Surprise — Donald Sutherland Hates Conservatives (Even Poor Joe Scarborough)

It’s certainly arguable whether Joe Scarborough, the host of the now nearly unwatchable haute–gabfest, Morning Joe, on MSNBC, is a conservative, but whatever he is, he’s too much for Canadian-born actor Donald Sutherland. Consider this, from the Huffington Post:

Are the programmers at MSNBC nuts? They give us refreshing afternoons with Chris and Ed, put us to bed with the clarifying sensibilities of Rachel and Keith and then, idiotically, wake us up with Mr. Small Mouth.

Who is this idiot? Why is he there? He can’t even listen. He doesn’t conduct a decent conversation. He runs over everyone else’s words with a landslide of diarrhea. I saw him on Friday, stomping around the stage like a posturing rooster, calling Paul Krugman a political hack. Paul Krugman’s a political hack? Surely they put make-up on Mr. Small Mouth. Doesn’t he look in the mirror? That’s where he’d see what a political hack looks like.

“Mr. Small Mouth? — Sutherland really knows how to hurt a guy. But he’s not finished putting the boot in. Oh, no…

For god’s sake, MSNBC, get rid of him, he’s beneath you. This guy makes Pat Buchanan look embarrassed. Go out and get the television equivalent of David Brooks to chair your program. He’d be worth listening to. He’d give conservative opinion a rational voice. That person would be calmly articulate, and that’d make for worthwhile conversation. Reminiscent of William Safire or, better still, William F. Buckley. That’d be fair and balanced broadcasting!

Isn’t it wonderful how conservatives whom the Left absolutely loathed while they were alive — Goldwater, Reagan, Buckley — suddenly get rehabilitated once they’re safely six feet under? And the idea of David Brooks, the man who was so impressed by the crease in Obama’s trousers that he’s completely forgotten he ever wrote for Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard and has instead become almost indistinguishable from Bob Herbert, chatting with his confreres from Rockefeller Center during their little kaffee klatsch is just too divooon for words!

But ol’ Hawkeye’s still not done mashing up Mr. Small Mouth, and saves his best insult for last:

And he doesn’t need to be named Joe. They put calling a cup of coffee a cup of “Joe” out to pasture decades ago. Joe’s a plumber now.

Wow, that’s tellin’ him. Right, Paul?

Right…