Scarborough: Only a 'fake president' would call press the enemy

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Friday blasted President Trump's tweet about the media, calling the the commander-in-chief a "fake president" for attacking the press.

"Only a FAKE PRESIDENT would declare the First Amendment to be the enemy of the American people," Scarborough tweeted.

Only a FAKE PRESIDENT would declare the First Amendment to be the enemy of the American people. https://t.co/ZFZvlTf8Az
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) February 17, 2017

Minutes earlier, Trump berated the "fake news media," tweeting that the press "is the enemy of the American People."

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320180-scarborough-only-a-fake-president-would-call-first-amendment-the

[Peacetrain]

1. WTG JOE!!

And who says Liberals and Conservatives cannot agree on things.. (_)O (_)o coffee for all

[Blue Idaho]

2. Woah...

What the hell has gotten into JoeScar?

[tavernier]

3. Either conscience

or CYA

[Missn-Hitch]

9. CYA

[chillfactor]

29. CYA?

sorry do not get that...maybe because I am tired.

[Volaris]

35. Cover Your Ass.

He's making sure he's not blamed for enabling this monstrosity of parody later when it's time to rightly assign blame to CONServatives.

[dewsgirl]

6. On twitter, the media is melting down over the, media america's enemy tweet

[coco22]

18. He is full of shit..

He knows what is in those confidential reports. Scar is trying to distance himself from Trump watch him start hyping Pence.

No matter what Trump does he will find away to blame Obama,Clintons,Carter and tries to say they were as bad as Trump,all the while skipping Reagan and Ollie North and the Iran Contra scandal.

[Eyeball_Kid]

52. He's looking for the next meme to boost his ratings. It's about naked opportunism.

[Dopers_Greed]

4. Morning Joke must be shifting gears

His show couldn't pull off the ratings when he was Herr Dumpf's lapdog, so he's trying a new approach

[starshine00]

20. he works for the GOP

and when I hear of him saying stuff like this I assume it is because his GOP owners authorized it.

[Skittles]

32. thank you

the man is a repuke whore

[yardwork]

36. That's it. They're setting up for Pence.

[Midnight Writer]

38. Exactly. Conflict means viewers. This is just a Morning Joe plot twist.

[Honeycombe8]

5. Note to Trump: Don't pick on guys who have a bigger bully pulpit than you do.

This fixation that Trump has on the press is unAmerican and undemocratic. It's one of the few way the public gets information that the politicians don't want us to know.

He is attacking our democracy when he attacks the free press.

It is JUST like the SNL Alec Baldwin debate skit, when Tom Hanks as Anderson Cooper asks Trump (Baldwin) how the press is unfair to him.

Trump (Baldwin) says, "They take everything I say and everything I do, and put it on television."

[bucolic_frolic]

7. The press is the enemy if it lies all the time

but Trump is at war with the side of the press that tells the truth

So a finer distinction must be drawn between various elements of the press

This simple idea Trump is peddling that they're all the same is a false choice

[starshine00]

21. I'm sure he's doing all this on Putins advice

but Russia doesn't have separation of powers or a free press and the US generally doesn't disappear people at the rate that Russia does when they step out of line, i.e. that shit is not going to fly over here because there is no KGB type org (sorry I can't remember what they are called now) to enforce it

[meow2u3]

25. The intelligence community is pissed off at the Apricot Asshole

so I guess the CIA won't be doing his bidding any time soon. Also, his private security couldn't hold a candle to the CIA.

[starshine00]

34. continues to be

I swear it is as if he thinks he IS Putin...he keeps pissing off the press and the CIA both, repeatedly, two entities which can ruin him...he is incredibly delusional about how much power he wields. (Though I did just spend a few minutes on twitter reading the most amazing tweets from his MAGAuthoritarians, they literally lap up everything that comes out of his mouth as gospel...he seems to have provided for them the big bad Daddy figure they have always craved in life or something, it is positively scary.

