Joe Scarborough just lied. He said Obama never received a private sector check. . .

[wndycty]

Cross posted at: http://blog.windycitywatch.com/2009/04/joe-scarborough-lies-about-obama-go.html#links (check back later for video)

Joe Scarborough lies about Obama go unchecked on MSNBC
Dear Joe Scarborough-

You are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts.

This morning on MSNBC's MORNING JOE, Joe Scarborough claimed that President Barack Obama has never worked in the private sector and none of the folks on set thought to challenge him with the fact that Obama started his law career at the Chicago firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Maybe they didn't know or maybe they didn't feel that the facts were necessary.

Wall Street Journal 1/4/08 "Barack Obama Was Once a Lowly Law-Firm Associate"

"Last month the Chicago Sun-Times did a deep dive into Barack’s days as a lawyer at Miner, Barnhill & Galland. After Harvard Law, Obama returned to the Windy City and joined the small litigation firm with deep Chicago political connections."
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/01/04/barack-obama-was-once-a-lowly-law-firm-associate/

Boston Globe 8/6/08 "Obama shows hints of his year in global finance"

"Obama rarely talks about his year spent within the arcane sphere of global finance as a junior editor for Business International Corp., a publisher based in New York."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/08/06/obama_shows_hints_of_his_year_in_global_finance/?page=1

As Joe tried to push his Obama is a socialist meme by suggesting that he never held a job in the private sector, Scarborough co-conspirators Mika Brzezinski, Andrew Ross Sorkin, US Senator John Cronyn (R-TX) and Willie Geist sat silently.

Thanks to Scarborough's BLATANT LIE many Americans who are predisposed to think that Obama is a socialist have new ammunition to support that claim, "

It is inexcusable for a host on a major cable network morning show to spread such a blatant lie about anyone, let alone POTUS. Hopefully MSNBC will make Scarborough issue a correction.

http://blog.windycitywatch.com/2009/04/joe-scarborough-lies-about-obama-go.html#links

ON EDIT: Post updated to reflect my Windy City Watch posting and thanks to Freddie Stubbs for his contribution re: Boston Globe pieces

[marmar]

1. Give him a break.....He was probably at the bar longer than usual last nite watching the game.

:beer: :beer: :beer: It's probably quite an achievement that he doesn't have his shirt on inside-out this morning.

[EffieBlack]

13. I've never seen a talk show host so often show up late for his own show

and have "the day off" as often as Scarborough does.

[baldguy]

2. Has Joe Scarborough ever had a real job?

He's been employed by the VRWC since he was 12.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. He is a proffesional douche. Does that count? nt

[rateyes]

3. And, it wasn't the damned government that paid his salary

as a community organizer. Scarborough is a dumbass.

[Champion Jack]

4. "Joe Scarborough just lied" Tell me something I don't know...

[TomClash]

5. Like Scarborough ever had one

I think he practiced law for 5 minutes.

[Pirate Smile]

6. I'm sure his Baskin-Robbins job provided him with a government check, along with

his job writing for a business in NY before he went to Chicago to be a community organizer.

Plus, the University of Chicago is a private institution so what did their pay checks count as?

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. He worked for Business International Corporation:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/08/06/obama_shows_hints_of_his_year_in_global_finance/?page=1

[wndycty]

9. Freddie thanks for the tip

:kick:

[The_Commonist]

8. He also wrote a couple of books...

...and got BIG checks for them from the publishing companies.
Those publishers are private sector companies, right?

By the way... Why do you watch that crap on the TV machine?
It's designed to keep you confused and annoyed so that you feel like shit about your life and salve the pain by consuming yet more crap that you don't really need. Why not turn the TV machine off and get more of your brain back?

[Schema Thing]

10. He held jobs in high school and college, didn't he?

[firedupdem]

12. I wish he would go to faux news with the rest of the right wingers...

can we have one station?

[rurallib]

14. why do people even watch this show?

[JayMusgrove]

21. I have no idea! Actually it's the worst show on MSNBC

and nothing NOTHING they do or say is important.

[rurallib]

25. Gotta be near the worst show on all of TV.

Really a FUX show if ever there was one.

