Petulant Republicans On Parade: Joe Scarborough

Scarborough tries to cut off Rachel Maddow, unlike so many other liberals in the media, Maddow doesn’t let him get away with it and in retaliation Scarborough walks off the set. It’s the schoolyard bully you give a good whack in the nose, folks.

20 Responses to “Petulant Republicans On Parade: Joe Scarborough”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 mikefromtexas

    Taking his ball and going home.

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 durablend

    Probably looking for another intern to take his frustrations out on…

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 Sean D. Martin

    They’ve posted an update: “Joe didn’t walk off. He chose not to participate in the final couple of minutes of the discussion”

    So, y’know, he didn’t go away. He just chose not to stay.

    And Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 C.S.Strowbridge

    “Taking his ball and going home.”

    No, Maddow has bigger balls so he had to go home.

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 daniel rotter

    “Joe didn’t walk off. He chose not to participate in the final couple of minutes of the discussion.”

    In other words, he walked off.

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 merl

    They love to pretend to be tough guys don’t they? In reality they are the biggest bunch of WATBs I’ve ever seen.

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 midderpidge

    Don’t little kids usually go off in a corner to cry after getting spanked?

  8. Gravatar Icon 8 Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle

    Merl:
    You are 100% correct. And JoeScar isn’t the only one. George S. is a WATB too. Big time.

  9. Gravatar Icon 9 Vanessa

    I heart Rachael Maddow. Thanks f***ing God we FINALLY have an intelligent, well-spoken and though-provoking advocate for Democrats on television.

  10. Gravatar Icon 10 jr

    if a Democrat found a dead intern the media wouldn’t shup up about it but if a Republican finds one they get a 5 year wingnut welfare cable news job

  11. Gravatar Icon 11 Quaker in a Basement

    Isn’t this the second time recently that she has kicked his butt for him on the teevee?

  12. Gravatar Icon 12 Quaker in a Basement

    Scarborough: “I don’t mean to be condescending but…”

    Bwaha!

  13. Gravatar Icon 13 Duros62

    Yeah, loved Rachel’s face when he said that.

  14. Gravatar Icon 14 daniel rotter

    “If a Democrat found a dead intern the media wouldn’t shut up about it but if a Republican finds one they get a 5 7ear wingnut welfare cable news job.”

    I am no fan of Joe Scarborough, but what is this “dead intern” business?

  15. Gravatar Icon 15 Marty22

    From watching him for months on Morning Joe, Scarborough is an insecure person with simplistic views and poor impulse control who gets his feathers ruffled easily on his own show when guests or co-hosts outshine him. He interrupts people so often thatone staffer uses an air horn to honk at him each time and his co-hosts constantly complain about his rudeness. When co-host Mika wins a point, he either walks off the set or sarcastically tries to insult her. He gets away with this childish behavior because he’s the host, although probably not for long as the show’s ratings are horrible. I think Joe gets frustrated as he seems not to grasp the more subtle/thoughtful points in a discussion — ala not getting Rachel’s point about why should McCain get a pass from muck-racking.

  16. Gravatar Icon 16 JohnR

    daniel rotter:

    “On July 20, 2001, one of Scarborough’s aides died after hitting her head on a desk when she fainted while alone in Scarborough’s Fort Walton Beach office.[11] According to Scarborough, soon after her death allegations “spread all over the Internet” that he had been involved,[12] although there was no foul play. In 2003, he joked about the incident with Don Imus on Imus’ radio program[13] and, in 2004, it was the subject of a public spat between Scarborough and filmmaker Michael Moore.[14] Moore accused Scarborough of wrongdoing, even though Scarborough was in his Washington, DC, office at the time of his aide’s death.”

    Note: taken verbatim from his page on Wikipedia, so take it with the appropriate amount of salt.

  17. Gravatar Icon 17 Duros62

    He interrupts people so often that one staffer uses an air horn to honk at him each time

    As Matthews would say, “HA!”

    Please pass that on to Rachel Maddow. Perhaps she could borrow it next time.

  18. Gravatar Icon 18 Nimrod Gently

    It’s nice to see Harold Ford again.

  19. Gravatar Icon 19 daniel rotter

    I don’t believe that Scarborough had anything to do with his intern’s death…but he “joked about the incident”? Classy guy.

  20. Gravatar Icon 20 Allison

    No, I don’t believe Scarborough had anything to do with the death, either. He was in Washington, DC, when she died in Florida and there’s no evidence he had any sort of personal relationship with her. He was never a suspect in her death. So I would rather move on and judge him by what he does on his TV show. Scarborough tried to laugh it off when Imus rather nastily brought it up on his show.

    That being said, Joe got upset because he couldn’t push Rachel around like he does Mika. He’s an insecure man who’s afraid of tough, smart women. Rachel rocks!

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