So I was making my early morning routine blog rounds via the internet. I stopped by the Huffington Post to browse what was happening there. Top story of the day: Joe Scarborough Releases Powerful Antiwar Song.
A decade after the September 11 terrorist attacks, even as thousands of American soldiers have lost their lives overseas, fueling a level of public antiwar sentiment not seen in a generation, there is still no anthem that speaks to this era, that defines it. Joe Scarborough aims to change that.
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The music video, released by Sony Records and put together by JAM, the production company of Scarborough and his MSNBC cohost, Mika Brzezinski...
I kid you not.
According to HuffPost reporter, Paul Needham,
Though his face never appears in the video, Scarborough's song resonates partly because he's the one sending the message. It says something about the antiwar canon of this generation that a conservative has been one of the most vocal critics of America's wars.
Joe Scarborough has been one of the most vocal critics of America's wars? Since when? Scarborough not only happily banged the drum for the invasion of Iraq, he routinely vilified those who wouldn't march along. He argued in 2003 on MSNBC that anti-war protesters should be arrested and charged with sedition. He went on the Daily Show in 2003, telling Jon Stewart that the mainstream media should talk more about the positive stories that are coming out of Iraq.
It does appear unseemly that an individual who was strongly pro-war and who shook his pom-poms in support of the Bush administration actions and casually defended the indefensible is now releasing an anti-war music video just days before the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. And while it does have a familiar feeling like another republican finding yet another way to squeeze a buck out of 9/11, maybe Scarborough has a genuine change of heart about the wars that he vehemently argued for.
Who knows what's deep in the heart of others. People can change. But lets keep it real about who has been one of the most vocal critics of America's wars, and who has not. It's important to remember.