Maddow scares Scarborough off the set

By Libby

This is a delicious exchange. Rachel Maddow made such a good point on MSNBC's newest horserace program that, since he apparently had no effective comeback, Joe Scarborough walked off the set. Watch the video at the link or see Kyle, who has a transcript of her remarks but here's the money part of the quote.

But, for example, John McCain had this incredibly controversial relationship with this Florida campaign co-chair who was caught in a bathroom offering money to a police officer to do something that we can all imagine in a bathroom. Nobody’s going to John McCain about that and saying, “He was your Florida campaign co-chair? What do you think about men doing that in bathrooms? What do you think about entrapment from police officers? What do you think about public sex?” But nobody’s brought that stuff [crosstalk… actually someone says, “That’s not what general elections are for,” but they are off camera] but nobody’s brought that stuff up to John McCain at this point and it’s a decision made by political opponents. It’s not something that happens organically because of how long you’ve been around the block.

Scar mumbled something about not being interested in talking about bathrooms before he skulked away but you can be sure if the bathroom behavior in question involved a Democratic campaign co-chair he would have developed a keen interest in plumbing.