Scarborough's Sop to Hillary: 'You've Opened Your Heart Even More'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Even as the words were leaving his mouth, Joe Scarborough acknowledged that he was going to get "killed by conservative bloggers." And being the obliging sorts we are here at NewsBusters . . .

Joe's interview of Hillary Clinton on today's "Morning Joe" was one long paean to her greatness coupled with a mea culpa for the wrongs that he and other Republicans visited on her during the '90s.

View video here.

Excerpts:

• When you talk about "two Americas," and John Edwards has been talking about two Americas, two Americas, and my Republican friends say, "oh, it's class warfare," I always say tell them: take your kid to an emergency room anywhere in America at 11 o'clock at night, and then tell me there aren't two Americas.
• How much worse has it gotten since you started fighting for health care reform in 1993?
• Because I've got a son who's a diabetic, what you were just saying hits home all the time. Where you get denied for prevention, but if you were to go in and get an amputation, or have to have a heart surgery, then they pay for that. It's just false economy.
• How do you pass health care reform this time, when you failed in 1993, 1994 when [self-deprecating laugh] people like myself ran for Congress talking about socialized medicine, socializing 1/7th of the economy, single-payer health care system. Obviously you've listened, you've learned, we've all learned a lot from just the horrible political wars of the 1990s. What have you learned that's going to help you make this dream of yours a reality in the 21st century?
• You, dear Senator, are the person who everybody is saying "she's grown, she's learned so much." I hope I've grown a lot, because again, the traumas of the 1990s, which were so horrible for you and your husband, and I would say for America. Talk about how your different person today. Cause, God, I think that everybody who went through that has to be a better person if they inspect what we went through.
• Some people get angry and embittered. And from talking to you personally and talking to friends who have worked with you in the United States Senate, you seem to have gone in the opposite direction. Instead of becoming angry from all the attacks launched against you in the 1990s, you've actually opened your heart even more. And boy, am I going to get killed by conservative bloggers for saying that. But it's the truth. You seem to be a much different person now than you were in 1993 or 1994.
• Thank you for having the courage to tackle this battle once again. And we'll see what happens. I think it's gonna have a much happier ending this time than it did in 1994. Good luck.

In return for his adulation, Hillary graced Joe with numerous patronizing head pats of the "great question" and "oh, Joe, I think that's incredibly true" variety.

Clinton even had the audacity to claim that the hardships she's suffered have "made me a little less quick to jump to conclusions, perhaps a little more open to making sure that all sides are heard," and later that "it's kind of hard to be pointing fingers. Instead we should be rolling up our sleeves and getting to work together."

This from the woman who just last week, with her "willing suspension of disbelief" line, effectively called the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq a liar to his face. Joe naturally didn't jeopardize the good vibes by raising that.

[Red Badger]

He was MY Congresscritter. Thank God he’s gone..............

[McGruff]

Joe Scarborough acknowledged that he was going to get "killed by conservative bloggers."

See. Banjo Boy isn't so stupid. He realizes he's just signed his death warrant with the republican party and probably his TV career.

[KarlInOhio]

Scarborough's Sop to Hillary: 'You've Opened Your Heart Even More'

Her heart is two sizes too small.

[sauropod]

Scarborough has turned into quite the pansy.

[badpacifist]

You have heard of the red nosed reindeer...now the sad story of the brown nosed reporter. He could run just as fast as all of the other reporters he just couldn’t stop as quick.

[donnab]

Barf...when did Joe become a blonde? He got close at times but I still held out hope for him....now hes plummetted down into hopeless.

[bilhosty]

Say it ain’t so, Joe! Say it ain’t so!

[Mr. Jeeves]

One of the things that first soured me on the Republican Party was the revelation that so many of its former leading "conservative" figures never actually believed the words they were saying - it was all a tactic to get re-elected. Democrats do the same thing, spouting fiery leftist rhetoric to appeal to the revolutionary proletariat, then governing exactly like RINOs. Scarborough is one of the primary examples.

But he and Hillary are both members of the RINO/DINO-joint venture known unoffically as the Federal Government Party, so it shouldn't be too surprising to see them holding a lovefest. The danger is that, increasingly, anyone who tries to set a course different from where the Federal Government Party wants to take the country ends up becoming a marginalized and ridiculed figure.

[magellan]

How the mighty have fallen. I remember Joe, the young turk after the 1994 Revolution.

My guess is Scarborough knows his show won't last, and despite his departing the house for financial reasons, he is angling for a new job in a Hillary! administration.

[Red in Blue PA]

Scarborough is about as Republican as Michael Bloomberg.

[Rummyfan]

You, dear Senator, are the person who everybody is saying "she's grown, she's learned so much." I hope I've grown a lot, because again, the traumas of the 1990s, which were so horrible for you and your husband, and I would say for America. Talk about how your different person today. Cause, God, I think that everybody who went through that has to be a better person if they inspect what we went through.

Chunk-spewing toxic nuclear barf alert!

What a whore Scarborough has become.....

[OpusatFR]

That phrase is redolent of Marxist/Maoist hyperbole from the salad days of communism.

And yeah, Joe. I do know the linguistic turns very well.

Any bets that her handlers spoonfed him that phrase to be inserted at some point in the interview.

This woman scares me more and more. She’s Marx personified.

[Brad from Tennessee]

As a former politician, Scarborough will suck up to anybody with power. He is an MSNBC “Republican” with the integrity of a crab louse.

[Neverforget01]

And Hillary’s response of her willingness to hear all sides was laughable. She wants to hear all sides’ comments, unless they are from the likes of people like General Petraeus—then she feels the need to call them liars.

[Badeye]

Scarborough demonstrated why MSNBC gave him Imus’s old time slot.

Why is anyone surprised by this? He’s a known quantity.

[afnamvet]

Where oh where is the “Double Bag Barf Alert?”

Bomb disposal triple layered steel mesh bag Barf Alert.

[Badeye]

‘Do they have enough viewers to even rate on the scale?’

I watch for the simple reason Fox and Friends is way too lightweight in the mornings. I’m fairly certain if Gretchen Carlson thinks really really hard her eyes will remain crossed....the other two are simply clowns and I don’t have the patience first thing in the morning for that crap.

Outside of that, its a great show....

[LibLieSlayer]

If scarhead likes communism so very much, he should move to Russia and get the “real thing”. Midnight in an emergency room does show two Americas... one for all US Citizens... black, white, yellow, red, blue with pink polka dots... and then there are the illegal invaders that get free health care and priority over US CITIZENS.

hildebeast will cause a hot civil war to break out in America... because some of us will not surrender to communism and sharia law!

LLS

[AdvisorB]

Where oh where is the “Double Bag Barf Alert?”

Bomb disposal triple layered steel mesh bag Barf Alert.

[showme_the_Glory]

He wants to hit that.