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Here’s another bit of total B.S. from MSNBC’s “unbiased” news host/secret Mitt Romney spinster Joe Scarborough. On Tuesday, he presented as fact the bogus Romney spin-machine claim that if Mike Huckabee wasn’t in the race, Romney would be winning.

But here’s what the exit polling showed:

Huckabee supporters preferred McCain by five points while the Giuliani vote was split between McCain and Romney, with Romney getting a one-point edge.

So not only was Scarborough dead wrong about Romney winning by a few points, but he completely lied about the “countless Republican voters all across this state” who said “a vote for Huckabee is a vote for John McCain.” He lied about those voters “breaking Mitt Romney’s way.”

He lied about the evangelical voters going for Romney.

He lied about the Giuliani “moderates” who were going to “break for John McCain” to snub Romney.

And he did all of this in advance of Romney’s loss, on Romney’s behalf, so that he could push the Romney narrative and insulate his guy from the damning results.

In fact, if Huckabee wasn’t in the race, McCain would have won by a much larger margin. It also appears that there is an “anybody but Mitt” mentality that is shared by supporters of multiple campaigns.

But Scarborough unabashedly continued his pro-Romney ranting despite all these facts and said, “I don’t give a damn what anybody says tonight, John McCain will not get conservatives behind him in the fall.” Apparently, he must have also missed the part of the exit poll that had McCain winning conservatives 35 percent to 32 percent in the Republican-only primary.

Inevitably, when MSNBC lets Scarborough — who resembles the reactionary right wing radio hosts more than a supposed “impartial journalist” — run loose for at least eight hours a day spewing Romney’s propaganda, they make their political coverage look like a joke.

So, once again, is Scarborough really fair?

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