Jackass.
Via Mediaite:
Legendary journalist Carl Bernstein joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe and their Joe McCarthybell to castigate a Republican Party he felt had become extreme to the point of dysfunction. Working off of a New York Times op-ed by John Taft about the radical drift of the GOP, which also compared the current Republican Party to McCarthyites, Bernstein argued that by defying the tea party President Barack Obama might help moderate and bolster the GOP.
“It’s like the Democratic Party of segregation,” Bernstein said. “It’s the same thing. The great contribution of Obama might be to help create a responsible Republican Party in the end, by the rejection of the tea party and the realization that you have to have a mainstream party. Obama has made monkeys out of this wedge that is now on the defensive.”