Scarborough Walks Off MSNBC Show After Exchange With Rachel Maddow

[babylonsister]

:nopity: WHAAA! He can dish it, but he can't take it.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/17/joe-scarborough-walks-off_n_97330.html

Scarborough Walks Off MSNBC Show After Exchange With Rachel Maddow

Huffington Post | April 17, 2008 07:55 PM


Did Joe Scarborough walk out of David Gregory's show "Race to the White House" Thursday night on MSNBC? It seems that way by the video below. Joe was a panelist on the show along with Air America's Rachel Maddow, CNBC's John Harwood and former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr.

The panel was discussing the effect of Sen. Obama's personal and professional relationships on his campaign when Rachel and Joe disagreed. Joe started to challenge Rachel's argument that relationships only become an issue when a political opponent makes them an issue, but she cut him off, "Let me make my point and then you can dismiss me." She then finished with an example of a McCain campaign co-chair in Florida's bathroom activities.

After a commercial break, Joe prefaced his rebuttal to Rachel's point by saying "I don't engage in Crossfire-type debates and certainly I don't want to talk about what people do in bathrooms." When he finished speaking, and after David Gregory had shut Joe vs. Rachel down, John Harrow came on camera. Then, viewers can hear Joe taking off his microphone (2:47 into the below video). When the panel picture came back, no Joe.

Watch Rachel and Joe make their points, hear Joe unplug, and then (after a jump) see the panel after Joe has gone:

Video/pics at link~

[MadMaddie]

1. Joe Boo Hoo Scarborough...he can yell over everyone,

he can ignore everyone on his show. When he can't control the environment and doesn't like what's said.....he goes running for the hills.

You see folks when you stand up to the bullies and push back you find that they were only empty suits with words!!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry::cry: :cry: :cry: cry: :cry: :cry:
:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[gratuitous]

2. "I don't want to talk about what people do in bathrooms"

No, it's far more prurient to make baseless speculations on someone's private relationships. As for Scarborough's complaint about what "people" do in bathrooms, what he really means is he doesn't want to talk about what Republicans do in bathrooms.

Conservative commentators really don't have anything left to say anymore. Scarborough has shown a proclivity for getting out while the getting is still good in the past. Maybe he'll be at the front of this stampede, too.

[dchill]

4. Actually, more truthfully put, Joe, you don't

want to talk about what Republicans do in bathrooms.

[lisa58]

12. lol

[glowing]

5. Man, wish Rachel would whisper "dead intern" into her mic.

[slay]

50. Funny how that works - Joe has dead intern in his office = gets show on msnbc

WTF? :eyes:

[glowing]

55. I know. Funny how most of us all know it.. and he gets the world handed

to him.. blows my mind away.

[Coexist]

11. but he giggles when Tucker says he beat up a gay man in a bathroom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B996XPC2eD8

[IndyOp]

54. His reaction is sick and sad. Seriously so. (n/t)

:puke:

[maddezmom]

3. what a freaking baby

condescending ass got called on the carpet and had to storm off ala Ann.

[countingbluecars]

6. I'm glad Rachel

didn't put up with his ego. He's used to walking all over Mika Brzezinski on his morning show.

[lpbk2713]

7. Right in character.

[LSparkle]

8. Scabrous already spews his crap for several hours on his morning show

Maybe he doesn't need another 15 minutes in the afternoon. Good riddance!

[flamin lib]

9. Priceless!

Saw it live and didn't quite believe my eyes.

He's got his almighty nerve talking about "cross fire debates" when he cut Rachel off first. Then he couldn't stand having her win by not shutting up!

Rachel said she'd have a beer with Joe and be friends but the other talking head said he'd bring a bottle of (something} to that meeting!

[lisa58]

15. I saw it too...

...and I really think, he thinks he didn't cut her off.

Let's go to the video tape!

[nashville_brook]

37. his old show that came on after KO was a total custerfluck of shouting.

how can he even say that with a straight face?

