‘Hysterically Imbalanced!’ Morning Joe Rips NY Times and Other ‘Mainstream Organizations’ for Blowing Hunter Pardon ‘Out Of Proportion’
Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski ripped mainstream media outlets for “hysterically imbalanced” coverage of President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, calling out the New York Times – among others – for being “completely out of step with reality.”
Despite Biden’s repeated assurances that he would not intervene in his son’s legal troubles, the president announced a “full and unconditional” pardon of Hunter Biden on Sunday.
On MSNBC, however, the media’s coverage of the decision was overkill. The hosts interviewed guest David Weigel, journalist for Semafor, who had written an article about how the move had “split” Democrats. During the conversation Scarborough and Brzezinski slammed the media focus on the pardon while ignoring “what has happened on the Trump side.”
Brzezinski began: “No matter what you think of this pardon, the coverage of this is as if… I mean, you look at what has happened on the Trump side, especially if you even parallel pardons that Trump has done himself, it’s just always so — it seems so hysterically imbalanced!”
She added: “I just… you know, when you read how they’re covering this and then you look at the things that are happening on the other side, it is, again, completely out of step with reality.”
Scarborough joined in and name dropped several major outlets, warning that Democrats were frustrated with how the publication’s were “blowing” the pardon story up.
And, Dave, that’s something that you’re hearing. I know you’re not a media critic, but I know you’ve heard this complaint. You know, The New York Times, like, the top six stories online today were all about the pardon. You looked at The Washington Post yesterday, you expected, like, ‘WAR IS OVER’ in massive headlines.”
On the same day Donald Trump said he’s going to nominate a guy who said he had an enemies list he was going to go after and he was going to arrest journalists! I don’t remember headlines this large when Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Roger Stone, then let him run the Stop the Steal campaign and then pardoned him after that.
Again, I’m not asking you to take sides here, I’m just saying talk about the frustration that many Democrats are having on The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, a lot of mainstream organizations blowing this up to the size that they believe is really out of proportion given everything Donald Trump has done in the past and what he’s doing right now.
Watch above on MSNBC.
