Hypocritical Joe Scarborough is irony-proof.

On today's Morning Joe, in the context of discussing the German election results, Scarborough condemned European leaders who brand as racists and neo-Nazis citizens opposed to open borders. Scarborough played clips of himself over the years making that point.

In doing so, Scarborough ignored that he himself has made his stock-in-trade, as we have documented over the years, the branding of Trump as a Nazi, a fascist, and even "full-on Hitler," partly in respect of his views on immigration.

Even while criticizing former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for allowing over one million, largely unscreened, Syrian immigrants into Germany, Scarborough whitewashed the results of her disastrous policy. He described it as having caused "serious political turmoil." What open European borders have caused goes way beyond political turmoil. It has led, at last count, to over 100 acts of Islamic terrorism since 2014.

One might suggest it shows humility for Scarborough's willingness to play a clip of himself wearing nerdy glasses [see screencap]. But in reality, he's making MSNBC staffers make a montage of all the times he thinks he's been a genius on suggesting Europe's too harsh on critics of open borders. (Mrs. Brzezinski set up the montage with the "you were right, dear" notes.) No one is asked to make a montage of Scarborough and his MSNBC colleagues suggesting American politicians are "racists" for wanting to restrict illegal immigration into America. 

Here's the transcript.

MSNBC
Morning Joe
2/24/25
6:12 am ET

JOE SCARBOROUGH: I will say one thing that has changed. You actually have the Christian Democrats who have taken a tougher line on immigration, something that hasn't happened in the EU for well over a decade. 

It's important to remember everything is context. It's important to remember that Angela Merkel allowed millions, well over a million immigrants into [sic, presumably in "from"] Syria, many with absolutely no screening at all. It caused serious political turmoil in that country. And it led, as we predicted here for well over a decade, it led to the rise of a far-right party. 

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SCARBOROUGH [2017]: I haven't understood why mainstream political parties have not given the voters of Europe a middle choice when it comes to immigration. 

It's an all or nothing. You either support open borders and somebody being able to get in from Turkey and move around freely and blow up something in London, or you're a racist. 

Those are the two choices voters have been given, and it's no secret why people like Le Pen have actually gotten a following among voters who were mainstream 10 years ago.

SCARBOROUGH [2019]: And because there's never a center ground, because a politician in Germany can't take a center ground or France can't take a center ground on immigration and talk about culture, talk about borders without being called a neo-Nazi, then you just cede the entire pitch, we'll say, to the far right. 

It echoes what I've been saying about European leaders for about five years, where they are so absolutist on open borders. They are so absolutist about letting a mass flow of immigrants into their country that if you don't do that, then you're a neo-Nazi. 

There's never been a middle ground in Europe over the past five years, which has naturally led to the sort of right-wing nationalist governments growing in Europe. 

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SCARBOROUGH [2024]: Anybody that suggested that having an absolutist view in the EU, where somebody could come in one country and go across the entire continent of Europe, anybody that suggested that that might not be wise was branded a right-wing extremist.