Morning Joe Shreds Kavanaugh For His Defense of ‘Sharp’ Hearing: He ‘Cried Like a Baby’

The cast of Morning Joe was not buying Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh‘s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal defending his temperament at his Senate Judiciary Hearing and reassuring that he will be an impartial judge.

“I do not decide cases based on personal or policy preferences,” Kavanaugh wrote. “I was very emotional last Thursday, more so than I have ever been. I might have been too emotional at times. I know that my tone was sharp, and I said a few things I should not have said. I hope everyone can understand that I was there as a son, husband and dad.”

Morning Joe aired some clips of Kavanaugh’s raging opening statement before the committee as a reminder of how the judge behaved.

“It doesn’t matter where you stand,” Joe Scarborough said. “It’s so problematic, to think about somebody like that sitting on the Supreme Court, where there’s never going to be a decision that he makes that isn’t going to be tainted by partisanship.”

“He takes a lot of this personally,” Mika Brzezinski added. “I think that op-ed was telling… This is a job interview for the highest court in the land, and everyone is trying to understand whether or not you are fit for the job. So I don’t think his highly emotional, raging reaction makes him guilty. We have no idea whether he’s guilty or innocent of what he’s accused of. But it does show something about his fitness.”

Republican strategist Susan Del Percio added that Kavanaugh was “flippant and really disrespectful” in how he handled exchanges with lawmakers, like Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

“That is inexcusable on top of the partisanship that we saw,” she said. Brzezinski added that in his hearing, Kavanaugh “raged, defended himself, cried like a baby.”

Later in the segment, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson criticized Kavanaugh’s op-ed as “all me, me, me, and they made me do it. The dastardly liberals turned me into that creature that you saw, yelling and frothing at that hearing.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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