Lessons In Civil Discourse

Posted on 02/20/2009 at 7:27 pm by Bob Cesca

Shouting down in-studio guests? Awesome!

Accusing in-studio guests of “living in a fantasy world?” Civility!

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  • JackDanieL

    blinding narcissism

  • ConstanceRifleII

    Hey Bob, I really hope Scarborough invites you on his show. I would love to see you take him down a peg or two.

  • rick390

    Nice discourse on the subject Joe. You say to your guest “you’re living in a fantasy world” ergo you are an idiot, now go ahead and state your opinion and I won’t say anything more.He doesn’t say how he knows that waterboarding has produced a windfall of intelligence only that it has. I suppose we’re just expected to believe him like we did Bush when he said there were WMDS in Iraq.And he wonders why we think he is a douche.

  • HaremScarem

    If Joe doesn’t invite you on his show, then he is scared of you. Simple as that.

  • Packy

    I’m NOT doing it, Bob!I’m NOT watching this clip!I KNOW what will happen to me if I do!

  • GIthePotato

    These clip brings up so many questions but the only one I want answered is, HOw THE FUCK IS JOE AN EXPERT ON TORTURE? This leads into some many homophobia GOP scenarios that I may not want the answer. But as someone that is in the military and has detained Iraqis, I guarantee you that I know more about harsh interrogation techniques than I ever wanted to know and Joe I Killed My Congressional Aide Scarborough.

  • bibimimi

    Scarb’s job under attack by Alan “Black” Keyes.MSNBC re-treads! Half the wits for half the price!!!

  • http://freeforallpolitics.multiply.com/ Cody

    You’re the bigger man, Bob.We get it.Don’t obsess on Scarborough.Get back to doing what you do best.

  • joshd

    BOB. You must, now that you are on his radar, issue a formal challenge for Joe Scarborough to be willingly waterboarded. (Or, as the torturers of the Inquisition referred to, as it was their invention, “The Water Cure.”)Christopher Hitchens, a man in far worse health and vitality, ponied up and did this. Let him see how a quick pep-talk about the non-lethality of it will see him through. Take bets on how many seconds he lasts.Please. Make it a mission. Let him get waterboarded live on Morning Joe, keep an Olbermann count of how many days he refuses to do so. This dumbshit is objectively pro-torture. He’s a traitor to the Constitution.This creepy fuck is literally everything that is wrong with America.

  • Nanotyrannus

    I like the way he made the concept of sleep deprivation sound like maybe they were up for just a day or two.He doesn’t know what works. Someone in the Bush administration (of course) told him what works, and like a good, scared little man, he now strenuously asserts it as fact. And if you don’t believe him, then you don’t understand the dangers we face!I’ll give him this though- at least he doesn’t say “democrat congress”…

  • JDS

    I would like to know how the moderating works on Huffington Post. I have read through (too) many of the posts on Scarborough’s piece, and they are all complimentary. That can’t be real. Plus I posted one that is not complimentary and so far it is not up. Same for my friend.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    I could only get through about 6 minutes of that video before wanting to punch a hole through my monitor. What an egotistical sonofabitch. He knows about torture? What does he do, jack off to 24 on DVD? He knows waterboarding works and doesn’t think it’s torture?! What a slimy, douchebag.The funny thing is, he’s completely on the opposite side of what professional interrogators all agree on regarding credible information obtained using torture. AND he was wrong on the closing of Gitmo and Christyane was right.What a know-nothing prick.

  • jane

    Carl, my favorite part is about 6:00 in when he compares himself to Zbigniew and says “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”Later he sucks his Starfucks skinny mochachino and says “I think we should go to break.”Fucking pussy.

  • FlipOffReseaerch

    What an idiot! I got into an argument with a local bitter about torture. He goes: “If torture saves just one American is it worth it” I’m like “well the info is unreliable” Then he’s all “is it worth it! is it worth it! is it worth it!” Finally I go no. He says “well your a traitor then, and I don’t want you to ever talk to me again.” Big whup.Actually if he had let me get a word in edgewise and could get away from regurgitating whatever insanity Rush had fed him through an oxycontin stupor, I could have pointed out how torture had contributed to over 4000 American deaths. One of the justifications for the war in Iraq was the claim about the mobile chemical warfare labs. From what I understand that info was elicited through torture. Under torture people will tell you what they think you want to hear just to make it stop. And the war criminals in the Bush administration wanted to hear nothing more than implications of Iraq and WMD. Experienced interrogators have stated that rapport building not torture is the most effective means of gaining intelligence.So, anyway I think Joe is being a rude ignorant cad to Chrystia in this clip. I would love to contrast this with Zbignews schooling of Joe’s ignorant sputterings about the Isreal Palistine mess.Apropos of nothing anyone with time to blow can check out my cartoons listed below:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcIp7tdaliMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1eDYs4Tunc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM7fwLtvWqchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEe3-3agY18

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Carl, my favorite part is about 6:00 in when he compares himself to Zbigniew and says “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

    Jane – I think that’s when I threw up a little in my mouth and made me stop watching. He comes across as such a fucking misogynist. You never see him interrupt men as often and as rudely as that.

  • cminri

    I hope someone posted that link in the comments over at HuffPo yesterday. Those people need a reminder of what kind of a asshole Morning Joke really is. Also.

  • Sierradrinker

    I would really love to see Joe get waterboarded. He claims it’s not torture, so it won’t do any permanent damage. See if you can get him to admit he’s a democrat under duress. I am not advocating that someone strap him down and forcibly torture him, but see him have it done in a similar fashion as another journalist (can’t remember his name, but I’m sure someone can find it on youtube.)