Scarborough on “Best Biden Ever” Comments: “I Was Obviously Wrong, So I’m Not Sure What My Takeaway Is Here The Next Time”
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday walked back his infamous monologue that he delivered in March 2004, that we are witnessing the “best Biden ever.” On Tuesday, Scarborough stood by the comments in an interview with Mark Halperin.
JAKE TAPPER, CNN: Can he be president in January 2029? Is there anybody at this table who thinks that he could be functioning president until January 2029? JOE SCARBOROUGH: So let’s talk about, you talked about Ireland and we talked about what the Democrats can learn. Let’s talk about what you can learn and what I can learn. I saw Biden in Ireland. I went to two events there one day. They had a winding, I was exhausted. I think Biden did six events that day. I called home bitching and God, I am like throwing up on the side of the road. It’s like this is, you know, but, but winding all around. Biden does six events. And so I go away from that. I see him the next day, interview him. He’s, you know, he’s, he’s, he’s doing well. He has a hero’s reception in Ireland. I have, you know, told you about going in and talking to him for two and a half, three hours inside the White House, far beyond Kojima. I really, really has a better grasp of international politics in a way that only somebody’s been doing it since he was 29 years old. Sure. We get phone calls at home where the guy is like pounding me because of op-eds that I wrote, etc, etc. So, you know, I said that this was Biden at his best. Sure. That’s what I saw. I don’t know what other people thought. I was obviously wrong. So I’m not sure what my takeaway is here the next time. But if you’re around a guy for hours and hours and hours, I guess the question is, what’s the takeaway here? What did you learn? Because did you pick it up in real time? TAPPER: So, well, I just, I saw what everybody else saw, right? I saw what everybody else saw, the stumbles in front of the camera and that. But I saw him in person for the State of the Union luncheon that they do with anchors in early 2023 and that I didn’t see him in person. Other than that, I will say two things. One of them is there were more moments of non-functioning Biden behind the scenes than we were privy to.
