Joe Scarborough LOSES HIS MIND On Air And BULLIES Guest Over Benghazi

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BENGHAZI!..BENGHAZI!..BENGHAZI!..BENGHAZI!....BENNNNNNNNNNNGHAZI!.........





Fireworks begin around 4:46


During Thursday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough lashed out at a guest and caused one of the more shameful and embarrassing moments to be seen on cable news, and that is saying a lot. The panel was discussing recent emails that were released by the White House, which the right has pointed to as a smoking gun when it comes to Benghazi. For Republicans that have been trying to make this supposed scandal stick, one particular email apparently shows complete and total proof that the White House tried to cover-up the truth about Benghazi. Of course, the email in question is actually one that discusses the administration’s overall foreign policy as it relates to the Middle East and was not a directive to get then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice to mislead the public on the truth about Benghazi, but that hasn’t stopped the media from running with it lately.



Anyway, Scarborough took charge during the discussion and was in full outrage form. After playing a clip of ABC’s Jonathan Karl peppering White House Press Secretary Jay Carney with questions on Wednesday about the email and how it proves that the White House was trying to cover-up what happened in Benghazi for political reasons. Scarborough then went into full-on crazy wingnut mode, claiming that the White House is using ‘doublespeak’ when saying that this email wasn’t about Benghazi as much as it was about the discussion of foreign policy at the time.



Frothing at the mouth, Scarborough then threw it to guest Donny Deutsch, who tried to talk about how this email will likely be ‘fool’s gold’ for the Republicans, especially if they try to run on it all the way through 2016. Well, that didn’t sit well with Scarborough, as you can see in the video.





http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/01/joe-scarborough-loses-mind-air-bullies-guest-benghazi.html

[BeyondGeography]

1. Donny wishing he could say, "Nobody really gives a shit," on teevee

I could only watch the the last minute or so...Donny's right.

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2. Somebody better keep a defibrillator on hand for Joe.

Dumb putz!

[yallerdawg]

6. Donny got him later.

He shot off, "Joe, you ignorant slut!"

The best of SNL!

[Aristus]

3. Joe, tell us again about that dead body in your office.

I mean, if you're looking for a scandal, you don't have to run so far from that one...

[Atman]

4. Dead intern.

Bring it on, Joe.

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5. +1

[malaise]

7. When that video was spread across the Middle East just in time for the anniversary of 9/11

and just before the 2012 elections, I posted my view that the RW goons and neo-cons wanted another Carter 1979 moment to help Rmoney. Benghazi was a complete inversion of reality and an RW inside job. From day one it has been my view that they have been running away from that simple truth and trying to pin the tail on Dems.

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9. The Benghazi Hoax....

"....If you’re as fed up as I am, if you want to know what happened after Benghazi and why, if you want to be able to contribute meaningfully to conversations with conservative coworkers and misguided friends, you will want to take a look at The Benghazi Hoax, by David Brock and Ari Rabin-Havt.

The Benghazi Hoax deals with the Republican obsession with the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi that resulted in the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/11/03/gops-benghazi-hoax-exposed.html

[malaise]

10. Yes indeed

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. I've believed that the timing of that video was suspicious as well

Maybe that puts me slightly in the realm on conspiracy nut.

I don't know that whoever put it out there knew exactly WHAT would happen (nor does it excuse what DID happen) but I'm sure that "they" knew that it would likely set off protests and violence in the ME, which it did, but, remember, according to Republicans, "YOU CAN'T BLAME THE VIDEO!!!!"

[malaise]

16. Google Gaffney the millionaire RW

who gets rich bashing muslims

[Mike Daniels]

8. Donny's the only guest who generally won't let Joe talk over him

I've seen moments where Donny will be making a point and Joe will try to interrupt him. Donny more often then not will continue to talk over Joe's interruption and if Joe persists Donny will let loose with a "Do you mind if I finish what I'm trying to say?" type of response.

Donny's already on Joe and Mika's shit list anyway for repeatedly saying that even if Bridge-gate amounts to nothing that Christie's bullying approach to government makes him unqualified to be POTUS and that he won't be nominated much less elected.

When all is said and done, I guess when you make as much as Deutsch makes you can basically have the "I don't need this gig nor do I need to take your crap" attitude he displays towards Joe.

[VanillaRhapsody]

11. WTF difference does it make Joe Scar?

Do you think Cheney and Bush would have handled that differently?

