Joe Scarborough: self-hating Southerner?
Scarborough — originating from the “cracker counties” of the Florida panhandle — sometimes likes to stress his Southern upbringing, and describe himself as a “simple country lawyer” who attended two southern state universities.
But the Morning Joe host has developed an ugly habit of mocking southern Republicans by putting on their supposed accents. We’ve caught Scarborough doing that twice in the case of House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky, who at least sports an accent. Check out this instance of Scarborough fantasizing Comer saying [at 0:25], of his supposed lack of evidence against Joe Biden regarding Hunter’s influence peddling:
“We ain’t got nuthin’ but a squirrel fryer and a hound dog.”
Today, Scarborough tried to ridicule Speaker of the House Mike Johnson of Louisiana. Calling him…
