Joe Scarborough un-ironically promotes 'love thy neighbor' politics
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MSNBC morning show host Joe Scarborough is now hypocritically clamoring for a new 'Love thy neighbor' brand of politics after years of attacking President Trump as a "thug" and "not well," according to Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce.
Scarborough, a former Republican U.S. congressman from the Florida district now represented by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is one of a handful of cable news personalities living in an "alternate reality," Bruce said Friday during an appearance on "Hannity."
During a segment on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" this week, Scarborough had praised Washington Post writer David Ignatius' reference to "love thy neighbor" politics as a "political winner" to break what Ignatius described as a "bitter impasse" in America.
"Truer words never written," Scarborough told Ignatius.
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Scarborough asserted that he and co-anchor Mika Brzezinski have spread that type of message when they have traveled the country to hold speaking engagements at colleges and book events.
Bruce remarked that Scarborough must believe he is a "Mister Rogers"-type figure, in a reference to the late PBS children's show host.
She played a montage of Scarborough's past remarks about Trump that she said proved his hypocrisy on the issue through a "rage-filled three years" of bashing the now-president.
"Donald Trump, again being a schmuck," Scarborough said in 2017. "[He's] thinking he can buy people's integrity by inviting them over to the White House."
"It would be like somebody pooping their pants and then people looking at it and saying, 'Oh, that's modern art, don't you understand? -- I'm making a statement against Russian aggression in Crimea'," Scarborough exclaimed in another clip. He also has claimed Trump has an "advanced form" of "political schizophrenia."
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In one of Bruce's clips, Scarborough said Trump "looked like a thug [and] looked like a goon" at a recent NATO summit, adding that Trump appeared to be "mauling" French President Emmanuel Macron with a handshake "like an idiot."
Scarborough also called Trump a "thug" for pushing Montenegran Prime Minister Dusko Markovic during the 2017 summit, moving to the front of a group of world leaders
In reaction to her montage, Bruce remarked that Scarborough and others must believe that Americans "live in a bubble [and] think we're not going to remember this or look back at this."
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