Yes, this video came out yesterday. But I would never forgive myself if I didn’t write about it.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough has a side hobby, and he wants to share it with the world. To wit, he likes to play the guitar and sing. He has also gotten it into his head that this is a thing other people might enjoy.
He’s so sure of his perceived talents, in fact, that he released a single this weekend in honor of the Women’s March. The song is called “Stand.”
It is every bit as awful as you’d imagine.
But there’s more: MSNBC obliged the morning host’s ego Monday by producing a “Stand” music video featuring footage of Handmaid’s Tale enthusiasts, Whoopi Goldberg (?), a close-up shot of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller (??) and a close-up shot of former FBI director James Comey (???).
As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up:
“Once in your life, you may get the chance to stand against a column of tanks,” Scarborough grumbles is his song, referring, of course, to the Tiananmen Square massacre in which an estimated 10,000 Chinese students were murdered by their communist state. “And once in your life, you may get the chance to say words like deep within your heart that change the outcome of the day.”
The amateur singer-songwriter added, “And how the world turns violently, we’re battered by the savagery but we will not wake not on bended knees, we will not go down quietly, will not go down silently. And though the world turns violently, we’re battered by the savagery, but we will not wake, not on bended knee, we will not go down quietly.”
It’s like Bob Dylan, but terrible.
Which is more amusing? That Scarborough and his sidekick, Mika Brzezinski, are still trying to convince the world they weren’t major Trump boosters during the 2016 GOP primaries? Or that “Morning Joe” guests force themselves to smile politely whenever someone brings up the host’s musical hobby?
