Tuh-Weet! Joe Scarborough mixes it up on Twitter edition, now with bonus video!

By GottaLaff

Yesterday I posted about how Morning Joe mocked torture. Joe is Tweeting his mouth off again, creating quite a little dust-up. Here he is, folks... Joe Scarborough, unplugged:

The Left makes fools of themselves when they deny the obvious. The Pew poll headline says clearly that BHO is most polarizing in modern era.

It is still very early. And sometimes one polarizes because he is courageous. I just don't want leftists denying the obvious.

To which one of my favorite Tweeters, Cody, tweeted a link to the obvious, which included input from Nate Silver. Via Andrew Sullivan:

The key to judging whether a president is polarizing is how the middle, or Independents, are seeing him. The reason is simple. A president might be as open to engagement as possible, but if his opposition is determined to destroy and demonize him from Day One, he can't do much about that. But independents give a better sense of whether the president is forcing the center to divide into two poles. [Laffy Note: Please click on link to see charts]

Joe:

I get it. All Bush's fault. Great. Forget all those Dems who knew about waterboarding in 2002 and loved it because they were scared.

To which Cody said:

YOU'RE bastardizing the obvious, Joe.

And then she re-linked him to the above post that references Nate Silver's analysis, aforementioned graphs included.

To which Joe responded:

He's not conservative nor did he claim to be one in the campaign. But he did claim to be a unifier and moderate. He is neither.

Cody:

Answer the question Joe..... Did we prosecute the Japanese for doing the same exact thing to our POWs... or did we not?

Joe added, responding to yet another Tweeter:

It means we have another divisive president. From Clinton to Bush to Obama. It is not healthy for US. And btw, many Dems like me.

And another of my faves, Shoq, reacted like this:

So Joe, let's understand . All that polarizing just started in January, right? 15 years of Fox, and you, had no influence, right?

Joe finally responded to Cody:

Americans did the "exact thing" as Japanese troops in WWII? That's just not so. The Japanese technique was far more savage.

Just look at the ranking D's on intel committees in 2002 and draw up the indictments.

Cody shot back that she was happy to look at any Democrats who might have been involved.

Shoq:

You're very good at puppet shows, Joe. But the real world you want real props from isn't Mika and Lamb Chop.

Cody, to Joe:

That's just not so. The Japanese technique was far more savage. || Bullshit. I don't ever see you trying to make that case.

Reps and Dems alike.... clear America's conscience, Joe. Stand up and be a man when it comes to our exceptionalism, not our shame.

Joe, responding to nobody in particular:

I will be back soon, but I'm wasting my time with people who call anyone who disagrees with them racists and rednecks. Wake up.

Jake Tapper came in out of nowhere, hat in hand, begging for conservative Tweeters to follow Joe's Tweet, "My God. Do no conservatives or moderate Democrats Twitter? I am Custer at Little Big Horn. As goes Twitter, so goes France":

conservatives -- @joeNBC is crying out for you to follow him ...he feels alone in the twuniverse

Joe ended with this:

Have a great weekend and try to have a long conversation with someone with whom you genuinely disagree. Show respect and learn something.

Oliver Willis jumped in, responding to Joe's citation of this Pew poll:

Joe: except thats not what Pew says

also, the right has disrespected us from before clinton. they call us socialists, etc now but obama and us shld just take? no mas

bush drove us into a ditch and his copilots now are carping about obama's efforts to pull us out.

dont agree with calling all cons racists/rednecks but gop refuses to deal with in-party bigotry. fans the flames to keep bubba vote

Then Oliver directed Joe to this: