Posted on 10/15/2019 9:44:23 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Today's Morning Joe offered up another example of what we at NewsBusters label "Sudden Respect," the phenomenon in which a person formerly despised by the liberal media suddenly earns its respect by doing something to liberal liking.
Joe Scarborough has been a fierce critic of John Bolton, as illustrated here, here, and here. Scarborough actually excoriated President Trump's appointment of Bolton as his national security adviser as "a fitting coda to conservatism’s failures."
But suddenly this morning, Scarborough overflowed with praise for Bolton, saying he would be putting his photo up on his wall next to that of Robert Mueller, and repeatedly referring to Bolton as a "patriot."
So what did Bolton do to turn Scarborough's scorn into such fawning admiration? Reports say that in her testimony to congressional committees yesterday, Fiona Hill, a former adviser to President Trump on Russia, said that Bolton branded the Trump administration's Ukraine policy a "drug deal."
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Scarborough suddenly hails Bolton as “patriot” because he criticized Trump Ukraine policy.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Bolton was always a patriot, citizen. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Ignorance is strength
Freedom is slavery
Islam is peaceful
Scarborough is one big Joke. I can’t imagine anybody taking him seriously anymore.
Scarborough is just another pathetic politician with a law degree, narcissistic personality disorder, and ethics that are more malleable than gold.
Bolton is an idiot as well as a moral and physical coward.
“I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy,” Bolton wrote in 1995, according to Military.com. “I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.”
Someone said something about Bolton criticizing Trump on Ukraine, but no one has ask Bolton if he said it. Hearsay! It’s not just for gossip any more.
Crazy and stupid.
No other explanation.
Scarborough: Ok, so I didn’t like you yesterday. That’s changed and I like you now. But that doesn’t mean that I will still like you tomorrow.
Naw. It's just the ups and downs of menopause.
Can’t we all across the political spectrum agree on one thing? John Bolton is no patriot. I don’t know why President Trump chose him. When Bolton was there, NOTHING went right with foreign policy. Niki Haley’s the other one in that category....”what was President Trump thinking?”
Bolton: Patriot or Pavlovian dog salivating when MSM rings the dinner bell?
John “I Never Met a War I Didn’t Like” Bolton.
I posted about Bolton being suspect weeks ago. Damn!!
They like John Bolton and dislike John Bolton at the same time. Joe has absolutely no problem with this position.
I'll pass. For now.
What a clown.
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