Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough slammed the mainstream media for “false equivalency” and siding with the “anti-anti-Trumpers” by ignoring the “crazy things” former President Donald Trump says when questioned on policy and, instead, attacking Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
After a review of the polls following the opening of Monday morning’s show, Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski ran back clips of Harris answering a question on reducing living costs and comparing it with Trump’s “nonsensical” answer on child care assistance, talking about tariffs on foreign nations during an event with the National Association of Black Journalists.
Scarborough then attacked the mainstream media for its “false equivalency” in coverage of the candidates, lambasting the Wall Street Journal and New York Times columnist Bret Stephens for publishing a critical analysis of Harris’s policy-based responses to voters’ questions over the weekend.
People are trying to flatten, and it’s not just the anti-anti-trumpers. It’s also people in the mainstream media. They’re going, ‘Yes, Donald Trump, he’s saying all these crazy things,’ but did you see that? There were two. There were two people this weekend with significant columns going, ‘but did you see her answer to the local Philadelphia question?’ She actually gave a three-point answer, and she talked about $50,000 for start-up small businesses. She talked about tax breaks, $25,000 tax breaks for first-time homebuyers. She talked about a private investment partnership that would help create the building of 3 million new jobs. Those are specific answers to specific questions.
Yet, two people, one at the Wall Street Journal, one at The New York Times, they were like: ‘Did you hear her talking middle-class background? She never tells us anything about anything.’ Actually, that’s a lie. Absolute lie. It ignores what politicians have been doing for hundreds of years.
[…] Now, as we get into the homestretch, anti-anti-Trumpers who just can’t admit they are going to vote for a man who tried to overthrow American democracy, who did what they did on January 6th, they’re desperately trying to create the permission structure so they can vote for a man who said he was going to terminate the constitution, that the chairman of the joint chiefs should be executed.
He told his staff members that [former Vice President] Mike Pence deserved to be hanged. I could go down the list and do it for hours. Whose own lawyers said he could kill his political opponents using SEAL Team Six and could not be prosecuted for it. Could not be prosecuted while he was in the White House.
I could go down all of those lists, but they’re looking at an interview where Kamala Harris gives the answer. They just say: ‘Oh, but she told her life story at the beginning of the Philadelphia interview, like no politician has ever done.’ Did Ronald Reagan do that? Did Barack Obama? Yeah, damn straight they did. Did Bill Clinton tell stories? Yeah, damn straight. This is absolutely insane, the false equivalency. You see it from Bret Stephens. You see it at the Wall Street journal, the New York Times. The false equivalencies they are desperately pushing at the end of this campaign.
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