Soundbite: Joe Scarborough’s Awkward Warsaw Ghetto Analogy

“We’re talking to ourselves. It’s like we have built this conservative ghetto — like the Warsaw Ghetto — where we have put ourselves ideologically in a box, and we shout and scream and yell at each other, but we need to get out and we need to start talking to the center of America where elections are won .”

— Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, in discussion with Sam Tanenhaus about his latest book, The Death of Conservatism, on the echo chamber of current Conservative thought, and how it’s totally like being walled off in an overcrowded, disease-ridden plot of land where Germans went on killing sprees and then deported people to concentration camps.

Okay maybe that’s a bit harsh. But still — wow, rather a boneheaded comparison to make. Even worse, not sure if it registered on anyone in the group — Mort Zuckerman? Thoughts? — because no one on set indicated any reaction or made any comment (though music guy Q fired up the music pretty quickly after). Then Sam Tanenhaus said he thought David Brooks was one of the best Conservative thinkers writing today. But it wasn’t enough to get him to the editorship of the National Review, now, was it? Why was that again…? Hmm. An unexpected link here, but not an entirely inappropriate one.

Here’s the video of the full discussion – soundbite at 6:53:

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