of his own when it comes to stupidity.

[Berry Cool]

6. Of course he is...the Bush League

:rofl: Sorry, it was just too obvious.

[dflprincess]

10. Discussing how stupid he is may actually be a clever ploy

- more people will identify with or feel sorry for him. Remember the big slam used against Adlai Stephenson was that he was an "egg head" - people can't identify with that... and America wouldn't want a president who was too smart, would we? I always said that if Clinton had been from the Northeast instead of Arkansas they would have used his Rhodes Scholarship against him.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. I think this is different.

Now we've got the likes of Scarborough raising the question. When the wingers start asking whether one of their own is an idiot, and even a craven apologist like Fund is forced to admit that he's at least "incurious," there's a lot more going on than just the egghead vs. regular guy thing. One can avoid the appearance of eggheadery without sounding like somebody who's operating off nothing but his brainstem. "Regular guys" don't sound anywhere near that dumb, and this is being noticed.

[krkaufman]

17. That's just what I was thinking.

I was thinking, as the clips were playing, that this might be Scarborough laying the groundwork for an opinion segment, in a week or so, where he tears into "angry lefties" who just hate Bush and make fun of his regular guy speaking style.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Wow, that was weird.

John Fund talking about how there are never any Democrats who are accused of being stupid, but it's always Republicans, suggesting that Republicans are accused of being stupid because people don't want to debate their policies! WTF? But he said *nobody ever accuses Democrats of being stupid!* So I guess Fund, one of the worst of the Bushite apologists, really backed himself into a corner: yeah, Bush is incurious, but he's not actually stupid, just inarticulate, and anyhow, Republicans are always accused of being stupid... Uh, John? You sorta screwed the pooch on that one...

:rofl:

And Scarborough comes back and says it would be a good thing to have a president with some curiosity.

[Sparkly]

7. Except he couldn't come up with the word "curiosity."

He said, "uh, uh, curiousness, if that's a word."

[krkaufman]

18. Ha! Awful nice of Joe to underscore the point, eh?

(Though I have to wonder if it was intentional, showing how even Mighty Joe can occasionally misspeak.)

[Wickerman]

12. Stupid is the domain of Rethuglicans

its true. Dems are womanizers (Clinton, Kennedy) or naive (Carter, and probably Johnson at the time).

They've earned the stupid tag, the other tags were desperation.

[rzemanfl]

14. Clinton was smart. It was his dick that was stupid. Whose isn't?

Dubyah is a dumb piece of shit and getting dumber. Remember the "Bush Ten Years" video?

[ComerPerro]

21. nobody bothers to accuse Dems of being stupid. They are too busy

slandering Dems for being anAmerican and anti-troops and pro-abortion.

[Son Of Spy]

8. Wrong question

Should be: "Just how idiotic is this chimp?"

"Bedtime for Bonzo" cited as prime reference material...

[bklyncowgirl]

9. It's gotta be bad when a Republican talk show host says that about Bush

I was waiting for Scarborough to pile on Lawrence O'Donnell. Instead it was the right winger, John Fund, who had to keep making up excuses for poor little Georgie.

It was delightful.

[Sparkly]

11. I'll bet poor Joe's in for some hate-mail from his fans.

Maybe we should send him emails answering his question, and expressing approval for the montage of clips.

[Sparkly]

13. Email addy: [e-mail] ... nt

[krkaufman]

16. AAAGGHH. Right Wing fundie Fund paired with centrist O'Donnell.

So painful always seeing the Center portrayed as the Left.

[ComerPerro]

20. Yeah, this is a very common tactic. RW host, RW guest, moderate guest

[Totally Committed]

22. A Bachelor's Degree from Yale and an MBA from Harvard, and

he still talks and thinks and acts like an imbecile. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Tell me those degrees didn't come with thank-you cards to Daddy Bush for the "generous donations" to those fine Universtities.... The oral exam for his MBA, alone, must have been magic. *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*

TC