Scarborough obliterates Max Blumenthal

There was some excellent TV this morning on Morning Joe at about 7:30AM. Joe Scarborough interviewed Max Blumenthal who made the following arguments:

1) The Republican party has been hi-jacked by extremists who are well outside the mainstream.
2) Most of the inflammatory discourse in politics comes from the right.
3) This has prevented Obama from being able to govern effectively.

Joe asks the question, "why would I, a conservative who believes in small government, support a $700 billion stimulus written by Nancy Pelosi, a cap and trade bill drafted by Henry Waxman, or the health care plan that is going to take over 1/6 of the US economy?"

Blumenthal takes the bait and tells Joe that "you wouldn't have voted for those things because you are a member of the movement that has taken over the party", i.e. the far right-wing extremist movement that Blumenthal says compares Obama to Hitler and Stalin and believes the government is setting up FEMA concentration camps. (Blumenthal even calls Scarborough juvenile and tells him that he needs to be nicer to his guests.)

Of course, anyone who has watched Joe Scarbrough for more than five seconds knows this is completely ridiculous. Scarborough was able to illustrate how opposing Obama's agenda is not in any way extreme or out of the mainstream.

Perhaps the reason the President is having such a difficult time getting his programs through is because he is the one that is operating outside of the mainstream.

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