{"id":23602,"date":"2016-08-21T12:08:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T19:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23602"},"modified":"2016-08-21T12:08:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T19:08:56","slug":"last-weeks-sick-republican-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/21\/last-weeks-sick-republican-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week’s Sick Republican Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish<\/font> things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how sick InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0821Scarborough\"<\/h6>\n
Joe Scarborough makes really lame defense of Trump\u2019s racism.<\/h6>\n

Trump is just playing, Joe Scarborough said on his morning show Friday.<\/p>\n

Really?<\/p>\n

The Morning Joe host has been on the outs with Trump for the past few months, exchanging withering tweets with him and withdrawing his endorsement. But maybe the bromance isn\u2019t all together over. Scarborough not only bought Trump\u2019s lame, blanket, scripted apology this week for saying things that \u201cmay have caused personal pain,\u201d he said that much of what Trump has been doing on the campaign trail has been an act. \u201cThis loud, screaming, racially insensitive, at times race-baiting buffoon that gets behind microphones at political rallies, that\u2019s Donald Trump playing a role,\u201d Scarborough said.<\/p>\n

His guest, adman and fellow white man Donny Deutsch added, \u201cI\u2019ve always found him to be charming, smart, generous of spirit if you ever called him up.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, maybe the Mexicans he maligns and tosses out and the Muslims he bans would just call him up?<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving said that, this man I\u2019ve seen up on the stump is repulsive to me,\u201d Deutsch hastened to add.<\/p>\n

Scarborough bought into the narrative<\/a> that the feeble Trump apology represented the long-awaited and prayed-for pivot that desperate Republicans are longing to see in their nominee.<\/p>\n

Not bloody likely.<\/p>\n

Like Bill O\u2019Reilly, Donald\u2019s white male pals have never heard him say anything racist behind closed doors. Selective hearing is a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n

When people are out committing hate crimes and invoking your name, and children are chanting \u201cBuild the wall\u201d to their tearful Latino classmates, playing a role just does not cut it, Morning Joe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Alternet<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Trump is not serious.  The Pope is not Catholic.  And bears never, ever shit in the woods!  Republicans call MSNBC librul<\/em> propaganda.  Ha!<\/font><\/p>\n

This is just the fifth of five listed sick Republican moments from last week alone.  Click through for the other four.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how sick InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. Joe Scarborough makes really lame defense of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}