Posted on 09/22/2009 4:00:23 AM PDT by kristinn
In the first half-hour of today's show, MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough accused Fox News Channel and radio talk show host Glenn Beck of spreading hatred and whippping up raced-based assassination hysteria against Barack Obama, demanding Republicans renounce Beck.
Scarborough, a former conservative Republican congressman from Florida, attacked the libertarian Beck for spending the summer telling viewers there were FEMA detention camps being built and for saying that Obama hates "all white people."
Scarborough said the "hatred" Beck is spreading would make him responsible should Obama be assassinated. Though he didn't speak explicitly of Obama's assassination, it was clear what Scarborough meant.
Scarborough demanded that potential Republican presidential candidates denounce Beck, naming Mitt Romney in particular.
True.
But then he already did plenty of damage to the Republican party over the past 8 years at least, before he jumped ship.
I’m not a Beck listener but that charge by Scarborough seemed odd enough to emphasize the *if* in my reply. This conspiracy theory is something I would have expected to hear before now if Beck had been been endorsing it.
Your reply showing the emptiness of the charge is appreciated.
“Wake up people. Some higher ups in the GOP are talking about Joe for President - I am not kidding.”
Got a source? If so we need to identify them and subject them to Alinsky’s rule #12
No, RUsh Sean, Laura etc are Republicans, beholden to a party. Being beholden to a party is what got us John McCain as our nominee. We have to look beyond party.
WRONG. Forget your preconceived notions of a third party and think NEW or DIFFERENT party. If conservatives left the RINO republican party, THERE WOULD BE NO REPUBLICAN PARTY. They would have to associate with our new party or be irrelevant for eternity. We would set the rules and agenda and pick candidates. We could attract moderates (fed up with same old, same old parties) conservative democrats, even conservative Blacks. Build a new coalition of less govt, lower taxes, pro-growth, conservative values, 2nd & 10th amendment patriotic Americans. Make people choose...or better said, GIVE PEOPLE A CHOICE. Liberals will stay with the dems, who cares, good. The rest will have to choose.
Liberal, communist democrat party
RINO republican dieing irrelevant party
New conservative, pro-America party
What party would Rush, Sean, or Levin choose?
What party would Palin, Bachman, Blackburn, Demint choose?
What party would McCain, Lindsay Grahm, Snowe, & Collins choose? (WHO CARES)
While our new party grows, we could form a cooalition government with the RINOs (in other-words USE them) to wield power.
You have to start somewhere, sometime. If you keep doing the same thing over & over again expecting different results you are by definition, CRAZY. Otherwise, we'll get another RINO that we'll HAVE to support because they are the lesser of two evils. Been there done that. Let's not do it again. ENOUGH ALREADY. Let's get started down a NEW path. Even if it means temporary defeat. (Which I don't believe it would) It sounds like VICTORY & FREEDOM to me.
In other word its a flashing neon sign for crackpot. Beck has and is doing wonderful things the last few weeks, but loose cannons can wind up shooting both ways.
You need to do much more homework -- Glenn has never pushed the FEMA story, he was the one who looked into the conspiracy and debunked it. You folks who help push the lies told by Beck's detractors, both Dem and GOP, do more damage to him than anything else.
Glenn thinks out loud and has been connecting the dots, not on his own, Breitbart provided him with the Van Jones and ACORN video footage because Andrew recognized the fact that Beck uses his airtime to inform the citizenry, not propagandize them. The rant from Scarborough last week along with this morning, he may now officially remove himself from contention. Even if he chooses to throw his hat in the 2012 race, he will not get the votes from those necessary to win a GOP nomination, ie., thinking conservatives who know what is at stake here.
Scarborough needs to shut the hell up. Who watches him anyway? The very small percentage of communist dumbasses that still support 0bama?
Awwwwww He must really need that MSNBC job
Hey, idiot Joe, Beck DEBUNKED the FEMA camp rumor.
Dear Joe,
Pound sand.
P.S.—Your employer is a POS
The day Scarborough sets the conservative agenda will indeed be the end of the two party system in America.
I’m not worried though.
Looking at his ratings reminds me of the old saying: “If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, did it make a noise”?
Glenn Beck is doing what he is supposed to do as a journalist.
He's just not willing not to ask questions. If Obama's past gets him killed, whose fault is that?
Unfortunately he’s in the Senate and not in daycare.
Of course sometimes it’s hard to tell the diff . . .
Scarborough should STFU.
I have been watching Morning Joe, because I liked it better than Fox and Friends. Not any more, I will not watch Joe again.
His time at CNN is showing.
Guess he has been brainwashed.
Obama prepares for a new day
Ted Kennedy
Does that mean that Mika gave him an enema?
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