Not merely social media chatterers but many others (like Nikki Haley, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Fox News (of course) and CNN’s John Berman, and, if anyone cares, Keith Olberman) are castigating MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who chattered away yesterday about how they had flown to Mar-A-Largo to kiss the ring, or ass, or whatever, of President-Elect Trump. This seemed like a craven reversal of their stance during the entire campaign, one that became more extreme and shrill as Election Day approached, that Trump was a fool, a racist, an enemy of democracy, a threat to the nation, and literally an American Hitler. The pilgrimage to Florida seemed like a craven reversal because that’s what it was. Joe and Mika proved that they are, at heart, “Good Germans.”
Trump has done nothing since his election that would warrant the Trump-Deranged from abandoning their hysterical position, since he had done nothing to justify it in the first place. All the obsequious reversal by the “Morning Joe” duo indicated was hypocrisy and a complete lack of integrity, not that we didn’t already know that. To be fair to Joe and Mika, they work for MSNBC, where nobody knows the meaning of integrity, honesty, or “ethics.” It’s a propaganda arm of the Angry Left. All “Morning Joe” does is follow orders. This spectacular double-reverse backflip in mid-air (I’m mentally humming “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite”) however, is despicable even by MSNBC’s wretched standards.
Almost as revolting was Scarborough’s lame rationalization for the trip this morning as he called the criticism proof of a “massive disconnect” between “social media and the real world.” What is that supposed to mean? Apparently, Joe is telling us that the journalists and pundits shouldn’t be expected to have any integrity, and that they say what they think is the most marketable to their audience. When the winds change, they shift their values and opinions accordingly. Oh! Got it.
Why would anyone waste time listening to someone like that?
Nobody reacted more vociferously to Joe and Mika than SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly, once an admirable professional (she was the first to challenge Donald Trump’s fitness to be President in the initial candidates’ debate on Fox News, challenging him over his treatment of women), now slowly slipping down rungs of the career ladder and substituting emotion for professionalism. She pandered to her conservative audience by going on a wild rant against Joe and Mika…
“I searched for a way to respond appropriately, and I called on my 10 years as a litigator in addition to my now 20 as a journalist. And I think I found the perfect phrase: “Go fuck yourselves” Go fuck yourselves, you dishonest jokes of faux journalists…What an absurd farce that was…Which one was insincere? He’s Hitler? Or now we’re going to speak truth to power and find a way of speaking to and working with Donald Trump? Which one was a lie? I never thought I’d utter these words, but I agree with Keith Olbermann. Keith Olbermann’s reaction is my reaction, at least in part.This is the part where I agree with him: ‘Not that those words [Scarborough and Brzezinski’s] ever should have been trusted. They are confidence tricksters and grifters.’ That’s exactly right. They’re grifters. These two, yes, worked day and night to get Trump the nomination back in ’15-’16. They embarrassed themselves and sacrificed any pretense of journalistic ethics in doing it. It was true bootlicking.”
Then Kelly went on to play a montage of clips from before the 2016 election during which Scarborough expressed an openness to serving as Trump’s Vice President. “It is nauseating. It’s so stomach-turning. They are so disgusting,” she continued. “And then what happened is Joe Scarborough found out he was not gonna be the vice presidential running mate. He had been rejected for that position and they turned on Trump because access to power is everything to that small, little man.”
Not that Megyn was wrong about Scarborough and his huggy-bug Mika, but descending into vulgar incivility doesn’t help the culture, the cause of productive civic discourse, or anything else, except that it got Kelly’s show a bit of notoriety.
Ethics Alarms 
Jack: All the obsequious reversal by the “Morning Joe” duo indicated was hypocrisy and a complete lack of integrity, not that we didn’t already know that.
It’s not hypocrisy. It’s much simpler than that. They just lied. They did not believe he was Hitler. They just said it. The lie did not work, so they are back to the next thing, because the lie is no longer of use to them. What is really scary are the people who believed the lie.
Even Megyn makes it too complicated. They are just liars, and their behavior shows that.
To paraphrase George Constanza, “Remember, Jack. It’s a lie, if you don’t believe it.”
-Jut
I got a huge kick out of Brezinski’s saying, “My dad spoke to dictators, so can I!” Hah! Great. But those guys were not American presidents, nitwit.
And is it really a good idea to bring back Jimmy Carter’s awful foreign policy guru as a role model, even if you’re his daughter? And am I the only one who finds Joe Scarborough’s face, voice, verbal cadence and general demeanor unsettlingly close to John Wayne’s?
Megyn’s youtube channel has 2.3 million subscribers and had a viewership of just under 117 million in the month of July (the most recent numbers I could find over at Semafor.com.) The next highest number of views (Sky News) fall short of hers by 30 million. She no longer has to rely on network news for a career. She’s doing just fine – potty mouth aside.
But not as a journalist, or a lawyer, or any kind of professional. She’s an entertainer, not that there’s anything wrong wit that. She once aspired to a higher purpose.
Fair enough.
Cue Billy Joel: “You may be right, I may be an entertainer, but it just might be an entertainer you’re looking for.”
is “good germans” an acceptable slur since it implies Nazi’s.
another entertainer Steven Crowder had the largest concurrent viewers for the election day stream. He had a decision desk that called every state and in general did so earlier than any other source. This is a blurring of journalism and entertainment which is the result of the internet.