For my sins, over the years I’ve suffered through countless Joe Scarborough rants. In recent times, Donald Trump has, of course, been Scarborough’s favorite target.
But for sheer anger and vitriol, it would be hard to match Scarborough’s tirade against Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of today’s Morning Joe.
Scarborough attacked Netanyahu for purposes of defending Chuck Schumer’s shocking speech on the Senate floor yesterday, calling for regime change in Israel and the ejection of Netanyahu as Israeli Prime Minister.
Scarborough had the chutzpah to depict himself as the virtual True Defender of Israel, a veritable modern-day Judah Maccabee. He bragged about being “somebody who supported Israel my entire life. A guy who’s spoken before AIPAC my entire life. My God.”
After the massacres of October 7, Scarborough claimed “Benjamin Netanyahu should have resigned the day after…There’s no doubt. Netanyahu has damaged Israel in a way no prime minister has damaged Israel since 1948!” He decried a ” …