On Tuesday's Morning Joe, suggesting he had merely made a "mistake," Joe Scarborough said he "got it wrong" when "I talked about Biden at his best."
No, Joe. You didn't make a "mistake." And it's not that you "got it wrong." You lied. You looked into the camera, and angrily lied to your viewers. As we noted at the time, you said:
"Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I've known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it."
It wasn't the truth, but you did say it, Joe.
Biden was already exhibiting unmistakable signs of mental acuity loss as early as 2019. That's why his handlers hid him in a Delaware basement during the 2019 primary and subsequent 2020 campaign.
But Scarborough's "tell you the truth" about the best Biden ever didn't come back then. It came five years later, in March of 2024, at a time when, as disclosed in the Tapper/Thompson book, Biden's aides were so alarmed by his mental and physical incapacity that they contemplated putting him in a wheelchair.
Just three months after Scarborough's angry outburst, Biden suffered his infamous "we finally ended Medicare" debate meltdown.
Scarborough tried to soft-pedal his lie, saying, "You see some facts, the facts change, you change your mind with those facts." No, the debate disaster didn't offer new "facts," or change Scarborough's mind. It's simply that Biden's primetime performance was so egregious that even diehard defenders like Scarborough could no longer deny the undeniable. (Even so, Mika Brzezinski still opposed driving him out of the race.)
Scarborough contrived that rosy depiction of his deception for the purpose of putting himself on a higher moral plane than the MAGA members who have changed their views on the Epstein matter. As you'll see in the screencap, Scarborough mockingly imagined that it was the sprinkling of "magic pixie dust" on them that caused hardcore MAGA to muffle their criticism of the Trump administration.
Sort of like the dismal debate pixie dust that was sprinkled on you, Joe, causing you to see the light about Biden's disability?
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
7/15/25
6:05 am EDTJOE SCARBOROUGH: You know, sometimes, sometimes you get it wrong. Hey! As I've said here on this show, I get it wrong every day. Sometimes you make mistakes. You read something wrong.
Most notably last year, after spending a lot of time with Joe Biden, I talked about Biden at his best. I got it wrong.
Sometimes you change your mind and you see some facts, the facts change, you change your mind with those facts. That happens.
But I must say, very rarely have I ever seen people going from a decade-long crusade against pedophilia, against sex abuse, against child exploitation. And making that almost a centerpiece of their existence, saying, when we get in power, we're going to release the Epstein files. When we get in power, we're going to be different. We're not going to do what Joe Biden and his attorney general, Merrick Garland, did. We're going to expose it all.
And you go on your podcast, you go on your podcasts, and you go on your podcasts, and you keep repeating that over and over again, or you go on Fox News, or you go on any of these other channels, and you say, we're going to do this.
And then, you have a weekend conference in Florida where everybody's enraged. What? Charlie Kirk said 7,500 people are outraged by this. The truth must come out.
And then the next day, magic pixie dust is sprinkled over all of the podcasters. And voila! This moral crisis of a decade long about little children getting raped by the richest and most powerful men in the world goes away.
