Regular Joe

Is that the same Christopher Hitchens recently excommunicated by tehe Left?

I remember, back in the day, when snotty blueblood Republicans would sniff that supposedly populist lefty leaders–union bosses, Democratic party kingpins, troublemaking lawyers, ethnic/racial community leaders, and so on–were mere hypocritical nouveau wannabes in expensive suits, flaunting their non-membership in a club they actually desperately wanted to join. Said lefties would of course respond by fulminating even more angrily at the inbred elitists that wanted to keep their privileges to their own kind, and deny them to folks of ordinary pedigree.

The righties would call the lefties corrupt demagogues, the lefties would call the righties pampered, privilege-protecting elitists, and so it went. Of course, many of the lefties were corrupt demagogues, and many of the righties were pampered, privilege-protecting elitists. And how you voted depended on whether you were more afraid of the callous people above you holding you down, or the unruly people below you trying to take your place.

Plus c,a change, as they say….

Not being a Christian, I’m afraid I’m unfamiliar with Jesus’ teachings with respect to the estate tax. Maybe Joe can provide some information.

Doesn’t seem that different from Franklin Saint Roosevelt denouncing “economic royalists” or “malefactors of great wealth.” Maybe someone with better grades than I can explain the difference.

God even loves Joe Scarborough. He also knows what happened in Joe’s district office the night Lori Klausutis–how should I say this?–died.

Oh to be a fly on Joe’s confessional wall!

Next thing we’re gonna hear is that Stalin was just a regular Joe.

Blessed are the plutocrats, because they slip the doorman a $20 bill to get into heaven quicker, thereby stimulating the eternal economy.

I wonder what Jesus think of the Lori Klausutis case.

The fact that Scarborough got away with this madness in the summer of Bill Condit and Chandra Levy proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the “liberal media” bit is pretty much a canard.

Conservatives in the House of Representatives once again passed legislation to repeal the Estate Tax. The repeal of this tax helps only the wealthiest among us. Most Americans won’t be affected.

And how did Jesus feel about the wealthy?

They aren’t getting into Heaven, apparently.

Scarborough is a disgusting hack.

Geez, someone beat me to the Lori Klausutis reference. Nice Catholic woman. Wife and mother found dead in Regular Joe’s office late at night. No investigation. Autopsy botched by a fellow incompetent (cited many times for his frequent dereliction in Fl & TX), but politically well connected crony. (You’d never suspect, right?)

‘Devout young woman, found dead in Congressman’s office?’; the headline you never read. Very suspicious circumstances behind her death. Never explained movements and acts of Congressman Joe in the days and hours before her (LK) unlikely and untimely demise of ‘blunt force trauma’ to her head from a simple suspected/conjectured ‘fall’. Except that it never quite all adds up. The angles never work in the diagrams, such that they are. A later independent investigation by real Doctors reveals how unlikely it is that the stated cause of death is indeed correct. Getting away with murder? Just another Repug prerogative perhaps.

Went to U of Alabama with Joe Scarborough. Funny guy. Ran as an independent for SGA President; was making a serious challenge to the established Machine (shadowy dirty-tricks coalition with a long dark history — wire tapping; tire slashing; etc.); then Joe dropped out 2 days before election day. Stated reason: the Machine-controlled Senate would still be in charge, even if he won.

Wish I could find an old campaign flyer — I recall Joe quoted “Won’t Get Fooled Again”!

He’s just another bad TV personality now, saying whatever sells ads/creates controversy. The Klausutis case will apparently never be explained or investigated properly.

Subsitute the word “Jew” for each time he uses “elite.” That is, after all, what he actually means.

Walt, perhaps we could weigh the seriousness of the charge and the influence of the pundit, assign a mathematical score to each and use a formula to weigh the various offenses (x times y equals z, with x representing the seriousness, y the influence and z the reprehensibility of the accusation). For example, on a 10 point scale: False accusation that one’s political opponents “hate Jesus” is a 1, with publication of that viewpoint on a MSNBC television show is a 3, and the reprehensibility of the conduct is 3. False accusation that someone is a murderer/necrophiliac is a 10, with publication in USA Today, the NY Times and on ABC News a 9 (we’ll save 10 for Drudge), giving a reprehensibility score of 90. And the false accusation that Joe is a murderer is, say, a 9, published in the CT comments a 1, for a score of 9. By my (admittedly imperfect) scoring, that makes the conduct here worse than Joe’s conduct on MSNBC.