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Feb. 19, 2013 3:05pm Eddie Scarry

Political commentators Joe Scarborough and and S.E. Cupp are two of the most prominent conservatives in media willing to criticize other conservatives in a big way.

Both work for MSNBC (which they both acknowledge is a left-leaning news channel). Both wrote columns today targeting their colleagues in the conservative media business.

“Conservatives should celebrate the gains they have made in the media world over the past two decades,” Scarborough wrote for Politico. “But their greatest challenge moving forward is to begin breaking down the walls they have built that keeps them locked inside a comfort zone that distorts political reality and cedes great advantages to Democratic candidates. What conservatives must do instead is dare to think different, apply eternal truths to current realities and then start spreading their gospel of conservatism to the swing voters who have rejected them in five of six presidential races.”

A New York Times Magazine feature this weekend questioned whether the Republican Party can be “saved from obsolence.” In the piece, Cupp is quoted as saying “we [on the right] can’t be afraid to call out Rush Limbaugh.”

After facing criticism from the conservative blogosphere, she dug in her heels in a column for the Daily News today…“[T]he point I was trying to make was that the impulse to defend anything and everything that a party heavyweight says — to the death — has the deleterious effect of making conservatives seem irrational and herd-like,” Cupp wrote. “No one is right all the time, and no one is above reproach. Limbaugh, who has frequently criticized Republicans, knows this better than anyone.” She added: “We’ll never win credibility with new voters if we insist everything that every conservative says or does should be defended and justified.”

(Cupp is also a contributor for TheBlaze TV.)

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eddie333
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 11:11pm
Rush has been on top long before Cupp has been around, and he’ll be on top long after she is gone.

Sarah E Cupp is so yesterday

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CommieJuice
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 3:35am
Is this what The Blaze has become? Since when was Joe Scarborough ever a Conservative? Apparently Eddie Scarry thinks Colon Powell is the best kind of Republican if he believes what he writes. Cupp has turned into just as much of a joke as Schmo Scarborough.

Eddie Scarry is nothing more than a Jonathan Strong type, the former disgrace that left The Daily Caller.

If Cupp is the future of the GOP, lord help this country. When Marco Rubio peddled his GOP Amnesty proposal to Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh without opposition or even followup criticism, I knew the GOP left me. I am no longer a Republican, although I would never vote for a liberal of any kind no matter if it’s a D or R next to their name, but I can’t support a party that panders to the liberals who hate them while supporting the liberals destroying the party from within. I can’t support a party that makes the Conservatives go to the back of the bus through anti-Conservative bundlers like Karl Rove. There are 10 issues that mean more than most, the GOP of 2013 are failing on half of them. Leading the way are phonies like Chris Christie. Once the GOP turns into the party of Colon Powell, Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist, John McCain, Scott Brown, Lisa Murkowski and Chris Christie… who needs Democrats with so-called Republicans like them?

Top it all off with Joe Scarborough and S.E. Cupp as the talking heads of the party with reps and leader of the caliber mentioned above… it’s permanently over.

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lillymckim
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:45pm
Screw MSNBC, Joe and “her” not saying her name that would give her too much publicity and she doesn’t deserve any.

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wrturner
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:53pm
SE, we are not irrational or herd-like so we are constantly calling out the so “party heavyweights”; I don’t even know what or who you are talking about. If you are referring to the likes of Rush, Glenn, Mark, Sean, etc, they are generally the only ones looking at things from a constitutional point of view thus don’t need much calling out.

Obviously if you were referring to politicians like Speaker Boehner, Senators Graham or McCain, then absolutely, call these RINOS what they are. And we do. Our radio friends on the other hand usually represent our feelings and sensibilities, so we aren’t (and have no need) defending them, they are defending us.

I find your premise fundamentally incorrect and your use of Rush in making your point unfair and unjust to him, and damaging to your credibility.

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- lillymckim
  Posted on February 22, 2013 at 8:40pm
  Bravo!
  
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woodyee
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:20am
Scarborough a ‘conservative’?

Of course!

And Gaybama is a Republican…

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vaman
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:02am
It’s good to see some moderation in the GOP. Unless the GOP purges itself of the extremists, it will become an extinct party.

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- eddie333
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 11:08pm
  Vaman
  
  WHEN the GOP purges itself of the extremists, it will become an extinct party.
  
