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Pot, Meet Kettle: Morning Joe Says GOP Lost Because They're Locked In An 'Echo Chamber'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/14/2026 2:13:52 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

The irony was thick enough to cut with a butter knife.

On Friday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough lectured the GOP for living in an “echo chamber” of X and friendly TV that only fed them what they wanted to hear—while sitting on the set of the ultimate liberal echo chamber.

Republicans, Scarborough lectured, were "wrong on every major issue," from war to tariffs to data centers and AI.

SCARBOROUGH: So my question today is, how could any Republican be surprised? And the only answer is, they were locked in this bubble, this echo chamber between X and whatever TV stations they wanted to watch that would regurgitate what they wanted back to them.

But wow, talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Morning Joe’s guest roster has long been a closed loop of Democrats, Never Trumpers, and left-leaning analysts who share the hosts’ premises. An actual non-Never Trumper conservative (someone who supported Trump in 2016/2020/2024 and didn’t spend years on the anti-Trump circuit) has not appeared as a guest in living memory.

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1 posted on 11/14/2026 2:13:52 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; frank ballenger; ...

Is Scarborough crazy, or just lying?

Hard for conservatives to avoid being subjected to much more liberal commentary than liberals ever hear conservative opinions!

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 11/14/2026 2:15:22 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Pot, Meet Kettle: Morning Joe Says GOP Lost Because They’re Locked In An ‘Echo Chamber’”

Pot, Meet Kettle: MORON Joe Says GOP Lost Because They’re Locked In An ‘Echo Chamber’

There, fixed it


3 posted on 11/14/2026 2:21:42 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“This job is an amazing honor, but you live in a bit of a bubble and sometimes information doesn’t filter up.”

- JD Vance in a recent townhall.


4 posted on 11/14/2026 2:22:15 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege (🩰🎬🗺️)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yes.

Why should we have to choose only one? 🤪😏


5 posted on 11/14/2026 2:23:25 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He’s a dolt but he’s not wrong about this. Half those on his forum will spout Rush’s line “this is a center-right country” as if it was still true.


6 posted on 11/14/2026 2:28:29 PM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I think what he’s saying is basically true for all of us regardless of our political, religious other defining beliefs.

We are all likely to put ourselves in a self reaffirming situation.

It’s just in this particular case, their bubble was bigger than ours.


7 posted on 11/14/2026 2:30:13 PM PST by sjmjax
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

On Friday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough lectured the GOP for living in an “echo chamber”. What does Mika think Joe?


8 posted on 11/14/2026 2:32:05 PM PST by kawhill (Dywedwch + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They tell us you can’t just be against something you have to be for something . The Democrats ran on just being against Trump, had no agenda -yet somehow won almost every race.


9 posted on 11/14/2026 2:34:56 PM PST by ac-rep
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To: bigbob

Bullshit. We all live in some sort of echo Chamber we detest the other side.


10 posted on 11/14/2026 2:38:50 PM PST by ohioman
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To: sjmjax; governsleastgovernsbest
We are all likely to put ourselves in a self reaffirming situation.

The candidates who won, won because they were willing to leave their bubbles. Scott Colom (Mississippi) stood in line at MAGA rallies speaking directly to voters. Abdul El Sayed (Michigan) appeared on Fox News twice and visited synagogues. Keshia Lance Bottoms (Georgia) did more to highlight her visits to rural Georgia than Atlanta, which already leaned her way.

James Talarico (Texas) invited Ken Paxton to a debate on Fox News, moderated by Brett Baer. Paxton declined.

TRUMP used to be good at this…

11 posted on 11/14/2026 2:40:01 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege (🩰🎬🗺️)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You would think Scarboruogh would be embarrassed to show his face in public with all the out of touch and dumb things he says. But then he is a democrat.


12 posted on 11/14/2026 2:41:44 PM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: antidemoncrat

Who listens to Scarborough, not me. Or Mika, either.


13 posted on 11/14/2026 3:06:13 PM PST by oldtech (oltech)
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