For a couple of months now Joe Scarborough (pontificating daily during his three-hour time slot on MSNBC) hasn't missed an opportunity to smear Al Franken and the Minnesota recount process. And I've often thought that it's a shame that Keith Olbermann really can't include a fellow MSNBC colleague in his Worst Person segment. Because Scarborough truly is one of the Worst.
Tonight, though, Olbermann went after Rush Limbaugh for lying about the Minnesota recount, and mentioned that Limbaugh wasn't the only one peddling these lies, but was the "foremost" prevaricator. And the lie that got Limbaugh a featured spot in Worst Persons? Exactly the same trash that Scarborough was spreading yesterday on MSNBC.
Yesterday, Media Matters called out Joe Scarborough:
Summary: MSNBC's Joe Scarborough falsely suggested that assertions in The Wall Street Journal about the Minnesota Senate race were the result of "reporting," including the Journal's reference to "double counting" in the race. But in claiming that there was "double counting," the Journal did not cite reporting and echoed an accusation by the campaign of the incumbent, Republican Norm Coleman.
Tonight on Countdown, Keith made the same complaint about Rush Limbaugh mischaracterizing the sourcing for his lies about the Minnesota recount:
KEITH: But the bald-faced lying about sourcing in this is something new and special...the Wall Street Journal does not have a story on this. Its rabid, fire-breathing, lunatic-fringe editorial page wrote a screed about it.
And then he added:
Limbaugh is not the only commentator on radio or TV who has deliberately misrepresented a partisan Wall Street Journal editorial as a "news story", but he is the foremost of them.
Ouch! That's gotta hurt. I hope Joe Scarborough gets the message. He's Rush Limbaugh with a smaller audience.
Watch the fun:
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