[Rebl2]

8. Joe you are

a little late with your fake disgust of the orange menace. You and your crew helped get it elected.

[Missn-Hitch]

10. Hear, hear!!

[BBG]

30. If he has an oar to row

then let him paddle. The more voices the better at this stage.

[Alice11111]

53. Yes.All the media went after Hillary &gave trump billions$$$ airtime. If they tell truth now...

...better now than never

[YOHABLO]

11. Joe Scarborough and friends are just as culpable in making him President. So just STFU Joe.

[KewlKat]

12. Don't trust the Dead Intern guy nor his side kick.....it's show and blow

He did something similar during the campaign, but then we all found out he had been in contact with the Con throughout the campaign.....remember how he and Mika had a meeting at the towers.....no, don't be sucked in to his "fake" rage........he's still slime and so is she.

[Mr. Ected]

13. Why would a guy like Joe do a complete 180?

Could it be that a huge and damning revelation about Trump is about to hit the airwaves, and some media have decided to take cover immediately?

Oh I sure wish.

[Cha]

42. Maybe.. now according to David Frum there is..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8669582

[OnDoutside]

44. Why ? Because his ratings have gone down the toilet. Scumborough likes to run with the hare and

hunt with the hounds. He is your typical amoral rattlesnake Republican.

[kimbutgar]

14. Joe will now be on the enemies list

No more access to chump now.

[CTyankee]

55. The damage he did do helped bring this guy to the presidency. NOW he complains?

We Dems were all screaming this would be the outcome, but Joe continued to have that asshole on his show and give him a big, fat, free platform to spew his racist, sexist POS.

Stuff it, Joe.

[PatrickforO]

15. Scarborough is human just like the rest of us.

I believe he had some hope that Trump might change things, but to his credit he also changed his mind when it became apparent that the electoral college elected a madman.

This gives us some insight into where he is coming from. Scarborough is an old-school guy who genuinely believes in market solutions, and has, as many of these free-market people, downplayed the excesses inherent in capitalism.

However, when these people yell 'deregulate, privatize and gut social programs' long enough to where it begins happening, then they don't like the result too very much.

This is the thing I've always said about the libertarians. Their philosophy is quite seductive until it is you who are down and they look on and let you suffer and die, because hey, that's your right. And the capitalistic meme that we all must pull ourselves up by our bootstraps is just as bad because if we aren't rich, then we experience that self-doubt that we somehow 'didn't work hard enough,' and the disgust with ourselves and others for making this such a dog-eat-dog culture.

Spiritually and economically, there is no doubt in my mind that we would be better if we could as a species figure out how to organize ourselves around human need instead of human greed.

Boy, LOL, I sure got off on a tangent there.

[JudyM]

19. Well said, PatrickforO. I'm hopeful that the less aware contingent of voters will begin to see the

stark differences between Ds and Rs over the next couple of years. If McConnell gets/guts everything he wants there may be a silver lining. More than anything, we need to start communicating in pithy sound bites to get our positions across.

[Skittles]

33. sorry, no

you'd have to be dumb as dirt to think Trump would be beneficial in ANY way

Joe is a republican whore who sees which way the wind is blowing

[OnDoutside]

45. +1 Exactly to the point.

[PatrickforO]

49. Well, we are a divided people. That is for sure.

And it is true, from the angle you seem to be coming, that there is a 'right wing crazy' element we're just going to have to roll over. But the rest? The independents? The people who tend to vote R because they don't know any better?

And YES, Joe Scarborough is in fact human. So is McConnell, Ryan and the rest. When, we must wonder, will they look at what they are doing, and have been doing, in growing horror? Or will they ever?

Ideologues, left or right, are hard core in that they will cheerfully allow people to die, or even kill, for that ideology. Those more toward the middle of the bell curve, on either side of the mean, are the ones who can bring about the reforms we need, and perhaps even get us to the point where we are thinking for the welfare of the species instead of narrow political parties.

