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wyldwolf

(43,865 posts)
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 11:19 AM Sep 2014

Daily Show’s Jon Stewart rips Joe Scarborough for ripping Hillary Clinton

In a riff on last night’s “Daily Show,” Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart took aim at the frustration bubbling in at least one high-profile media precinct. Joe Scarborough, name partner in the MSNBC program “Morning Joe,” criticized Clinton for again talking around her ambitions: “Do it or don’t do it. What Hillary Clinton has done over the past year or so is why Americans hate politics. You go around on a glorified book tour where you say absolutely nothing. You want people [to] ask you to run president so you can say we’re not running for president, we don’t know yet. Then you go to these stupid events. I don’t want to see you eating steak. If you’re gonna run, just say you’re gonna run and stop playing games.”

Oh, but games aren’t foreign to Scarborough, as Stewart noted. The MSNBC host, after all, went on something of a tour for his own book, “The Right Path: From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics–and Can Again.” Scarborough’s appearances in support of his opus, noted the comedian, had a “presidential campaign patina,” as when he told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he “won’t rule anything out” in terms of his own presidential ambitions. Stewart mocked him, “If you’re gonna run, just say you’re gonna run and stop playing games.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/09/17/daily-shows-jon-stewart-rips-joe-scarborough-for-ripping-hillary-clinton/

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Daily Show’s Jon Stewart rips Joe Scarborough for ripping Hillary Clinton (Original Post) wyldwolf Sep 2014 OP
Joey Scar couldn't get elected dogcatcher. MADem Sep 2014 #1
looks like MFM008 Sep 2014 #4
Jon was in great form last night Gothmog Sep 2014 #2
Running? I doubt it. merrily Sep 2014 #3
her husband wheniwasincongress Sep 2014 #5

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. Joey Scar couldn't get elected dogcatcher.
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 11:27 AM
Sep 2014

He's got those piggy eyes--and people don't have to be "good looking," but the eyes are the mirrors of the soul. He doesn't acquit the pigs (who are, by all accounts, gentle, clean and smart creatures) very well at all.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
3. Running? I doubt it.
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 11:49 AM
Sep 2014

Leslie Graham will never run because the campaign would become about whether he is gay or not. Same with Condi.

Joe will never run because the campaign would would become about another question, like why was his married intern in his office overnight on a Friday night and how come her husband did not even notice she was missing until well into Saturday morning. And that's before we even get into her death that night and the competence of the autopsy.

Also, how is going to explain his divorces to the religious right? Will he be slicker about that than Newt, in whose Congress Joe served?

Or, maybe he is delusional enough to run?

All that said, I think Hillary should make her announcement ASAP. At the very least, she should stop being so cloyingly coy about it. She is not twelve and the Oval Office is not the boy who sits behind her in class asking her out to the movies. It's offputting.

wheniwasincongress

(1,307 posts)
5. her husband
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 07:03 PM
Sep 2014

was in Virginia on business, I believe. by the way he looks like someone Joe might want to stay away from judging by his facebook, he looks like he could easily wrap a bicycle around someone

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