I have to say - I like Joe Scarborough

[L A Woman]

He is fair, he is reasonable and he doesn't fall for right wing hysteria and bullshit. I don't always agree with him, obviously, but I think he's a class act.

I've felt this way for some time, but it just occured to me to say something after he just asked his audience to keep Senator Johnson in our thoughts and prayers and, unlike a lot of people in his party, he genuinely feels that way and doesn't seem to be focused on the control of the Senate.

I'm filing him in my "Republicans I Like" file (which is a small file).

[BuyingThyme]

1. Take cover.

:hide:

[Jack from Charlotte]

44. I'm guessing MSNBC has changed his show because of KO's success.....

Note, BTW, that when KO's show ends rather than him just saying, "Here's Scarborough...,"like he used to, KO now does a little chit chat with Scar. Also, I've noticed the story Scar highlights during his intro is MUCH more... moderate... or less right-wing-wacko, than it used to be.

So I think since KO's ratings started soaring, someone at that networks said.... "Geez. The very second KO's show ends 80% of KO's watchers change the channel. If Joe was less of a right-wing asshole... maybe some of KO's watchers might hold on."

I'm fairly certain that what's going on. Think Joe sold out? These guys would do or say just about anything in order to hold their $$$ jobs. (See former-Dem's shameful performance while on Faux Network.)

[graywarrior]

2. .

:popcorn:

[OhioChick]

3. Joe..........A "class act?"

:puke:

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Casuistries in all the Right places ,I hate him .He's a MSM slut!

[AlCzervik]

5. don't care for him myself but i admire your gumption.

[Wonk]

6. Would you let your daughter intern for him?

I hear there's an opening.

[11 Bravo]

8. Bada-bing!

[stillcool]

21. oh man...

I was eating a salad....:rofl:

[wuushew]

7. Maybe you should watch the MSNBC archives from 2003 and 2004

n/t

[L A Woman]

11. i DID actually watch him around the election....

and like i said, there are many times i disagree with him. happened a lot then...

[walldude]

9. Well the whole dead intern in his office kind of bugs me

But that's just me...

[TheDebbieDee]

10. Sometimes, I like Joe, too..............

And then I rememer how repuke talking point spouty he was before Hurricane Katrina.

And then I remember the DEAD INTERN!

I think Joe realized that he needed to start appealing to a viewer with a different viewpoint.

[L A Woman]

19. well...my recollection of the dead intern situation was...

that there was no evidence of foul play whatsoever, but the rumors started flying on the internet in the same way that rumors still fly that Vince Foster was murdered. it's sad that we've reached such a state of paranoia that evidence doesn't matter but silly internet rumors are accepted as fact.

[alittlelark]

24. The pathologist was an indicted quack

<snip>
Michael Berkland, it turns out, has a very interesting background himself. Recently relocated to Florida, it is a matter of public record that Dr. Berkland's medical license in the state of Missouri was revoked in 1998 as a result of Berkland reporting false information regarding brain tissue samples in a 1996 autopsy report. Berkland does not deny the charges.

It's also a matter of public record that he was suspended from his position as Medical Examiner in the State of Florida in July, 1999.

Quincy, he's not.

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html

[stillcool]

25. If a young female

found factually dead in a congressman's office is a 'silly internet rumor'..what do you call 'news'?

[L A Woman]

27. the fact that she was found dead was not the internet rumor....

the rumor was that HE had something to do with it. (are you in mensa???)

and it was not a plane that flew into the pentagon. that plane was abducted by aliens. :eyes:

[alittlelark]

35. Your post makes NO sense....mensa, pentagon, aliens...

I am quite puzzled.:eyes:

[stillcool]

43. it's interesting...

that opposition to conclusions that are illogical and have favorable outcomes for the moneyed interest involved are always 'conspiracy theories'. Those that deride any such thinking tend to respond vehemently, in a scurrilous condescending manner. I can't help but wonder what their stake in controlling others thinking and conversation is all about.

[Nite Owl]

12. I sometimes catch the beginning of

his show if the tv doesn't get turned off right away after Keith and I have to agree with you. He seems reasonable, very different from when he was in the House. Not enough to make me watch the show but he doesn't make me run for the remote either.

[Eric J in MN]

13. In 2004, he ridiculed John Kerry as "French-looking."

Now that the presidential election is over, he's acting different.

But in 2008, will Scarborough be ridiculing the appearance of the Democratic nominee? It wouldn't surprise me if he does.

[AlCzervik]

15. and he's a reader! Dear god!

[Kolesar]

23. I did not know that. I thought that was only a Fox News Network attack...eom

[Olney Blue]

14. Sometimes I have been impressed- such as when he said that the

Chimp lost the debates, and his coverage of Katrina. However, he is still
too conservative on many issues for me!

[LittleClarkie]

16. He has his moments

Esp. around Katrina. He's a paleo instead of a neo. He'll do. He's easier to take than most of them.

[AlCzervik]

18. that makes him more insidious imo.

[nicktom]

17. I also don't have a problem with him these days,

I rarely see his show, but the few times I have I have seen him shred bush and the neocons regarding Iraq. I think he is more socially conservative than me for sure but as far as hosting a cable news show as a former republican house member he, the times I've seen him at least seems fairly classy.

[HughMoran]

20. He's had some good days as of late

but occasionally his old self comes out and reminds me that Republicans can't be trusted.

[in_cog_ni_to]

22. Huh? Scarborough? JOE Scarborough? The Scarborough whose secretary died

on his office floor with her head bashed in? THAT Scarborough? He's a warmonger who endlessly shilled for this regime and was a HUGE cheerleader for the illegal invasion. He's just recently seen the writing on the wall when it looked like the Dems would win in November. He's a RW chickenhawk.:(

He just wants you to THINK he cares about Tim Johnson. He's hoping the repukes get to take the Senate. Trust me, Scarborough is no better than any other repuke. NONE of them are compassionate or give 2 shits about Tim Johnson.

