Is Scarborough sounding more like "us"?

[babylonsister]

I'm thinking he sounds a bit worried! (0r has this already been posted? I'm slow but I'm faithful!)

[mmonk]

1. I think he's starting to see a few things

that has him bothered.

[andino]

I think that he is starting to see his demographics

for the Dems drop off and needs to pull higher ratings...

They really could care people. It's all about MONEY and RATINGS!!!

[barb162]

36. although he mentions that Clinton was balancing the budget

and Bush can't balance his nuts, he still wants social programs cut because of the huge deficit. He doesn't mention cuts to the defense dept, getting rid of the Bush tax cuts to the rich, the 200billion for Iraq, cuts to the pharmaceuticals in regard to the drug bill, etc. Why, because those are GOP deals.

[barb162]

37. I think he spends all of his time trying to figure out ways

of sabatoging Democrats and Dem programs

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

2. No, he isn't

and don't get your hopes up that he is.

Even if he were to say, TOMORROW, that he is fully a Kerry supporter, I'd say "eh, whatever, good for him."

Then I wouldn't think another thing about it. He is a media WHORE in the worst sense of the word.

[mmonk]

3. I thought he was just a rightwing radical

[WMliberal]

9. i had a broken watch once

and it was right twice a day

[EnfantTerrible]

8. He's selling his book...

he's already plugged five times... oops make that six as I type this. He's an opportunist and he's a Repug. I thinks he's being true to his ideology by going after the spending, not supporting Kerry.

[ranosgol]

4. As much as i hate him, on CNN he did admit..

He did admit that Clinton did veto bills and government spending only went up 3 % while Bush even subtracting homeland security and military has went up 10 %.

He blames bot h sides but he still says he hates Clinton.

[buycitgo]

5. he's SCUM of the earth

what he's seeing is MSNBC ratings going up; positive buzz around Olberman's show, and tweety's brief interlude of standing up to the fascists, showing him that perhaps the way to success is NOT mimicking Faux's MO, and CNN's disastrous copycatting

he wants to keep his cushy, highpaying job

don't think it goes beyond that

he's at heart a VICIOUS, pigeyed thug, raised on fascist vitriol, who MADE his career during the Clinton inquisition

he deserves to have his.......never mind

[babylonsister]

10. Ok, Buycitgo,

but just maybe someone might "see the light". We can only hope. But I take it you don't like him???
Seriously, Buchanan and Scarborough, while being totally died in the wool repugs, have given their 'props' to others not of their ilk.
I think intelligent minds can/could/might prevail.

[buycitgo]

22. I've watched this parasite for YEARS......like a decade

starting with his ubiquitous cable appearances going after Clinton in the most scabrous, scurillous, mendacious manner: starting with a host of Whitewater lies, then moving on with salacious relish, to the Monica inquisition

not to mentioned his FAR right leanings, his obnoxiously arrogant mien, and, oh, yeah, the little Lori Klausutis thing

what do YOU know about him, please?

[babylonsister]

27. buycitgo, I KNOW nada

I am learning and not afraid to tell you that. And how you feel about Scarborough is how I feel about Bush, so... I'm just trying to be a bit moderate or evasive!!
Rock on with your hate, but use you good feelings. Sounds trite, but there are a lot of people who hate Bush as much as I do, and Scarborough doesn't come into this equation for me.
Folks are dying, Bush must go, this war should never have happened, BUSH MUST GO! That's why I'm on this forum. xoxo Ru

[buycitgo]

30. I'm HIP

don't mean to sound like I'm any fonder of Boosh than Scarface

just have had longer to cultivate my loathing

Scarface is just a low-echelon thug in the Bush/Cheney/PNAC equation; mostly venting at this point

I couldn't agree more that Bush's junta must go.....always remember, though, that he's just the figurehead in this deadly passion play.

he does as he's told, without knowing the whole story, and it SHOWS, whenever he goes offscript

there are myriad examples of this, and it should be obvious to anyone paying the slightest attention

that's why the media are the REAL enemy here: they KNOW what the score is, and are deeply complicit in keeping the curtain pulled on a lazy, gullible public, who doesn't care what happens, as long as THEIR jobs are safe, THEIR houses don't get blown up, or washed away

[Maddy McCall]

39. You're right. Everything you said is right.

[Scorpious_Maximus]

35. Buchanan -

Is a complete conservative; but what has impressed me about Patrick is he isn't a frothing at the mouth pug.