[leftyladyfrommo]

12. Does anyone out in the general public

even remember this?

It was a non issue when it came out and it remains a non issue.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. I never hear anybody talk about it IRL

Granted, most of my close friends and family members are not wingnut crackpots (even among the Republicans in my family) but still, if it wasn't a strike against President Obama back in 2012 right before the election and nobody has found any new evidence to suggest that President Obama and his Administration are so evil and callous as to prevent our military from attempting a rescue of Ambassador Stevens and the other victims and then attempt to cover it up, it's fair to say that it is a dead issue. I don't expect the wingnuts and most Republicans in Congress to stop talking about it, particularly if and when Hillary decides to run for POTUS. I'm not certain people will care much about it then, though. We lost lots of people in Embassy attacks during the George W. Bush (mis-)administration but I never recall the kind of outrage and conspiracy theories from John McCain or Lindsey Graham about any of them that we're seeing with #BENGHAZI!!!

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. I never hear any thing about the IRS or the NSA

scandals either. Those are just so yesterday.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. I only hear that stuff from right-wing internet trolls

In real life, nobody cares about any of that.

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. We get a letter to the editor once in a while

that tries to drudge that stuff up again. Usually they have a whole list of things the president did wrong and why he should be thrown out of office. It has gotten to be kind of routine. I think the starch is kind of going out of that stuff.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

21. You'll find those comments on comments sections

a diminishing amount of them, however.

[Gothmog]

14. Joe is wrong again, there is no smoking gun

Joe is once again wrong. The GOP has claimed to have found smoking guns every other week. The latest "smoking gun" does not change anything. http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/04/30/smoking_gun_shock_benghazi_e_mail_reveals_that_obama_white_house_agreed.html

The #Benghazi story is really tailor-made for the Vox version of journalism, the one with cards and updates explaining what new piece of information explains or debunks what previously understood piece of information. In this case, in order to consider the Rhodes email a "smoking gun," you need to forget the previously known timeline of emails sent on Sept. 14. Luckily, Time's Zeke Miller has left his timeline hanging around on the Internets, so I can add the Rhodes disclosure in bold text.

11:15 a.m.: The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,* having asked for talking points, gets a draft from the CIA’s Office of Terrorism Analysis. It starts with this line, the one that would undo Susan Rice during her run through the Sunday shows: "We believe based on currently available information that the attacks in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the U.S. consulate and subsequently its annex."

12:23 p.m.: The CIA's office of general counsel adds a line about the "inspired by the protests" theory being inconclusive.

3:04 p.m.: The talking points are sent to relevant White House aides, including Ben Rhodes.

4:42 p.m.: The CIA circulates new talking points but removes a mention of al Qaida.

6:21 p.m.: The White House (Tommy Vietor, not Ben Rhodes) ads a line about the administration warning, on September 10, of social media reports calling for demonstrations.

7:39 p.m.: State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland objects to some of the language because "the penultimate point could be abused by members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings."

8:09 p.m.: Ben Rhodes sends the "smoking gun" email, nine hours after the first draft of talking points from the CIA said that the attacks grew out of a demonstration.

Read that USA Today lede again. It reports that "a White House official urged that the assault on the U.S. consulate be blamed on a protest that never happened." And he did—hours after the CIA and State Department were urging that the assault on the U.S. consulate be blamed on a protest. Can we chastise Rhodes, in retrospect, for not being more skeptical of what was known? Ten years after George "slam dunk" Tenet's advice for a prior administration, yes, I think we can. But it's just lazy journalism or lazy politicking to blame Rhodes for a talking point that was fed from the CIA. The White House's shifty-sounding excuse, that the "demonstration" story line came not from its spin factory but from the CIA, remains surprisingly accurate. (And I mean really lazy. It does not take very much time to compare the new Rhodes email to the previously known timeline of emails.)

The smoking gun is an e-mail that the White was agreeing with the CIA and State Department. I am shocked that anyone think that this e-mail changes anything. It would have been surprising if the White House disagreed with the CIA and the State Department.

[truebrit71]

17. Speaking of double-speak Joe...What about your dead intern?

Was it just a coincidence that you resigned from congress soon after a perfectly healthy woman dropped dead in your office...??

[Rex]

22. I wonder if he was foaming at the mouth when his secretary 'accidently' died.

It amazes me how that scum is not in prison.

[Initech]

23. Oh my god... Will they ever let this die?