[EffieBlack]

15. This from a man who parlayed HIS government job into

fame and money.

Or does Joe want anyone to believe that his high-profile, big-buck, do-nothing-but-sit-on-his-ass-all-day-running-his-mouth was handed to him based on the private industry employment?

[karynnj]

16. Not only that - but I assume the University of Chicago, a private school, paid him

as did the publisher of his books. Even his work as a community organizer was paid I think from a Catholic organization.

The other thing is does it matter? It is not because Obama was a lawyer, professor, community organizer or author that he was elected by the American people as President in a landslide - though all those pieces of his biography contributed to he is. The other problem with this question is that it assumes something as fact that I refuse to concede - that having a private sector job is important. Looking at FDR's biography, he worked as a lawyer from 1908 until either 1910 when he was elected state senator (not sure if that was part time) or 1913 when he became Secretary of the Navy. This is very similar to Obama's legal and Law School work. I think JFK is the same. One of Scarborough's heroes Reagan's job as Governor was more significant than his job as an actor.

The fact is that Scarborough's own party elected John McCain who I think worked only for the military and government - other than his books. He never had a problem with that. His party rejected Romney who headed Bain Capital - a private equity firm which has a hedge fund. He actually would have experience making business decisions - but did businessmen running hedge funds make good decisions for the country's economy? This is just another attempt to question Obama's legitimacy - whether Joe likes it or not -the American people put Obama in the job he is in.

[shaniqua6392]

17. Today was not the first time Joey has spread the same lie about Obama.

I have heard him say it before.

[bunkerbuster1]

19. It's aimed at anyone who actually DOESN'T understand what "community organizer" means.

If you're that stupid, you're likely to believe anything.

[bunkerbuster1]

18. I've had to correct people on this one a few times myself. One of those repeated lies.

Conservatives want to believe that Obama never had a private-sector job, but of course he did.

(I've had to point out, as well, that they may have been thinking of John McCain, who hasn't.)

[nomaco-10]

20. I don't know what his problem was today....

He was over the top manic. He was extremely loud and flailing his hands all around and talking over everybody even more than usual. He may be losing it, at least his job anyway, I hope.

[wndycty]

22. Video here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt2w94Ctllo

[Stephanie]

23. Scarborough practiced law for about five minutes before running for Congress

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Scarborough

Early life and education

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Scarborough graduated from Pensacola Catholic High School in Pensacola, Florida (although he is not a Catholic). He received a B.A. from the University of Alabama in 1985 and a J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law in 1990.(1) He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1991.(1) Scarborough taught high school and practiced law in Pensacola.(2) During this time he wrote and produced CDs with his band, Dixon Mills.(3)

In 1993, Michael F. Griffin's family requested that Scarborough represent him at his trial for the murder of abortion provider Dr. David Gunn. As a young civil law attorney, Scarborough wasn't qualified to defend him in that case but he did help them find a criminal defense attorney and helped shield the family from the media exposure, pro bono.(4)

Scarborough's first major foray into politics was assisting with a petition drive in late 1993 opposing a 65 percent (dubious – discuss) increase in the City of Pensacola's property taxes. During the drive he made numerous contacts which would prove valuable in his upcoming congressional race.(2)

Congressional career

In 1994, Scarborough won the Republican Party nomination for Florida's 1st congressional district, which came open after the incumbent Democrat Earl Hutto did not run for reelection. He defeated the Democratic candidate, Pensacola attorney Vinnie Whibbs, son of well respected former Pensacola mayor Vince Whibbs, with 61 percent of the vote, becoming the first Republican to represent the 1st since its formation in 1903 (it was the 3rd District from 1903 to 1963), as well as the first freshman Republican to represent part of the Florida Panhandle since 1879. The 1st had turned into one of the most conservative regions of the state. It has not supported a Democrat for president since 1960, but conservative Democrats won most offices well into the 1990s. As a measure of how conservative this area of Florida had become, Scarborough was reelected with 72 percent of the vote in 1996. In 1998 and 2000, he was opposed by only a write-in candidate.

[wndycty]

24. Yup RIGHT WING HYPOCRITE

:kick: