'Absolutely insane': Morning Joe bashes conservatives over latest Kamala Harris attack
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped into critics on Monday over claims that Kamala Harris hasn't revealed enough information about her policies.
The "Morning Joe" host bashed a pair of conservative columnists — Bret Stephens of the New York Times and Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal — who have complained that Harris talks too much about her background and not enough about policy specifics.
"That's a lie, an absolute lie," Scarborough said. "It ignores what politicians have been doing for hundreds of years."
Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, went on, "When somebody asked me about jobs, I always started talking about my father at 40 years old, losing his job, being laid off at Lockheed. I talked about driving around the South, my entire family, when I was 7 or 8, sitting in the backseat, my dad going town to town, trying to find a job so he could support the family.
"I kept going, then I'd end by saying, and that's why the greatest social policy is a job. These are the three things we're going to do to create a job. Nobody mocked me, nobody has ever mocked a politician for actually talking about their background and how it influences their policy."
But, he said, that talk about her background and the things that former her is exactly what Harris' opponents are complaining about.
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"But now, as we get into the homestretch, the anti-anti-Trumpers who just can't admit they are going to vote for a man who tried to overthrow American democracy, who did what they did on Jan. 6, they're desperately trying to create the permission structure so they can vote for a man who said he was going to terminate the Constitution, that the chairman of the joint chiefs should be executed," Scarborough continued.
"He told his staff members that Mike Pence deserved to be hanged. I could go down the list and do it for hours, whose own lawyers said he could kill his political opponents using SEAL Team 6 and could not be prosecuted for it, could not be prosecuted while he was in the White House. I could go down all of those lists, but they're looking at an interview where Kamala Harris gives the answer. They just say, 'Oh, but she told her life story at the beginning of the Philadelphia interview,' like no politician has ever done.
"Did Ronald Reagan do that? Did Barack Obama? Yeah, damn straight they did. Did Bill Clinton tell stories? Yeah, damn straight."
"This is absolutely insane, the false equivalency," Scarborough added. "You see it from Bret Stephens. You see it at the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the false equivalencies they are desperately pushing at the end of this campaign."
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