Joe Scarborough to Nate Silver: “I’m sorry”

[JDPriestly]

14. It's great to be free and creative and to believe in your principles, but Joe Scarborough

takes all those traits to the extreme. Such an extreme that he is overly impulsive. He speaks before he thinks. He insults. And his insults are too often mean spirited. As if that were not problematic enough, Joe Scarborough is too confident that he is right and a male chauvinist to boot.

He seems to think that he is entitled to be forgiven and loved in spite of the fact that he treats so many of his guests and their ideas with utter contempt.

Needs to take himself down a notch or two in my opinion.

His technique is to insult, hurt and denigrate and then apologize in a phony, remorseful way only to come back and insult, hurt and denigrate again. And then, when he belatedly apologizes, he seems to think that the victim of his insults is supposed to feel guilty.

Joe Scarborough (and Bill O'Reilly and other TV personalities of this type) needs to get his emotions under control because his neurotic way of intimidating his guests and anyone who thinks differently than he does is part of the neurosis that is dividing the country. I would like to see a Joe Scarborough who listens to everyone in a respectful way, pauses to control his tongue before he lashes out in his temperamental way and silences others with his contempt.

I like an interviewer who is there, as I am, to learn what another person has to say, to get new ideas and learn new facts. Joe Scarborough does not appear to be that kind of interviewer.

And the way he treats Mika is disgusting.