Morning Joe: Joe Scarborough Goes on a Screed Defending Torture

Longer clip of the Morning Joe segment where he keeps on talking after Buchanan and already said he was going to shut up but didn't with Scarborough bullying Krystia Freeland and insisting that we got reliable intelligence from waterboarding, which is a lie and we did not. He also seems to forget that our country has prosecuted others for waterboarding as a war crime. One last note. Someone tell me when Scarborough has ever acted this aggressively towards a man on his show? He pulls this crap with Mika all the time and he's done it to Rachel Maddow when filling in on Race to the White House. This guy has got some serious anger management problems when it comes to women speaking up to him.

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News & Politics

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• Morning
• Joe
• Scarborough
• Krystia
• Freeland
• Pat
• Buchanan
• Mika
• Brzezinski
• Torture
• Waterboarding

[frellthat]

This is disgusting. It's sad to think that we have become a country where there is anyone in the media even advocating such barbaric practices.

[Vertigo2903]

Jesse Ventura ate Hannity alive and he can eat Scarborough alive if given the chance. O'reilly will never have him on either. Joe is a neo con just like the rest. He throws any basic logic or reason because he is letting his emotions consume his argument and deflect from the reality of what America should stand for

[zygotepeyote]

Joe resigned after his pregnant mistress was found dead at his campaign office in Florida. Google it and you will see why he resigned.

[rbf0621]

do you know how much information has been extracted from torture and how many lives have been saved by performing these "barbaric acts". next time we interrogate terrorists, let's just have tea parties and smoke cigars with them

[captainhighbury]

I am still waiting for Gitmo to be shut down? What happened to Obama's promise of shutting it down in the first year? He even signed a document in public and created huge deal about it.

[beecee151]

Joe totally rocks! I agree w/ him on the so called "torture" issue what a bunch of pussies. Waterboarding is a standard practice that the elite military must endure. I can't believe how wussified this country has become. As far as Scarborough goes....I mostly watch when he and Buchanan are on...plus when Mika and Joe argue. When I want real news I turn on Fox or International news CNN.

[Vertigo2903]

This video made me lose any respect that I had left for Scarborough....what a dick

[Relbl]

@Relbl These are all true, but none are war crimes or torture which is what the debate is about. While the Japanese internment was a terrible stain on FDRs record, no Japanese were killed or tortured there. If we want to talk about the rights of citizens being taken away by presidential authority then the buck (once again) stops with Bush and the PATRIOT Act that was slammed down America's throat. I don't see how that is Obama's doing - he wasn't even a Senator yet when that passed.

[bmillsistheman]

@Relbl FDR??? really? read a damn world war history book....locking up thousands of american citizens simply because they have japanese heritage??? placing these american citizens in glorified concentration camps.....lincoln suspended many rights during the war.....these were actions taken against american citizens even....not even against enemy forces captured on a battle field...if you say that was wrong fine i have no problem with that opinion...but lets keep it in perspective

[Relbl]

Lol, that's in the beginning of 2009 - now we know NONE of the info from KSM was reliable and he was 'forced' to say what Cheney wanted him to say, which led to nothing!

[Relbl]

@bmillsistheman FDR did worse? I'd love to see evidence of that... in the case of Bush he explicitly ordered the torture - show me where FDR explicitly ordered the torture of anyone! Lincoln? He was hardly in control of the military because he was such a terrible commander... General Grant would have started a coup d'etat had Lincoln not handed over supreme command of the Union armed forces.

[pjamesbda]

He's actually 'gone off' on the waterboarding issue again on Mondy the 8th of Oct. I've been looking for it. He gets really weird...he is very opionated, and narrow, and I can't understand how he hosts such a popular show. Stunning superficiality!