{"id":9412,"date":"2006-12-21T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T21:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9412.html"},"modified":"2006-12-21T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T21:10:07","slug":"if-hes-lost-scarborough-and-barnicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/if-hes-lost-scarborough-and-barnicle\/","title":{"rendered":"If he’s lost Scarborough and Barnicle…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yep, it’s this<\/a> bad.<\/p>\n

MSNBC host, and former GOP congressman, Joe Scarborough, was once a strong supporter of the Iraq and the President, but he has turned harshly critical of both in recent weeks. This may have reached a climax of sorts on Wednesday night, when he welcomed, among others, Boston newspaper columnist Mike Barnicle to talk about the president’s latest statements on Iraq, which seemed to suggest that he was no longer listening to his generals (as he once said he always did).<\/p>\n

This caused all of the guests, as well as the host, to suggest that Bush may be turning “delusional,” with Barnicle going so far as stating that perhaps the generals need a new commander-in-chief soon. Scarborough agreed, saying it was “uncharted territory” and “very frightening.” Bush, he added, is “standing alone! He just doesn’t seem to have any credibility. And this is extraordinarily disturbing to me, as a guy who supported this war and supported this president twice.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Keep in mind, these were two conservatives<\/i> talking, using the kind of rhetoric we’d just as easily find on Air America. Barnicle went on to describe Bush by saying, “I don’t think he knows what he’s saying. I don’t think he comprehends what he’s saying. I do [think he’s delusional]. I don’t think he could explain to us tonight what he meant by what he said today.”<\/p>\n

Barnicle went on to describe a Nixon-like figure. “I think you have a president totally isolated from reality, totally delusional, kind of paranoid, figuring that everyone’s against him, including his own Joint Chiefs of Staff.”<\/p>\n

C&L has the clip<\/a>. I wonder how common this kind of perspective is around dinner table across the country….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yep, it’s this bad. MSNBC host, and former GOP congressman, Joe Scarborough, was once a strong supporter of the Iraq and the President, but he has turned harshly critical of both in recent weeks. This may have reached a climax of sorts on Wednesday night, when he welcomed, among others, Boston newspaper columnist Mike Barnicle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}