[marmar]

10. Threatened by a woman with more brains and class than you, LITTLE MAN?!?

Joe Scarborough is beyond pathetic. He can fake a rebel streak all he wants, but in the end, he's like the rest of them, a right-wing piece of mierda.

:nopity:

[Olney Blue]

13. He's the poster child for why I detest Republicans.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Hahahaha .... what a loser. Wussy Joe, not Average Joe.

What an asshole.

[City Lights]

16. m$nbc needs to fire his sorry ass and give Rachel her own show.

And Joe's 'what happens in a bathroom stays in a bathroom' attitude has me wonderin' what Joe does in the bathroom! :rofl:

[speedoo]

17. He's a rethug punk coward.

That's what they do.

[musette_sf]

18. looks like Joe didn't like it

when Rachel didn't let him "explain things to her".

Men Explain Things to Me
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/82222/

[rusty quoin]

19. They edited that part off the msnbc website. nt

[depakid]

20. "I don't engage in Crossfire-type debates"

Like most any Republican in the 1st decade of the 21st Century, they are unable (or afraid) to debate about anything of merit on a level playing field.

Wasn't there a nursery rhyme about that sort of deal?

[Berry Cool]

21. He doesn't talk about what people do in bathrooms?

I can guarantee you that if the Rev. Jeremiah Wright began giving sermons in a series of bathrooms across America, Joe would want to talk about it, all right.

"But he said 'God DAMN America!'...right there in the BATHROOM!!!!!"

[malaise]

22. Boo fugging hoo!!

BRavo Rachel - expose that rude pig.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

23. Republicans always seem to be the ones walking out

There was David Drier throwing a fit and walking out of Bill Maher's show a couple of years ago. Then there was Novakula getting up and throwing a tantrum before walking out of Crossfire. Now Scarblowhard walks out. Not surprising.

[Habibi]

27. This reminded me of the Novak incident too.

I can't remember who it was on the program that pissed him off so. Carville?

[csziggy]

39. Novak, Go Go Go!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wOvXeb5jCJI

[Dawgs]

24. Fucker did the same thing to Mika the other day.

What a punk.

[Ichingcarpenter]

25. They are cowards and bullies

we have always known that.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

26. I think he has a problem with brilliant assertive women. Or maybe just with women?

[bunkerbuster1]

45. Just women he can't murder?

no, it would be irresponsible to speculate that Joe had that intern murdered. So I won't do it.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

48. It's hard not to think of her when talking about Joe's attitude toward women. I thought of

her yesterday when writing my post.

[Marr]

28. She exposes him for the slow-witted talking point machine that he is.

He seems to get visibly upset every time he engages Maddow-- and it's clearly because she tears his silly talking points apart so fast, and he's left with nothing to say. Conservatives like Scarborough don't think about anything-- they can't actually argue.

[proud2BlibKansan]

29. Maybe he was late for a restroom date?

:rofl:

[Irishonly]

30. What A Spoiled Brat

Maybe MSNBC should take a collection and buy him a box of pacifiers. He is so used to cutting women off he had no idea how to handle it. Good for Rachel!

[rurallib]

31. I hope MSNBC fires his ass and gives the show to Rachel.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

41. Mika and Maddow in the Morning

I'd love that!
Just think of the conversations, the spanse of topics and intellect. No End to what these two sharp women could cover.

[high density]

51. That would be far too perfect for a morning show

I mean it might actually be worth watching!

[Liberal Gramma]

42. I wouldn't mind seeing her do David Gregory's show, either

That one sets my teeth on edge. I had some respect for him when he was asking Bush hard questions as a member of the White House Press Corps, but I've lost it after watching his new show.

