In a sea of press productions sustained by deranged hatred of Donald Trump, few come close to “Morning Joe.” The MSNBC show hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski has long been home to some of the most hysterical, dishonest takes about the soon-to-be current president.
In early October, Scarborough spent time on the show musing about Trump representing the death of democracy. He went so far as to call himself “fearful” and “nervous” about the prospect of Democrats losing the election. More tellingly, after the president-elect’s first assassination attempt, MSNBC pulled the show off the air because they knew they couldn’t trust its hosts and commentators to not suggest Trump deserved it.
With the election now decided, though, there’s been a slight change in tone.
Now that Trump has completely crushed the Kamala machine, Morning Joe turns down the lunacy dial and admits Trump was *actually tough on Russia* during his first term. Joe has no shame! pic.twitter.com/TksVbdMk0w
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) November 11, 2024
Hang on just a minute. At what point in the last several years did anyone on “Morning Joe” admit that Donald Trump was actually fairly tough on Vladimir Putin? Because all I remember are the hysterics about mythical collusion and a possible Trump second term leading to Ukraine being handed over to Russia on a silver platter. Of course, I do remember Joe Scarborough being one of the most blatant examples of a press figure comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler. It’s a pretty long journey from that kind of insanity to casually stating that Trump was tough on Russia.
Why is this happening? Some of it is that we’ve entered the acceptance stage. Many in the press are toning down their rhetoric (but not all) and attempting to appear as if they had been balanced all along. Here’s the thing, though: They weren’t. […]
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