His performances on MSNBC have become so laughable that the comparisons to “Baghdad Bob” are impossible to ignore. Of course, “Baghdad Bob,” was Saddam Hussein’s Information Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf.
During the Iraq War of 2003, he ludicrously claimed “The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad.” The day before the fall of Baghdad, al-Sahhaf predicted that Americans “are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.”
After Saddam Hussein was ousted, al-Sahhaf was captured, interrogated, and later released. He retired from the propaganda business and is reportedly living in Qatar today.
Unfortunately, America’s “Baghdad Bob,” Joe Scarborough, is still broadcasting every weekday morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program. He provides his audience with a steady diet of leftwing guests, extreme hatred for President Donald Trump and insufferable praise for Joe Biden.
He is ready, willing, and able to serve the Biden campaign in whatever capacity is needed. In 2020, he led the media charge claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop was “so obviously disinformation.” In fact, Scarborough blasted as “fools” those who believed the laptop was real. He claimed, “It’s unbelievable how stupid you think Americans are.”
Who is “stupid” now Joe? In the recently completed Hunter Biden trial on gun charges, it was acknowledged by the FBI that the laptop was real. It was used by prosecutors as evidence against Hunter Biden.
After four years, Americans finally heard an FBI admission about the authenticity of the infamous “laptop from hell.” Yet, every American who saw the salacious contents of the laptop knew it was real from the beginning, but the Department of Justice and the media refused to verify it for four years.
The story was suppressed on social media and the lie kept untold numbers of Americans from voting for President Trump in the 2020 election. The scam was perpetrated by the 51 so-called “intelligence experts” who said the laptop “had all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Helping to push the laptop lie was foremost Biden apologist Joe Scarborough.
Not surprisingly, neither the “intelligence experts” nor Scarborough have apologized for their role in this 2020 election fraud. As commentator Mark Levin posted on social media, “Actually, the idiots and useful fools for the Russians are on MSNBC.”
During the Biden administration, Scarborough has continued to run interference for the President whenever necessary. As a reward, Biden regularly calls Scarborough and has spent personal time with him.
On the March 6, 2024, episode of Morning Joe, Scarborough boasted that “I’ve spent a couple of hours with Joe Biden, sitting, talking, going around the world as far as talking issues…the economy…inflation.”
Incredibly, he then claimed that the President who Americans have painfully watched stumble and mumble in countless media appearances is “better than he’s ever been intellectually, analytically.” Scarborough laughably bellowed that today’s Joe Biden is “the best Biden ever. Not a close second.”
As Biden’s mental and political condition has considerably worsened in 2024, Scarborough has become more vociferous in his support of the President, much like “Baghdad Bob” near the fall of Hussein regime.
On his March 22, 2024, program, Scarborough stated that the Trump campaign was a “nightmare” and was “grossly underfunded.” Well, this was another comical Scarborough prediction since President Trump announced last week that his campaign had raised $400 million since his unfair conviction in New York. The total increased even more after a successful fundraiser in San Francisco.
Scarborough also touted the supposed strength of the nation’s economy. He said he liked “the fundamentals in every way. The money, the economy, you name it. This week, we find…Jay Powell’s doing three interest rate cuts.”
Sorry, Joe, Americans will get one interest rate cut if we are lucky by the end of the year. While Joe might like a high inflation rate, high interest rates, soaring energy and food costs, the American people disagree.
What Democrat consultant James Carville stated in the 1992 campaign is true today, “it’s the economy stupid.” Yet, Scarborough declared, “You look at the fundamentals! It doesn’t make sense . . that Donald Trump is going to pull this out at the end.”
Why not Joe? Trump delivered a secure border, a robust military, peace around the world, energy independence and prosperity at home. Biden has squandered all these advantages for our country, creating an exceedingly difficult situation for Americans.
To make matters worse, voters have been witnessing the physical and mental collapse of President Biden. Once again, it was painfully apparent during his visit with world leaders at the G7 summit in Italy.
As Matt Vespa in Townhall noted, the European press “were all over Biden’s cognitive decline. So, for all the shouting about how fit Biden is, the European press obliterated that talking point in less than a day.” It was obvious to everyone that Biden looked uncomfortable, spoke haltingly and occasionally wandered away from other his fellow summit participants. At one point, he had to be corralled by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and brought back to the group.
As usual, in the aftermath of another debacle, riding to Biden’s rescue was Scarborough who called the uncomfortable images of a disengaged Biden “cheap fakes.” Yet, Scarborough’s act is getting old, and it is not working. Progressive journalist Glenn Greenwald said his routine “exceeds North Korean propaganda to glorify Joe Biden as a strong and powerful leader.”
Fortunately, the American people are wise to the Biden apologists like Scarborough. Vespa referred to recent polling showing that an incredible 86% of Americans believe Biden is “too old to run again.” Thankfully, Morning Joe is losing the argument.
