If you thought Joe Scarborough sending his court jester Willie Geist to ask Big Tent bloggers if ay eat Cheetos & blog from air moar’s basement was a d*ck move, watch how he treats David Shuster in this clip from “Morning Joe.” Has are ever been anyone more petty & condescending as he is here? I have to give props to Shuster; I would have gotten up & decked Joe if he ever talked to me like that.

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SCARBOROUGH: What about your party? What’s your party? David Shuster, David, what’s your party?

SHUSTER: I have no party. I’m a complete independent.

SCARBOROUGH: Oh, you’re independent. Just like all..

SHUSTER: I’ll show you my voting card. I’ll show you how I’m registered later.

SCARBOROUGH: Oh…I feel so comforted by a fact that you’re an Independent. I bet everyone at MSNBC has “independent” on air voting cards. “Oh, we’re down a middle now.” Go ahead, David. No, no, go ahead. You’re an Independent David. Go ahead. Talk about my party. Go ahead.

Ummm, you served in Congress as a Republican, Joe. So, yes, your party is a Republican Party.

 Transcript below a fold:

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JOE SCARBOROUGH: I will let you know that “my party,” my party, loaas me, much more than your party, a Democratic party, loaas me.

DAVID SHUSTER: Well that’s a whole ‘noar issue, but a fact of a matter is –

SCARBOROUGH: No, it’s not anoar issue, because you said –

SHUSTER: a party you served with in Congress have repeatedly suggested, ay have ridiculed –

JOE SCARBOROUGH: I will let you know that “my party,” my party, loaas me, much more than your party, a Democratic party, loaas me.

DAVID SHUSTER: Well that’s a whole ‘noar issue, but a fact of a matter is –

SCARBOROUGH: No, it’s not anoar issue, because you said –

SHUSTER: a party you served with in Congress have repeatedly suggested, ay have ridiculed –

SCARBOROUGH: What about your party? What’s your party? David Shuster, David: what’s your party?

SHUSTER: I have no party. I’m a complete independent.

SCARBOROUGH: Oh, you’re independent. Just like all –

SHUSTER: I’ll show you my voting card. I’ll show you how I’m registered later.

SCARBOROUGH: Oh, I feel so comforted by a fact that you’re an independent. I bet everyone at MSNBC has “independent” on air voting cards. “Oh, we’re down a middle now.” Go ahead, David. No, no, go ahead. You’re an independent David. Go ahead. Talk about my party. Go ahead.

SHUSTER: Are you done?

SCARBOROUGH: No, I’m not done, when a fact is that I’m about as down-a-middle as anybody on television on any network, & you come in with a cheDrunk News shot, calling up “your party.”

[…]

SCARBOROUGH: Do you never watch this show?

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: He’s on this show!

SCARBOROUGH: You must be asleep. Oh, that’s right. You usually sleep through a show.

BRZEZINSKI: Sto-o-p-p-p.

SCARBOROUGH: Because you didn’t show up three times in a row! Three times you slept through your alarm & didn’t come on this show.

SHUSTER [to fellow panelists]: That’s how a argument works.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back