Via Atrios:
While it is not shown on the clip, and I no longer watch Morning Joe because of the endless idiocy of the two hosts, it is pretty clear what happened here- Time’s Jay Carney told a story off camera about Rahm Emanuel’s habit of using the word “fuck,” but when Carney told the story, he just used the initial “f-” to let them know what he meant. Scarborough then goes on camera and passes on the story, but forgets to use initials, and just blurts out “screaming fuck you at the top of their lungs.”
There are several really funny things about this story. The first is the way Scarborough blurted it out- it was casual, as if he has more than a passing acquaintance with the f-word himself. Someone who really did get his panties in a knot when people used curse words would not be able to effortlessly blurt that out as he did in that clip.
Second, it points out how twisted the inside the beltway priorities still are- these knuckleheads are talking off camera, all aghast that Emanuel has told people to fuck off, and think this is somehow a great sin. It is truly bizarre for a number of reasons, especially for folks who worship “average” and “ordinary” Americans. Average and ordinary Americans use profane language. Go to a sporting event. Watch a movie not made by Disney. Go to the mall. Spend thirty seconds within a hundred yards of any military unit anywhere (I remember some cadences we sang during PT that would make Andrew Dice Clay blush). Or a police department. Or a fire department. People swear. You may not like it, but it is what it is.
But what is even weirder is that these chowderheads are upset about it. Where the hell are their priorities? Just this morning comes the news that AIG has been given another $30 billion bucks, and that is billion with a “b.” We also learned that the Treasury just gave banks $150 billion in tax breaks, on top of the $700 billion in free loot they got from us.
Our government is actively f–king the American public in what looks to be systematic looting, and what has some in our media upset is that Obama’s chief of staff may be a potty mouth. Let me be the first to tell these idiots to go Cheney themselves.
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Here is Obama roasting Emanuel in 2005:
Skip to about five minutes in for a joke about Rahm and the middle finger.
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So, it turns out that Joe is a massive hypocrite. Shocking, I am sure. The funniest thing about this is that Joe hails from the Redneck Riviera in Florida, where the f-bomb is not an unknown word.