Joe Scarborough, the host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” needed to be informed about the price of butter, and the reality shocked him, leading him to question whether or not butter was wrapped in gold.
If ever there was a microcosm of how out of touch media elites are, this is it.
The conversation on the show began with Joe telling a story about a Kamala Harris supporter who had just come out of the grocery store and, based on the price of butter, could only conclude that Donald Trump was close to winning the election.
“A few weeks ago, someone who was going to vote for Kamala Harris came up to me and said, ‘Oh my God, Trump is going to win,'” Scarborough began. “I went to the grocery store, butter was over $3.”
The presenter said he “laughed a bit” at the simplicity of the argument and said it was “reductive” to himself, while loudly pretending to lend credibility to the buyer.
At one point, Mika Brzezinski intervened and let her husband know that the $3 estimate was rather… generous.
“It’s $7,” she interrupted. “I’m just saying there are seven.”
“Butter is $7?” Scarborough, whose net worth is estimated at $25 millionhe asked in shock. “What, is it framed in gold?”
Scarborough further acknowledged that inflation and the resulting cost of goods were a major factor in deciding the election.
“If you look at the cost of food, if you look at the cost of gas, if you look at the cost of things compared to four years ago, this was a very easy answer for working-class Americans,” he said.
He’s right about that. How many people could have attributed the decision to the fact that a diminutive $50 grocery bill is suddenly worth $120 under this administration?
After the election, the MSNBC host lamented the fact that Democrats were “radically disconnected from the rest of the country.”
Ironically, that would include anyone too naive to know that the cost of butter – or milk, or eggs, or food in general – is absurdly high.
Claire McCaskill, the former Democratic senator from Missouri, told a panel on the show Wednesday morning: “Donald Trump knows our country better than we do.”
Yes, if you don’t understand how basic everyday things are, then you know very little about what people in this country are going through.
The ignorance continued in Thursday’s segment when Brzezinski tried to backtrack by saying the high cost of butter was due to price gouging, while contributor Willie Geist joked that she only buys hand-whipped butter.
In other words, you’ll just have to keep buying the generic butter and leave the rest to those of us with deeper wallets.
Behind these jokes, Scarborough pointed out in disbelief: “Anyway, the cost of food – way too high and that.” did have an influence. This guy was right at the end of the day.”
It’s not surprising that Scarborough and his team are so distant, but it does provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse into why elite media anchors like he and his wife really had no idea that Trump and the Republicans were riding a red wave into the US would choice. They never saw it coming.
And it’s not a modern thing. Scarborough and the folks at Morning Joe have repeatedly lost touch with reality when it comes to economics.
It’s been less than a year since Joe announced on the radio that… The economy was the best It’s been like this before – and anyone who didn’t see it was the victim of a “perversion” of the facts by conservative media.
“But you talked about the economy and people being worried about where things are. That is the perversion. “This is the perversion of these networks that twist and distort reality when their husband or wife is not in office,” he stressed. “We have an economy that is stronger than ever before.”
Scarborough also had a guest who told viewers that lower prices and more affordable groceries were actually “kind of a bad thing.”
MSNBC’s @SteveRattner Says Americans Should Get Used to Ever-Rising Prices Because Lower Cost of Living ‘Is Kind of a Bad Thing’ pic.twitter.com/XODsmE72hW
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 13, 2023
“This is a shock to them, and they – at least some of them – are expecting prices to go back to where they were before,” said investor Steve Rattner. “That’s not happening. In fact, deflation is a pretty bad thing.”
Lower prices? Are you stretching your dollar? Who needs that noise, right?
Scarborough, meanwhile, continued to fuss about the cost of living until just days before the election, assuring that whoever won would be in good shape.
“The next president will inherit a remarkable economy,” he claimed.
Remarkable economies don’t lead to $7 butter, Joe. But it leads to a second Trump term. And you didn’t see any of this coming, did you?
