MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Has New Years Run-in With Facts Courtesy of Sopan Deb

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/02/msnbcs-joe-scarborough-run-in-facts-courtesy-sopan-deb.html

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Has New Years Run-in With Facts Courtesy of Sopan Deb

By Hrafnkell Haraldsson

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What is illuminating about this is less the actual facts of who did what with whom on New Year’s Eve and more about how defensive Scarborough became at the suggestion that he partied with his close friend Donald Trump, or indeed, even attended a party. And this wasn’t his only attempt to explain the night away.

The fact is, Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski attended a New Years party thrown by Donald Trump and when caught out, fell back on trying to argue it away by splitting hairs over definitions, or “getting Talmudic” as Daniel Rubin said, and to which Maggie Haberman answered, “actually no, we are being precise.”

To be precise, though they were at times critical of Trump during the campaign, we know Joe and Mika speak “frequently” to Trump thanks to Reince Priebus and it is no secret at this point that Morning Joe is nothing but a Trump propaganda outlet.

Perhaps Scarborough is especially sensitive to the attention this has drawn. As Haberman concluded, they were there and “Not sure why this is a controversy.”

By this time, the whole brouhaha had dissolved into ridiculousness. Scarborough launched into yet another “five-point” explanation of the events of that night and continued to protest his innocence, leaving but one possible conclusion for us to arrive at:

Hamlet asked his mother, “Madam, how like you this play?” To paraphrase Gertrude’s answer,

“Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much.”

[dmosh42]

1. No doubt, they were played like "two clowns"!

[Paladin]

2. Almost makes me wish I'd seen this morning's show.

Almost---but not quite. I gave up the Scar & Mika propaganda rally some time ago, and I feel much better for it. I recommend that others do likewise, particularly given the evidence that they're confirmed Trump house organs (so to speak).

[Laurian]

3. I started following Sopan Deb on Twitter yesterday when this

"controversy" made me realize he's a rare journalist willing to take on Trump and his minions. I know he did some excellent reporting during the campaign and I look forward to more as we head into uncharted territory.

Gotta support those who will stand up to the bullshit.