An Absolute Joke': Joe Scarborough Deploys His Favorite Insult on Herman Cain & 9-9-9

Is seems Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," is trying to build a track record of publicly railing against Republican presidential candidates. First, he slammed Michele Bachmann back in August. Now, he's moved on to new-found front-runner Herman Cain.

Just to recap, here are Scarborough's tough words for Bachmann:

Michele Bachmann is a joke. She is a joke. And now I will pass it on to you.  Her answer is a joke, her candidacy is a joke, and anybody that sits here and says she has any chance of winning anything is out of their mind.  Take your straw poll, take your caucus, but Iowa, if you let her win, you prove your irrelevance once again.

Watch him dismiss the Minnesota congresswoman, below:

This morning, Scarborough has some similar words for Cain and his 9-9-9 plan (via Business Insider):

A lot of people are saying they like that guy [Herman Cain].  I like Santa Claus. Herman Cain and this 999 thing is just an absolute joke. I said that about Michele Bachmann and people got upset. He is strolling for president.  You look at the amount of time logged, the hours logged in the early primary states... he's just not there. He was in Tennessee the other night.  He was on a book tour. While he is on a book tour he's saying things like he is going to put up electric fences that kill illegal immigrants and when he gets called on, he says, oh, that's a joke. Some kind of joke.

Watch it, below:

(H/T: HotAir.com)