Even by Joe Scarborough’s historical past of lengthy rants, this one was L-O-N-G—and really defensive.
For over 20 minutes on at present’s Morning Joe, Scarborough raged on in defending his and Mika’s method on two issues.
First, on yesterday’s present, David Frum commented on the report that a few of Pete Hegseth’s Fox Information colleagues had expressed their concern to an NBC Information reporter about Hegseth’s consuming. Mentioned Frum: “In the event you’re too drunk for Fox Information, you’re very, very drunk certainly.”
In response, after the phase with Frum ended, Mika stated: “The remark was somewhat too flippant for the second we’re in.”
Scarborough stated that Mika’s remark “become a column,” with the headline, “The Sound of Worry.” Oddly, Scarborough did not notice that the column had been written by none apart from… David Frum. Within the column, Frum advised that Joe and Mika have been intimidated, and that Mika’s remark was an try and “appease.’
In response, Scarborough went to nice lengths in an try and show that he’s not a fearful man.
“Let me inform you one thing. I wasn’t fearful in Congress when Newt Gingrich and management stated they have been going to destroy me, run individuals in opposition to. I stated, go forward, make my day. Wasn’t fearful on this present. No one has as soon as instructed me what to say right here. Effectively really, one particular person did one time. One chief did one time. I stated, I am going to you what: in the event you assume you are able to do such a rattling good job, why do not you come right here and do the present 4 hours a day? I am positive. I am positive. I am positive quitting. However I’ll do my present. I am going to do going to do my present the way in which I wish to do my present.
Muy Macho Joe even went full Clint Eastwood, bragging that he instructed Republican leaders who threatened him, “
Go forward. Make my day.” Scarborough additionally addressed the criticism that he and Mika have obtained from others within the media for having not too long ago gone to Mar-a-Lago for a background dialog with President-elect Trump.
Scarborough’s level, which has some benefit, is that the very media retailers which can be criticizing him are, behind the scenes, additionally looking for to get interviews with Trump or with individuals near him. Scarborough quoted a reporter who stated he’d be fired if he turned down a possibility to interview the President-elect.
Scarborough being Scarborough, he additionally managed to work in boasts about his reporting prowess, mentioning that he had interviewed Center East leaders, and endured the anger they expressed instantly at him, and had sat for an hour within the Elysee Palace with French President Macron.
Scarborough closed with a variation on Sean Hannity’s well-known encouragement to his viewers, which in flip is from the Bible, “Let your coronary heart not worry.”
Scarborough inspired his liberal followers, that regardless of the prospect of one other Trump time period:
“I say this now to individuals who watch the present and love the present. People who find themselves fearful and anxious. Let me inform you one thing: we shouldn’t have any concern. [Do] not present concern. [Do] not be fearful!”
This is the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
12/5/24
6:02 am ETMIKA BRZEZINSKI: Lets dive in?
JOE SCARBOROUGH: What you assume? We heard about one thing that occurred yesterday.
MIKA: You may. Completely.
SCARBOROUGH: Is all of it proper? Level of non-public privilege?
MIKA: Level of non-public privilege.
SCARBOROUGH: So yesterday, we had a very good buddy of ours on the present. And a who’s been a visitor for a while. A man who, he is aware of, has been one among my heroes for years now. A fantastic author, David Frum. He writes for The Atlantic.
David got here on the present yesterday, and we’re having a very good dialog. However we have been speaking about the Fox Information workers that really talked to Courtney Kube and different individuals at NBC Information, and stated that he [Pete Hegseth] had been consuming an excessive amount of there.
And I used to be devastated. It was a devastating report. And David flippantly stated, he was joking, he stated, “In the event you’re too drunk for Fox Information, you are very, very drunk certainly.”
We went on with the phase. And simply to let you understand how issues work right here, I used to be asking Mika, ought to we deal with that or not? As a result of if someone had stated that about any information outlet, we might often say one thing about it. To reference all the community.
So on the finish, and I wish to get the phrases proper, Mika stated this: “The remark was somewhat too flippant for the second we’re in. We disagree with Fox Information, however there’s some good individuals over there.”
MIKA: Loads are anxious about Pete Hegseth.
SCARBOROUGH: We additionally, after all, speaking about these individuals so anxious at Fox Information about America’s nationwide safety, that they have been speaking to an NBC Information reporter —
MIKA: Coming ahead.
