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Scarborough blasts right-wing conspiracy theories

September 03, 2009 7:57 pm ET by Media Matters staff

From Joe Scarborough's Twitter page:

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    • Author by mk3872 (September 03, 2009 8:09 pm ET)
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      There is no place for middle-of-the-road in the GOP right now
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      • Author by Vincenzo (September 03, 2009 8:51 pm ET)
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        Although if some of them decided to stand in the middle-of-a-very-busy-road I wouldn't complain.
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    • Author by overmars jr. (September 03, 2009 8:34 pm ET)
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      Every so often, Joe makes ya proud. This is one of those times.

      Give 'em hell, Joe!
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      • Author by MickD (September 04, 2009 12:59 am ET)
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        If he takes a leadership role in exposing this crapola on his show, rather than just a Tweet fest, then I'll join you in the "give 'em hell." Is he willing to risk it?
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        • Author by overmars jr. (September 04, 2009 3:59 am ET)
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          Well, the way he posted that in angry bursts, I am hoping that he does shout this stuff down on today's show. Fingers crossed.
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        • Author by overmars jr. (September 04, 2009 1:56 pm ET)
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          As MMfA showed, he did. I want more. Do it again, Joe.
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    • Author by toombsie (September 03, 2009 11:11 pm ET)
         
      It's getting completely ridiculous when the head story on channel 13 news in Houston is Obama's speech to children to stay in school and how some parents are worried about the speech and plan to keep their kids home. The people are absolutely insane. Anything Obama does now is cause for an uproar even though he's been playing directly into Republican's hands. If he was actually giving us that change he told he'd give us, then I wouldn't care so much what they were saying. But Obama has done NOTHING and the Republicans are accusing him of being Hitler.

      What has he done so far? He has bailed out the banks and let them go back to business as usual, he has decreased transparency even though he said he'd make government more transparent, he has intensified the war in Afghanistan, he has given up on the public option, he has cut a deal with drug companies to effectively insure their enormous profits for many years to come, he has ignored habeas corpus, etc. Do Republican's fault him on those things? No, they complain that he is indoctrinating the youth with a "stay in school speech" and is planning on "killing grandma." It's unbelievable. If you are going to be mad at him at least have legitimate complaints.
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    • Author by yancy derringer (September 03, 2009 11:31 pm ET)
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      In 1989, Goldwater said the Republican Party had been taken over by a ''bunch of kooks,'...

      He was 100% correct.
      1989 was a watershed year for the right. They started in earnest going off their rockers when Reagan started feeding them BS, but 1989 they were well on their way to what we see today.
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    • Author by kfraz43 (September 04, 2009 1:36 am ET)
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      Ah... the king of morning flip-flop is apparently in "flop" mode. We'll see what talking points he sticks to next week... there's a reason people are leaving the Morning Joke in droves.
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    • Author by teabaggers ♥ [wing]NUTS (September 04, 2009 4:19 am ET)
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      this is when i love joe... when he criticizes both sides.
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      • Author by steeve (September 04, 2009 11:50 am ET)
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        If you criticize both sides, you're lying half the time.

        That's not normally true, but it's true when one of the sides is insane. You can't rationally criticize the non-insane party from the perspective of the insane party.

        The only legitimate criticism of democrats comes from the left.
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        • Author by teabaggers ♥ [wing]NUTS (September 05, 2009 1:18 am ET)
             
          true. many of scarborough's claims against the left tend to be ridiculous, but its good that at least he goes after his own party as well.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (September 04, 2009 8:06 am ET)
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      Very good Joe, I can agree with everything you said. Say it louder and say it more often and how about on TV, too. I don't tweet or twitter, just like lots of other people, but they need to hear this, too.
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    • Author by bilbo_dies (September 04, 2009 10:23 am ET)
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      This is bi-polar Joe inbetween his manic and depressive moods where he actually makes sense. (apologies to those who have bi-polar disorder)

      Give him some time and the next thing you hear will be the next version of "Death Panels or Bither" nonsense.

      He is still a died in the wool repub, he just is smart enough to know that you can only push the crazy stuff so far or so long.
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      • Author by bintx (September 04, 2009 11:11 am ET)
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        Exactly, he is a conservative Republican. These other people are just bat-poopy CRAZY folks who CALL themselves conservatives.
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    • Author by bill.bilderback7234 (September 04, 2009 11:55 am ET)
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      Joe's and my politics diverge on issues we both think are important. But he and I are in agreement here. I want a strong, thoughtful Republican party to keep my Democratic party on its toes, to keep the debate honest, and to keep pushing on those issues where I agree with them and not my own party. The increasingly shrill tone of the debate is cause for concern. When the President cannot even speak to school children about school, because everything he does is suspect, his critics have gone from respectful dissent to unpatriotic, unAmerican bombthrowers. While there was plenty of Bush-bashing in the last administration (and I engaged in my share), I have no memory of the left bringing guns to rallies, or insinuating that the government should be violently overthrown.
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    • Author by Tbone Slickens (September 04, 2009 1:38 pm ET)
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      Wait a minute...

      I thought Joe was an evil right wing hack along with the bobble head bleach blonde?

      He takes the R's to task and now he's A OK! I love this site!
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      • Author by rms (September 04, 2009 1:53 pm ET)
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        You see, Tbone, some people are not ALWAYS right and some people not ALWAYS wrong (though Rush, Glenn, Ann, et al try to prove me wrong). What you will find with many people on the left, Tbone, and many on the right, is that we will see issues as separate, and that we will often base our opinions on the merits of the argument, and not necessarily the one who makes the argument. Can you understand that?
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      • Author by bilbo_dies (September 04, 2009 2:28 pm ET)
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        And here I always thought it was to point out conservative mis-information.

        Thus, no matter who, when someone is spouting crazy stuff, they get called out for it.
        If the same person is pointing out others are spouting crazy stuff, then they are used as a data point.

        I like to use good ole Chris Matthews as an example.
        Some days he is on air going with the flow, just repeating the crazy stuff without any context or fact checking.
        The next day he may be on air pointing out that a story is untrue, once you take the time to check the facts.

        I have seen MMFA post story lines about him doing both.
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    • Author by Griff Bennett (September 05, 2009 1:23 am ET)
         
      I always thought of myself a conservative. There is no longer anything conservative about the GOP. I read the Bible daily. There is no longer anything Christian about the Christian Right. There is nothing right about the right. All the talk about fascism and socialism and which party wanting to torture people, wire tap people, send jobs to Communist China. Hitler's first move was to destroy unions and make it a Christian only nation. Now we have the closest thing to brown shirts at the town halls bullies walking around armed. Heckling people in wheel chairs. Obvious who will be the first in the ovens with these people. I have hated comparing anyone to the Nazi regime, it is a insult to what my father fought against. The more I look at what is happening, they are following exactly the same line. Now they want to take the kids out of school to re-educate them in the name of protection from the Bolsheviks. Yes, indoctrination IS in full swing from a minority party using tried and true methods to force their will on a democracy. Complete with propaganda ministries and banners. And the backing of international corporations.
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