Joe Scarborough Ridicules ‘Alternate Universe’ at Fox News: Echo Chamber is ‘Hurting Republicans’
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough had harsh words for Republicans who continue to tune into Fox News: That echo chamber is precisely why the GOP keeps losing.
The Morning Joe crew discussed the media reaction to the historic 34 guilty verdicts for former President Donald Trump in his hush money-election interference trial Thursday. They gave special attention to how the news was covered by their competitor — and ideological rival — Fox News.
For some context here, Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski has long had a fixation on Fox News coverage, in more of a social-anthropological way — as though she’s Dian Fossey observing silverback behavior on their (top-rated) competition.
After so-called branding “expert” Donny Deutsch connected Trump’s guilty verdict to a series of Republican electoral losses, Joe and Mika picked up the baton.
“Well, you can watch Fox News and feast on how unfair this is,” Brzezinski noted. “Or you can look at the evidence that was presented. And I mean, there’s a lot of different ways to look at this that can help you understand what happened. But ultimately, a jury of Donald Trump’s peers made this decision.”
“Well, yeah, they did. And I just want to say, as Mika was flipping over to other channels, Willie, and they seemed to be in an alternate universe, and she said — and chose to stress that — the facts just didn’t seem to matter,” Scarborough added. “I reminded her of what happened in 2012, which is Fox News kept telling everybody that Mitt Romney was going to beat Barack Obama up until election night, and they were so sure of it. And they kept pushing that information. So disinformation, so much that even Mitt Romney and Ann Romney that night couldn’t believe it. They’re like, wait, it’s like we’re winning this because they just watched. This one channel.”
“And so again, I don’t mean to be pollyannish about it, but if people want to just watch Fox News between now and the election, if they want to feast on disinformation, if they want to be blind to what swing state voters want to hear about and what they care about, it does not hurt Joe Biden, it doesn’t hurt the Democrats. It ends up hurting Republicans,” he continued.
“Because I will say again, they’ve lost. They lost in 1718, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. They have lived in this echo chamber that they have chosen to stay in, and they still are in the echo chamber right now. So again, it’s their decision. I keep trying to tell them to open up, don’t be in the plastic bubble. Open up, go out there, get information from other sides, and be more competitive. They just can’t,” Scarborough concluded.
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