Today In Republican Detachment Disorder: Joe Scarborough

Yesterday MSNBC employee Joe Scarborough snuck into the Centrist wing of the Beltway pundit bunkhouse and stole the keys to David Brooks' "Voice from Nowhere" dirigible so that he could soar safely high, high above the scurrying masses of "cloistered...elites who report on a nation they don’t understand" and rain derision down on Both Sides from the comfortable altitude of the house organ of cloistered coastal elites.

From the Washington Post:

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Republican critics have long complained that these media elites are schooled, spend their summers and live most of their lives in urbane enclaves that provide little insight into how the rest of America lives.

But in 2016, conservative commentators are sounding as cocooned from their own political party as any liberal writing social commentary for The New Yorker or providing political analysis for ABC News. Even after the passing of Antonin Scalia and the Paris and San Bernadino attacks, many right-leaning pundits are spending their days scolding readers and declaring that no true conservative or God-fearing Christian could support Donald Trump. This simmering rage has now risen to such a level that many conservative opinion shapers are spending their waking hours coping with a festering Zapruder-like obsession over video frames of the Corey Lewandowski-Michelle Fields confrontation while obsessing over the GOP frontrunner’s latest embarrassing gaffe.

Uncle Joe runs down several examples the usual wingnut scuttlefish who (he makes clear) he admires and is friends, but for crying out loud, people, something something Reagan and something something else Buckley! All in all, Squint Scarborough makes all sounds pretty bad. 

"Exactly how bad," you ask? 

 MSNBC employee Scarborough puts it this way:

Many of my conservative friends are sounding as arrogant and unmoored as left wing pundits let loose on MSNBC during the Bush years.

OK, three things.

First, imagine how quickly any of the few remaining Liberals at MSNBC would find themselves shitcanned (or "Melissa Harris-Perryed"as they are probably calling it now) if they took to the op-ed page of the Washington Post to write about the "unmoored" right wing meathead that MSNBC has let loose during the Obama years.

Second, imagine how exciting it would be if some enterprising blogger went way, waaaay back, say, 11 months ago and found --whoa! -- Joe Scarborough saying patently false and ridiculous things about Conservatives, the Poors and that uppity Barack Obama:

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[Scarborough] is also 100% cretin certain that Barack Obama is uppity "arrogant" for suggesting that badmouthing the Poors is an actual thing that Conservatives do.



From Mediaite:

One day after President Barack Obama criticized Fox News for portraying the poor as lazy leeches during a poverty forum at Georgetown University, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough called out Obama for an “embarrassing” level arrogance and hypocrisy.

“Saying that Roger Ailes’ network calls people leeches, sponges, and lazy, at a summit that’s supposed to bring both sides together on poverty, is stunning to me,” Scarborough said.

“Have you ever heard that on Fox News?” Scarborough asked the table. “Has anybody ever heard that on Fox News?”

“I don’t really watch,” co-host Mika Brzezinski replied, as the panel agreed that such sentiments could definitely be heard on conservative talk radio if nothing else.

Scarborough went on to critique Obama for declaring himself the “sole arbiter” of right and wrong. “The arrogance of it all is staggering,” he said. “That’s such an illuminating moment in this presidency — I’m a little embarrassed for him.”
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It's always bad on MSNBC these days, watching the last, flickering light of Liberalism on teevee slowly being snuffed out by the damp rag of Chuck Toddism.  But watching the video of Squint thugging it up like the drunken asshole at the end of the bar this morning?  Double-dog daring his minions to name one time -- one time! -- that anyone on Mr. Roger Ailes' Perfectly Fair Teevee Network had ever called poor people names?  Then watching  his flunkies stare extravagantly at their shoe tops and pretended they had either never heard of Roger Ailes or were in some other teevee studio entirely?

This was perfectly surreal.

And a perfect coda on the collapse of journalism in America.
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And third, regarding the plight of the American working class, imagine how much the perspective of every Conservative pundit -- from David Brooks to Joe Scarborough -- would be radically improved if they were forced to operate in an environment where there were actual employment consequence to being repeatedly and catastrophically wrong year after year after year.