Joe Scarborough Blasts MSNBC Viewers ‘Too Stupid’ To See Campus Protests Hurting Biden’s Reelection: ‘Change to Another Channel’
Joe Scarborough chided MSNBC viewers who may support the civil protest on college campuses for being “too stupid” to see it helping former President Donald Trump get re-elected while live footage of police officers clashing with pro-Palestinian protestors aired live on viewers’ screens.
Tear gas and flash bangs are currently being employed by California law enforcement to break down a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus of UCLA. This has been the scene of violent attacks on the protestors by pro-Israel protestors, many of whom are not UCLA students, in response to reported attacks and anti-semitism by the pro-Palestinian protestors.
Scarborough rushed to see the conflict through a domestic political lens and immediately compared the unfolding events to the Vietnam protests and how it made his parents switch from being Democrats to Republicans.
“I remember my parents asking, what in the world is going on in this country? And of course, you know, they were raised in the Great Depression and rural Georgia,” he said of the Vietnam protests in the late 1960s. “Kind of hard for them to hear rich kids on the campus of Harvard are taking over, or taking over campuses at Columbia.”
“If you’re offended by this, please, I’m trying to help you,” he continued before openly campaigning on behalf of President Joe Biden.”I don’t want Donald Trump to get elected. All right? I’m trying to help you. If you’re too stupid to figure that out, you can change to another channel.”
“Because we’re sorting through this as a country,” he continued. “And this is not helping. This is not helping the people of Gaza. And this is not helping those of us who want to fight fascism in America.”
“But, Richard,” he turned to guest Richard Haase, “You remember 68. It was a tidal wave. There’s a reason that Reagan won with a lot of young voters in 1980. There’s a reason the Reagan Revolution took place. The seeds were planted in 1968. And again, when I say that, I’m not saying that the Vietnam War wasn’t an unjust war.”
Scarborough concluded that there are ways to protest without hurting Biden’s reelection bid or ” aiding the worst elements in American politics.”
The Morning Joe host regularly speaks of the evils of a second Trump administration and reportedly speaks regularly with President Joe Biden, who often watches Morning Joe via the same report.
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