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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Morning Joe Is Exactly What's Wrong With Our Media

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

As all of our news media institutions are under attack, "Morning Joe" and Joe Scarborough exemplify what's infecting "journalism" in America. Steve Schmidt looks at a recent "Morning Joe" interview and shows why we can't trust the corporate media anymore. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

This is the warning. Before we watch this interview of two MAGA members of Congress on Morning

0:08.4

Joe, let's set the stage. I'll interrupt throughout the interview to make a couple of points,

0:15.3

but I want to be crystal clear about what it is that you are seeing and why it is so appalling. There are many people

0:24.3

who appear on television, who talk about political issues, who are fools. Scott Jennings is an

0:32.1

example of a dishonest fool. Scott doesn't know a lot about a lot of things. Scott couldn't have a deep

0:40.1

conversation about the history of the country, about the Constitution, about the 20th century.

0:46.7

He's a cable news blatherer who is like Mikey from the serial commercials. He's there to say

0:53.9

anything. There are people like Stephen A. Smith,

0:57.3

who now routinely inveigh about politics, which is of course his right as an American citizen,

1:03.2

but he too is a fool who knows nothing about anything but can't stop talking. That's not Joe

1:09.8

Scarborough's problem.

1:11.4

He's as deeply read and knowledgeable about American history as I am,

1:17.7

which means when he hears what these members of Congress are saying,

1:23.7

he appreciates exactly what it is that I'm hearing.

1:29.3

And what I'm hearing is members of Congress saying,

1:33.3

we have reached an hour of crisis.

1:35.3

That is so great that we have to get rid of the Constitution of the United States

1:41.3

so we can let Elon Musk and his 19-year-old lieutenant named Big Balls take over

1:49.3

spending and who gets paid from the United States Congress because the Congress has rung up

1:58.8

$36 trillion in debt.

2:01.8

As an Article 1 champion, I'm concerned by what I'm seeing with Elon Musk going around

2:10.1

and going from bureaucracy to bureaucracy, and he's seeming to do like sort of line item

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