MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Bursts Into Laughter Over Mitt Romney Ohio Flub [Video]
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Joe Scarborough’s reaction to a clip of the latest Mitt Romney flub on Tuesday’s Morning Joe was completely impromptu and unscripted, but you’ve got to give the MSNBC host points for honesty.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski was reporting on Romney’s intent to plan more appearances alongside VP running mate Paul Ryan in order to inspire more excitement for the GOP hopeful’s campaign. Along with the report, she played a clip of a Romney appearance in which he awkwardly tried to get the crowd to start chanting his name. Scarborough, at this point, burst into laughter.
A few things you should know about Joe: Like many MSNBC pundits, he has long been a vocal critic of Mitt Romney. Earlier this month, he tweeted some “advice” for the GOP candidate, writing: “Romney will lose if he doesn’t dramatically change his strategy,” and continuing, “Negative ads won’t substitute for conservative ideas.”
He concluded: “The Romney campaign is not conservative. It is just as cynical and risk-averse as Team Obama. A real conservative would be winning now.”
He has also offered some pretty good critiques of Romney’s campaign as it relates to conservatism as a whole: “Romney has been clear he will avoid specifics on balancing the budget and shrinking government. Not the Reagan and Thatcher way,” he wrote in another post. “The truth is that Thatcher would have lost in 1979 and Reagan would have lost in 1980 if they had run as timid a campaign ad [sic] Mitt Romney.”
After watching this particular clip, Scarborough could only cover his face and laugh. “Oh, sweet Jesus,” he remarked. Brzezinski mostly remained composed, while Ed Rendell grinned ear to ear.
Here’s the clip, showing Romney’s painful appeal to the Dayton crowd and Joe Scarborough’s humorous reaction:
Tags : dayton, joe scarborough, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney campaign, mitt romney flub, mitt romney ohio, msnbc, ohio, Paul Ryan, video
Posted: September 26, 2012
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Sep 27, 2012
The crowd was actually chanting for Romney. He had the grace to add Ryan's name to the chant. Puts another whole spin on things, doesn't it?
Sep 27, 2012
Just so false…..the crowd was chanting Romney minutes before this clip and if anyone would care to REALLY listen they were chanting Romney, Romney and Romney made them change it to Romney/Ryan…and Joe if you are going to wrongly accuse someone of being an idiot try remember how dumb you look wrongly repeating a very holy Catholic prayer…Holy Mary Mother of God…and no I'm not Catholic. Used to admire Joe as being semi unbiased…just showed your colors Joe!!
Sep 28, 2012
Another misleading video by Msnbc. The video was proven false by left leaning sites like the huffington Post. What they said happened didn't happen everything that they said it was proven false. It shows what a liar Joe Scarborough is!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/joe-scarborough-romney-ryan-sweet-jesus_n_1915975.html?utm_hp_ref=media
or
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/another-msnbc-scandal-blaze-readers-at-campaign-event-claim-network-misled-in-video-of-rally-chant/
Sep 28, 2012
NBC is the worst for false info and it doesn't even bother them when New York Times calls them out for their lies. Why do people even watch them you know everything is distorted. They are so in bed with Obama Come on Beck take them down.
There's only one place to get the news http://www.video.theblaze.com/index.jsp "The Project" is going to run again Sun @9pm. Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood are taking America down. What the gov and the news media aren't telling you. Thank God Beck has his own network and don't have to answer to anyone. The Truth Lives There.
Sep 29, 2012
Points for honesty when the whole performance is an outrageous lie?
Sep 29, 2012
Another reason NOT to watch that network. What a phoney lie that video was. Joe needs to deeply apologize to Romeny and ALL OF US…
Sep 29, 2012
Oh, and by the way, the reason the left does not understand what Romney was doing here, is because they wouldn't recognize character if it bit them in the behind.
Sep 29, 2012
MSNBC is campaigning for Obama again with the editing of Romney's words. Pathetic. These guys are hacks for Obama, not journalists.
Sep 29, 2012
Hitler and Stalin used state-run media to brainwash people. In the US the free and independent media do that.
Media should be reporting facts. One-sided reporting is not the problem, it is the distortion, fabrication, falsification, and outright lies that is the problem. This type of reporting makes The Inquisitir a part of the problem.
Sep 30, 2012
no the crowd was chanting ryan were you there?
Sep 30, 2012
As usual MSNBC had diddled with the tape. Joe is a RINO and his business dealings with Brzezinski have killed any chance of his ever running as a Republican. Go home, Joe.
Sep 30, 2012
How do you take yourselves seriously? Shame on you. People know what you did. Idiots.
Sep 30, 2012
Susan, the only source reporting the chant was Ryan is MSNBC. The New York Times and Politico (two liberal leaning news outlets) both had reporters there and they said it was a Romney chant. In fact I have not read from anyone who was actually in attendance that said it wasn't a Romney chant.
The crowd noise in the video could actually be interpreted either way, in my opinion with the CSPAN feed you could hear Romney’s name and maybe some people saying Ryan too. It was unfortunate that MSNBC decided not to check with anyone in attendance and plaster a close caption “Ryan” title with their video report to sway the listening audience to interpret hearing Ryan’s name only.
The crowd noise from the video can be argued either way. I have no idea if the tape has been “doctored”, but what can’t be argued is all those in attendance, including news reporters, state the chant was Romney. MSNBC reporting looks a little foolish now….
Oct 21, 2012
I use to watch "Morning Joe" every morning but he feel right in line with Matthews and all that liberal spin tank at MSNBC.
Can't stand the show anymore. Honesty is something MSNBC knows nothing about.
They are so biased it hurts to watch them.