RINO Joe Scarborough Mocks Nobel Prize, Obama White House E-mails Him To "Stop Being An Asshole"

President Thin-Skinned is out attacking critics of today's boost to his ego...the sudden capture of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The victim? MSNBC host (and hardly a conservative) Joe Scarborough (Newsbusters).

Scarborough and Time's Mark Halperin—whom no one would accuse of being a right-wing hack—had some good-natured fun with the Nobel news. A laughing-out-loud Scarborough suggested among other things that Marisa Tomei was more deserving of her Academy Award. But the Messiah will not be mocked, and it wasn't long before NBC's Savannah Guthrie, on the set, announced that she had received an email from "a senior White House official" telling Joe to "stop being an a------e" [spelled out in the original, according to Savannah]. Mika Brzezinski tried to soft-pedal the insult, claiming the White House was "joking." Real side-splitter! Is this the new standard of civility from Dems so offended by "you lie"?

Mark Finkelstein, who wrote the article, has an idea who may have sent the e-mail.

My guess is Robert Gibbs, a frequent Morning Joe guest. We know Gibbs has been on the Nobel beat since early today, Morning Joe mentioning it was he who woke PBO at 6 AM with the news.