I've noticed that when the pugs are interviewed, you could smack them in the back of the head and get the same exact answers out of each and every one of them.


Scarborough has been trying to move his own act towards the middle. I suspected someone at MSNBC was leaning on their talent to actually pretend to act like journalists, but then you watch Matthews, that whole idea gets thrown out the window.

[John_H]

6. LOL! Scar knows that dems buy as many books as rethugs n/t

[seabeyond]

7. hanging out with ronnie reagan

was seeing it during the dem convention

now,. scarborough still an ass still want to know what happened to the gal in his office and still a repug

[newsguyatl]

11. i've only seen him a few times (during the dnc)

and he didn't seem bad at all to me.


seemed more like a traditional conservative who adored reagan, but certainly didn't come across at radical at all... almost seemed recruitable.

[zulchzulu]

12. I heard him briefly today on Ed Shultz

He was sounding like he's changing his tune....but ya never know.

[Zen Democrat]

13. Scarborough is still a shilling Republican ....

He now claims he hates the deficit and that he is a "Ronald Reagan Republican." Well, who's the one who blew up the deficit in the 80's? His hero Ronald Reagan.

If he were really so concerned about deficit spending, he would have criticized Reagan -- who was a supply-sided and believed that deficits weren't a problem relative to the GNP. This is the same argument BushCo is using. What's the difference?

Actually, Scarborough is a good friend of Bill Maher and is, I suspect, a social liberal -- and this is the real reason he doesn't like Bush. But, for his own political survival he can't go there. So, deficit spending will have to do. If the deficit were really his main interest, he would have LOVED Bill Clinton, not despised him.

[AlCzervik]

14. No and he's said some pretty mean things about Kerry

He said last week that he could never support him because of what he said in 71' and that he brought it all on himself. F Joe dead girl.

[babylonsister]

16. Thanks for the thoughts, but...

did anyone actually see him tonight, or was this all pre-conceived ideas and impressions? Please, people can change!!??? I'm hopin'...
(READ: Reps to Dems, Inds to Dems... get the picture?) And why not??? Hopefully sanity MIGHT prevail?

[AlCzervik]

18. He also has a book out now regarding the economy

so part of his bs involves discussion in which he can mention his book.

[buycitgo]

23. whatever...that was one segment of one show

watch a few more times and see what you think

just wait and see what sort of scumbags he has on the show

when it's nut cuttin time, he'll show his true colors

I hope you're right, but I'm not holding breath

even if he becomes a complete apostate til the election, I still won't trust him....just believe he's even more of a whore than I thought he was, which was one of the MOST doctrinaire, hard core wingnuts infesting the airwaves during the impeachement fiasco AND the selection of 2000

[Lefty48197]

15. He's up to something

I think he's betting that there will be television jobs for Republicans who AREN'T total assh*les.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

17. You guys crack me up

why is anyone even listening to Scarborough or anyone like him?

They do NOT change their tune. They go with the money. Even Tweety saw more money in being a GOP shill than doing what he was doing, so he started talking smack on TV and got his own show.

See how it works?

I'll make a prediction: people will think "oh hmmm is Scarborough changing his tune?" because of something he did and then by next week at the LATEST you'll (generic you) be totally pissed off at him again.

They TOY with you. They PLAY with you. Don't let them.

[redstateblues]

20. It shows how desperate we are for a voice in the media-

Joe Scarborough- give me a fucking break- pardon my french- he is a hardcore winger- don't get sucked in

[Kingshakabobo]

24. Who's Tweety? I give up

I'm new. Been trying to figure it out. Thanks.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

26. Hardball's Chris Mathews

because of his big blonde head.

