If you thought Joe Scarborough sending his court jester Willie Geist to ask Big Tent bloggers if they eat Cheetos and blog from their mother's basement was a d*ck move, watch how he treats David Shuster in this clip from "Morning Joe." Has there ever been anyone more petty and condescending as he is here? I have to give props to Shuster; I would have gotten up and 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 the fact that you’re an Independent. I bet everyone at MSNBC has “independent” on their voting cards. “Oh, we’re down the 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 the Republican Party.
Transcript below the fold:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I will let you know that "my party," my party, loathes me, much more than your party, the Democratic party, loathes me.
DAVID SHUSTER: Well that's a whole 'nother issue, but the fact of the matter is --
SCARBOROUGH: No, it's not another issue, because you said --
SHUSTER: The party you served with in Congress have repeatedly suggested, they have ridiculed --
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I will let you know that "my party," my party, loathes me, much more than your party, the Democratic party, loathes me.
DAVID SHUSTER: Well that's a whole 'nother issue, but the fact of the matter is --
SCARBOROUGH: No, it's not another issue, because you said --
SHUSTER: The party you served with in Congress have repeatedly suggested, they 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 the fact that you're an independent. I bet everyone at MSNBC has "independent" on their voting cards. "Oh, we're down the 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 the fact is that I'm about as down-the-middle as anybody on television on any network, and you come in with a cheap 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 the 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 and didn't come on this show.
SHUSTER [to fellow panelists]: That's how the argument works.
