Scarborough: Bannon “blew this”—”hack, stupid, biggest loser, idiot”

MARK FINKELSTEIN MAR 27, 2017 10:00 AM

Joe Scarborough spent the first half-hour of today’s Morning Joe blasting White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon for the failure of the health care bill. Excerpts:

• “I will call Steve Bannon a hack. When you go in and threaten members, you’re not only a hack, you’re stupid at your game . . . Bannon failed miserably. He is the biggest loser.”
• “The stupidity of Steve Bannon knows no ends.”
• “He’s an idiot when it comes to how Washington works.”
• “He blew this.”

Scarborough was particularly outraged by the report that Bannon told members of the Freedom Caucus, “guys, look. This is not a discussion. This is not a debate. You have no choice but to vote for this bill.” Calling it perhaps the greatest tweet of the 21st century, Scarborough cited John Podhoretz on the subject:

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