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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 10 Questions with Joe Scarborough [Watch (HLS stream): 10 Questions with Joe Scarborough](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vsRCjDj1.m3u8) (7:15)  _Published 2008-12-11. Joe Scarborough is the host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe." He answers reader questions here_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:04 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [10 Questions With MSNBC's Steve Kornacki](/video/UTf9pqwc/) ### 10 Questions With MSNBC's Steve Kornacki [Morning Joe Co-Host Joe Scarborough Is Leaving the Republican Party](/video/HvPCLNvt/) ### Morning Joe Co-Host Joe Scarborough Is Leaving the Republican Party [10 Questions for Billie Joe Armstrong](/video/MaoCqhAR/) ### 10 Questions for Billie Joe Armstrong --- ## Transcript >> Hi. I'm Gilbert Cruz with time. com, we're here with Joe Scarborough, co- hosts MSNBC's Morning Joe. And he's here to answer questions from Time readers. >> It's good to be here though. >> Excellent. Thank you. From Dustin Campbell who is from Hawkinsville, Kentucky-- >> Uh huh. >> And Dustin asks, " What is life like being the believed conservative on MSNBC? Are you constantly falling out of mysteriously broken chairs in the office [ unk ]?" >> No. They keep us separated. I-- They put me in a cage after I get off at 9: 00 in the morning. No, you know, it's been a fascinating progression over the past five years at MSNBC. As primetime has moved further to the left, I've actually found myself more accepted at MSNBC. The two don't obviously have anything to do with each other. It's just-- It's just that you've got perception, then you've got reality. As long as I'm fair-- and I think I do my best to be down the middle and take on Republicans and Democrats-- I don't-- I don't think there's a problem at all. >> Uh huh. >> And yeah, no-- no broken chairs that-- at least, of late. >> Do pundits actually believe everything they say, do they exaggerate and sensationalize sometimes? >> No. >> Does that-- Does that-- >> No, that's what-- >> connect to what you mean-- >> Yeah. -[ unk ] TV? >> Exactly. I guest- hosted on Crossfire back in the early-- right after I got out of Congress. I found out pretty quickly that people come on and with a lot of shows, they actually-- when the bookers call them up, they'll say, " Yeah. What do you-- What do you want me to say tonight? What do you want me to believe tonight ?" And they're so excited about being on TV they'll say whatever-- >> Uh huh. >> you want them to say. And so we just wanted to make sure that when we got all in there, we were just as real as possible. Mike Barnicle, who's on the show an awful lot, says that the television is an MRI machine. People can tell who you are especially if you're-- you've got a three- hour show. >> Right. >> They get a pretty good sense of whether you're playing TV or not. >> Do you think that Morning Joe has to be wary of politics fatigue after such a very long campaign? >> You know, I don't think so. I think we're about to enter into a new era of American politics where people are gonna be more focused, more excited about politics than-- oh, probably anytime since John Kennedy became president in 1960. This is actually-- it's a perfect time for Morning Joe to have launched, during this historic campaign. You may have to go back to the thirties to see the government take as active a role in society, in which direction America is going at least domestically as we'll see over the next twelve to twenty- four months. I mean, they're nationalizing everything, for God's sake. What is there not to talk about in American society that's not gonna be touched by the federal government? >> Steven [ unk ] from Virginia Beach wants to know what do Republicans have to do in order to, you know, recapture their conservative roots to sort of-- -[ unk ]-- >> stem the tide of all these things-- >> Yeah. >> that they've done in the past fourteen years, keep the-- >> They gotta keep their word. I mean, either you're far a smaller less- intrusive government or you're not. Republicans have spent money more recklessly than Democrats ever did when they were in charge of Congress and the White House that it's hard to really tell what the Republican party stood for. What they need to stand for is limited government, fiscal responsibility. They need to-- They need to-- And they need to be focused on staying out of people's lives, letting them keep as much money as they wanna keep letting them educate their children the way they wanna educate their children, letting them live their lives without the federal government interfering it every single stage. >> So do you agree then with those who say that Republican-- the Republican party had to lose in order for it to start over? >> Well, you know, it's like I've always said, " Gotta burn down the village to save it ." And listen, we were saying the same thing in 2006, that if the Republican party lost, maybe we'd wake up in-- after the 2006 elections, it didn't. >> Uh huh. >> So hopefully, the party being routed in 2008 will wake it up and we'll start getting some conservative leaders to step forward. >> Stephen [ unk ] from Ann Arbor, Michigan asks, " What gave you the biggest surprise during the 2008 election ?" >> That Barack Obama won. >> Really? >> I have-- I have always impressed friends and enemies alike by telling people two years out who was going to be the Republican nominee, who was gonna be the Democratic nominee, and who was gonna win. And usually, it was based on who could raise the most money. I never ever assumed that a first- term senator who had only served in the senate for a year before deciding to run for president of the United States would be able to raise more money than the Clinton machine. The fact that they did, the fact that he was able to out- raise Hilary and every Republican candidate by overwhelming margins was absolutely stunning. >> Larry [ unk ] from Hays, Kansas. Do you really need that seven- second delay? Can't you control your f- bombs? >> Yes. I need the seven- second delay, and I need that because we are on so much sometimes six hours at a time-- six hours straight and then we'll be on [ unk ] also and-- especially when we go on the road, we're sleep- deprived. Then certainly, I don't suspect I will ever make the same mistake twice. But you just never know. And we made it very clear to our producers. I asked for the seven- second delay because we want everybody to remain relaxed on the set. So if people say stupid things, chances are again we'll still let that slide by. It's just if I say things that might be very offensive to the audience, we'll have them push the big red button, the Joe button. >> What was with all the drama between the MSNBC anchors at this summer's conventions? >> You saved the best for last, just like Vanessa Williams. We have a lot of shows that are opinion- based and sometimes, in any family, when you're sitting around the dinner table-- Thanksgiving table, for instance-- you talk politics and sometimes it gets a little heated. >> Uh huh. >> But in MSNBC right now, it's really a free marketplace of ideas where all opinions are invited and sometimes opinions clash. But all's well that ends well. >> All right. 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