Joe Scarborough Goes Off: ‘You Just Compared Me to a Nazi!’

Morning Joe remains the place to see prime-grade Clinton surrogates do their thing, and on Wednesday morning it was National Memo’s Joe Conason’s turn, in an appearance that quickly devolved into disputed accusations of Nazihood. (Naziness? Nazianity?)

Conason quoted Winston Churchill, as one does, saying, “The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet.” He meant the quote as a comment on Scarborough’s willingness to fete the Clintons when it benefits him (Scarborough has broadcast from the Clinton Global Initiative) only to turn around and savage them when convenient.

Scarborough took offense, believing himself to be the Nazi in that analogy. There commenced yelling over to whom Churchill was referring when; Conason said that quote came from World War I, though this scribe’s Googling has it during a speech before a joint session of the U.S. Congress in 1943. “By its sudden collapse…the proud German army has once again proved the truth of the saying, ‘The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet,'” is the fuller quote.

“You’re nothing like a Nazi, Joe,” Conason clarified. Nonetheless the comment seemed to do the trick, knocking the focus off of Hillary for several minutes.

Watch the clip below and absolutely delete your account, via MSNBC:

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