Even Joe Scar Loses it over republican Lying

[tomhagen]

Last edited Fri May 26, 2017, 10:56 AM - Edit history (1)

Even Scarface calls out the lie that "we don't cut Medicare"

[teezy]

1. I was with him right up until he said "If you want to nix Medicaid... then just do it!"

I'm glad he's outraged by the lies, but he should be outraged by what this does to Americans. Yes, the lies are incredulous and unacceptable... but it's not the most important part of the entire picture. Republicans constantly gloss over the biggest issues and put a microscope on anything of lesser importance. They sure love their false equivalencies.

On an unrelated note:

Watching this makes me realize, I honestly don't understand why so many members of the media are conservative. I mean, I guess I do... because they're wealthy and ultimately they all work for conservatives who own the networks. But I watch people like Dana Bash, John King, Erin Burnett... all apparently Republicans... expressing disdain for what they're seeing. But HOW could they not see this as a trend with conservatives in all their years working in this industry? It's fine to be outraged, but that outrage should have been there during the campaign when Trump was working overtime to villainize the media. It shouldn't have been laughed about, shrugged off, not taken seriously. It shouldn't have been framed as liberals being paranoid. By now he's already convinced half the country that the press can't be trusted and to listen to the ONE network that almost never tells the truth. Seriously, what on earth posesses conservatives to work for them? It's the most ironic career choice because given the chance, the first thing Republicans would do is crush the first amendment. Didn't Priebus recently allude to it?

I'd like to see Joe worried about that.

[LiberalLovinLug]

2. To be fair, he said "if you want to nix Medicaid...then just admit you want to it"

Admit it is part of your platform.

But yeah, I agree with your comments. And I did not know that Erin Burnett is an avowed Republican. Never would have guessed it. But that touches on your point. So many of these Republican voting media darlings only now up in arms against Trump. Yet the GOP have been pining for doing the exact same things that Trump is proposing, for decades now. Just because he is more brash about it, more rude about it.

And what is it with Republicans being Republicans for life. Its like some kind of Stonecutters cult. You never leave the party that your family, parents, have registered as. There seems to be this self imposed belief that once you sign up as an R, that's it. That it is worse to flip parties than it is to blindly accept policies that do your country and your own families harm.

[Honeycombe8]

3. I saw that. He's just baffled at what has happened to the Republican Party.

The lies, the juvenile behavior, the divorcement from reality, sticking their necks out for Trump, more lies.

He called it on this one, for sure.