How’s this for a message of inclusion? On the final day of 2016, the President-elect of the United States — Donald J. Trump — awoke and Tweeted out this heart. Joe Scarborough is a petulant child: Low- rated morning host shows insufferable arrogance, even when he’s wrong. Last week, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough went on TV and said something false. Watch The Petulant BDSM Slave - femsub and MaleDom on Redtube, home of free Fetish porn videos online. A petulant, red-faced tantrum: George Brandis' allies lose their public war with the law. Reacting to the inflammatory (and often dubious) allegations in Peter Schweizer’s new book, Clinton Cash, Scarborough posited that the government of Algeria made donations to the Clinton Foundation as a way to buy its way off the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. As Politifact and (my former employer) Media Matters pointed out, such an arrangement would have been impossible, given that Algeria has never been on the State Department’s list of terrorism sponsors. So Scarborough was wrong. And today on Morning Joe, he offered a sneering, sarcastic “apology” to Politifact for having the temerity to point out how wrong he was. I’m struggling to recall an instance in which a pundit has so self- indulgently wallowed in his own arrogance and sense of entitlement. Everyone gets something wrong every now and then, and the proper thing to do when those things happen is to correct the record, apologize, and move on. For Scarborough, though, the act of correction is an assault on the misbegotten pride he feels in hosting a low- rated and unwatchable morning news program. First things first: Joe Scarborough seems to believe that because he puts on an “ad- libbed” show that lasts many hours, he enjoys some leeway when it comes to just making shit up. These are the realities, after all, of all of us doing a three- hour rolling conversation without teleprompters or scripts, the very things that every other news show in America is chained to but we aren’t. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Sean Spicer Calls Out April Ryan for Acting Like Petulant Teen at Daily Briefing: Main Entry: pet·u·lant Pronunciation: pech--l nt Function: adjective: marked by displays of rudeness or ill temper - pet·u·lant·ly adverb Pronunciation Symbols. Definition of petulant written for English Language Learners from the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary with audio pronunciations, usage examples, and count. Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by such effects as irritation and distraction from one's conscious thinking. It can lead to emotions. But still I prefaced my remark, but that prefaced remark mattered little to the Clinton arm of Politifact.” Yes, how dare Politifact not do Joe Scarborough the courtesy of highlighting his admission that he was talking out his ass. Having begged off any sort of responsibility for the things he says on his own program, Scarborough then lashed out at Politifact, claiming that they were just picking nits (which, of course, absolves Scarborough from any blame). SCARBOROUGH: So Politifact, let me get this straight. The Clinton Foundation was taking the money, hold on, not to get off the terror list. ![]() They were throwing them money at the same time they wanted to the State Department to get them off a list for their gross human rights abuses towards women. I hope I’ve cleared that up. Because I’ve got more. Have I cleared that part up? Because I don’t want to get it wrong! And any time Politifact calls me out on a footnote, I promise I’m going to come out here and let you know that instead of talking about the Clinton Foundation getting money to possibly get Algeria off the terror list, it would possibly be to whitewash gross human rights violations against women. I’m glad I got that off my chest. Politifact actually noted all of that in their correction of Scarborough – they had a whole section of the fact- check headlined “Human rights violations hamper relations.” But this isn’t a dispute over a “footnote,” as Scarborough’s weaselly, sarcastic rebuttal put it. Inclusion on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terror is not a small thing. If, as Scarborough had posited, the Clinton Foundation had been part of a quid pro quo scheme to let Algeria buy its way off that list and out of those sanctions, that would have been a massive scandal. But whatever, Scarborough was just “ad- libbing,” so it’s no big deal. It’s not Joe Scarborough’s responsibility to be right the first time; it’s Politifact’s responsibility to cut him as much slack as he needs because “Morning Joe” isn’t about facts, it’s about “conversation.”And that leads to the most important question: why does “Morning Joe” still exist? Scarborough is clearly very proud of the ad- libbed, thrown- together format that permits him and his pundit pals to make stuff up in a consequence- free environment, but nobody actually watches the show. Its ratings are abysmal, and yet it soldiers on as a monument to Joe Scarborough’s insufferable arrogance.
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