‘Morning Joe’ Panel Praises Biden: ‘The Best Speech of His Presidency’

PALMIERI: “I’ve been working in politics for 30 years. I have never had a night last night, where my phone was just exploding with people who yesterday were saying, ‘Biden campaign? What campaign? There is no campaign,’ saying, ‘Oh, my god, he knocked it out of the park.’ And you’re right about — it was so smart about — I’m looking at Lemire’s notes here — “
LEMIRE: “Please.”
PALMIERI: “ — about how he opened up about what the campaign would be about, in case people only paid attention to the first few minutes. The other thing that was so striking about that was to say, ‘It’s a moment to speak the truth.’ Like, usually you come in and give some quarter to, like, ‘Oh, we can all agree on this or that.’ He’s like, ‘No, we don’t agree.’ We don’t agree on January 6th, we don’t agree on abortion, and we don’t agree on Ukraine. I am going to speak the truth now, and you all are going to have to react to it. But this is what my campaign is going to be about.’ Last year, you know, this is when — if people were going to challenge him in the Democratic primary, this time last year was going to be when they needed to do it. It was a State of the Union that was so strong last year that made people realize, ‘I’m not challenging this guy. I’m not challenging this guy and the record he has or the vigor he has, the experience he has.’ And then last night, I mean, that was even a bigger tour de force. It really felt like President Biden came into his own, right?”
SCARBOROUGH: “Oh, no doubt about it. It was his best speech of his presidency, by far, strongest speech, and most importantly, for people that were thinking, ‘Oh, he’s too old, too this, too that,’ man, like I said, he gave a lot more than he got. He made these Republicans look like fools time and time again. Gene Robinson, when you and I were growing up, we would see Meadowlark Lemon, Curly Neal, and they’d humiliate the Washington Generals day in and day out. I see buffoons wearing MAGA hats, running around, trying to give stickers to the president, and all these other idiots just screaming and yelling and making fools of themselves. And I just sat there thinking, I know this is supposed to shock and stun the left or the media or somebody, all it does is make them look like idiots. All it does is help Joe Biden. They were, and they continue to be, the Washington Generals playing the Harlem Globetrotters. That’s why the Washington Generals have lost seven seasons in a row. I keep saying it here, right? There’s a reason they lost in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, ’22, ’23, and why I keep saying, when people are going, ‘Oh, what will happen, Joe,’ they’ll lose in 2024. All you had to do was look out on that crowd last night and see how stupid the extreme elements of that party has become, and they just keep re-electing Biden and Democrats.”