Bob the Author vs. Joe the Bummer

By GottaLaff


Advice to Joe Scarborough: If you don't like being lumped in with neo-McCarthyist types, then you might think about adjusting your message. And really, if you're going to mess with our pal Bob Cesca with whining like this...

...you'll lose. Especially when you are so easily contradicted:

SCARBOROUGH: You’re not going to get Republicans to line up and support tax cuts for people who don’t pay taxes. That’s taking you to a position now where you have the federal government — and this is very dangerous — just writing checks to people for doing nothing. It’s not even welfare. … If you want pure straight socialism, if you want to buy off people, do that.

See, Joe, when you're on the national Tee Vee Machine where everyone can see you and hear you and YouTube you, and you get a reasonable response in which you get two passing mentions, then what's the beef?

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist repeatedly mocked Sen. Barack Obama's bowling performance -- which Scarborough called "dainty" [...] Deriding Obama's score, Scarborough said: "You know Willie, the thing is, Americans want their president, if it's a man, to be a real man." [...] After guest Harold Ford Jr. said that Obama's bowling showed a "humble" and "human" side to him, Scarborough replied, "A very human side? A prissy side."

And via the Awesomest of Awesome Bob Cesca:

[SCARBOROUGH:] You have the federal government writing checks to people for doing nothing. For doing absolutely nothing. This is as close to unprecedented of a total all out socialist bill as I've ever seen.

[SCARBOROUGH:] But I will tell you, I am personally concerned by any politician that talks about the redistribution of wealth- that the Warren court was not radical enough, I'm concerned when somebody tells a guy that wants to start a small business that he should be for spreading the wealth- these are things that cause concerns, not just conservative -- fiscal conservatives.

Maybe Newsweek is right. Maybe socialism is upon us.

And so mentioning that Scarborough is reflecting neo-McCarthyism is somehow "name-calling?"

That's funny.

Unless, Bob, your name is Joe and you don't have a sense of humor... or apparently, of perspective.