[spanone]

32. good, and they should keep his ass off...rude bastard....his 'tone' pisses me off to no end

[1776Forever]

33. Saw Andrew McCarthy on Lou Dobbs tonight used same attack on Obama as Scarborough has been using...

I could not believe Lou Dobbs tonight on his show, which I turned to in the last 3 minutes, where he was interviewing Andrew McCarthy who was on the Board of Bush FISA push and has written a book, called Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad, is also a member of the Federalist Society and Director of FDD's Center for Law and Counterterrorism. He was spewing out the following stuff that he wrote about Ayres, Khalidi, Wright and Michelle Obama's in the National Review Online April 11, 2008:

The Company He(Obama)Keeps

By Andrew C. McCarthy
National Review Online
April 11, 2008
Web site: http://www.defenddemocracy.org//in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=677455

Why is Barack Obama so comfortable around people who so despise America and its allies? Maybe it’s because they’re so comfortable around him.

He presents as the transcendent agent of “change.” Sounds platitudinous, but it’s really quite strategically vaporous. Sen. Obama is loath to get into the details of how we should change, and, as the media’s Chosen One, he hasn’t had to.

But he’s not, as some hopefully dismiss him, a charismatic lightweight with a gift for sparkling the same old vapid cant. Judging from the company he chooses to keep, Obama’s change would radically alter this country. He eschews detail because most Americans don’t believe we’re a racist, heartless, imperialist cesspool of exploitation. The details would be disqualifying.

(snip)

Could they really have been friends? Well, Ayres is virtually channeling Michelle Obama and Jeremiah Wright when he wails that American “society is not a just and fair and decent place.”

“God, what a great country,” he scoffed to the Times. “It makes me want to puke.”

Hey, right back at you there, Professor. At least that’s how most of us are likely to feel. But not Sen. Obama. And that’s why Ayres — like Khalidi and Wright and Michelle Obama, and others who know the senator well while we’ve been told precious little — sees in Barack Obama the change he’s been waiting for.

No thanks.

............

If you really want to know the talking points the Repub's are going to use against Obama you should read the entire document. It is really full of very demeaning things. I think Lou Dobbs should go to Fox News! Hannity would welcome him with open arms!!!!!!!!

[El Pinko]

34. Aw, poor pig-eyes.

He can't handle a woman with a spine.

[nashville_brook]

35. WOW! what a spoiled sport. he lost his cool b/c she won the point. bathroom sex off limits

but 40 year old weather underground is a-okay. lame. scarborough is a pussy. whoda thunk it?

[Postman]

36. This is how cry baby fascists act when the can't win an argument.

fuck him and his phony assed feigned objectivism.

[Supersedeas]

38. got his @$$ handed to him -- and Rachel pats him on the butt and has a beer with him afterwards

[KoKo]

40. You are saying "Media all in Bed with Each Other." Pull Stunts for Ratings?

Yeah...probably the truth of it. You don't appear on Networks or Cable unless you've sold part of your soul. :-(

[Lint Head]

43. So. He doesn't want to talk about his dead intern in Florida?

He just wants to talk about how John McCain is old a wise? Joe Scarface is a shill for the Republicans. He pretends to be understanding so Democrats will listen to him and his point. But I think he is a sociopath. :dem:

[Eurobabe]

44. He's got a problem with women, that is evident.

[bunkerbuster1]

46. and now having seen the clip, Joe's argument makes no sense.

Even on Joe's terms, he's inconsistent. He keeps harping the "unknown" Obama, comparing him to McCain's "25 years of public service."

What about Obama's 20 years of public service? How is he "unknown" when he was a bestselling author prior to running for the Senate?

It's a horseshit argument. And then he gets all pissy when Rachel brings up GOP dirt that nobody in the GOP wants brought up? Tough shit.

[Richard Steele]

47. K&R

[Daphne08]

49. Scarborough is a jerk. Period. n/t

[librechik]

52. Smartie Joe--gets the last word, then splits before Rache can de-pants him in public again

:rofl:

[Dr Fate]

53. REAL debate with REAL Liberals is not easy, is it Joe?

Years of debating strawmen didnt prepare you for the real thing, huh?

So sorry.