Joe Scarborough Gives Impassioned Defense of John Conyers: ‘I Would Call That an Icon!’
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough launched into an impassioned defense of Rep. John Conyers, arguing on Morning Joe that despite the sexual harassment allegations, the congressman is still an American icon.
Scarborough was responding to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s train-wreck interview on Sunday’s Meet the Press, in which she stumbled over a number of questions on Conyers’s fate in Congress, and called the civil rights leader “an icon in our country.”
The Morning Joe co-host noted that Conyers might have dementia, stating “he’s clearly not capable of being a United States congressman.”
“But he is an icon,” co-host Mika Brzezinski said.
Scarborough then listed off Conyers’ achievements in an intense monologue, from serving in the Korean War to establishing the Congressional Black Caucus.
“I would call that an icon!” Scarborough exclaimed.
“Yes, he needs to be taken out of Congress,” he continued. “And yes, he’s obviously a danger to others and a danger to himself. He needs to be removed from Congress because he’s not capable of being in Congress.”
“It’s such a good point you make,” Brzezinski added. “When you’re talking about men in their late 80s, early 90s, you’re talking about people who are suffering from health problems.”
She continued that before her father, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, passed away this year, she “had that moment where [she] had to go to [her] father and say, it is time to go home.”
“It’s time to go home, you know, and be at home for a while,” Brzezinski said, her voice breaking. “And the behavior of someone in that age range is just — it’s hard to explain sometimes. And it’s very, very difficult to deal with. And it’s sort of sick to inject it into this conversation that we’re having. I think it minimizes it. And thank you, Nancy Pelosi, for speaking the truth.”
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