Joe Scarborough addressed his community’s baffling choice to drag the Morning Joe present on Monday, saying that they have been informed that the community can be operating breaking information all morning however that didn’t occur.
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Joe Scarborough: Earlier than we begin this hour, Willie, I simply needed to briefly discuss to our pals and viewers that watch us on daily basis. Speak about what occurred yesterday. We have been informed, in so unsure phrases, on Sunday night that there was going to be one information feed throughout all NBC information channels yesterday. “In the present day” present can be Lester Holt. Different people who, nicely, you labored with on Sunday, that was going to be one information feed throughout all NBC information channels. That we have been going to remain as a community in breaking information mode all through all day yesterday.
That didn’t occur. We don’t know why that didn’t occur. Our crew was not given a great reply as to why that didn’t occur, nevertheless it didn’t occur.
We have been additionally informed it was going to occur all through the day. I assume after there was such a powerful blowback about yesterday morning, I assume they modified their plans, and so these plans modified, as nicely. So it didn’t. You already know, we’ve talked about it off the air. We’ll discuss it on the air as a result of we discuss every little thing on the air.
We have been very shocked. We have been very disenchanted. If we had identified that there wasn’t going to be the one information feed from NBC information throughout all NBC information channels, Willie, we clearly would have been in yesterday morning.
It was reported on Monday that this choice emanated from the highest, afraid of any criticism of Donald Trump after a 20-year-old registered Republican tried to assassinate him at a July 13, 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Legislation enforcement responding instantly after the occasion mentioned Mr. Trump’s ear had been lower by glass from his shattered teleprompter, however no medical data has been launched as to the character of Trump’s accidents. One viewers member was killed and two are in vital situation.
Why is the community afraid of criticism of Donald Trump? This is named self-censoring (one thing I warned about in 2016), when media and critics reply to the rise of an autocrat with preventive self-censorship. It may be an indication of rising fascism.
The media is doing this for quite a lot of causes, none of which must do with their ostensible job as protectors of democracy or the fourth property, and most of which must do with these on the high.
It was stunning yesterday to see a high MSNBC staple pulled on a day when Morning Joe’s tackle the state of affairs would have been informative. It needs to be famous that Joe Scarborough is a former Republican lawmaker and now Unbiased, whereas Mika is a reasonable Democrat. Actually, their take belonged on an allegedly liberal community.
The media is utilizing the assassination try and deify and inoculate Trump from criticism whereas fabricating the notion of a consensus that merely doesn’t exist exterior of the media echosphere, when in reality he’s a big contributing explanation for the rise of political violence within the U.S. Trump began his 2016 marketing campaign off with chants of “Lock her up,” mentioned “Second Modification individuals” ought to do one thing in regards to the then Democratic nominee, and has mocked Paul and Nancy Pelosi after Paul was critically attacked and required much more medical intervention, together with surgical procedure on his mind, than Donald Trump confronted.
A Reuters particular report from August of 2023 discovered:
“Incidents of political violence started rising in 2016, across the time of Trump’s first run for the presidency, mentioned Gary LaFree, a College of Maryland criminologist who has tracked such violence in a terrorism database between 1970 and 2020.
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In distinction (to earlier many years), a lot of at the moment’s political violence is aimed toward individuals – and many of the lethal outbursts tracked by Reuters have come from the correct. Of the 14 deadly political assaults for the reason that Capitol riot during which the perpetrator or suspect had a transparent partisan leaning, 13 have been right-wing assailants. One was on the left.”
Does anybody recall the media silencing criticism of the then Speaker within the days following that horrific assault or getting teary-eyed at Pelosi’s calm and measured responses – a stark distinction to the Trump surrogates and now Vice Presidential candidate nominee blaming Democrats for an assault by a registered Republican?
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