Meacham, Scarborough Trash ‘Extreme’ Talk Radio Creating Lack of ‘Intellectual Content,’ Rise of Trump

Curtis Houck | August 12, 2016
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Friday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC saw the latest insults hurled in the direction of conservatives and talk radio as co-host/failed talk radio host Joe Scarborough and liberal historian Jon Meacham blasted “the most extreme voices in talk radio” from the past three decades for having “dumbed...down” the Republican Party and creating conspiracy theorists giving rise to Donald Trump making for a lack of “intellectual content.”

Discussing Trump’s comments claiming that President Obama was the founder of ISIS (as opposed to his policies leading to ISIS), the flip-flopping Trump fan in Scarborough chalked it up to being like what he’s “heard...over the past 30 years from the most extreme voices in talk radio and the impact that it’s had on the Republican debate is its coarsened the Republican debate, it’s dumbed it down.”

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