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Joe Scarborough Lies About Media Identifying Judges

2:32 pm EST December 14th, 2010 | Conservative | 44 Comments

Let’s try and slay this one quickly. This morning conservative Joe Scarborough claimed that the media doesn’t identify judges as being appointed by phoenix wrightClinton, but do so with Bush judges. HotAir, agreeing with him, posts the video here. Except – as usual with conservatives – this is untrue.

For instance:

Following her decision to place an injunction on certain parts of Arizona’s immigration law, right-wing media have attacked Judge Susan Bolton by suggesting she is a partisan who was “bought by” the Obama administration. However, Judge Bolton, a registered Independent, is widely respected, and has recently been praised by Arizona Republicans Gov. Jan Brewer and Sen. Jon Kyl — who recommended her nomination to then-Pres. Bill Clinton in 2000.

Fox Nation: “Clinton-Appointed Judge Guts Ariz. Immigration Law.” The Fox Nation suggested that Bolton was partisan, by posting a FoxNews.com article under the headline “Clinton-Appointed Judge Guts Ariz. Immigration Law.”

Drudge suggests partisanship with headline “Clinton appointee made ruling.” On July 29, Drudge linked to an AP article on Bolton’s ruling with the headline “Clinton appointee made ruling…”

And here’s the NYT, yesterday:

Only two weeks earlier, Judge Norman K. Moon of Federal District Court in nearby Lynchburg, Va., found precisely the opposite. “Far from ‘inactivity,’ ” wrote Judge Moon, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, “by choosing to forgo insurance, plaintiffs are making an economic decision to try to pay for health care services later, out of pocket, rather than now, through the purchase of insurance.” A second Clinton-appointed judge has upheld the law as well.

The thing about conservatives is they feel free to make false statements because fellow conservatives have no interest in factual data if it furthers the right-wing agenda. If it pushes their line, they’re willing to lie until the cows come home.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey has updated his post.

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“I have talked about it on TV for several years.”

10:35 pm EST February 26th, 2009 | News | 29 Comments

That was the final word in a Twitter conversation I had with MSNBC’s conservative host, Joe Scarborough. joe scarboroughBasically Joe was proud of himself for advocating a return to non-utopian foreign policy, and I asked him how he reconciled that with his support for the Iraq War. To which Joe essentially responded that his support was okay because he was for the “Wilsonian” version of the war in which the sole goal was getting WMD and killing Hussein, but then I asked what would be more utopian than assuming killing Hussein would make everything all better?

And that’s when he told me “I have talked about it on TV for several years” and that I should buy his upcoming book.

So that settles it.*

* Except you don’t get to pick and choose. Joe was for the war and the entire Bush prosecution of the war. Joe was for the utopian nonsense George W. Bush was for, and so was — and is — the failing conservative movement.

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