By Mark Finkelstein
On Thursday’s Morning Joe, not content to boast about his insider status with the Biden campaign, Joe Scarborough disparaged his panelists for their inferior sources.
Said Scarborough:
“Just for people at home, it’s important for them to kind of see what’s behind the scenes. I have, for six months, since people have been freaking out about Biden’s team. I’m telling you, every time I go in and talk to anybody that’s running the campaign, the big part of the campaign. I don’t know what they’re telling you and what they’re telling other people. They’re like, they act like people that are holding four aces. . . . They’re supremely confident.”
Yes, Scarborough doesn’t know what his colleagues are being told by the envelope lickers in the Biden campaign, but when Joe “goes in,” he talks to the people running “the big part of the campaign.” Impressive!
In addition to letting us know that the Biden people are “supremely confident,” and act like they’re holding “four aces,” Scarborough confided that the top campaign people “know something that I think a lot of us don’t know.”
This sounds a lot like Scarborough trying to buck up the morale of Biden voters — and donors — in light of the recent New York Times/Siena poll showing Biden losing in five out of six swing states.
Yesterday, we noted Scarborough’s frantic effort to tear down that poll, going so far as to claim that the Times intentionally rigged it against Biden in order to be able to write multiple clickbait stories on the results.
As is its wont, Morning Joe opened today’s show with a clip from one of the liberal late-night hosts. In this case, it was Jimmy Fallon, imagining Trump accepting Biden’s offer to debate “assuming it’s okay with my parole officer.”
That won raucous laughter from Fallon’s audience, and presumably as well from most Morning Joe viewers. But it amounts to an admission that the multiple trials entangling Trump, led by Democrat prosecutors, do indeed make campaigning difficult for him. Fallon might find that hilarious. But it could well elicit sympathy for Trump from many voters.
We’ll see who has the last laugh, Jimmy.
Editor’s note. This appeared at Newsbusters and is reposted with permission.