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The party of tolerance, diversity and inclusivity:<\/p>\n

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Morning Joe:<\/em>\u00a0We Have No Reason to Tolerate, Understand Anyone Who Supported Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough has a habit of picking on his own friends and family members who supported President Trump, but on Tuesday’s Morning Joe, he took it a step further and plainly admitted that his obsessions with the President are more important to him than the concerns of the American people.<\/p>\n

Speaking to wife and co-host Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough griped: \u201c[W]e can sit and try to figure out, Mika, why people feel the way they feel. I’m more concerned on why they’re as comfortable as they were with an autocrat \u2014\u201c.<\/p>\n

Knowing where this diatribe was going, Brzezinski interrupted: \u201cI am too.\u201d Naturally, their own concerns that they whine about every morning overwhelm those of the American people.<\/p>\n

Sounding just like a caricature of a closed-minded journalist, safely shielded from regular Americans in his liberal bubble, he arrogantly added: \u201cI don’t \u2014 I don\u2019t know that \u2014 that journalists that have been cloistered in New York City and Washington, D.C., uh should \u2014 should run around America trying to figure out why people feel the way they feel. I think people have told us through two elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, other NBC talking heads would disagree with that point,\u00a0reminding those listening and watching that\u00a0the Democrats didn\u2019t have the\u00a0\u201cmoral victory\u201d<\/a>\u00a0they were hoping for, i.e., although Biden received more votes than Trump, the fact that\u00a0almost 74\u00a0million voters still supported Trump\u00a0showed\u00a0the American people did not repudiate everything he stands for.<\/p>\n

Seeking more excuses to dismiss the concerns of Republicans, Scarborough reminded viewers that his friends and family aren\u2019t articulate Trump apologists (although maybe they just don\u2019t want to argue with him):<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really care what people tell me, because I’ve talked to my friends and my family members. They don’t have a good answer as to why they’re supporting Donald Trump. They really don’t. They \u2014\u00a0they just sort of mumble around and say, \u201cOh, you know, I don’t like him. I hate him. He’s a horrible human being, but you know, he’s our guy.<\/strong>\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joe can’t imagine that people might not want to try too hard to defend Trump with him yelling in their face about how they could possibly hold such disgusting views.<\/p>\n

Mika Brzezinski, ever-vigilant of the fake news, added: \u201cBut, okay, so \u2014 and then there are people who \u2014 who \u2014 who give things that are false as their reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Without a shred of self-awareness, she explained:<\/p>\n

I mean, that’s actually um,\u00a0the degradation of our, you know, media and journalism world.\u00a0<\/strong>Maybe there’s a difference, and that, you know, there needs to be a reset in terms of the value of the truth, and the news, and there is a part that everyone had in this. There were many different ways that this all happened and, you know for Americans out there who base their beliefs and their votes on facts that are not true, that is \u2014 that\u2019s a mountain we’re gonna have to climb as a country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scarborough chimed in: \u201cYeah. And\u00a0we’re looking at you, Facebook<\/strong>,\u201d confirming that the social media platform is the source of his friends\u2019 and relatives\u2019 supposed misinformation. The fact that he mentioned it was no surprise, but the following addition of \u201cnot just on Facebook, but on the cable news channels\u201d went to show just how upside down the world of\u00a0Morning Joe\u00a0<\/em>is in today\u2019s political climate.<\/p>\n

Scarborough and Brzezinski’s message of division was sponsored in part by\u00a0Discover<\/a>. Tell them how you feel about the show!<\/p>\n

Find the transcript below:<\/p>\n

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Morning Joe<\/p>\n

11\/24\/20<\/p>\n

7:19:57 AM<\/p>\n

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well, and\u2014and oh yes, we can sit and try to figure out, Mika, why people feel the way they feel. I’m more concerned on why they’re as comfortable as they were with an autocrat \u2014<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: I am too.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: \u00a0\u2014 with somebody who said that they \u2014 that, that he wanted his attorney general to arrest his political opponent in the last two weeks of the campaign, who would not guarantee a peaceful transfer, who\u2019s put this country through what \u2014 they put \u2014<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Children in cages.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: \u2014 been put through, the last three weeks. So again, I \u2014 I \u2014 I don’t \u2014 I don\u2019t know that \u2014 that journalists that have been cloistered in New York City and Washington, D.C., uh should \u2014 should run around America trying to figure out why people feel the way they feel. I think people have told us through two elections. And especially this last election, I think \u2014 I think there’s \u2014 there\u2019s a \u2014 a political sickness in this country that there are anti-democratic, post-democratic instincts that, as Anne Applebaum has written about, we\u2019ve seen in Hungary, we\u2019ve seen in Poland, and sadly we\u2019ve seen it in this country as well. I think it’s our responsibility to figure out why that happened.<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: I don\u2019t really care what people tell me, because I’ve talked to my friends and my family members. They don’t have a good answer as to why they’re supporting Donald Trump. They really don’t. They \u2014 they just sort of mumble around and say, \u201cOh, you know, I don’t like him. I hate him. He’s a horrible human being, but you know, he’s our guy.\u201d Is really, they\u2019re \u2014 again, I \u2014 nobody has really given a compelling, cogent reason that’s based on \u2014 on \u2014 on verifiable facts, as to why \u2014<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: And then there are \u2014<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: I mean \u2014 I mean to say that Donald Trump\u2019s a straight talker is laughable.<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: But, okay, so \u2014 and then there are people who \u2014 who \u2014 who give things that are false as their reasons.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Right.<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: And that is\u2014um, that\u2019s something we need to look at.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Well, that\u2019s what \u2014<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: I mean, that’s actually um, the degradation of our, you know, media and journalism world. Maybe there’s a difference, and that, you know, there needs to be a reset in terms of the value of the truth, and the news, and there is a part that everyone had in this. There were many different ways that this all happened and, you know for Americans out there who base their beliefs and their vos [sic] \u2014 votes on facts that are not true, that is \u2014 that\u2019s a mountain we’re gonna have to climb as a country.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. And we’re looking at you, Facebook. Uh, I spent most of my time when I asked my friends and family members why they were still voting for Donald Trump, listening to their conspiracy theories that they had shared on Facebook.<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: That again, two minutes on Google would have proven to them that it was just flat-out false information, but again, it’s not like they’re babes in the woods. It\u2019s not like they don’t actively go out trying to find information that’s distorted and twisted, but fits into their pre-existing prejudices and worldview. That’s exactly what’s happened over the past three weeks, and we\u2019ve seen people doing it, not just on Facebook, but on the cable news channels\u2014<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. I mean, out and out lies.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: \u2014 that they find. They seek out people who want \u2014 who will reconfirm what they believe, even when they know it’s not true. But anyway \u2014<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Okay.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: \u2014 it\u2019s something for us to look at and be thinking about in the coming years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n