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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I have been watching Scarborough's show much more often lately, and have even come to enjoy the contrast of seeing him right after Olbermann. I am a bit leary of his seeking to put his past support of the president in terms that are more benign than they really were, however:
When he says, "At the same time, I believed then, and I still believe now, that what we did in Iraq was worth trying," I hear: Well, our little forays into setting up governments is worth the lives of all those people, and has an honorable history stretching back to Manila where it cost about 100,000 Filipinos their lives.
When he says: "I suppose the biggest criticism, really, should be leveled at Donald Rumsfeld for trying to win the war on the cheap, like Tom Friedman and others have been saying," I hear: Yet I failed to denounce those who labeled such writers as traitors, and dismissed such criticism as being the usual crap from the liberal media.
When he says: "You want [Bush] asking tough questions of aides who actually disagree with him," I hear: We were tired of poll-driven presidencies and wanted someone who would act decisively, unilaterally if need by, to get the job done.
And when he says: "If you talk to people [in Washington], they'll all tell you basically the same thing, that the president is a man who's not only politically incurious, but is also a leader who does not like dissent, and I think that's very dangerous," I hear: Yes, the president is an idiot, in the way that any person is an idiot who does not heed the advice of experts, wastes others' money, bears responsibility for senseless loss of life, makes enemies of friends seemingly for sport, and insists that others toe his line simply because he has told them to do so.
Now that the cat is out of the bag and conservatives are saying publicly what conservatives have been saying privately, I guess it's finally alright to be critical of the president without having your patriotism and loyalty questioned. I bet that it won't be too long until conservatives begin adapting the old McCarthy era condemnation of being "premature anti-Fascist" into something equally accusatory.
Maybe this is the real reason why Joe is not running for Senate from Florida.
A more striking example of republicans superior news management is the strange case of the dead intern found in the office of Florida republican congressman Joe Scarborough.
As noted in a "special report" in "http://www.Americanpolitics.com", despite the near orgiastic press frenzy surrounding the disappearance of Democrat Gary Condit gal pal Chandra Levy, barely a feather has been ruffled on behalf of the real corpse found on the (Fort Walton)district office floor of Joe Scarborough on July 20th.
Despite initial reports from the controversial coroner in the case, Dr. Michael Berkland,(Berkland's medical examiner license was revoked in Missouri for reporting false information) that Klausutis suffered seizures as a result of an auto accident years ago, the deceased woman's family denies this according to APJ writers Denis Wright and Chris George.
Discrepancies between initial reports and the autopsy have raised suspicions (e.g. Originally Berkland reported no head trauma. The autopsy revealed a bruise on Klausutis' head), and can best be appreciated by reading the APJ piece in its entirety.
But what truly should hit any conscious media/political observer over the head is the discrepancy between media reaction to the Levy case versus the Scarborough affair.
Imagine that Scarborough, who shocked supporters recently by announcing his retirement from congress, and more shock by divorcing his wife, was a democrat. Is their any doubt that the Republican attack machine would have generated a feeding frenzy.
Any doubt that dreadful teams of blond prosecutors, Olson, Alkasne and the hideous Mary Grace of Court TV, would be summoning Scarborough to explain the pretty young corpse on the floor?
Rest assured. The Republican attack machine would be up, running and Joe Scarborough would by now be a household name.
http://www.counterpunch.org/florida2.html
Lori Klausutis
Google it! Mysteriously dead interns are a bitch...
(TBA beat me to it!!!!!)
Over 22 letters on this topic so far and with the exception of BGRASSO, MAGOO, and a few others, you all are as oblivious as Koppelman, who actually took "Average Joe" seriously.
Now get this through your heads:
Joe Scarborough is an ENTERTAINER. He makes a six-figure salary by yanking you back and forth - one night he's fanning the flames of war, pulling in all the trained seals who bark and clap for Bush. The next night, he makes up a shocking question "Is Bush an Idiot" and all of a sudden, he's got the lefties tuning in to see if Average Joe has finally come to his senses.
Don't you get it, you morons?
He's playing you! Scarborough is a money-making sociopath. He doesn't have any real convictions save one: Make Money For Joe.
The one thing you can always count on is that Joe will go where the wind is blowing.
The American public was soured on Clinton? Average Joe was there to make hay.
The American public is sour on Bush? Average Joe is adjusting his show to get the best Nielsen and Arbitron ratings.
Joe is just like Matthews, like O'Rielly, like Coulter and yeah, you simple-minded suckers, just like Olbermann. They are all just hookers standing outside the corporate-owned media whorehouses trying to get you to come in and get your right-wing or left-wing nuts off. It doesn't matter. A whore will play any role you want - French maid, cheerleader, barely legal, even your mom, as long as you pay for it.
Koppelman sits through this interview with a straight face while Average Joe explains that he doesn't run for Congress again because of his sons. What horse shit. Koppelman should have had the balls to ask, "Well that's great Joe, but doesn't it have something to do with the fact that you're making so much loot now you'd be crazy to leave?"
I've got to hand it to Scarborough, just as I have to hand it to Ann Coulter and to the latest arrival Glen Beck: They all know how to get you into the GE, Viacom and Time Warner whorehouses and show you a good time.
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