Scarborough Knocks Media for Covering White House Press Dinner over Baltimore Protests
Moments after reminiscing on what a great time was had by all, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough chastised the media for covering the White House Correspondents Dinner instead of the protests over Freddie Gray’s death 40 miles away in Baltimore.
“Every news organizations decided to stay on what is affectionately called the nerd prom in Washington D.C.,” Scarborough said. “They decided to stay on the newsgatherers themselves talking to other newsgatherers, instead of actually going to where the big story of the weekend was, 40 miles up the road. They should have cut in on those riots.”
Not for nothing, but:
Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:
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