MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panel started the day off on Monday with a segment slamming protestors in Ferguson, shaming the St. Louis Rams football team, and calling slain unarmed teenager Michael Brown a “thug.”
Co-host Joe Scarborough began by scolding protestors across the nation for making Michael Brown, fatally shot by former Ferguson, Mo. “the face of black oppression.”
“The cops have every reason to be pissed off this morning,” Scarborough said. He argued that the five players on the St. Louis Rams who raised their arms in solidarity with Ferguson on Sunday based their gesture on “lies” that contradicted findings of a grand jury investigation.
The morning show host compared Brown to George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in 2012 and who Scarborough said was a “thug.”
The show’s self-designated liberal panelist and former ad man Donny Deutsch stepped in to register his full agreement with Scarborough.
“I’m a little left of center. You’re a little right of center. You say potato. I say potato,” Deutsch began. “I could not agree with every word you said more passionately.”
“It’s not a black-white situation. It’s a thug-police officer situation,” said Deutsch, beginning to chuckle.
Scarborough concluded with a piece of advice to his critics:
“And by the way, if I’ve offended anybody by saying what I’ve said, trust me, 95 percent of America think just like me,” he said.
“Just because there are cowards who won’t say that on TV… that’s their problem, not mine,” said Scarborough.
Watch the clip below, courtesy of MSNBC:
Correction: This post has been updated to show it was Deutsch, not Scarborough, who described Brown as a “thug.”
as usual, i ended up muting a couple of minutes into the rant; he’s just impossible to take. but iirc, this wasn’t his attitude last week.
and deutsch’s role is similar to bob beckel’s on fox – a target of mockery who curiously is promoted as the liberal voice, when neither have any influence or real standing to that claim.
Michael BROWn is CLEArlY a THUG:
WHEn WILL lIBtards StOP Lying ABOUt TRUE factS OF the INNOcence OF THe POLIce ANd the THUG-like BehavIOR of MichaeL browN!1!1!1one!1!1!!
See. I told you this would happen.
This is not an “Opinion” this is Official Republican National Committee Policy. Black People are “Thugs” if they don’t “stay in their place” and deserve to die for the crime of “walking while black” if they don’t “show the proper respect” for Law Enforcement and you “either stand with us or with the Thugs” (new variation on the “terrorist” meme from the 2000’s.)
The Republicans know they are going to get crushed by the minority vote in 2016 so they are starting RIGHT NOW to gin-up as much racial fear as possible to drive frightened White Voters to the polls and “vote their fears” in 2016.
The tragedy in Ferguson is just a convenient vehicle for their new “Southern Strategy” which has now gone national.
Well, I think that Joe Scarborough is a criminal and did not deserve to have his side of the story considered when his intern ended up dead in his office. I have as much grounds for my assessment as he does for this one.
Time for a fucking economic boycott of that fucker and his fucking racist platform at MSNBC. Its loooong overdue. He will never live that fucking comment down, and I know I will never forget that having one more racist (who pretends he’s not being racist) on TV, spewing his hate-filled rants simply will no longer do…He needs to lose the platform and protection of MSNBC and then see how brazen he is making shitstain statements like that.