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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDaily Show’s Jon Stewart rips Joe Scarborough for ripping Hillary Clinton
In a riff on last nights Daily Show, Comedy Centrals 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 dont 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 were not running for president, we dont know yet. Then you go to these stupid events. I dont want to see you eating steak. If youre gonna run, just say youre gonna run and stop playing games.
Oh, but games arent 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 Politicsand Can Again. Scarboroughs appearances in support of his opus, noted the comedian, had a presidential campaign patina, as when he told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he wont rule anything out in terms of his own presidential ambitions. Stewart mocked him, If youre gonna run, just say youre 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/
MADem
(135,425 posts)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.
You can blind him with dental floss.
Gothmog
(143,998 posts)Morning Joe is an idiot
merrily
(45,251 posts)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)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