Joe Scarborough Absolutely FAWNS Over Biden ‘Tour de Force’ State of the Union: ‘He Had Frazier’s Left Hook!’
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough had some rave reviews for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union performance that veered toward outright fawning.
On Friday’s post-game Morning Joe, Scarborough told co-host Mika Brzezinski and presidential historian Michael Beschloss a few of his favorite parts of Biden’s “tour de force” — while getting some digs in at the Republicans who were present:
Mika: But I’m telling you, Joe Biden proved I think he still has a pulse. That’s number one. And [Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)] might have rolled his eyes more than both my daughters in their entire lives. What’s your take?
Joe: Well, I mean, he had a pulse? He had [Joe Frazier’s] left hook. I mean, I have never seen… And part of this is delivery. Part of it is speechwriting. Part of it is setting up the argument for the fall. I’ve sat through a lot of these. And I have never seen one side put in so many uncomfortable positions as the Republicans were last night. Because they were on the wrong side of history, they were on the wrong side of the polls, they were on the wrong side of politics. They were on the wrong side of decency.
Scarborough’s praise went on, including a few choice quotes from the speech and some comparisons to past presidents:
This was a tour de force by Joe Biden. And yet Peggy Noonan last week calling him “cranky old Joe” after his angry press conference, who last night, Michael Beschloss likened him to Harry Truman. And there was a real “Give ’em hell, Harry” part of this. But what really completed it was, it was “Give ’em hell, Harry” meets Ronald Reagan’s “a city shining brightly on the hill for all the world to see.” When he says, you know, he’s been around a long time. He’s been called too young. He’s been called too old. But listen to this: “But I know what endures. I can see our North Star, that we are all created equal. And we have never reached. We have never reached, that goal. But that doesn’t mean we don’t give up trying.”
And I thought it was a brilliant turn on Donald Trump when he said, “Yeah, no, it’s not about how old you are. It’s about how old your ideas are.” And and time and time again, I just I go back there. There were just so many beautiful lines here, again, delivered beautifully. He said, “My lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy, to give hate no safe harbor. Now, some other people my age, they see a different story. An American story of resentment, revenge, and retribution. That’s not me.” And in the words of Naomi Biden, “Doubt him. Then watch him.”
Scarborough continued to praise Biden by pointing out how he has been repeatedly “underestimated” by his critics and supporters alike:
He’s been defeating the odds his entire life. This has been a recurring theme, Michael, for us, where Joe Biden is underestimated before Iowa, he’s underestimated before and after New Hampshire. He’s he’s been told he’s too old since 2000. He just keeps surprising people. He just keeps winning. He just keeps outperforming. I have no doubt that every Republican in that chamber was shocked by what they saw last night, because he did it to them again. As Newt Gingrich said, at some point, we’ll figure this out. He said this after the ’22 election. We always under, Democrats always underestimated [Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower]. They always underestimated Reagan. Now it’s us. We always underestimate Biden.
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