Scarborough: Obama Is ‘More Focused On Targeting Veterans’ Than Fighting Al Qaeda

Scarborough: Obama Is ‘More Focused On Targeting Veterans’ Than Fighting Al Qaeda

Yesterday, a copy of a Department of Homeland Security report was leaked, detailing the increasing radicaliziation of “rightwing extremists.” One portion of the report warned that “rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat.”

This morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough expressed fury at the report’s mention of veterans. Ignoring the report’s conclusion that right-wing groups would try to recruit veterans, Scarborough declared that the Obama administration was “targeting veterans” and waging a “war on veterans”:

"When you have a president and you have the Department of Homeland Security more focused on targeting veterans than on protecting our border on the South where a war is breaking out, or protecting us from, I don’t know, al Qaeda? Isn’t this interesting: they no longer want to use the term “war on terror”? They don’t want to use “the war on terror” because that makes them feel uncomfortable, but they have no problem targeting veterans returning from war. This is perverse. … There’s not a war on terror but there may be a war on veterans."

Watch it:

Scarborough declared that if Dick Cheney had done something similar, the entire media would have been appalled.

"What if Dick Cheney decided that he was going to target liberals? … Can you imagine what certain newspapers and cable news shows would do if George Bush and Dick Cheney decided to target democratic loyalists, and say that they may be a terror threat?" ...http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/15/scarborough-dhs-report/

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Sounds like Mornin' Schmo is flippin' out.

Instead of guys like Schmo who go around yelling fuck you on live TV.

BUSH administration, it has only been RELEASED under the Obama Administration. Adding to that, there WAS a report by HS, again done under the BUSH administration, that warned against 'left wing extremists'.

My bet is the 'left wing extremist' report was released during the BUSH administration but the 'right wing extremist' report was held back and not released.

And then find out it came from Bush.

I can't wait.

Joe Scarborough is happy to be the Glen Beck of MSNBC. He's just a media whore. He doesn't have an ideology except some freeper/catholic social crap and being a TV star.

He does seem creepily jealous of Barack Obama but I think that's part of his need to be a star delusion. I doubt if he even realizes what he's saying most of the time, he just keeps trying to be the loudest voice in the conversation. I don't watch anymore (except you tube clips) but I sure things haven't changed. He isn't bright enough do anything different.

Don't worry about what he says. MSNBC viewers hate him. But they watch him!

I find it humorous that a show that people on DU repeatedly claim has few viewers seems to generate 2 to 3 times the number of threads that Rush does.

Uh Joe?

Ah, never mind. Go fuck yourself, Mr. Scarborough.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5458718

MSNBC link after jump