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from Noon until 1 p.m. CT nationally on Real America’s Voice TV Network & AmericasVoice.News and weekdays from 7-9 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. CT on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at [email protected].
]]>To prepare for the “spring offensive,” President Joe Biden authorized another $675 million to help the Ukrainian military. After the military progress was halted by the Russians, Biden decided to send controversial cluster munitions to the Ukrainian military.
These munitions are banned by more than 100 nations because of the “large numbers of smaller bomblets that can kill indiscriminately over a wide area.” In many cases, the victims are innocent civilians.
This decision will inevitably lead to an escalation as Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed his country has a “stockpile of different kinds of cluster bombs.” He vowed, “if they are used against us, we reserve the right to take reciprocal action.”
As the war intensifies, there seems to be zero progress on the diplomatic front. However, we need to pursue peace talks immediately before a nuclear war starts.
President Donald Trump has been sounding the alarm about the irresponsible actions of the Biden administration in Ukraine. He posted on Truth Social, “Joe Biden should not be dragging us further toward World War III by sending cluster munitions to Ukraine—he should be trying to END the war and stop the horrific death and destruction being caused by an incompetent administration.”
Unfortunately, Biden is President, not Trump. The Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reaffirmed the Biden administration strategy in a meeting with reporters at the G20 Financial Ministers Summit in India. Yellen said that aid to Ukraine was “the single best thing we can do for the global economy.”
Is she right? Is the continuation of the war “the single best thing” for the “global economy.” Of course not, the world does not benefit from the continuation of a brutal war. What is needed is the start of peace negotiations. The United States could broker such talks, but the Biden administration is uninterested.
Instead, Biden just authorized the activation of 3,000 military reservists to support our operations in Europe. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Biden sent an additional 20,000 troops to Europe, bringing our total forces to over 100,000 on the continent.
These actions lead Central Intelligence Agency veteran Larry Johnson to conclude that “the United States is giving every indication that it is prepared to have a confrontation with Russia.” This strategy is extremely reckless considering that the Russians have the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, and the Ukrainians are having a challenging time providing enough manpower for their military operations.
According to the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet, “Many conscripted men are taken straight off the street by uniformed men….in Subcarpathia, a surveillance camera recorded the overreach of the authorities as a man trying to go to a store was kidnapped from his bicycle in broad daylight.” Many of these abductions have been recorded on video and posted on encrypted apps such as Telegram.
In response, some young men are refusing to leave their homes, hoping to avoid being sent to the front lines of the war. Others are avoiding forced conscription by bribing Ukrainian military recruitment officials. Many of these officials have become rich. In fact, one of them, Yevgeny Borisov, bought a luxury mansion on the Spanish coast and a chain of high-priced retail stores for his wife.
Sadly, corruption is rampant in Ukraine, which is why even supporters of our military assistance efforts, U.S. Senators John Kennedy (R-LA) and Krysten Sinema (I-AZ), wrote that “Americans lack a proper accounting of how our aid has worked thus far.” In their op-ed, the Senators also noted that “We’ve heard several unsettling reports of bad actors exploiting our generosity. Some of our costly weapons have ended up in black markets. And corrupt officials have tried to line their own pockets.”
Yes, the Senators are correct. Ukrainian officials such as Yevgeny Borisov and others have become wealthy from the war. Incredibly, weapons sent from Ukraine have been spotted in the hands of members of Mexican drug cartels.
This insane gravy train will continue until at least the end of the Biden administration. At a recent bilateral meeting in Lithuania, Biden boasted to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the United States had “given more than every other nation combined in terms of assistance and cost.”
Why has the United States been so generous with our taxpayer funds when many wealthy European nations have barely contributed to the Ukrainian war effort? Biden did not receive the approval of the American people to fund the Ukraine military and government. In addition, there has been no declaration of war by the United States Congress.
At the same time, horrible problems in our country have been ignored by many of the political leaders of both parties. Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, wants an increase in military support to Ukraine.
Pence was recently scolded by Tucker Carlson at a presidential primary forum in Iowa. Carlson fumed, “You are distressed that the Ukrainians don’t have enough American tanks. Every city in the United States has become much worse over the past three years. Drive around. There is not one city that has gotten better in the United States, and it’s visible. Our economy has degraded, the suicide rate has jumped, public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased, and yet your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can’t find on a map, who’ve received tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars, don’t have enough tanks.”
Rightfully Carlson asked him “where’s the concern for the United States?” Incredibly, Pence claimed it was “not my concern.”
The top “concern” for every presidential candidate should be the United States, not Ukraine. As President Trump noted, we must stop the “insanity” in Ukraine and “return to a focus on America’s vital interests.” Amen.
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from Noon until 1 p.m. CT nationally on Real America’s Voice TV Network & AmericasVoice.News and weekdays from 7-11 a.m. CT on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at [email protected]
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