Was Joe Scarborough of MSNBC nervous the other night on MSNBC?

Posted on | April 18, 2008 | 25 Comments

Oh boy. Poor Joey. It appears he had a meltdown the other night on MSNBC when Rachel Maddow was making the point that candidates are judged by those around them or by stuff that has happened in their pasts and it’s unfair that John McCain continues to get a free ride with the press, even though his campaign co-chair was doing the “dirty” in public bathrooms.

(hat tip to Molly, a reader, who steered me to the video of this exchange)

Now, why the hell would this conversation make Joe Scarborough uncomfortable enough for him to storm off the program for the rest of it? Hmmmm….*tapping chin*, could it be because when he was running for office years ago his intern was found dead in one of his offices and it was rumored he was having an affair with her, and it was this relationship & death that ultimately cost him his election and his marriage? Oh boy! I think so.

Joe’s past is haunting him now! Poor baby. It’s not easy going around pretending like you had no idea how your aide died and you just happened to like her more than the other aides. Oh boy. When someone like Rachel Maddow plays Devil’s Advocate and points out that the people around a candidate are important to summing up who the candidate is, well, it’s no wonder ole Joey stormed off the set! Feeling a little guilty is he? I think so.

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25 Responses to “Was Joe Scarborough of MSNBC nervous the other night on MSNBC?”

molly
April 18th, 2008 @ 8:18 am

I read a comment , I think on Kos, that Joe went around after the intern turned up dead making up a phony medical history on her. The coroner who did the autopsy couldn’t practice in 2 states due to his lousiness. HMMMMM Sounds like somebodys career is over. Charlie and George still don’t know what happened …they never talk to US common folk. Lots of comments ..I will never watch ABC or Gibson again on the internet.
molly
April 18th, 2008 @ 8:20 am

Joe is so volatile one wonders if he hit her. Dang…I was thinking all this time she just slipped and hit her head on the desk.
molly
April 18th, 2008 @ 8:25 am

And and he might have left in a huff yesterday from David Gregory’s “show” because a dikey woman had the audacity to speak. Kinda’ like when Pat Buchannan told the black woman to shut up. Rachel spoke up then too. Karma to the republicans.Black man and a dike slappin’ ‘em down. Don’t think I’m all insensitive using that word …some of my best friends are dikes. Literally.
gage
April 18th, 2008 @ 8:33 am

Joe would be much happier on fox where he’d never have to get his nose rubbed in it by one of those demonic liberals. They’d pair him off with that Alan Colmes guy who’d toss softballs his way to knock out of the park and then he could live under the same illusion hannity lives under — that he’s smart, that he’s courageous, and that he matters more than a pimple on a baboon’s arse.
grantinhouston
April 18th, 2008 @ 8:38 am

Morning “Joe” has already been hurt before by the appearances of this dead intern. Katherine Harris used it to discourage him from running against her for the U.S. Senate from Florida. Harris called major donors and suggested Scarborough would have to answer questions about the strange death of a former staff member in 2001, according to two former high-level Harris staff members, a GOP donor and Scarborough.

“That was the first clue that something wasn’t right with Katherine Harris,” Scarborough told The Miami Herald in a recent interview, noting that a medical examiner found his staff member’s death was natural and not the result of foul play.

Harris, through a spokeswoman, denied Scarborough’s account, saying she “would never insinuate publicly or privately” that he did anything untoward.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/001136.php

Of course, at about the same time, Democratic Rep. Gary Condit’s intern, Chandra Levy, became missing in May 2001, her remains turning up a year later in a D.C. park. Scarborough’s intern was found dead in July of 2001, but Condit was still getting the headlines and the MSM cannot handle TWO dead intern stories at the same time, it appears! Then 9/11 happened and dead interns didn’t matter much anymore.
gage
April 18th, 2008 @ 9:23 am

Oh, and it occurs to me that since Maddow is a lesbian, it must be all the more painful to Joe to get owned by her. If he were on fox, that’d never happen either. He could have the non-confrontational, starry-eyed, ditsy blonde of his choice. She’d stay on script, be his adoring cheerleader, the eye candy, the occasional weakling antagonist whenever Joe would like to vent his sadism, and the cocktail waitress and cigar lighter after the show.
gage
April 18th, 2008 @ 9:26 am

Who knows, she might even get down on all fours and be his footrest.
Bryan Mcclellan
April 18th, 2008 @ 10:08 am

Rachel is gay? Dangit, so much for that fantasy. As for Joe Blowhard, could we get him to take Chris Matthews with him when he goes?
UFL
April 18th, 2008 @ 12:13 pm

It’s the republican norm to get all huffy when being proved wrong and storm off of a set or from a podium. They can’t handle the truth. Hurray to Rachel Maddox for being one of the very few political pundits who doesn’t play by the rules set before them by their corporate masters.
molly
April 18th, 2008 @ 12:37 pm

Joe missed his morning show. Who was the guy who stomped off of crossfire? Bob Novak. Wonder what he is doing now. No wonder tweet is thinking about running for senate…Neocons are getting exposed. thanks Obama for standing up to them.
Ox
April 18th, 2008 @ 1:14 pm

Everyone is a bit nervous these days because nothing makes sense anymore; nothing is logical; and all has gone to hell since the jackboots took control. I say frick them all for turning the world upside down.
Ox
April 18th, 2008 @ 1:29 pm

