Morning Joe At Its Worst

Posted on 03/19/2010 at 5:58 pm by Bob Cesca

This video could be one of the most infuriating segments on Morning Joe ever.

Joe’s rant at the top is basically another reading of the same rant he’s been rattling off since the Fall. You remember the one: the health insurance industry loves this bill — the stock market for example. Of course Nate Silver and others totally debunked any relationship between the stock price of insurance companies and the healthcare reform bill’s success/failure.

But the way he’s approaching this — seemingly from the left — is concern trolling at best. It’s entirely disingenuous. His argument is basically that this is a huge giveaway to the private insurance industry without restriction or regulation. I mean, he even went off about there being no public option. Uh-huh. Joe Scarborough is seriously a fan of the public option. Right. Yup.

The fact of the matter is that Joe’s solution to the healthcare crisis has always been the boilerplate GOP position. In other words, nothing. Correction: practically nothing. He’s said it a million times: Allow insurance companies to sell across state lines, and, you know, tort reform. So he means to tell us that this reform legislation is excellent for the insurance companies — which makes it a bad bill. Yet his solution is to further de-regulate insurance companies?! And tort reform, which analysts suggest will only reduce costs by one or two percentage points?!

Then there’s Peggy Noonan. Find me a serious economist who will agree that the solution to the economic crisis and the “Great Recession” should have been reducing the deficit. I can’t find one. Furthermore, the healthcare reform bill reduces the deficit by $1.4 trillion over 20 years!

I’m glad Howard Dean could sit there with a grin and listen to such a steaming heap of horseshit being repeated on national television, because I’m with Congressman Weiner — I would’ve erupted into a tirade to end all tirades.

Speaking of which, no, Peggy, not everyone has mastered your insufferable passive aggressive hackery. Heaven forbid a Democrat raise his voice.

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  • Nicole473

    Grrr…….I would love to pull Peggy’s hair out. And MJ makes me nauseous.

  • Allonfla

    Say what? Howard Dean was there and didn’t say anything? they would have shut my mic off. I cannot STAND that woman, I feel like trapping her in an elevator and just smacking her a few times – she makes me have violent thoughts.

  • bjritz

    She needs to live for a month in a middle class home and see how the economy works for the rest of us. She just lives in her own mind and can’t listen to anyone else speak besides the voice in her own head. I don’t know why she is given any air time.

  • MrBrink

    The double-standard is amazing.Best Graph Ever!Courtesy of Rachel Maddow:“Deficit Hawks? The Numbers Don’t Add Up”“Critics of the cost of the bill include the same Rep. Phil Gingrey and the same Rep. John Boehner who voted for the Medicare Part D drug benefit in 2003. When the CBO scored that bill, at that time, the CBO said that bill would raise the deficit by $394 billion, and yet, Phil Gingrey and John Boehner, now so piously concerned about how much things cost, happily voted for Medicare Part D anyway.”"When Republicans passed the Bush tax cuts that same year, the CBO score of that one at that time said that legislation would raise the deficit by $349 billion. And Republicans, including Phil Gingrey, had no problem voting yes. When Republicans passed the first Bush tax cuts in 2001, the CBO score of that one at that time said it would raise the deficit by $1.3 trillion — trillion with a “T.” And Republicans, including John Boehner, went along for that ride, too.”

  • alopecia

    I saw the clip this morning and wanted to reach through the monitor and throttle the insufferable Peggy Noonan. Joe Scarborough, I wanted to punch. Is there a school where these people go to learn how to be annoying?

  • ceu

    Anthony Weiner slapping the crap out of her was a joy to behold. Started my Friday off right.

  • LAH

    Every time I see Peggy Noonan, I am reminded of something my Grandma used to say about Barbara Bush.”Watching her talk is like getting beat to death in a pillow fight!”

  • eve

    I hadn’t thought of her as passive aggressive, but it’s true. A passive aggressive elitist snob.

  • http://www.osborneink.com OsborneInk

    Interesting how he takes up a FDL talking point.

  • caribbeanobserver

    People really still watch this vacuous idle filler for wake-up morning tv? Boy, talk about gluttons for punishment.All those deadbeats used to put me in a filthy mood so early in the day, therefore I refuse to allow them to sit there with their predictable waffling disingenuous ignorant spin and sheiss day in day out!

  • http://extremeliberal.wordpress.com/ Jim in Michigan

    You can tell she lives in her own little world because she can’t look anyone in the eye when she is talking, she looks down most of the time, but clearly can not make eye contact when she is spewing her narrow view of the world. And you can tell that she rarely gets challenged, the Reagan folks worshipped her and it clearly went to her head.

  • MichaelLA

    “Joe Scarborough is seriously a fan of the public option. Right. Yup.”He is, twit. He has had the same opinion since day one: people like his son (diabetic) deserve good care.The amount of ignorance here is literally comedic.