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Scarborough: "Barack Obama is, perhaps, the greatest challenge Osama bin Laden has faced" since 2001

June 04, 2009 8:04 am ET

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    • Author by latanza (June 04, 2009 9:30 am ET)
         
      There was nothing here to scour at huh? This outreach that the President has made to very credible, intelligent, and rich countries has shut your mouth. Is it because the Saudi's own 7% of the world's wealth and growing due to America's positioning itself in trade with "extremist"? BEFORE THE PRESIDENT EVER THOUGHT OF RUNNING AND BEFORE HE WAS A SENATOR. Bin Laden is threatening the lives of your children and mine as if that were a way to solve conflict. In no religion is murder a means to justify difference. Defending yourself is killing and not murder. Address the threat to you and stop cowaring. You cover my President as if he is the enemy- and dare not cover a man indepthly who has devised death for us all. It is good to know that my President takes his oath seriously and not just ritually and is in the business of honoring his committments. Sit back and enjoy while someonelse accomplishes the task and please do not cowar if in fact we have to go to arms to save your lives. Talk smack from the cozy couch then. Those donuts ARE making FAUX stupid.

      Look up the word FOX and what it means in the animal analysis and question why your news network has that name.
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    • Author by pauldeman (June 04, 2009 9:45 am ET)
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      We all give Joe a hard time on MM and more often than not it is well deserved. I disagree with Joe 95% of the time and will never comprehend why he sides with Cheney despite the mounting evidence that suggests Cheney was a discredited voice inside the Bush administration by 2005-6. Nor will I understand why Liz Cheney has become the go to person when it comes to Obama. That said, the portion of the show I did watch this AM was quite good. Joe did try to have an open mind and unlike so many on the right, he acknowledged the historical importance of this speech.
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      • Author by twseattle (June 04, 2009 10:07 am ET)
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        The segment I saw with Doris Goodwin about his book was very good. She was giving him a lot of 'positive feedback' as they were discussing his call for conservatives to moderate their rhetoric of fade into the past. Also He's apparently stating that environmental and energy policies conservatives have are working against them and need to change.

        I was watching this post sitting here with no comments for so long thinking 'Joe starts to make sense and none of us can think of anything to say'. I wanted to give him credit, just not be the first one.
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      • Author by seeryer (June 04, 2009 10:47 am ET)
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        It seems like he goes home and reads positive reader comments on MMFA about his performance and decides the next day he will go back to bat shiite craziness. I cringe whenever he comes accross as being intellectualy honest because the next day he usually doubles down on crazy. I guess we will se tomorrow.
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    • Author by congero6189599 (June 04, 2009 11:38 am ET)
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      I can't stand morning Joe and find the little tid-bits of "real" journalism hard to discern from the mountains of crap shoveled out to their viewers. This show eptitimizes the "phony" every argument has an equal opposite side, and in so doing legitimizes "crackpot" noise from the right that otherwise would be laughed at. This show obscures what good journalism should be and lowers itself and thus it's audience to the noise of the day and who has the loudest voice. Facts and information discouraged and replaced with baseless opinions and spin. You never see the left on these programs but there is a never ending march of the "riight" viewpoint thus giving an untrue characterization of the public as being "centerright" when just the opposite is true. I prefer programs like Democracy Now with Amy Goodman(sp) and Bill Moyers weekly program. Shows like Morning Joe practice disinformation. Liz Cheney to comment on Barack Obama's visit to the Middle East was to tell us what?
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    • Author by the grand vizier (June 04, 2009 11:38 am ET)
         
      Joe Scarbarough, while not as bad as many other RW ideologues, is still a wolf in sheep's clothing. He tries,(as in this case) to sound reasonable and thoughtful, but deep down is still a reactionary. I think he only has a show on MSNBC so they can counter any claims that they are totally in the liberal tank. Besides, anyone who has Mike Barnicle as a regular commentator, should be looked at warily. (I'm from Boston and know the true Barnicle, a former plagiarizing columnist for the Boston Globe)
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      • Author by pointofview (June 04, 2009 1:32 pm ET)
           
        At least you acknowledge that MSNBC is in the liberal tank. Most here wont do that.
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        • Author by congero6189599 (June 04, 2009 1:51 pm ET)
             
          Not saying MSNBC owned by General Electric is in the liberal tank, but what do you mean by liberal tank? Do you mean there are two kinds of information?
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    • Author by o rly (June 04, 2009 1:11 pm ET)
         
      It's so weird, it's like occasionally Joe Scarborough gets replaced by a reasonable clone.
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