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Increasingly idiotic rwnj @Morning_Joe Scarborough Says Liberals Are Anti-Science Because They Oppose KeystoneXL
During the Tuesday broadcast of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough claimed climate alarmists are denying science by opposing the extension of the Keystone oil pipeline. Scarborough made this statement during a panel discussion with former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), now the head of the Heritage Foundation, and Democratic strategist James Carville. It appeared that Joe was trying to flip the script on the left by using the term science denialism, considering the GOP is routinely attacked over its members claiming climate change is a hoax or not caused by man.
The segment was supposed to be about President Obamas budget and what will or wont be changed in it by Republicans in Congress. However, it became clear early on that Scarborough was going to team up with DeMint and attack Democrats over Social Security, MediCare, supposed rising deficits and Keystone XL. Earlier in the show, Scarborough had already set the narrative of the day by saying deficits will start ballooning and the President needs to attack entitlements. With DeMint sitting with him, it became a tag-team effort.
After an agonizing few minutes of pushing the right-wing mantra of austerity and crushing debt, Scarborough eventually moved on to another favorite pet project of the right, the Keystone XL pipeline. Joe started by complaining about the lefties in the Democratic Party who take it to the extreme when they should be worried about working-class voters. Carville countered that you can be concerned with science and the working-class and that you dont have to be stupid to appeal to working class voters. The Morning Joe host responded to Carville with the following:
Im not suggesting you do. But at the same time when you get the AFL/CIO against you, when you get Teamsters against you because you take extreme positions on pipelines that actually make the environment safer, thats denying science for your ideological left-wing fundraisers.
Thankfully, Carville decided to attack him where it really hurts for Scarborough. After Joes statement, the strategist pointed out that in the end, the number one Republican economic program would only create 35 permanent jobs, thus taking away Joes argument that the pipeline is needed for working-class people. At the end of the segment, Joe pivoted back to climate change, claiming he believes it is real, and they just need to find a policy solution that works. This was likely a way for him to try to insulate himself from impending criticism over his asinine remarks about anti-science lefties.
(video of the segment, courtesy of MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/demint--obama-uses-military-cuts-to-bargain-392931907591 )
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/03/joe-scarborough-liberals-anti-science-oppose-keystone-pipeline.html
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samsingh
(17,601 posts)I think the entire network would get a pickup without scarorough on their payroll
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Why aren't you doing life for killing Lori?
Cha
(297,723 posts)they got nothin' so they're trying to confuse their little teabagger supporters.
Johonny
(20,890 posts)Not 1 minute of my time goes to your MSNBC.
randome
(34,845 posts)...it sounds lately like he is truly becoming unglued. He's angry at everyone and everything.
Here's hoping he reads this and has a complete breakdown. Go on, Joe! You can do it!
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