Joe Scarborough: The Monica Lewinsky Scandal Was ‘Just Like the Iraq War’

Joe Scarborough: Monica Lewinsky Scandal ‘Just Like the Iraq War’ (Mediaite)

Several liberal websites are slamming MSNBC host Joe Scarborough for merely asking, after the rapid passage of “a gazillion years” in Morning Joe time, whether Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had a point when he said that Hillary Clinton should answer for her husband’s scandal involving then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Along the way, though, they missed Scarborough’s declaration that the reason he’d “never bring it up in a gazillion years” is that “it’s just like the Iraq War in 2003.”

Co-host Mika Brzezinski expressed lingering doubts about how former President Clinton “got off pretty clean,” but panelist and PoliticsNation host Rev. Al Sharpton pointed out that “I don’t think Bill Clinton disagrees that what he did was wrong, but I think we are dealing with, Bill Clinton is not in the political discussion today. If the shot is to try to bring this back up, to take a shot at Hillary Clinton, I think her posture is much different than his.”

“Let’s just ask this question,” Scarborough cut in, “because I would never that stuff in a gazillion years, it was such an ugly chapter in our history, and you know what? It was just like the Iraq War in 2003. There are just some things, we fought those battles. Let’s let them go.”