SCARBOROUGH vs. O'REILLY?

"And I challenge you to debate me anytime, anyplace, anywhere..."
-Joe Scarborough

Crooks and Liars and Media Matters found this new feud...

There is too much to post, so you are just going to have to follow the links...

C&L:

Scarborough: And I challenge you to debate me anytime, anyplace, anywhere, and find one thing I have said on this program over the past year that is not consistent with the conservative congressman who was against military adventurism when I was in Congress, that was against exploding deficits, that was against reckless spending and against turning Congress into the type of swamp that we Republicans have turned it into over the past six years!

That doesn‘t make me liberal, that makes me conservative! That may make you, though, a suck-up, if you defend the Republicans that have done that to this country and to our party over the past six years! (full transcript below the fold)

LINK: Scarborough challenges O’Reilly to a debate

MM:

...[O]n The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly falsely claimed, "There isn't one conservative ... not one conservative commentator that works for NBC News at this time." In fact, at least two MSNBC hosts -- Scarborough and Tucker Carlson -- are known conservatives. Scarborough is a former Republican Florida Congressman and Carlson is a well-known conservative commentator who used to write for the conservative publications Policy Review and the Weekly Standard, in addition to formerly being the conservative co-host of CNN's now-canceled program Crossfire.

LINK: Scarborough blasts O'Reilly for being GOP "suck-up"

This could be very interesting...
-Mr. Joseph

The Apocalypse (Now?)

Crooks and Liars recorded this clip...

On Scarborough Country, the panel of pundits talked about the possible Armageddon in Iraq with al-Sadr in the middle of everything.

I wonder if the right wing punditry class will look to lock up the NY Times because they leaked info that could cause a regional war in the Middle East? Oh wait, I forgot. The Bush administration were the leakers that made al-Maliki look weak to the Times—which caused him to diss Bush–so that's not really a problem. But they did agree not to divide Iraq into three parts…

Wingnuts...
-Mr. Joseph

Conservative Pundits Smear Helen Thomas

From Media Matters regarding the smear campaign against Helen Thomas.

Summary: After the contentious exchange between Hearst Newspapers columnist Helen Thomas and President Bush during Bush's March 21 press conference, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly and several other conservative commentators rushed to attack Thomas. O'Reilly accused her of "hat[ing] Bush and try[ing] to undermine everything he does," and even suggesting that if he were Bush, he "would have laid her out." Several other conservative media figures -- including Jonah Goldberg, Fred Barnes, Glenn Beck, and Tucker Carlson -- have followed suit, sometimes with highly personal attacks.

LINK: O'Reilly, others smear veteran journalist Helen Thomas over exchange with Bush

Enjoy!
-Mr. Joseph

"You've done enough damage to the GOP!"

Here is a great video clip from Scarborough Country of Mary Carey talking about her experiences with Republicans in Washington D.C.

Enjoy!

LINK: Mary Carey on Scarborough Counry

-Mr. Joseph