Morning Joe Goes OFF on ‘Disgusting’ Fox News Coverage of Jan 6th Hearing: How Do They Allow Such ‘Anti-American Rhetoric?’

Joe Scarborough teamed up with John Heilemann to blast Fox News for allowing their prime-time hosts to ridicule the four police officers who testified before the January 6th House Select Committee.

Scarborough spoke to Heilemann on Wednesday as Morning Joe reacted to the impassioned statements Officers Harry Dunn, Aquilino Gonell, Michael Fanone, and Daniel Hodges gave about what they experienced the day Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol. As Heilemann commended the officers, he eventually started going after Laura Ingraham and other Fox News figures who’ve openly mocked and demeaned the entire hearing, though he never mentioned them by name.

As moved as I was by the testimony, I was just enraged to see people on all of these right wing networks getting on and saying they’re “crisis actors,” saying these people made this up. There’s prime time hosts on other networks, giving out acting awards for who’s the best actor in this category, and that category. The most disgusting, appalling, morally depraved, stomach-churning behavior on people who are not even worthy to coexist on the same planet in some ways with these people.

Heilemann concluded by lamenting that the hearing won’t make a dent among people who’ve been taken in by the “delusion” about January 6th being propped up by “this alternative parallel media infrastructure.”

Scarborough picked things up after that by saying “You do wonder about the people who run those other networks,” in a clear reference to Fox News. “You wonder why they allow anti-American rhetoric like that to go over the air, why they allow the mocking and the ridiculing of law enforcement officers who risked their lives.”

Any good American that respects law enforcement, that respects men and women in blue, any good American would have been moved by what they saw yesterday. And if they instead went on and mocked the service of those men who were nearly beaten to death for simply trying to protect their country because so much was on the line on that day, then accountability…goes to those people and those corporate boards that allow people like that on television. It’s a disgrace to America. It’s a disgrace to the networks that they’re members of. It’s a disgrace to all of us…

Watch above, via MSNBC.