Morning Joe was all aboard the Sycophant Specific in the present day, turning the gush meter to 11 because it unleashed a string of superlatives to reward Biden’s go to to Ukraine.

“Unbelievable, staggering, historic…completely gorgeous…extraordinary…extremely transferring.”

Joe Scarborough twice put Biden’s bravery in the identical class as that of Lincoln visiting Union troops in the course of the Civil Battle.

At one level, Scarborough emoted over Biden’s “excruciating 10-hour prepare journey.” You need an excruciating prepare journey, Joe? Strive using the NYC subway at rush hour, with the ever-present hazard of being pushed onto the tracks by a maniac.

Be aware: Scarborough seems to have gotten his Biden-Lincoln analogy from Michael Beschloss, the historian and Biden fan boy, who made it throughout his look yesterday on Pleasure Reid’s present. However whereas Beschloss steered that Biden was the primary president since Lincoln to go to a struggle zone, as this Fox Information article factors out, President George W. Bush made a shock go to to Iraq in 2003, eight months after the struggle started there.

The media known as {that a} “presidential publicity stunt.”

Morning Joe turning its gush meter to 11 over Biden’s Ukraine go to was sponsored partially by Flonase, Sleep Quantity, Reserving.com, and GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Shingrix.

Here is the transcript.

MSNBC
Morning Joe
2/21/23
6:01 am ET

WILLIE GEIST: Joe, simply unimaginable, staggering, historic scenes yesterday of President Biden strolling the streets of Kyiv.

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JOE SCARBOROUGH: Unbelievable. An unimaginable message that he despatched, historic journey. David Ignatius, the primary time because the Civil Battle, since Lincoln rode to see how Union troops have been doing in opposition to the South, {that a} president rode right into a struggle zone that his facet was not controlling. 

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Joe Biden went, and despatched simply an completely gorgeous message to the world, however most significantly, to the folks of Ukraine . . . An extraordinary journey, Gene. Once more, in contrast to any president in our lifetime, any president in Biden’s lifetime, any president that [inaudible] since Abraham Lincoln. The man takes, sneaks out of Washington, goes to the border, the deserted prepare station, goes about 10 hours by the evening. Will get there, after which, with the Russians understanding he is there, takes the 10-hour prepare journey again!

EUGENE ROBINSON: Precisely!

SCARBOROUGH: Primarily daring Putin: go forward, you realize the place I’m. It is a scene, once more, the place we have now not, we have now not witnessed in our lifetime–any president.

ROBINSON: I believed it was an extremely transferring day, and as you mentioned, an unimaginable day within the Biden presidency. 

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SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, Mika and I had a variety of discussions after we knew he was going to Poland. She goes, you suppose he’ll go to Kyiv? I’m going: I simply do not see —

JEN PSAKI: Yeah — appears onerous.

SCARBOROUGH: — I simply do not see how anyone could make that 20-hour journey, uncovered. He did it!

PSAKI: Yeah. 

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SCARBOROUGH: Biden goes in with a small employees, winding on an excruciating 10-hour prepare journey.