“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough was forced to explain why, in March 2024, he told the world that, after talking with President Joe Biden for hours, “This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.”
Note: Scarborough had never watched the most infamous clip of himself—until now.
During a cringeworthy interview with political journalist Mark Halperin, the MSNBC host was confronted with the reality of his own propagandist reporting.
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Below is the viral clip in which Scarborough strongly defends Biden, declaring:
“F-you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually and analytically, is the best Biden ever.”
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“I’ve said it for years now, he’s cogent. But I undersold it when I said he was cogent, he’s far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he’s better than he’s ever been, intellectually, analytically, because he’s been around for 50 years,” Scarborough said.
“Start your tape right now because I’m about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.”
Three months later, “the best Biden” looked like this:
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During the interview, Scarborough insisted he had never seen Biden on a “bad day” personally.
Halperin pushed back: “Well, you did! You did, because you saw him address a dead congresswoman, and you saw him in South Carolina.”
Halperin argued he could show Scarborough several clips that contradicted his bold claim. Scarborough quickly pivoted the conversation to Trump.
Scarborough argued:
“He stumbled and bumbled around, Mark. I mean, yeah, he certainly did. Donald Trump did, other politicians did, and it’s actually the same case as a lot of times when I’ve gone in and talked to Donald Trump.
We go on to Donald Trump, and I’ve heard the media narrative around Donald Trump, and certainly I’ve been very critical of Donald Trump, and when I leave, I have a better understanding, just like Jeffrey Goldberg did a couple of weeks ago, a better understanding of where Donald Trump is mentally, if Donald Trump is losing it, like people have said through the years or not.”
“And so again, am I going to look at a clip that’s gone viral and pay more attention to that than two and a half, three hours I had with a guy one-on-one going around the world? No, I’m just not going to,” the MSNBC host said.
“Are some of the clips bad? Yeah, they certainly are bad.”
“Put into proper context, I’m just not going to freak out and melt down on one or two clips here and there,” the Morning Joe host added. “And again he bumbled around, and he stumbled around, but he has for quite some time. That didn’t seem to me to get in the way of Joe Biden being able to analyze the most important issues..”
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