Is Joe Scarborough Really Crawling Back To Donald? Really?
There's rumors Joe and Mika went to Trump Tower last week to try to patch things up. Ugh.
Word on the street is that Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski (one has to assume, accompanied by a network lawyer, a producer, and marching orders from Phil Griffin) trekked their way to Trump Tower to meet with the GOP nominee for President in an attempt to patch things up.
Right wing sites on that list linked above report that Scarborough has "pushed back" on the reports as being full of "lies and half-truths." So that means part of it IS true, Joe? CNN Money:
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— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) September 19, 2016
There's really no need to refresh the argument I made last month. Everybody knows why the Morning Joe crew has to maintain a relationship with Trump, no matter how bad he gets:
(a) The suits upstairs insist that this election be a horserace no matter what.
(b) All Manhattanites must lick the boots of anyone who might be a millionaire because the charity events and chardonnay parties that "this town" depends on need that veneer of "money."
(c) Scar has sucked up to Donald so many times he actually thinks they're friends.
(d) Republican brand loyalty.
Several times in the past year Donald Trump's behavior has been too much either for Scarborough or for the suits upstairs at MSNBC, and Joe always refers to those times (hanging up on Donald, screaming on air about his loutishness, etc) as proof positive that he's unbiased when it comes to the man who is now, let's not forget, the Republican nominee for President of the United States.
When Donald gets really bad, Joe goes on a long rant about how Trump is actually a Democrat. Which actually confirms (d) above, that the real problem for Scarborough is not whether Trump is loutish or not, but whether that behavior damages the Republican brand.
It destroys the Republican brand if I have anything to do with it, Joe. And many of us will be taking to social media constantly in the next two years to make certain the brown stain of Trump remains firmly exposed on the underpants of the Republican Party. Given that Reince Priebus and a plethora of Republican Party surrogates are happy to attend Trump rallies, defend his birther lies, and say everything's fine, we don't see a problem with that.