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HOLYSMOKES
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:28am
S.E. Cupp and Joe Scarborough are” two of the most prominent conservatives will to crItisize conservatives in a big way”. This is why MSNBS has them on. S.E. Step up to the plate and call out Rush. Let’s hear from you where he’s wrong. I’ve got news for the these so called “conservatives”. Republicans are loosing because they are Democrat lite. There is nothing wrong with the conservative message. The problem is Republicans who blow with the wind, go along to get along so they can be liked. kind of like you S.E Cupp. With friends like you, who needs enemies. Get off my side please.

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lel2007
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:53am
Rush Limbaugh is Right 99.97% of the time. If Cupp and Scarborough want to keep their job a msnbc they’ll need to fall short of that mark.

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- lillymckim
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 3:43pm
  She needed publicity and what better way than to trash Rush.. he is known everywhere she not so much.. unforgivable use of a true Conservative a truth teller for ones personal gain and MSNBC!
  
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Steve-S
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:19am
CALL OUT RUSH LIMBAUGH? How about echoing him? Stop the nonsense with these two being “conservative.” With so much nonsense constantly coming from the left, how does one find time to think an unfavorable Rush quote could even be worth focussing on? You’re conservative? You have the countries best interest in mind? Then focus on the nonstop garbage the left is constantly spewing. The material is endless.

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crusaderx9
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:17am
Lashing out at Rush Limbaugh is absurd. He didn’t run the campaigns, lose an election, or participate as an official spokesperson for the Republican Party. Rush is not the problem.

SE Cupp is surrounding by progressives who are intent on destroying America through lies and distortions and she wants to attack Rush Limbaugh?

SE Cupp does not speak for me and now she can go to hell…

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Tusker00
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:38am
What is it about MSNBC that just eats the brains of Conservatives??? I think that when people get employed by MSNBC, they infect them with brain eating amoebas if they aren’t already eat up. Just look at Schultz, Sharpton, O’Donnell, etc….

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JJStryder
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:30pm
S.E. we don’t have enough problems with liberals, you have to go after conservatives? Has the heat been too hot for you? You and Joe deserve each other. Joe abandoned the cause years ago, why team up with him? Romney was no conservative. McCain and both Bushes were not conservatives. Your too young to remember what Reagan tried to do and the compromises he made to democrats that even he later regretted. Conservatism has never really gotten a chance to govern since Coolidge. And if you watched Glenn Beck, that is what gave us the roaring twenties. It’s been downhill ever since.

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Thetrueamerican
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:12pm
Scarborough and Cupp see the writing on the wall for the conservative movement. But, as comments on this page reveal, the idiots who comprise the GOP and its base will never understand the direction of this country and quite frankly, its great for america. You fools will continue to marginalize yourselfs until even the GOP drops you off and then, tea party conservatism will go the way of the segregationists. If you guys think the problem is that the GOP aren’t conservative of “constitutionalist” enough, then I dare you to nominate an even more conservative person than Romney. That 206 electoral votes you guys got (in a crappy economy, might I remind you) will look like a decent amount.

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- JJStryder
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:23pm
  Challenge accepted. What is that liberal Republicans and democrats have given us in this country that’s so damn great? 16 trillion in debt? 9% unemployment? A devalued currency? Abortion? What is that you are defending? “True American” socialist? Come on I dare you to come up with a list of the great accomplishments of democrats and liberal republicans. All us tea party people are saying is that the constitution was an inspired model of government for America and it has been abandoned. And for what? Exactly? I await you snarky but unresponsive reply.
  
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The-Real-Enrico
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:56pm
Somebody tell S.E to go away. Both Scarborough and S.E are on the wrong side. They are wolves and are barely even clothed.

You would have to be a sheep your self to think they are conservatives.

Obviously Eddie Scarry is a liberal/progressive or just dumb/sheep to suggest that ether of the two are “the most prominent conservatives in media”.

Whats next “Obama is one of the most accurate & knowledgeable constitutional scholar”?

Who are you trying to fool Eddie Scarry?

