MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough said Monday that in light of the letter from Republican senators to Iranian leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress looks more political.
Scarborough said that each action on its own was not a big deal, but the “one-two punch” of the Netanyahu invitation and the letter is “toxic.”
“If you just asked me about Netanyahu, I’d say ‘It’s happened before. He can show up,'” he said. “If you ask me about the letter, taken apart, I go, ‘The letter? You know what? Freshmen do stuff like that. It was stupid.'”
“But there’s something about those two accents in tandem, together, a couple weeks apart, that I must agree with a lot of really smart writers at [the Washington Post] and the New York Times,” Scarborough continued. “Taken together, I do think it has a really toxic mix about how dysfunctional the United States of America is right now.”
This concession marks a change of tune for Scarborough, who previously defended both the letter and Netanyahu’s speech.
Last week, Scarborough seemed sympathetic about the Senate Republicans’ letter to Iran, even though he did say he wouldn’t have signed it himself.
And in February, he defended House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) invitation for Netanyahu to speak before Congress about the Iran nuclear deal. Scarborough challenged Democrats to boycott the speech and “show that you’re not on the side of Israel.”
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“‘Toxic Mix’”
Is that what you fed her, Joe…is it?
Ok Joe, you can try to blame the letter on a freshman Senator but what is your excuse for the 46 other Senators, including the Majority Leader who signed the letter?
The 47 traitors have identified themselves. Each is responsible for their own signature on the letter. It is not just the work of a stupid freshman.
Every approach the GOP takes to anything while they’re in Congress will be a toxic mix. It’s all they have. They’re so deeply entrenched in their own bubble of toxic fumes in addition to fact that there’s no longer any leadership on their side, this will be happening every single time.
Joe, it’s not the dysfunction of the United States of America that’s the issue.
It’s the dysfunction of the Republican Party that is to blame for the gridlock and circus atmosphere in DC.
The Bush administration seriously damaged our standing in the world. The Republican Party is continuing that.
It started long before Bush…my marker would be Reagan but it was earlier than that too…