MSNBC’s Scarborough Blasts Media Hypocrisy Regarding Obama Foreign Policy
- Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:58pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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As liberals openly parade around Washington, cable news, and the blogesphere condemning Dick Cheney, his new memoir, and his foreign policy during the Bush administration, MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough took some time to point out the media’s hypocrisy for not being just as upset, or even more upset, regarding Obama’s foreign policy. According to Scarborough, the “Obama Doctrine” has been a continuation of the Bush/Cheney policies, and in some cases led to even more atrocities.
“See That makes you feel better to call Dick Cheney a liar,” he told liberal commentator Jeffrey Sachs.
“It makes me feel miserable,” Sachs responded.
Scarborough, though, wasn’t having any of it: “It makes you feel better to call him a liar, and maybe it makes it easier for you to admit, that Barack Obama is actually even more excessive on some fronts as far as unilateralism goes.”
For nearly 10 minutes Monday morning, Scarborough pointed this out and railed against the media:
Real Clear Politics has a transcript of some of Scarborough’s most poignant remarks:
“I am stunned that the national media in the United States of America has remained silent over the past three years while Barack Obama has pushed a policy that has us bombing countries where war has not been declared and deciding to kill 15, 20 people to incinerate 3-year-old, 4-year-old children and 80-year-old grandmothers that happen to live in the same home as a terrorist, as a target.
“That somehow, this is a moralistic approach to warfare. More moralistic than Dick Cheney and George W. Bush’s approach which is: You send in the United States troops at great risk, you kick down doors, and try to protect everybody inside the house. You grab the terror target, and then bring them out and then take them out of the country and then interrogate them.
“That somehow it is more moral to kick down the door and shoot somebody through the eye, or more moral to blow up their entire family and kill little children than it is to take them out and deprive them of sleep for a couple of weeks.”
All this makes one wonder what candidate Obama might think of some of President Obama’s campaign promises:
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califpatriot
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:30pmOMG! Why is Mika still there? She gives women a bad reputation, just glad I’m not a blonde too. What a waste of a chair; why not put a pinata there instead, at least when the debate gets heated, they can pass out sticks and hit it. Just a thought.
Report Post »Bernard
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:10pmThis time, strangely I am on Obama’s side and I disagree with Scarborough,. It is the very reason of “zero collateral damage” that we are losing so many wars. During world war two, we narrowly won that war because of the incessant carpet bombing on Europe, especially on Germany. Yes plenty of babies, children and grandmothers were incinerated in Germany and Germany replied in a similar manner on London and on our Cargo ships which did not carry arsenal (the only exception being the Lusitania, a British cruise ship that indeed did carry arsenal, a secret that only was revealed in 2005). the ultimate example was the two atom bombs we dropped on Japan, incinerating entire nursing wards full of babies, retirement homes filled with the elderly etc and our excuse was that by using those bombs we saved more American lives. Sadly it only has delayed the mass death of our soldiers, since now in the 21st century we have China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, England, France, Israel, USA, and potential powers such as Germany and Japan who also could use the same excuse we used in using the nuclear bomb.
Report Post »If a third world war was to happen every nuclear nation will say “it is better to use the nuclear bomb thereby saving more of our soldiers” when they launch missiles on our own cities.
DanWesson455
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:20amJoe, you got me feeling so up and down about you it is like riding a parachute amusement ride. Get on the bandwagon and stay this course. O’Bambam will need all the bashing he deservedly deserves from you and PMSNBC and any other lame stream media that has the light bulb go off, finally.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 1:44pmYeah, I’m not at all sure what I should think about this. He‘s seemed like such an ideologue for so long it’s hard to trust him now that he seems sane.
Perhaps he’s actually doing some of his own homework? Could Scarorough be having a “Dennis Miller moment”?
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:45pmObama apologists, all of them. Mika is an a**.
Report Post »manjodad
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:49amLet’s give Joe credit for the kind of fair and balanced commentary that we need to see more of. He is able to articulate a scenario that points fingers at the left and the lefty press. He did it while being able to quiet all the guests from spinning as they so often do. He raised points which were valid. Now, the question is, will all those lefties who watch his show be able to see the point that he makes so clearly and as such, clear up the fog that covers so conviently their mental picture of the savior Obama.
Report Post »Skan
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:37amDid you take notice of Mika in this video? She’s squirming in her seat looking VERY uncomfortable about Obama, her true love.
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:25amHe’s recently been on vacation, must have spent some time with his mom, she always reminds him of the meaning of the word is, usually only lasts a few days or a week tops… His weak little mind always returns to being overpowered by the far left media leanings of the people he surrounds himself with. Thank God they feature Pat Buchannan often, no chance that that great mind will fail us. Pat rolls them around in a wheel barrow. Check out his latest, PURE cohones!
Report Post »King_Rum
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:46amIs this an audition for Fox or has MSNBC turned a corner?
Report Post »Anne G
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:35amWhy did they kill him instead of bringing his ass back here to the United States? Put him on trial and let us all revel in his humiliation. We waited 10 long years.
Report Post »DonaldH
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:40amThey’re all full of crap!!! I really don’t care what Joe has to say,,, about anything!!
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:09amWhen Hillary jumps into the race Sarah will have to come in and stop her. The fact that Obama cannot will
Report Post »soon hit home to the liberals.
discus02
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 2:11amObama = A two faced lying sack of crap from Chicago of all places. Abe Lincoln must be rolling over in his grave!
Report Post »Booberry
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:47amI agree with the sentiment, but fortunately Abe was born in Kentucky.
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 1:11amScarborough did not go far enough but hey it is MSNBC and if he gets any more down on the dear leader he could be fired. He should accussed the dear leader of destroying the economy then blaming everyone else while his Federal Reserve Chairman annouces he has no remedies to improve the economy. He also could of asked for Bernankes resignation but again it is MSNBC and Obama likes to dine with the CEO of Comacst who owns the dear leader channel.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 1:08amexpect 4 more years of this policy under obama or any of the mainstream republican candidates…
QUESTION BOLDLY. when you look at your candidates records!! we cant afford any more neocons in office….
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:30pmScarborough is still a loser.
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