It was a little shocking. NPR media reporter David Folkenflik came on Monday night’s All Things Considered to talk about cable news, and it wasn’t about his hate object Fox News, at least not directly. The subject was President Biden’s phone interview with his buddies at MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Even Folkenflik thought Scarborough was well, energetic in his obsequiousness:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Democrats, you believe, may now be doing the same thing that Donald Trump tried to do in 2020, and that is overthrow the popular will of Democratic voters.
FOLKENFLIK: You know, I haven’t heard even President Biden go that far, even as he’s, you know, defiantly defending his right to run this race. It may be he was trying to channel Biden or advise him a little bit about some of the rhetoric there.
As enjoyable as it may be to suggest Scarborough was more pro-Biden than…
