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Scarborough Shows Why He's Today Show's Kind of Republican: Accuses Cheney of "Lie"
Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 10/26/2005 5:36:23 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

In introducing Joe Scarborough this morning, Katie Couric described him a "former Republican congressman." After witnessing his performance, one is prompted to ask: was "former" intended to modify "congressman," or "Republican"?

In any case, Scarborough was living proof of the adage that the kind of Republicans welcome on the Today show are those willing to take swipes at the Bush administration.

Scarborough did so in spades this morning. Speaking of the Plame investigation, Katie asked, in her best butter-wouldn't-melt-in-her-mouth ingenue tone:

"Last September on Meet the Press Vice-President Cheney said he didn't know Joe Wilson, had never met him, and did not know who sent Joe Wilson to Africa in the first place. But that would contradict reports that the Vice-President had actually told Scooter Libby about Valerie Plame three months earlier. So you talk about political fallout, is Vice-President Cheney in hot water as a result of this?"

Scarborough gave Katie more than even she could have hoped for in response:

"I don't know that he's in hot water; I would tell you that in Middle America," continued Scarborough, a self-styled populist who imagines his finger firmly on Joe Six-Pack's pulse, "voters would call that a lie."

Scarborough persisted:

"Why is that important? It's important because you're talking about 2000 Americans that have died in Iraq. If the President can't be trusted on small things, if the Vice-President can't be trusted . . . well, I say small things, the bigger question is do you trust their logic, their reasoning for sending Americans into war and it certainly hurts their credibility if the Vice-President is not telling the truth."

When it came to how much trouble the Bush administration is in, Scarborough was willing to go even farther than Couric. Katie offered a rosy scenario in which no indictments came down and asked if that would give the White House a chance to turn things around.

But Scarborough was implacable:

"Well, here's the problem," replied Scarborough with a schadenfreude-filled cackle, "the second this crisis is over, if the White House averts crisis here and there are no indictments, guess what we'll be talking about next week? The possible with of Harriet Mier [sic]. I've talked to Republicans on Capitol Hill, I've talked to people in the White House. They think it's over; they do not think she's got the votes.

"At some point after these [Plame] storm clouds pass by those are the next storm clouds and it's very embarrassing for a White House and for a President who doesn't like to admit that he's wrong."

You know Katie couldn't have been more sincere when, in wrapping, she thanked Scarborough "so much."

Scarborough apparently believes that when your MSNBC show's ratings are as low as are his, it's important to demonstrate to your NBC masters that your heart is in the right, or shall we say, left, place.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; miers; plame; scotus
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1 posted on 10/26/2005 5:36:24 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Today Show/NewsBusters ping.


2 posted on 10/26/2005 5:37:11 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (read my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
What a little ass kisser. I guess he wants a network job.
3 posted on 10/26/2005 5:39:30 AM PDT by satchmodog9 (Free choice is not what it seems)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; hellinahandcart

I used to like Scarborough.

No more. Joe's jumped the shark.


4 posted on 10/26/2005 5:41:06 AM PDT by sauropod ("Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important." - T.S. Eliot)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Girly man alert! Does DC have any real men left? MSNBC can't seem to find any.


5 posted on 10/26/2005 5:41:45 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What a shame ... he sells himself out as a desperate attempt to distinguish himself as a host. I can see his show losing what little audience it has ...


6 posted on 10/26/2005 5:41:46 AM PDT by mcg2000 (New Orleans: The city that declared Jihad against The Red Cross.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
""Last September on Meet the Press Vice-President Cheney said he didn't know Joe Wilson, had never met him, and did not know who sent Joe Wilson to Africa in the first place. But that would contradict reports that the Vice-President had actually told Scooter Libby about Valerie Plame three months"

I don't see the contradiction or lie.

It is quite possible that the VP didn't know Joe Wilson, had never met him, and did not know who sent Joe Wilson to Africa in the first place but did know that Joe's wife worked for the CIA. The VP may have had a pretty good idea about who was involved in sending Joe to Africa without knowing for a fact that Joe's wife did so. In fact, Valerie and Joe both deny that Valerie sent go to Africa, so the VP may have been reluctant to claim that Valerie did so without having positive proof.
7 posted on 10/26/2005 5:42:39 AM PDT by Ninian Dryhope
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
His recent back injury was perhaps trying to bend over backwards to appear conservative, while at the same time, being the little liberal his masters demand . next stop a corkscrew back from taking both sides of an issue, God help his chiropractor. His program has lost my interest as it seeps more and more to the left.
8 posted on 10/26/2005 5:43:02 AM PDT by ConsentofGoverned (A sucker is born every minute..what are the voters?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I don't care for Joe, he reminds me of McCain and Joe Biden, loud mouth sanctimonious jerks. PMSNBC is a flat out joke.


9 posted on 10/26/2005 5:43:44 AM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Lying to the MSM?


10 posted on 10/26/2005 5:43:47 AM PDT by johnny7 (“What now? Let me tell you what now.”)
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To: roses of sharon
Girly man alert! Does DC have any real men left? MSNBC can't seem to find any.

Not since Jerry Nachman passed away. They have lost all credibility since then.
11 posted on 10/26/2005 5:44:09 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I stop watching Joe during the Katrina Hurricane ... it was the last straw of him spewing the Libs talking points

He can go to hell as far as I'm concern
12 posted on 10/26/2005 5:44:15 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

RINO punk


13 posted on 10/26/2005 5:44:34 AM PDT by traderrob6
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Poor ole Joe hasn't been the same since they found that dead intern in his office.


14 posted on 10/26/2005 5:46:06 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If I cared about Scarborough- I'be be worried about him. He's gone from a passionate conservative - a funny, bright and no-nonsense kind of guy to a hateful, mean and snide little man.

He misses no opportunity to bash the adminstration- and as you noted- goes out of his way to do so.

It makes me wonder- what happened to him?


15 posted on 10/26/2005 5:47:39 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: Liberty Valance

YES! I miss him so much- he was a voice of sanity and reason there- while I didn't always agree with him- he was not mean-spirited. I respected him.


16 posted on 10/26/2005 5:49:12 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: SE Mom

Wasn't he involved in a sex scandal? Somebody has the goods on him-he has done a 180 from just a few years ago


17 posted on 10/26/2005 5:49:29 AM PDT by ground_fog
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To: Ninian Dryhope

Interesting point.


18 posted on 10/26/2005 5:50:07 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (read my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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To: SE Mom

"If I cared about Scarborough- I'd be be worried about him."

I tend to agree. On a media talking-head importance scale, I'd put him at a 2.

As to what happened, while it's only speculation, see #14, and add in the fact that he's the host of an MSNBC show with bad ratings, trying to please left-wing masters.


19 posted on 10/26/2005 5:52:50 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (read my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

There are Republicans in Florida that want him to run against Katherine Harris for the Senate nomination against Bill Nelson.

From what I have seen, the Republicans do not need either the Democrats or the main stram media to do them in. They do a good enough job of doing themselves in.


20 posted on 10/26/2005 5:52:55 AM PDT by sport
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