[0rganism]

38. I've always thought he's more of a Barney Rubble lookalike...

...but Tweety seems to have caught on before we got a chance to have a full debate.



You be the judge.

[babylonsister]

40. WOW!

Prior to my initial post, I thought Scarborough was pretty much scum, so hearing him sound fairly okay (RE: sounded dem) was 'different.' I had no idea he was such a dirtbag in your collective views; thanks for responding, and I will consider this in future considerations.

[Nordic]

42. Jews at Auschwitz: "that guard seems to be acting much nicer today"

It's the same fucking thing.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

45. 'Zaktly.

It makes me sad for my fellow liberals sometimes. I've written them all off. They are media whores, period.

[LTR]

19. Scarboy's a Reagan Republican

He was on Dobbs last night expressing serious doubts about Bush.

He also blasted Clinton because government spending increased by about 3% during his term. Ridiculous? I say yes.

I don't put much faith into 'Reagan Republicans'. They like fiscal conservatism, but fail to realize that he presided over record deficits and a major stock market crash.

BTW: Welcome aboard, Babylonsister! The name of a great Steely Dan tune there.

[AuntPatsy]

21. He is just playing giving tidbits to democrats...

he is not worth the mantle he trys to have us view him in, you know, the unbiased one....

I don't trust him as much as I don't trust Mathews, the man bleeds yellow these days...

[Dems Will Win]

25. Joe was ALL ANTI-BUSH Tonite BOY!

[AuntPatsy]

29. He tends to flip flop but you know what? Its okay with me..

because no matter how many seem to backtrack, we still get in our message every now and then, we could be completely blacked out you know....

I saw him tonight as well, I have long since stopped qetting excited by their bouts of alzheimers, so when a sane moment hits them, I relax and enjoy the moment of awareness they tend to exhibit every now and then. ;-)

[DaveinMD]

28. the only Democrat he's like

is Gary Condit

[buycitgo]

31. haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

except that Condit didn't have anything to do with what's her name's death

[BiggJawn]

32. Don't start that shit-He's a ReTHUG and he killed his intern...

What, we need another "Great GOP Hope" now that McCain is firmly in possesion of a Grape Kool-Aid moustache?

Joe's a little worried. Maybe he's getting "visited" at night, maybe he hears a choking gurgling sound when things are quiet.

[zaj]

33. Joe seems to be a Moderate Republican who will shill with the best of them

... he may be somewhat moderate, but he's still a Republican politician during an election cycle.

He's acting like McCain, Rudi, and Bob Dole.

Their ideology isn't quite as radical, but they are all fighting on the same team this time of year.

[Tweed]

34. Scarborough is a lawyer in his other life. The trial lawyer attacks...

can cause him to run a piece that has his anger inside.

[Nordic]

41. The man is a hatemonger. He is scum. He doesn't deserve any

body's time or energy.

He is a piece of human shit who needs to be buried.

I don't give a flying fuck what the man says or does at this point. I just want him GONE. He is the personification of what is wrong with this country, and with our media.

[GingerSnaps]

43. I asked the same kind of question last night

:shrug:

[underseasurveyor]

44. What is with all these rahrah scumborough threads

the past few days? They've been popping up like weeds :wtf:
I could care less what that twisted scumbag has to say. He is a corrupt, murderous, lying shitbag that will do and say anything and use anyone that crosses his path for his own selfish gains.

So now what, we're suppose to believe he's suddenly had this amazing awakening (enter beam of light) and now we should trust and rejoice because the leopard has truly changed his spots?
Pffftt Ain't gonna buy it! I may have been born at night, but it damn sure wasn't last night!

The only positive thing about all these emerging Killer Joe threads?

What about Lori Klausutis? She was found with multiple fractures in her skull and her murder was conveniently covered up by a corrupt coroner in Florida! Where is Lori's Justice?

R.I.P O8) Lori will not be left behind and forgotten as long as KJ draws breath O8)

And please, do not confuse my anger and outrage for hate. There is a distinct difference between the two.