Republican’s Story About Lost Informant Mocked as ‘Absurd’
"Morning Joe" crew exposes ridiculousness of Republican Biden conspiracy theories
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer's admission that congressional Republicans lost their key so-called “informant” prompted a round of jokes and guffaws on Monday's Morning Joe program.
Comer, the Kentucky Republican behind alleging — without evidence — various corruption and crimes committed by President Biden and his family, made the admission on Maria Bartiromo's Fox News Sunday program that the key “informant” in this alleged and unsubstantiated Biden plot had been lost.
Bartiromo herself called losing an informant “absolutely extraordinary, and it is stunning.”
However, the real mocking of Comer came Monday on MSNBC's “Morning Joe.”
“‘So, comrade, you’re telling me you’ve lost another submarine?’” Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough joked, making a reference to The Hunt for Red October.
Scarborough could not contain his laughter at the absurdity at play, “Come on! You lost an informant?! You lost the informant, the guy that you claimed gave you all this information that you built this entire charade on?!”
Co-host Jonathan Lemire joined in with his own pop culture reference, inviting comment from regular panelist Mara Gay.
“Yeah. And Mara, The Hunt for Red October is a good reference. I’m also reminded of that classic Seinfeld episode where Jerry goes to the rental car counter and says, ‘Well, it’s one thing to take the reservation, but you’ve also got a hold the reservation,’” Lemire cracked. “In this case, you’ve also got to hold the informant, you got to hang on to him to make sure he actually can cooperate with your investigation.
“But it seems to be … a moment where just the Republican Party just seems just out of touch with what people care about,” he added. “They’ve been promising this ‘Biden crime family' scare quotes investigation for a long time, we know that there are some legal matters with Hunter Biden, that’s a separate issue and the Department of Justice, we know that investigation is entering its end stages.
“But this blanket conspiracy has never gained much traction. It didn’t work in 2020. What are they thinking now?” Lemire said.
A member of the New York Times editorial board, Gay made a point about how absurd the entire Biden crime conspiracy scenario sounds to anyone not part of the Republican Party's most devoted base.
“First of all, listening to that conversation, I mean, it may as well be Mad Libs, he could be talking about UFOs. I mean, we heard from them. Now we don’t know where they are. It’s hard to keep track of them. What really are we talking about here?” Gay asked. “I mean, the interesting thing is from a disinformation perspective, this was one of the rare moments of lucidity, as Joe said a moment ago, where you actually see that the emperor has no clothes, and that this is all bunk.
“This is based on absolutely no real evidence whatsoever. Because of course, we know that whistleblowers just don’t go missing suddenly. So this is absurd,” Gay added. “But it’s also a moment to recognize that most Americans have no idea. They’re not clued into these, you know, ginned up conspiracy theories.
“This is for a very small, specific audience in the Republican base, that can be animated by these conspiracy theories,” she said. “So I think the rest of America is going, ‘What are you talking about? I’m looking at the price of life and living in this country. I’m interested in the border. I’m interested in jobs, in housing insecurity and how I’m going to feed my kids and make sure that they have a better life than I did.’
“Nobody cares about these conspiracy theories, except for the small part of the Republican base that is controlling the Republican Party like a ventriloquist at the moment, it seems, and it’s a really, you know, bizarre situation, not just politically but culturally,” she concluded. “Most Americans are thinking, ‘What are these people talking about?’”
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