‘Republicans Are Lying!’ Joe Scarborough Goes Off on Pro-Trump Media Who ‘Make Shit Up’ About Biden
MSNBC’s Morning Joe went on a tear over how the media treats President Joe Biden versus former President Donald Trump, with co-host Joe Scarborough flat-out accusing right-leaning media outlets of “making shit up” about Biden.
On Tuesday, Scarborough cited a Washington Post editorial by Eugene Robinson entitled “Is Donald Trump Okay?” which criticized the media’s unequal treatment of both men, saying: “It is irresponsible to obsess over President Biden’s tendency to mangle a couple of words in a speech while Donald Trump is out there sounding detached from reality.”
While Scarborough mocked Trump for spouting nonsense, including his most recent Las Vegas rally where he talked about being electrocuted and being eaten by sharks, he also called out other news outlets for the way they covered Trump versus how they covered Biden:
Scarborough: I do think Gene makes a great point. If Joe Biden had given one of those speeches, it would be on the front page of The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal…
Brzezinski: Definitely the Wall Street Journal!
Scarborough: The Washington Post. And everybody would be doing exactly what they were saying. But for Biden, Biden goes to D-Day — and we’re going to talk about this in a little bit, The Washington Post just posted a story this morning — he does a fantastic job, and they actually use cheap fakes where they’re trying to make it look, “Oh, he’s trying to sit down!” And “Oh my god, [he’s looking for] a chair that’s not there!” Everybody on the stage was because [Defense Secretary] Lloyd Austin wasn’t done with his speech yet. There were about three or four different things where… The Republican Party is lying. So they have to make that up, which is a lot like the Wall Street Journal story, where they knew they were lying to their readers. They knew that [former congressman] Kevin McCarthy, what he was telling the Wall Street Journal was a lie.
He went on to say Republicans were resorting to outright lies in their attacks on Biden:
Scarborough: The Wall Street Journal runs a front page story, a lead story that they know is a lie. So with Biden, the Republican Party has to make shit up. And I’m sorry, I can’t think of a better way to say that, to try to make Biden look old and demented. Trump, he does it every day. He’s out on the campaign trail and people just laugh. “Well, yeah. He’s crazy. Wow, look at that. Can you believe he’s so stupid that he’s talking about this? And he melts down when his teleprompter, goes down? That’s funny!” And that’s the political world we’re living in in 2024.
Watch the video above via MSNBC.
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