'Squirrel Fryer And A Hound Dog': Scarborough Mocks Comer's Kentucky Roots

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Joe Scarborough has made it a habit to mock House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer as a comical hillbilly, like the goofball sheriff from The Dukes of Hazzard. He suggested in September that Arnold the Pig from Green Acres could do a better job in Congress than Comer.

On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough—raised in the Florida panhandle and educated at the University of Alabama—was back attacking Comer and his probe of the Biden family influence-peddling business, claiming they have no evidence of wrongdoing:

"Well, we ain't really got nuthin' but a squirrel fryer and a hound dog."

Later, Scarborough piled on the backwoods stereotypes, saying:

"Comer and his gang are running for the hills. In their coon hats, holding a squirrel fryer in their left hand and a shotgun in the right!"

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

The irony is that, when it suits him, Scarborough will brag about his Southern background, describing himself as “a simple country lawyer” who was raised in the Southern Baptist church and attended state schools in two Southern states.

But when convenient for purposes of bashing a Republican, being Southern is a cause for mockery.

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[joesbucks]

Why does Comer want a closed door depo first?

[tet68]

Haah, just shows how stupid he is, I hope some day he has to eat fried squirrel.

[eeriegeno]

Seems that joey knows quite a bit about the backwoods! Advice to joey - stay away from canoe trips, some backwoods fella might make ya squeal like a pig........

Looks like the missus has already been on that canoe trip!

[Red Badger]

He ain’t got no room to talk....................

[OKSooner]

Her name was Lori Klausutis.

Ain't that right, Joe?

[ryderann]

Hmmm...I think I’ve discovered the problem. Can someone who knows how to post photos please show us pix of Comer’s wife v. Scarborough’s witch.

[newfreep]

James Comer and his wife, T.J., met supporters in Lexington.

[Languager]

People who engage in this kind of classism are usually (closet) racists as well. What a loser Scarborough is.

[dforest]

Lovely couple. And neither of them look inbred like Joe Scarborough and his wife.

[kawhill]

I don’t watch that garbage. Him and Mika pretty much make me want to vomit.

[ryderann]

Thank you.

[Tench_Coxe]

Scarborough is one to talk. For a while he lived up the river from Aintry:

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

That’s how people of his ilk think about all of us in the Flyover, just not always that colorfully. I’ll take it as a badge of honor, because I will always go for the salt of the earth over the scum of the earth.

[17th Miss Regt]

Arnold the Pig would do a better job than you did, Joe. He would not murder his intern.

[RoosterRedux]

When a weak man gets married, he becomes a new man...one defined by and controlled by his wife.

That's Joe.

[MayflowerMadam]

What’s a squirrel fryer?

[MachIV]

I think Comer may originally have been from Tennessee.

He ran in the Republican governor primary years ago against Bevin and some other RINO from Louisville who’s name I can’t remember.

Someone started a rumor to hurt Comer in the election. He came up short against Bevin.

[NorthMountain]

Wonder what Lori thinks of his attempts at comedy ....