Is Our Joe Scarborough Learning?

Joe Scarborough, safely employed by someone other than Fox News, has managed to maintain some modicum of ideological consistency during crazy season, which means he's at odds with his party... occasionally.

This time around he's set in opposition to his fellow conservatives because they think it's hilarious that the president was unable to personally swing the decision of the International Olympic Committee from Rio to Chicago.

On, of all places, The Huffington Post, Scarborough writes:

The President was right to fly to Copenhagen to try to land the games, not for the sake of his city, but for the good of his country. The fact President Obama failed makes me respect him more for taking the chance, and the fact many right-wing figures opposed the President's mission shows just how narrow-minded partisanship makes us all.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-scarborough/thank-you-mr-president_b_308022.html

Not bad, but is our Joe Scarborough learning?

Uh... no. Not really. See, Joe's just using this instance of conservative movement insanity as a convenient platform to draw a false equivalence between the way conservatives treated Clinton and are treating Obama with the way liberals treat George W. Bush.

For the better part of 20 years, a bitterness has infected our politics that has weakened our country.

We Republicans spent eight years trying to delegitimize Bill Clinton.

Democrats spent the next eight years doing the same to George W. Bush.

Now that a Democrat is in the Oval Office again, it is the GOP who is trying to delegitimize a sitting president.

When I try to talk to Republicans about the need to break this cycle of viciousness, some cite the chapter and verse of every hateful left wing attack against George W. Bush.

Whenever I attempt to have a conversation with some Democrats about the need for us respect our president-- whether he be an Obama or a Bush-- I am told that Bush deserved whatever he got because he was a lying war criminal who hated the Constitution and loved torturing
people.

Fortunately, there are a growing number of Americans who believe we cannot continue going on this way.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-scarborough/thank-you-m

Drawing this kind of monumental false equivalence

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is a much bigger far more dangerous lie than the transparent crap these amateurs are pushing about an American city losing the Olympics.