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shakenblake5432
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:20pm
I don’t know any real conservative media personality who defends everything a fellow CMP says or does. Everyone disagrees at some point. The only thing that I can take from this is that both Joe and S.E. are basically alluding to the fact that Conservatives have to adapt to the changing times just to win political points and elections. I’m sorry but doesn’t your boss, Glenn Beck, continuously talk about not ever compromising your values and principles? Why does everything we conservatives do have to be about politics? Can you just stop with the “adapt” speech? You want to know why the right has been doing poorly in recent elections? It’s partly because the people do not trust the GOP, as well as because they want their entitlement stuff and Obama gives it to them, so they vote for him. Perhaps we should bring back the culture and morality and focus MUCH less time on politics. This is what is destroying us! And if you were not talking about compromising Conservative values, then what were you talking about? Because again, I don’t know any real conservative who blindly follows the right even when they make a mistake. Please give us a real example of what you are talking about, instead of trying to sound “smart” like your fellow liberal colleagues.

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- bitterclinger
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:11pm
  Well said.
  
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- The-Real-Enrico
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:05pm
  Agreed. Joe and Cupp are not constitutionalist and are not conservative by that standard but more like blue dog democrats of the past.
  
  They can take their progressive opinions and go cram it. They are speak of details because they are just using talking point of progressive media and are repeating their propaganda.
  
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ImChiquita
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:28pm
“SE dug her heels in…”

Which is media-speak for “refuses to apologize.”

SE’s very intelligent, I’ll give her that. But a true conservative? I don’t know. It’s weird how I feel about that. Gut instinct tells, not so much. And I WANTED to like her because of Glenn. But there was always something that held me back.

Not an arrogance, per se, but certainly lacking humility.

As for attacking Rush, in essence, she was attacking those of us who like him (or at the least, appreciate the path he’s blazed). Now she’s telling us older conservatives (and I’m in my early 40s) that our ideas are old and tired, and to move out of the way.

Sorry. I’m here to tell you that I am NOT an SE Cupp fan.

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CHESTER MOUSE
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:40pm
Irrational and herd like, Really? not like the Obama butt kisser’s. It doesn’t take long before they drink the kool-aid. Even Glenn been drinking a little. Just loved the way he defended the Tea Party on O’Reilly the other night. This cow ain’t following him either. Perfect example of how power and money can change a person. What goes up, must come down.

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54smom
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:26pm
SE is right. But I think that is what divides us, we don’t agree on everything. If we did Romney would be president.

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- lel2007
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:49am
  If conservatives can’t “come together” to elect someone other than obama they indeed will become extinct as a political party.
  
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M.C.
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:13pm
You got to be kidding me, Eddie Scarry: Joe Scarborough and and S.E. Cupp are two of the most prominent conservatives?? Rush is the most prominent conservative in the media!
Yeah, the best way to win voters is to bash conservatives just to show how crazy, stupid, and dangerous we are. Urgh! Way to go, Cupp!

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MyNameIsUsername
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:06pm
One of the many reasons, that Joe Scarborough is so unlikeable, is because he is such a hypocritical, deceptive, obnoxious, phony, little twit.

Who wants to even hear, such a weaselly hypocrite, like Joe Scarborough anyway?!#%!?

Joe Scarborough lost his conscience somewhere, and he can’t remember where it is.

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Sharon Rose
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:47pm
Never saw either as a conservative. What happened to her so called plan to reach the Universities with conservative ideas? Don’t think she has the time since going with MSNBC.

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Seymour
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:25pm
Yeah people, let’s start tuning into MSNBC. I’d rather stick needles in my eyes. Can’t wait to see Joe Puddles here try to carve out a small space within the Republican Party. Not gonna happen Joe so your best shot for office is to convince as many fellow LIV’s on MSNBC as possible to check that box. Nobody has really heard of you Puddles so you’re out and Ms. Cupp, who are you and why should we care? We don’t so grab Puddles, Rove and try a 3rd party because you’re going nowhere without it.

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Seymour
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:07pm
Maybe S.E. should become an intern for ole Joe. Look Cupp and Scarborough stay on your side of crazy; we’re all stocked up on this side for the next 4 years. Yeah people, Cupp and Scarborough here want us to tune in to MSNBC to get a bead on what our point of view should be, what we’re supposed to be thinking, saying, eating, paying and on and on. Get real Mr. and Mrs. Puddles and simply switch parties. How difficult is that? Joe here is going to garner a lot of Prog votes in 2016 because those are the only ones that take him seriously and the joke is…they don’t. Final MSNBC vote tally, Yogi Bear 55%, Scarborough 3%, none of the above 42%, Cupp . Go get em Tigers…..

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- eddie333
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 11:13pm
  Seymour
  
  Got it – his other intern didn’t fare so well. May she rest in peace.
  
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napoleon_solo
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:43pm
Must be something in the air and water over at MSNBC

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