He does make a good point about the empty opportunistic partisan bluster coming from McCain and Graham.

Scarborough trips over his own shoelaces though when he suggests it would do no good to go on a tirade about how Iran is the most evil country on the planet.

True, it would not do the people of Iran any good. But when you talk like that, you're painting entire countries in the simplistic 20th century colors of either good or evil.

Using that brush is a little hypocritical when you're a citizen of the country that overthrew Iran's very first democratically-elected leaders. And has tried to falsify nuclear weapons intelligence to justify starting a war with them.

No doubt Iran is lead by an oppressive regime.

But it's hard to be taken seriously when there isn't a modicum of humility in your view of the world, i

I generally don't agree with Joe but I remember he was very vocal and harsh in his criticism of the Bush Administration's response to Katrina. He was not only one of the first conservative commentators to do that he was one of the first TV commentators to do that period.

Like I said I don't always agree with Joe but I do respect him...he isn't just another partisan hack on cable. The man has some integrity.

I tend to watch Joe in the morning when I get ready for work. Yes, he is a conservative, and his regulars tend to be conservative on the issue, and the left leaning guests tend to be just this side of the center, BUT if all the conservatives were like Joe and company, the idea of bi-partisanship would actually be something to realistically seek on some issues. Generally speaking, once one cuts through the goofball theaterics, he tends to be the sane conservative that one would hope for in a "two-party system" country. And I've seen him compliment Obama on more than one occassion (and he always brings up the fact he gets plenty of hate mail from the right as well as the left.)

Jughead is about 10% correct about 10%. But do not worry, the other 90% of the time time he is, well he is just Jughead talking about our new ride toward socialism, how America is going to hell in a handbasket, how he and newt saved America....

Ha Ha Ha. But when he is right. Hard to disagree.

An awful lot of repubs and 'conservatives' are lining up with the Prez on this thing including George Will who is usually 2% right most of the time. ha

I have so little time here these days...I scan the post titles and read what I can quickly before heading out...Joe saying something correct for a change certainly caught my attention. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Probably won't mean anything, but the idea that SOMEONE on the right had momentary balls enough to call these guys out got my day off to a good start.

Hope you saw John Hodgman's gig the other night. His bit on nerds, geeks and jocks was hilarious. Joe Scarborough is definitely a "jock". Not nearly enough people have said "no, Joe you are wrong" in his life.

this is so lame i wont even address it.

sheesh.

and i had such high hopes..................

The Mayor of the Redneck Rivera is trying so hard to get back into the mainstream and disassociate himself from the current incompetent Republican party (that he helped create). But if you watch him over a period of time (2 or 3 days), he inevitably says something idiotic that lets you know, he’s still the same old dog with the same bone-head ideological thinking. Zbig had it exactly right, when he told him to his face, “You are stunningly superficial”.

We all know who Scarborough is! It’s Zbig’s daughter that I have problems with. Mika Brizinski has turned into the biggest yes man, since Juan Williams joined FOX. I can’t stand self-professed Democrats that bend over backwards to show how fair they are, just because they are on TV!

How can they let McCain get away with saying ANYTHING about Iran's "brave citizens," when he joked about BOMB, BOMB, BOMB, BOMB, BOMB, BOMBing them? He should be publically called out for that! You can bet Obama would if he had been dumb enough to joke about something like that!

Scarborough is a caveman, but sometimes he says something intelligent. This was one of those moments, albeit rare.

Good post, but the best part is the Jack Buck quote. I was in the car listening to Jack on the radio when it happened and it was one of the most phenomenal, charged moments of sports I ever heard. Jack Buch was not easily impressed and had been calling baseball games for numerous decades when Gibson hit that ball. But when it left the park, Jack was so stunned that all he could do is repeat the same phrase over and over: "I can't believe what I just saw!" A fantastic moment. Thanks for reminding me of it.