Scarborough: ‘Elites and Media People’ Are Misconstruing What Trump Actually Said
It's just people clutching 'soy lattes' are 'whimpering and whining,' he said.
by Sam Reisman | 10:00 am, October 20th, 2016
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough took aim at the “elites and media people” making a big deal out of Trump’s refusal to affirm that he would accept the results of the election.
“How many people in Scranton, Pennsylvania care about what he said in that answer compared to people in news rooms that are whimpering and whining with their, you know, soy lattes?” he asked. Mark Halperin agreed, saying, “Normal people won’t care about that answer. That’s why I say again, elites control a lot of this process. They don’t like that answer.”
Scarborough proceed to insist that “elites and media people” were spinning Trump’s language — that the GOP candidate never actually said he would challenge the result of the election, merely that he would adopt a wait-and-see approach on whether or not to accept a loss in November.
“I think for elites and media people […] to try to boil that entire debate down to that one answer, that’s very predictable,” he said. The notion that Trump said he would challenge the election was a media fiction, Scarborough insisted. “He never said that! Which is extraordinary — the leap that all the media has made,” he said.
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Joe Scarborough really hates it when people say his MSNBC morning show boosted Donald Trump's presidential candidacy during the Republican primary. All that frustration poured out Thursday morning when the former GOP congressman got into a heated argument with Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who suggested "Morning Joe" enabled the eventual nominee early in the campaign. "This show was really tough on Trump in late 2015 and early 2016," Kristol said, his remark dripping with sarcasm. "Please don't come on my air and lie," Scarborough replied. And the fight was on. ...
Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski were often criticized by their media peers during the primary for allegedly being too cozy with Trump, who frequently called in to their program and even thanked them for being "supporters" after his win in the New Hampshire primary in February. The label clearly made the hosts uncomfortable in the moment, and Trump quickly changed his description to "believers." But the comment reinforced an existing perception.
CNN's Dylan Byers reported a couple of days later that "in background discussions, NBC News and MSNBC journalists, reporters and staffers said there was widespread discomfort at the network over Scarborough's friendship with Trump and his increasingly favorable coverage of the candidate."
The next week, The Washington Post's Erik Wemple panned a Trump town hall moderated by Scarborough and Brzezinski, pointing to Trump's record of statements about women, minority groups, the disabled and others: "Any hour-long session with Donald Trump that doesn’t ask him about those obscenities is a puff session. Allowing this fellow to pronounce on entitlement reform, strategies on the Islamic State, campaign tactics, Iraq, Jeb Bush, health-care reform, gun rights, Supreme Court nominations and other such topics without grinding through an extensive accounting of his racism and bigotry is an outrage only sightly less egregious than the candidate's own."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/20/youre-practically-crying-joe-scarborough-and-bill-kristol-get-heated/
