Scarborough: Not A “Cartoon Character”

“If you’re looking for another cable news guy whose on-camera image was transformed by Hurricane Katrina, try MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough,” Tim Cuprisin writes.

“Katrina actually shaped the way I looked at TV, at my show, realizing that I needed to be myself and not run it through any filters, but be as blunt as possible,” the MSNBC host says. “It changed the way I looked at the government, and it changed the way I looked at life. It may sound melodramatic, but obviously anybody that went down and saw that firsthand, and saw it happening in this country and saw, you know, 15-month-olds dying because they weren’t getting water and shelter on the streets of one of the largest cities in America (would be changed).”

Scarborough Country should be defined by its independence. “There are a lot of shows out there that I could name, but I won’t, that the people on ’em are basically cartoon characters, they’re two-dimensional,” Scarborough says. “They read the talking points from the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee and they run with it.” But “he says he’s going to keep trying to call ’em as he sees ’em on his show,” Cuprisin says.