I love these staged Morning Joe debates in which Joe cajoles an expert to come on the show to, first, stroke Joe for his paint-by-numbers cookie-cutter issues book, then to "debate" one of the issues, which actually amounts to Joe filibustering at length with the same recycled chunks of wankery -- most often including the phrase "when I was elected to Congress."
Today, it's Doris Kearns Goodwin who will take the fall in the name of Joe's gigantic yet fragile ego.
Adding... Just now, Joe was complaining to Goodwin about how awful it is for the left to accuse people of being racists, and how awful it is for people on the right to accuse the left of being "communists." It's not civilized discourse, he says. Yeah, instead, Joe uses "socialists" as a pejorative. This way, he's not guilty, but he gets to spread the same red-baiting message. Very serious! He's good people.