The Washington Post reporter who was arrested Wednesday in Ferguson, Mo. doesn’t want Joe Scarborough’s advice.
WaPo’s Wesley Lowery, who said he and the Huffington Post’s Ryan Reilly were arrested in a McDonald’s, unloaded on Scarborough after the MSNBC host chastised the journalists and accused them of just wanting to “get on TV.”
“Well, I would invite Joe Scarborough to come down to Ferguson and get out of 30 Rock where he’s sitting and sipping his Starbucks smugly,” Lowery said during a Thursday morning appearance on CNN. “I invite him to come and talk to the residents of Ferguson, where I’ve been since Monday afternoon having tear gas shot at me, having rubber bullets shot at me … I would invite Joe Scarborough down here to do some reporting on the ground, then maybe we can have an educated conversation about what’s happening here.”
Lowery recorded the events leading up to the arrest.
He and Reilly, a former reporter at TPM, are covering the events on the ground in Ferguson, where tensions have risen after Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a police officer last weekend.
FUCK YEAH!
Shots fired!
Good for him. Make up, shirt and tie do not a journalist make. Just because MSNBC gave him a time slot and TV program does not make Scarborough anything more than a washed up politician. That holds true for many with FaceTime TV.
What they say about those who can do and those who can’t teach, well that holds especially true for those on Fox, Limbaugh and even the token conservatives on MSNBC. Then there are those MD’s who go into politics, do you think if they were successful in medicine they would resort to selling themselves in politics?
I pay more attention to the journalists who are drawn to the sound of gunfire than Starbuck sipping talking heads sitting safe and secure in New York.
TPM stop sipping so much Starbucks and start doing real reporting. Writing about Joe Scar’s mouth flapping isn’t real reporting.
He should have brought up Morning Joke’s “problem” involving Lori Klausutis!
It is good to see that actual journalism is not completley dead. Scarborough is pathetic. I hope this entire episode wakes up the public and they turn out at the polls this November and put a stake through the heart of the smug Punditocracy. Republicans who laud and stroke Cliven Bundy as a patriot but are silent–or worse when communities of color are attacked by the very people who are supposed to be protecting them need to be shown the door.