[L A Woman]

28. you mean CLINTON? The guy who murdered Vince Foster?????

There is no more evidence that he had anything to do with her death than there was against Clinton in the Foster case. Don't lower your intellectual standards to match those in the Limbaugh audience. It's embarrassing.

[B Calm]

31. I thought Vince Foster was murdered by Bob Barr and Trent Lott, Henry

Hyde drove the get-away car!

[alittlelark]

36. The Foster case was looked into w/BIG$$$ and lots of time

Scarbouroughs intern got virtually no coverage or investigation... Jebbie saw to it.

[in_cog_ni_to]

39. Exactly right. The medical examiner had his license revoked in other states

for FALSIFYING medical reports. He neglected to report the 7 inch gash on Lauri's head and he has since been fired. The Scarborough intern murder was swept under the rug with NO MEDIA COVERAGE. The case has STILL not been solved.

[Bobbie Jo]

26. I think he's tolerable for a rethug.....

I mean as long as half his show continues to consist of Stewart/Colbert clips....:shrug:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

29. I don't particularly like him but I find his show interesting enough

to watch over others in that time slot. He has an interesting variety of guests and he doesn't talk over them, most of the time.

[Orangepeel]

30. he's the second best host on MSNBC, for what little that's worth

:shrug:

Wait. I forgot that woman who does "The Most." Third best.

[originalpckelly]

46. Alison Stewart...

and I think Tweeters and Joe are tied for third.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

32. On Joe now: Diana DiGarmo. Good grief, what has she done

to herself? She was such a pretty little girl a couple of years ago. Now she looks like a hooker!

[rknryd]

33. Joe does have class

Buckets of it and it's all low.

[Sapphocrat]

34. Oh, yeah?

:popcorn: anyone?

[trumad]

37. Please--- Joes got a huge track record of shillness....

As Bob Somerby has so duly documented.

http://www.google.com/custom?q=Joe+Scarborough&sa=Google+Search&cof=AH%3Acenter%3BAWFID%3Ac32a032061318778%3B&domains=dailyhowler.com&sitesearch=dailyhowler.com

[Gabi Hayes]

38. really....I mean really. start here. if you need more.....

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh092304.shtml

do a little looking into how he publicly, and materially, contradicted himself when asked discomfitting questions in the days immediately following Lori Klausutis' death

why would he do that?



from the DH:

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2004

WATCHING OUR NEW FAKE FACT GROW: If you couldn’t see it being done, you wouldn’t think it was possible. Last night, in Scarborough Country, a tin-pot potentate became the latest MSNBC honcho to lie in your faces about Ben Barnes. Joe Scarborough rules his eponymous empire—and he wants all vassals to think that Barnes contradicted himself on the September 8 60 Minutes II. On that now-famous program, Barnes told Dan Rather that he helped George Bush get in the National Guard. The White House wants you to think that Barnes was contradicting himself when he made that statement. So last night—quite remarkably—Joe Scarborough went on cable and lied for them:

SCARBOROUGH (9/22/04): Well, anyway, Ben Barnes, the former Texas House speaker and lieutenant governor, recently told Dan Rather in the controversial 60 Minutes piece that he helped George Bush get into the National Guard. What Dan Rather didn’t tell his viewers, though, were the facts that Barnes is a Kerry friend and, more importantly, that he testified under oath that he did not help Bush with any favors.

Since Scarborough lies the way you and yours breathe, let’s note that Rather told viewers, in that 60 Minutes II session, that “Barnes is a Democrat who is now actively raising money for John Kerry.” But how about Scarborough’s more remarkable claim—the claim that Barnes “testified under oath that he did not help Bush?” That claim is blatantly bogus. Yesterday, we showed you the Washington Post report about Barnes’ 1999 testimony (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 9/22/04). Here’s the corresponding report from the Dallas Morning News, written by Pete Slover:

SLOVER (9/28/99): Former Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes confirmed Monday that he recommended Gov. George W. Bush for a slot in the Texas Air National Guard during the height of the Vietnam War, at the request of a Bush family friend.
Mr. Barnes' account came in a written statement that was released after he testified in a deposition stemming from a federal lawsuit.

The statement agreed with earlier accounts in The Dallas Morning News of how Mr. Barnes' help was solicited in referring Mr. Bush's name to a high-ranking Guard official. The former Democratic lawmaker said in the statement that he was unaware whether the future GOP governor or his father, then-congressman George Bush, knew of his intervention.

“Mr. Barnes was contacted by Sid Adger and asked to recommend George W. Bush for a pilot position with the Air National Guard," Mr. Barnes' statement said. "Barnes called Gen. Rose and did so.”

[in_cog_ni_to]

40. He also LAUGHED about her death on IMUS. He made light of it.

Truly disgusting.

[immoderate]

41. Hanity and O'Reilly make him seem OK....

And he occasionally tells the truth. But what's to like? :shrug:

--IMM

[Buzz Clik]

42. I came to the same conclusion a little while ago...

I watch him infrequently, but I'm never tempted to snap off the tube in the first seconds. Which is a total contrast to Hannity and Colmes, O'Reilly, all of CNN, etc.

[Ino]

45. when Pelosi said she was "sad"

that Bush was still blaming al Qaeda for sectarian violence, Scarborough called her language "cutesy". He must have mentioned that 3 times, trying to get guests to agree with him. He's always been an ass. He's still an ass.