The price of oil just hit $115.57 per barrel, and while KIM is off to a birthday party celebration, I will be sitting down at the shopping center with a tin cup and a sign begging for gas money. ” Can anyone spare a dime “, and this is all because the neocons had a wonderful plan. Spit
gage
April 18th, 2008 @ 1:56 pm

But, don’t forget, Ox, we’re safe now. Don’t you remember in 2001 how every rock had a terrorist under it? Well, they’re gone now.
kayinmaine
April 18th, 2008 @ 5:11 pm

LOL I just read the title of this post and have now realized that I should not do a post in the morning when I’m half asleep! MSNBC, I said twice. LMAO! *shaking head and patting my bottom*

So Molly, ole Joe didn’t show up on his show this morning? Bah hahahahahahaha! What a woosey he is. He’s no different than most neocons, who stick out their skinny little chests to make themselves big and tough when they’re defending one of their own, but be taken to task by a lesbian of the opposing party and the ole neocon runs and hides scared of his own shadow! Love it. What an ass. I hope Joey never comes back. Personally, I won’t miss him. I hardly ever watch his show and have to vomit and make due when he and KO are on together sometimes. KO is obviously the only reason why I would stay tuned in.

LOL Bryan, you didn’t know she was a lesbian? Well, that says a lot about you, meaning, you don’t judge people by their looks, but rather, by their thoughts and actions. Good for you!

Ox, isn’t hysterical that the neocons think everything is fine until someone exposes the truth to them? They get so confused! We’ve watched our nation turn upside down over the past eight years and HAVE TRIED to tell the neocons this, but what do we get? A bunch of reich wing nonsense from them all!

Grant, thanks for the timeline! Funny how 9/11 made everyone forget ALL of 2001. This is why we’ve been so pissed off and it really had nothing to do with dead interns. It had to do with George Bush & Dick Cheney ONLY talking about Saddam Hussein and not Osama! They were busy NOT PROTECTING US BACK THEN. Assholes. Every last one of them.

Gage, it wouldn’t surprise me if Joey met with Fox News today, you know, to take refuge from the BIG MEAN LESBIAN WHO MADE HIM LOOK LIKE A JACKBOOT LICKER (and intern killer/denier). Yep! That’s where all the GOP Nazis go to hide and protect themselves and their one measly little feeling they have.
gage
April 18th, 2008 @ 8:03 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9AH-ufAkCU&eurl=http://vetvoice.com/
kayinmaine
April 18th, 2008 @ 9:18 pm

Check out this post over on FireDogLake tonight by Eli:

http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/18/clueless-or-complicit/

It appears the woman who asked Obama about the flag/flag pin is a KNOWN WOMAN who had already asked the same question and ABC sought her out for the night of the debate! Unfreakingbelievable.

Thanks for the video, Gage! Hysterical and so true!
Ox
April 18th, 2008 @ 10:23 pm

The next time Obama has to walk on a stage for a speech he should carry the flag on a pole and wave it around and place it in a floor stand LOL.
kayinmaine
April 18th, 2008 @ 10:28 pm

LOL Ox. Now that would be hysterical to see! Of course, while dragging the flag on it’s pole across the stage, he should be singing the Anthem and saying the Pledge at the same time. Hey, can’t be done, but he should practice. LMAO!
kayinmaine
April 18th, 2008 @ 10:29 pm

Okay, going to bed. Nite nite.
Bryan Mcclellan
April 19th, 2008 @ 1:59 am

Thank You GAGE for the link , Kay, sweet dreams.
grantinhouston
April 20th, 2008 @ 3:26 pm

Sen. John McCain was the guest of Tim Russert this morning and ONCE AGAIN……McCain did not wear a FLAG PIN! He spent some time bringing up the 1960’s “Weatherman” William Ayers and talked in length about the patriotic issues and their consequences possibly for Sen. Obama. Hillary is saying that Obamaâ€™s past meetings with Ayers are part of a “larger set of concerns about how we are going to run against John McCain.” Nothing like Hillary agreeing again with the Republican!

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/on-this-week-mc.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9730.html

David Broder writes that this ugly campaign is only helping John McCain. Does Hillary care about the Democratic Party IF she isn’t the winner?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2004361644_broder20.html
hyatt
April 28th, 2008 @ 12:06 am

Can’t another investigation on the death/murder/coverup of Lori Klausutis and her relationship with MSNBC’s Morning Throw Up aka Joe Scarborough, be requested or demanded? What is it about politicians and interns? Cigars are one thing, a dead intern is another. Actually was there ever an investigation done? You’d think Joe would want resolution especially since the coroner was found to be so inept or corrupt that he was run out of some states. Too many unanswered questions for an idiotic showman who’s right in our faces publicly spewing vile to leave alone. Just like a republican—shameless, corrupt and laughing all the way to the bank.
DONNIE
May 3rd, 2008 @ 4:06 pm

WHY won’t someone put that big mouth
Morning Joe of Msnbc JOE SCARBORUGH
on tv. Since he alway’s trying to tear someone down.
and talk about that young girl that was found dead in his office some years back.and why did he drop out of the election,put that on youtube and the media may have a field day with that
nitella
September 9th, 2009 @ 3:50 am

Might be important to get this out there again now that Joey boy is
being eyed as a potential candidate for president.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26741.html
Grant in Texas
September 9th, 2009 @ 12:38 pm

The Pensacola “dead intern” will become Morning Joe’s
“Chappaquiddick” however.

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