Joe Scarborough Attacks ‘Women on Fox News’ Who Call Him Liberal: Been Conservative ‘Since They Were Playing With Barbies’
“Little idiots!”
That’s just a tiny part of how Joe Scarborough responded to the rash of criticism he and his colleagues received from various Fox News talent surrounding NBC’s Ronna McDaniel debacle in an insulting yet entertaining way.
Of course, the cable news drama surrounding NBC News’s hiring of the ex-RNC Chair and notable election denier enabler as a contributor and the on-air rebuke that followed suit by nearly a dozen MSNBC hosts who publicly decried the hire is at issue. News broke Tuesday that McDaniel would be ousted from the NBC family, with honcho Cesar Conde apologizing in a memo to network staff.
While it has not been a good week for NBC News executives, the talent on MSNBC surely pleased their viewers by taking a courageous and principled stance that signaled the virtue that so many cable news viewers — across the partisan spectrum —regularly seek.
Many Fox News hosts had a field day with their competitor’s drama, reasonably blasting the groupthink bubble that would not allow a former RNC chair to engage in panel discussions. Of course, this overlooks McDaniel’s part in a failed fake elector scheme, but who’s counting?
Since he was the target of the criticism, Scarborough, along with Mika Brzezinski, Molly Jong-Fast, and fellow conservative George Conway, absolutely lashed out at Fox talent by touting his conservative bona fides in a pretty insulting way.
“So the little idiots over there that say I’m a left winger or something,” Scarborough opened. “First of all, I’ve got a 95% ACU rating. I’m more conservative than any of them. I was part of Congress, and a big part of the reason if anybody was around, they’ll tell you that we balanced the budget for four years in a row for the first time, and the only time in 100 years.”
The American Conservative Union (ACU) ranks members of Congress by how conservative they are.
“And so when I say all of this and say, ‘wake up, you’re in a bubble,’ I’m saying it as a conservative,” he added. “And these cult members will look at anybody. We’ll look at Liz Cheney, who I think also has a 95% ACU rating, will look at me. We’ll look at George Conway, who liberals hated him most of his life. Well, look at all these other people who gave their lives to the conservative cause that are saying, wake up, wake up, you’re going to lose. This guy’s a huckster.
Scarborough later returned to mocking his Fox News critics, though he notably focused on the women who criticized him.
“George. You and I were conservatives and are conservatives, but we were conservatives when some of these women on Fox News who call us liberals, were still playing with their Barbies,” he ridiculed, adding, “Of course, Ava Braun edition.”
“We were fighting for, for conservative values. We were fighting to balance the budget. We were fighting to reform welfare. We were fighting to hold Democratic administrations accountable when they were in grade school and have done it our entire life. What’s the difference when an anti-democratic, fascist-leaning, guy wants to be president of the United States? All right, you know what? We’re Americans first. Let’s work with other people who support democracy.”
It’s hard to envision Fox News talent NOT responding in kind to Scarborough’s insults, which, of course, Mediaite will cover, but also? Perhaps a reason why Americans are tuning out from cable news, and watching more pro wrestling (which does this sort of back-and-forth and combative theater more efficiently), which continues to be on the rise. Hello, darkness, my old friend.
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