Festivus arrived weeks early on the set of Morning Joe as Squinty Scarborough launched into an airing of grievances against his own audience. It was a bitter and condescending diatribe directed at viewers who feel miffed or even betrayed by his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago last month.
For nearly a decade, MSNBC’s Morning Joe crew of mostly ex spooks and disgraced ex-government officials and TDS infected opinion pimps have been telling viewers what a horrible person DJT is. Scarborough has repeatedly called him a fascist and just this April said you can’t have a “meeting in the middle” with someone like Trump. This is ugly stuff, but the backdrop in front of which Morning Joe has operated.
The issue here is the shift in tone from Scarborough and co-host Meat Puppet Mika since they met with Trump after his victory to restart communications. After the meeting, they told viewers they will wait to see if Trump can approach “all sides” of the political divide and be “a leader who can bring them together,” as if the two had not spent years explaining that such a thing is impossible.
When the hosts did informed their viewers of the visit last month, the viewers and pretty much everyone else went into pillow biting mode. First Maddow exposed as a phony, and now Squinty & Meat Puppet go MAGA?!!
There’s speculation about why Squinty & Meat Puppet are suddenly interested in a “restart” with Trump and acting with “civility.” None of the possibilities portend anything good.
Days after the Morning Joe hosts revealed they met with Trump, CNN published a report – which Scarborough and Brzezinski deny – that they’re afraid of being targeted by Trump when he retakes office. That would be an understandable concern, but if true, this would simply mean Morning Joe is compromised.
Pundits cannot credibly cover a person if they fear that person to the point where they seek a meeting to see if they’re going to be in trouble for saying mean things. But let’s say the hosts are telling the truth when they say they don’t fear Trump.
In that case, the explanation is far worse because that would, for all intents and purposes, mean they were being disingenuous in their commentary about Trump all these years. He’s not that bad after all, they insist, after claiming he’s an irredeemable fascist for whom there is no “meeting in the middle.”
