Joe Scarborough

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Joe Scarborough
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U.S. Representative from Florida's 1st Congressional District
From: January 3, 1995 – September 5, 2001
Predecessor Earl Hutto
Successor Jeff Miller
Information
Party Independent (formerly Republican)
Spouse(s) Melanie Hinton (div.)
Susan Waren
Religion Baptist

Charles Joseph "Joe" Scarborough (born April 9, 1963) is a leftwing conspiracy theorist who hosts a show part-time on MSNBC. He served as a U.S. Representative from Florida's 1st congressional district from 1995 through 2001.[1] He resigned when the body of a girl who worked for him, Lori Klausutis, was found dead in his congressional office.[2] He went on to host MSNBC's Morning Joe and The Joe Scarborough Show on ABC Radio Network. Previously he hosted "Scarborough Country" in primetime on MSNBC. Scarborough pushes wild conspiracy theories such as the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and Jeffrey Epstein's murder by Vladimir Putin.[3] Scarborough previously had been a staunch defender and advocate for Jeffrey Epstein.[4]

Scarborough called for U.S. President Donald Trump to resign in 2017, in line with anti-Trump liberals (although he did call out other liberals reporting fake news about Trump earlier, although this is likely just a pretense to make him look balanced[5]).[6] He also defended CNN after a damaging scandal in which it promoted a retracted anti-Trump fake news story in order to increase its ratings.[7] In July 2017, Scarborough showed how liberal he had become by finally leaving the GOP.[8] He made this switch official on October 12, 2017.[9] In 2017, Scarborough responded to a false story by The Hill by saying that "despite the stupidity of my former party, there is no inner liberal inside of me. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) My party just went bats*** crazy."[10] In July 2018, he stated that the GOP "no longer deserves to survive."[11] In December 2018, he claimed Trump was "the worst president in modern times, and perhaps ever."[12]

Transitioning

After serving in the House as a RINO, Scarborough has come out of the closet as a full-fledged Leftist, bashing Republicans in agreement with MSNBC's leftist agenda. He claimed to be a "conservative" on the show, often touting his supposed credentials within the GOP and the ACU rating he received while in Congress before he worked for MSNBC. He calls himself a "conservative" but frequently bashes conservative principles and people. His stance on gun control shifted drastically and now Scarborough is a firm supporter of new laws restricting gun ownership. To be fair, he is the most conservative host and most conservative MSNBC commentator. Nonetheless, he is at best a centrist and at worst a left-of-center host, and aligns himself with the extreme Left conspiracy theories and hate rhetoric of other hosts such as Al Sharpton. He seemed pleased when it was announced that liberals like Ed Schultz left the network.

Scarborough was elected during Newt Gingrich's 1994 Republican Revolution and served on the Judiciary Committee and the Armed Services Committee. Scarborough voted as a reliable conservative at the time, earning a 95% rating from the American Conservative Union.[13] After leaving Congress he joined the law firm of Beggs and Lane. In recent years Scarborough has come out openly on the Left and has been critical of conservative leaders such as Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, and Glenn Beck. "We have not been conservative as a party, we've been radical."[14] His 2009 book The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise, which was highly promoted on left-leaning media outlets, was unsuccessful in book sales.[15]

Personal

After a live-in courtship of many years, Scarborough married Mika Brezinski, daughter of President Jimmy Carter' National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski who masterminded arming groups affiliated with Osama bin Laden during the Soviet-Afghan War.[16]

On July 20, 2001, at 8:10 AM, the body of Lori Klausutis was discovered on the floor of the North Fort Walton Beach office of Congressman Joe Scarborough of Florida.[17] Klausutis was 28 years old.[18]

See also

  • Token conservative, term describing Scarborough and other media liberals posing as conservatives

External links

References

  1. https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-05-25-scarborough.htm
  2. https://heavy.com/news/2017/11/lori-klausutis-joe-scarborough-murder-florida/
  3. https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1160184410588758018
  4. MSNBC: Clinton's Jeffrey Epstein Connection Could ‘Blow Up’ Campaign.
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihavoqep4XA
  6. Chumley, Cheryl K. (June 6, 2017). Joe Scarborough’s deranged case for Trump to go. The Washington Times. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  7. Bowden, Joe (June 27, 2017). Scarborough defends CNN against Trump: CNN 'has more integrity'. The Hill. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  8. Multiple references:
  9. Multiple references:
  10. Beck, Conor (November 28, 2017). Joe Scarborough Slams ‘The Hill’ for False Story. The Washington Free Beacon. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  11. Wise, Justin (July 20, 2018). Scarborough: GOP ‘no longer deserves to survive’. The Hill. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  12. Bowden, John (December 26, 2018). Scarborough: Trump on track to be ‘worst president of modern times’. The Hill. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  13. http://www.acuratings.org/ratingsarchive/2000/2000House.htm
  14. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/05/03/scarborough-todays-gop-not-too-conservative-its-too-radical
  15. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/06/20/joe-scarborough-conservative-bashing-book-flops-bigtime
  16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLdMdXxKCLo
  17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im3vHOEm-r4
  18. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/07/07/882214/-Why-I-am-blacklisted-by-MSNBC
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