SCARBOROUGH: Coming ahead, saying Hegseth was not certified.
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This bought become a column, and a headline, that stated, let’s examine, what was the headline? The Sound of Worry. Now, that wasn’t the sound of concern, that was the sound of civility.
And, in saying that Mika had apologized, she did not apologize.
MIKA: No, I did not.
SCARBOROUGH: She merely stated it was too flippant. Now, I might suggest, if we’re in a stage the place, a remark like this causes a meltdown. And I noticed George Conway, one other man that now we have on the present —
MIKA: Who we love.
SCARBOROUGH: — We love George. Saying, [adopts melodramatic voice] “Learn this text, it’ll make you very unhappy, however you will need to learn all of it. Oh! Due to the fearful occasions we’re in.”
Effectively, there’s some drawback with the occasions that we’re in.
MIKA: You may’t be fearful.
SCARBOROUGH: You may’t be fearful. Simply because some individuals have stated that we’re fearful. Let me inform you one thing. You may speak to anyone that is labored within the entrance workplace of NBC and MSNBC over the previous 22 years. I inform you, I am not fearful.
You speak to anyone who served with me in Congress. They are going to inform you: not frightened of management.
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And I’m telling you, “the sound of concern,” the apology, none of that’s true. However guess what? That is what’s been happening now for a number of weeks.
You recognize, we went down to speak to the President-elect. And folks wrote articles that have been simply false. However you understand what we did? We did the company factor. Company stated, do not say something. Simply hold your head down. What did the royals say? By no means clarify, by no means complain. No matter.
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SCARBOROUGH: I believe, really, if they’ve an opportunity to speak on the background —
MIKA: I believe, really, they may be doing that.
SCARBOROUGH: — with the incoming President and President-elect, they might do it. Actually, as someone wrote throughout this outrageously silly, immature sequence of articles that lied time and time once more about us, reporters stated, I might be fired if I had the chance to go in and speak to someone who’s the incoming President of america, they usually did not do it!
Ask any journalist on the New York Occasions, the New York Submit. And that is the humorous factor, individuals on the Washington Submit particularly. Hair on hearth media report. How dare they? How dare they? On the similar time that the Washington Submit is doing the identical factor. Making an attempt to talk to the president on background. Making an attempt to talk to individuals across the president on background. That is what reporters do.
And by the way in which, guess what? That is what I have been doing for years. When I’m going converse to Center East leaders on background, some who will not be good individuals. Guess what? I do it to get info and background and provides it to you. I guess you did not know! Trigger I did not inform you. As a result of it was a background dialog.
When I went to the Elysee Palace final summer time, and I spoke to Macron for about an hour in his workplace about Ukraine, in regards to the EU, in regards to the means of NATO. About his issues with United States. I did that, however I did not reportit.
The one distinction between what we did on that go to and what the New York Occasions and Washington Submit, Wall Road Journal, all people else is doing is. We have been clear. We really instructed you.
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You recognize why I went to leaders within the Center East who have been offended at america, and I sat there and I listened to them attacking me personally for 45 minutes due to U.S. coverage? You recognize why I try this? To get the learn of the chief. To get the learn of the place the nation’s going. [Shouts] So I can come again right here and speak to you and allow you to know what the hell is occurring!
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However let me inform you one thing. I wasn’t fearful in Congress when Newt Gingrich and management stated they have been going to destroy me, run individuals in opposition to. I stated, go forward, make my day.
Wasn’t fearful on this present. No one [inaudible.] By the way in which, I at all times have Republicans say, oh, they’re telling you precisely what to say. No! No one has as soon as instructed me what to say right here.
Effectively really, one particular person did one time. One chief did one time. I stated, I am going to you what: in the event you assume you are able to do such a rattling good job, why do not you come right here and do the present 4 hours a day? I am positive.
MIKA: Oh, that is hilarious.
SCARBOROUGH: I am positive. I am positive quitting. However I’ll do my present. I am going to do going to do my present the way in which I wish to do my present.
And I say this now to individuals who watch the present and love the present. People who find themselves fearful and anxious. Let me inform you one thing: we shouldn’t have any concern.
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We must always maintain the road. Settle for what we settle for, with Marco Rubio and different appointments like that. However maintain the road in these different areas. However not present concern. Not be fearful!
