Joe Scarborough Takes On Newt Gingrich Mosque Comments: 'It's Deplorable, It Is Sick Politics'

[savalez]

Source: HufPo

"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough has devoted much of his program's airtime so far this week to criticizing Newt Gingrich over the former House Speaker's recent comments regarding the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero.

On Saturday Gingrich called the proposed center a symbol of Muslim "triumphalism" and compared the construction of such a building to "putting a Nazi sign next to the Holocaust Museum." He repeated the Nazi analogy in an interview Monday morning on Fox News and referred to the project's organizers as "radical Islamists," a characterization that is demonstrably false.

The "Morning Joe" crew didn't take too kindly to Gingrich's words, and let him know in no uncertain terms. "This is madness," remarked Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida. "There are elements of our party that are marching through the fevered swamps of ideology."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/joe-scarborough-takes-on-_n_686234.html

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Joe really rags on Newt in the video montage.

[tanyev]

1. They've been slogging through those swamps a long time, Joe.

Where have you been?

[Possumpoint]

2. Some Things Just

go too far!

[greiner3]

3. What's up with Joe?

Is he about to throw his hat in the ring for 2012? As a Dem? Lol.

[savalez]

4. He seems to allude to that in the video.

[salin]

5. It's like Newt is working to demonstrate the point made by his ex that he acts

manic (and sounds unstable.) Joe is not the only conservative pundit to highlight and criticize Newt's recent over the top rants.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. "Triumphalism"? I call that just plain ignorant.

:rofl:

[totodeinhere]

7. I love it when two Xenophoblicans are at each other's throats. n/t

[No Elephants]

8. Joe will say anything he thinks will help (a) him and/or (b) Republicans.

Republicans with half a brain have realized that their hate speech and religious extremism (or pandering to religious extremists) turns off Indies.


A couple of years ago, they looked near extinction, or at least in real danger of becoming only a regional party. So, a number of them quietly started abandoning the extreme right--IOW, moving left, at least on the wedge issues. Well, not repudiating them, but just mentioning them less and less. Meanwhile. Democrats having been moving right, including on the wedge issues.





Meh. Maybe it won't be so bad. After all, a one-party system was good enough for George Washington.