When I think of the unfolding horrors of the Trump administration, the Gestapo-like tactics of ICE, Bannon who wants to run us all like a juggernaut of death toward some 'christian' apocalypse, I think about those who can stop them.

Sadly, they feel about us EXACTLY as you feel about them. So, pragmatists from both sides, particularly those who are nominally Rs, must be the ones to point out the emperor has no clothes. I said what I said about Scarborough because I'm thinking about people a few decades earlier. Consider Oskar Schindler - basically a mediocre gold-digger type man who moved to Poland in the wake of the Nazi invasion to make his fortune as a war profiteer. Yet, today a tree in Israel's Avenue of the Righteous bears Schindler's name. The generations of those he saved from death in the camps are more numerous today than the Jewish population of Poland.

Consider Hermann Goering's brother Albert, who once joined a group of Jewish women ordered by SS to scrub the streets. When the Nazi officers discovered who he was, they stopped that activity. Albert saved people and steadfastly stood against the Nazi regime. Yet he was little more than a bon vivant playboy until the Nazis came to power.

Or even Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who, in spite of his early support of Hitler, and even his oath, tried to end the Nazi horror in 1944 at the Wolf's Lair. He changed his mind. He turned out not to be a Nazi whore.

Perhaps Scarborough has a different motive than just 'seeing which way the wind is blowing.' Maybe he is genuinely horrified. I certainly am.

[Skittles]

51. Joe may be "genuinely horrified"

but I certainly hope PART of his horror is realizing that by pimping for that orange piece of shit, he very much helped pave the way for the horrors to come

[PatrickforO]

54. Indeed. I suspect the many Republicans who are now experiencing

'buyers remorse' have those same feelings of regret.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

47. Human need over human greed.

That's good.

[truthisfreedom]

16. Ink by the barrel.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. Their ratings must have tanked

and they are trying to get viewers back who would want to determine if he really means it.

That show was complicit in nurturing and promoting him, resulting in him getting elected by allowing unfettered bullshit to be spewed for 3 hours every morning.

[Renew Deal]

23. Says a fake reporter.

[dalton99a]

26. Bingo!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

48. Yep. But I'm still glad he said it, cuz lots of cons love JoeScar and

some people will be led to reconsider their Trump support.

[elmac]

24. the Press knew it was going to be a circus, that is why they did all they could

to get him elected, profits, viewers are through the roof.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

27. Too little too late. And only because HE's enjoying feeling persecuted.

[Fla Dem]

28. What a bunch of BS. Joe and Mika were Trump sycophants all during

the elections. They helped create him. Now they want off the garbage truck. But sorry you 2, the stench is all over you.

[Kimchijeon]

31. Thank you Joe!

[bora13]

37. media blackout

this sounds bad but if the media outlets stayed silent about t-rump for a week,
maybe it could be then proven even to the easily misled that it's really him that is the enemy.

[mopinko]

39. the way he attacked the bbc. ffs.

isnt that the one that he said- bbc? oh, yeah, i know you.
i heard my demented mil's voice in my head just then.

[Hekate]

40. Are you feeling used, Joe? Did you wake up the next morning and realized he never loved you at all?

[Cha]

41. What happened to the trumpimp joe?

[jetcat]

43. Anybody else getting tired of the word "fake" as a prefix?

I think it's damaging our discourse. We're dealing with a real president here, who is real threat. Nothing fake about it. Trump's constant use of "fake" to refer to real news is pushing empiricism into the rabbit hole, and we're just following on down when we adopt that same, frankly juvenile, adjective.

[Progressive dog]

46. Trumps retweets Vladimir Lenin

According to Wikipedia:

The term enemy of the people is a fluid designation of political or class opponents of the group ... that the people were in control. The term was used by Vladimir Lenin after coming to power, as early as in the decree of 28 November 1917

Bannon is a Leninist and Trump had help from a new murdering authoritarian from Russia. Coincidence?

[Sunlei]

50. tweeted "Fake President" for months now. .fake news created by republicans for their fake president.