Is Lori Klausutis Joe Scarborough's Mary Jo?
Considering the skeleton in MSNBC Morning Joe host's closet 

source: InformationLiberation.com

President Trump's 11/29 tweet exhumed a buried matter MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough might have thought forgotten: 

"So now that Matt Lauer is gone when will the Fake News practitioners at NBC be terminating the contract of Phil Griffin? And will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the 'unsolved mystery' that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!'"

Scarborough's tweeted reaction was scanty and notable for its determination to flee the dire subject without at all addressing its substance: 

"Looks like I picked a good day to stop responding to Trump's bizarre tweets, He is not well. twitter.com/joenbc/status/..."

The same day, Breitbart's John Nolte noted the Trump/Scarborough exchange, Nolte also furnished explicatory background: 

"The 'mystery' involving the left-wing Scarborough’s dead intern, Lori Klausutis, is one of those things that has been floating around the internet for quite a while now; something whispered about, something rarely spoken of out loud. In fact, after he mentioned the incident on Twitter back in 2010, left-wing blogger Markos Moulitsas was blackballed by MSNBC. where he had been a regular contributor.

"In July of 2001, Lori Klausutis was just 28-years-old when she was found dead in Scarborough’s congressional district office. The Morning Joe co-host was a sitting Republican congressman at the time. The coroner ruled that the intern fainted due to a heart irregularity. Her death was caused by her head hitting a desk when she fell. She was alone in the office at the time.

"Two months later, less than a year into his fourth term, Scarborough abruptly resigned from congress citing his desire to spend more time with his family.

"It should be noted that just as there is no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia, there is also no evidence of any wrongdoing on Scarborough’s part with respect to Klausutis. This is just another example of Trump using the media’s own tactics against them — something that never ceases to freak the left wing media out. They are simply not used to a Republican who fights back.

"If Russia is fair game, why not Scarborough’s dead intern? After all, Scarborough has been a leading conspiracy theorist regarding all things Trump."

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/11/29/president-trump-investigate-joe-scarboroughs-dead-congressional-intern/#disqus_thread

As illustrated by recent events, media figures of high status can indeed be roped and hauled down, their granite-chiseled visages shattered and their once-renowned names forever the spittle -spattered stuff of public revulsion. Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Glenn Thrush, Mark Halperin, Garrison Kiellor -- and soon, perhaps, Morning Joe Scarborough.

Bill Maher's comic deceit

During a recent HBO Real Time monologue, comedian Bill Maher said of "friend" Al Franken: "He did a bad thing, and the condemnation has been universal, which he deserves. But what he doesn't deserve is to be lumped in with Roy Moore. Or Kevin Spacey. Or Harvey Weinstein. Or Donald Trump, who calls his accusers liars, threatens to sue them, did long riffs at his rallies, where he said they were too ugly for him to assault."

Discerning viewers surely noticed Maher's rhetorical sleight-of-hand. Offenses imputed to Spacey and Weinstein are established, conceded by them, and not disputed by anyone. Moore and Trump, though, have disputed all allegations made against them. And zero actual supportive evidence has been offered in any venue. 

By intercutting the names of Spacey and Weinstein, whose culpability is established to everyone's acknowledgement, with those of "innocent until proven guilty" Moore and Trump, disembling gagster Maher endeavored to imply consonance where there simply was none.

It's certainly so that the unsettling Franken's sordid capering was not of the same horrible order as brutish ravishment. Maher is correct on that solitary point. (Leeann Tweeden's allegation of a backstage forced kiss by Franken has not been objectively confirmed.) Whether Franken suffers political and professional sanction is for the appropriate parties to determine.

But he shouldn't, exclusively owing to one ugly, joshing incident photographically preserved -- doubtlessly, to his heaving rue. (I will happily concede, though, that because I detest Franken for a host of fine reasons, I am enjoying the hell out of his ignominious ruination.)

Maher's giggly mouthing of unethicalness and intellectual fraudulence, though, mirrors that bandied of late by an emerging assemblage of prejudice-colored, electorally contriving dastards. In their, and Maher's, tilt-a-whirl reckoning, unsubstantiated allegations lodged against ideological adversaries are sufficient cause for hammering together a gallows. But genuinely documented offenses perpetrated by political fellows are mere 'bad things,' about which no further fuss need be made.

Of America enduring

In his August 15 speech on Charlottesville, President Trump lamented liberals' mania for historical revisionism. Referencing the demolition of statues and memorials, he asked: "Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. This week, it is Robert E. Lee and this week, Stonewall Jackson. Is it George Washington, next?"

A number of mainstream commentators ridiculed Trump's warning. His sentiment was validated, though, in October. The governing council of Alexandria's Christ Church voted unanimously to remove a plaque honoring original church member/patron  Washington. 

Now, the California chapter of the NAACP is calling for that state's legislature to replace the national anthem. Chapter president Alice Huffman has said a phrase in the song's seldom sung third verse does not represent all Americans. 

Huffman told a local interviewer she was inspired to review the national anthem by Colin Kaepernick and other professional football players' 'take a knee' anthem protests. Her NAACP chapter has also called for the U.S. Congress to officially censure President Trump for his criticism of those protests.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/11/07/naacp-national-anthem-racist/ 

Statue demolitions. Plaque removals. Building and scholarship renamings. American borders erasure. Slurring of national sovereignty advocates as "bigots." National anthem protests and pressure for the song's abandonment.

Plainly, President Trump's August words carried an important truth about looming anti-Americanism. His critics were either oblivious to that specter or, perhaps, in secret sympathy with it.

Citizens disagree about much, and liberty allows us to state our passions in the streets as well as in voting booths. But national icons, laws, and culture unify us. We are one country, one people. 
There is much more that unites us than divides us from one another.

President Trump appeals to that national sense of shared identity, ideals, purpose, and, yes, exceptionalism. His 2016 victory and its remarkable significance for "the forgotten man" -- and effective assertion of robust American resolve -- quite overshadow minor-scale seditious irritants.