Move over, Algore. There’s a new King of Sighs in town, and his name is David Ignatius, columnist of The Washington Post.
Gore famously put a dent in his presidential ambitions when he sighed his way through his first debate with George W. Bush in 2000.
Those were sighs of disgust, as compared to the sighs of despair Ignatius unleashed on today’s Morning Joe.
For days, the show had blacked out the scandal surrounding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s lengthy failure to inform the White House of his hospitalization and his cancer diagnosis.
But Morning Joe could no longer avoid the story when on today’s show, Sam Stein raised it in the context of asking whether Austin’s situation had delayed the administration’s decision to strike the Houthis in retaliation for their attacks on commercial shipping.
You might have expected Joe Scarborough to play defense…
