Joe Scarborough: ‘Hillary Clinton Cost Hillary Clinton the Election,’ Not Fake News
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough took former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to task Friday after she went on a long speech about the dangers of fake news, arguing that she only had herself to blame for the election loss.
Scarborough asked Huffington Post editor Sam Stein about his thoughts on Clinton’s post-election speech, in which she argued that fake news had “real-world consequences.” While ostensibly the speech about the recent attack on a D.C. pizzeria, the panel of Morning Joe argued it was intended to play into the popular perception that fake news cost her the election.
“I don’t think fake news contributed to her loss. I’m not saying that,” Stein said.
“That’s what she’s suggesting,” Scarborough pointed out.
“I know, and I think that’s wrong. It played a role in the conversation of the election, I don’t think that’s disputable. But it is a big problem, right? It’s huge in our industry,” Stein continued.
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“When you look at this ‘fake news,’ and you see what happened up at Harvard and you hear everybody writing articles saying millennials cost Hillary Clinton the election, and dogs with three legs cost Hillary Clinton the election, and comets passing in the night– Hillary Clinton cost Hillary Clinton the election.” Scarborough said. “Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff cost Hillary Clinton the election.”
“I don’t think people are ready to hear that, Joe,” cautioned his co-host Mika Brzezinski.
“Listen, if you care about Democrats digging out of the hole that they have put themselves in now, you’ve got to ask yourself; what have Democrats done to so offend Americans that they only have 11 governorships, they’ve lost control of the Senate, they’ve lost control of the House, they lost 900 legislative seats over the past six years?” he continued.
“It wasn’t fake news,” Scarborough concluded. “It was something much, much bigger.”
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