Joe Scarborough Attacks Fox News and Their Viewers ‘Too Stupid’ to Understand Josh Hawley ‘Attacking Holocaust Survivors’
Joe Scarborough is fed up with the right-wing Congressional cable news bubble and used Senator Josh Hawley doing a “victory lap” on Fox News over his recent back-and-forth with DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas to illustrate.
During a Tuesday Senate hearing, Mayorkas grew irate with Hawley’s questioning at a hearing — calling his words “despicable” and “odious.”
“Mr. Secretary, what’s going on here? Is this typical of people who work at DHS? This is an asylum and immigration officer who is posting these, frankly, pro-genocidal slogans and images on the day that Israelis are being slaughtered in their beds. What have you done about this?” Hawley asked Mayorkas — who, when finally offered the opportunity to speak, took great issue with Hawley’s suggestion:
Number one, what I found despicable was the implication that — this language, tremendously odious — actually could be emblematic of the sentiments of the 260,000 men and women of the Department of Homeland Security, number one.
Number two, Senator Hawley takes an adversarial approach to me in this question, and perhaps he doesn’t know my own background. Perhaps he does not know that I’m a child of a Holocaust survivor. Perhaps he does not know that my mother lost all of her family at the hands of the Nazis. And so, I find his adversarial tone to be entirely misplaced. I find it to be disrespectful of me and my heritage. And I do not expect an apology, but I did want to say what I just articulated.
Hawley’s Press Office promoted a clip of the back and forth, and it added the headline “HAWLEY SMOKES MAYORKAS,” which is questionable language given the subject matter. He then appeared on the Fox News news program America’s Newsroom hosted by Bret Baier and Dana Perino. This is the part that appeared to set the Morning Joe host off.
I just want to go back really quickly to Josh Hawley. Not only did he did he smear a Holocaust survivors side and smear a guy whose family, a lot of his family was wiped out by the Holocaust. He then put the clip up on his Instagram and says, Holy smokes, my caucus. So what, Bernie? What in the ovens, Josh? Is that what you’re saying? Seriously? Like no shame. And then he goes on Fox News and they do a victory lap about him attacking a Holocaust survivor son that is sick. And that’s exactly how they get away with it. Yeah. And people that are watching are too stupid in this case to actually say that he’s attacking Holocaust survivors families in the middle of the greatest anti-Semitic campaign against Jews. He knows where there’s a war, worldwide war against Jews and he attacks a Jew and is shameless about it and then goes on Fox News and they do a victory lap about it.
“Anyone with any integrity, as we were just saying when that moment happened, would have said, ‘I’m so sorry. I did not know about your family’s history. Let’s talk about the policy,'” Willie Geist added. “But of course, that’s not who Josh Hawley is any more to talk about policy. He was there to post that clip, ‘I Smoked Mayorkas, I’m going to go on Fox News. We’re going to do a touchdown dance about how I smoked Mayorkas!'”
“Sick!” Mika Brzezinski added — before returning to the political media bubble that Scarborough started with. “They don’t know the truth. They’re watching Fox. They’re listening to his that they don’t know. They think they’re getting news. They think they’re getting information.“
Scarborough then laced into Fox News role in election denialism and blasted Greg Gutfeld’s recent comments about elections not mattering, though he did not cite him by name:
And by the way, I got to say, on the same network a couple of weeks ago, you had somebody actually saying elections don’t matter. On their biggest show. Elections don’t matter. We’re going to have to resort to violence. We’re going to have to do anything. We’re going to have to do what the North did during the Civil War. We’re going to have to resort to violence. Elections don’t matter. “
Yeah, that’s after they paid $787 million. That’s after Tucker Carlson. That’s before the billion-dollar settlement coming up before them. And they still let people go on their air saying elections don’t matter. We’re going to have to resort to violence. And then they sit there, go, oh, wait, Well, you know, they’re not to be taken seriously. You know, like Tucker’s lawyer said, oh, nobody believes him. Nobody believes, hey, you know, you’re not supposed to believe him. Yeah, well, a lot of people did, and four cops are dead. Okay?
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