The false equivalence of the 2024 election is “absolutely insane,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said Monday.
The “Morning Joe” host blasted people in the media for treating the campaigns of Republican candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, the same way.
Scarborough sent out contrasting montages torching the idea — which he said has been pushed by The New York Times in recent days. Bret Stephens and Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal, among others – that Harris knows little about policy issues, avoids serious questions and talks only about her background.
The first series of clips showed Harris detailed plans, including tax assistance for start-up businesses, first-time homeowners and more. The second supercut showed Trump failing to answer simple questions and instead going off on nonsensical tangents. That Harris only told her life story is “a lie, an absolute lie,” Scarborough said.
“It ignores what politicians have been doing for hundreds of years,” he added, recalling his own tactics from his time as a Republican congressman, as he detailed his own family history that led him to believe that “the best social policy is a job.” before noting to listeners the three things he would do to create them.
“No one has mocked me, no one has ever mocked a politician for actually talking about his background and how it influences his policies,” Scarborough said. “But now that we’re in the home stretch, the anti-anti-Trumpers, who just can’t admit that they’re going to vote for a man who tried to overthrow American democracy, who did what they did on January 6, they… “We’re desperately trying to create a consent structure so they can vote for a man who said he was going to end the Constitution, and that the chairman of the joint leadership should be executed.”
Scarborough cited several other potentially disqualifying examples for Trump before adding: “I could go down all those lists, but they’re looking at an interview with Kamala Harris giving the answer. They just say, “Oh, but she told her life story at the beginning of the interview in Philadelphia,” like no politician has ever done. Did Ronald Reagan do that? Did Barack Obama do that? Yes, damn clearly, they did. Did Bill Clinton tell stories? Yeah, damn fair.”
“This is absolutely insane, this false equivalency,” Scarborough added.
“Have you no shame?” he asked. “Do you really have no shame?”
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