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Scarborough: You know who's to blame for that candidate punching that reporter? Donald Trump



I longer Scarborough can keep up the I'm-a-Republican-but-this-all-troubles-me-so-much schtick. Scarborough is first and foremost a creature of the Beltway culture. His party affiliation is hardly worth a footnote given that his job is to cater to mindset of the political class. Now, normal people (present company included) will offer no excuses for Greg Gianforte's assault of a journalist, regardless of how obnoxious the guy's behavior may have been, or how much we may think the journalism profession in general deserves one big body slam. There's no excuse for it. No one will make any. That's what normal people do. Creatures of the Beltway, on the other hand, say things like this:

Media causing people to be misled and misinformed

Now first of all, Scarborough's telling of Trump's "enemies of the people" quote is not accurate. I'll leave it to you to decide if you think he's being dishonest or merely making a mistake. What Trump said is that the "fake news media" are the enemies of the people, not everyone in the media. And Trump is correct. Media who are more interested in scoring partisan points than in telling the truth are absolutely enemies of the people. They've causing people to be misled and misinformed, and they're making it harder for people who are trying to govern responsibly to do so. If people think Trump's statement referred to all media, it's because the media themselves inaccurately presented it in that way. So if they think it's getting them body-slammed, they have only themselves to blame. But that's ridiculous. Greg Gianforte didn't do what he did because Donald Trump signaled him that it was OK. He did what he did because he lost his composure and lost his temper. He is certainly not the first member of the human race to fall into that trap.

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Blaming Barack Obama for Occupy Wall Street protesters leaving garbage lying around

That's like blaming Barack Obama for Occupy Wall Street protesters leaving garbage lying around, because Obama ripped on rich people. Or like blaming Obama for Alan Grayson being a jerk, because Obama hates the same people Grayson does. Gianforte won, by the way. That's the choice of Montana voters, who I'm sure are smart enough to know that Gianforte's actions are his and his alone, and he's the only one they need to hold to account for them. As for Joe Scarborough, obviously the Beltway mindset got him a long time ago, but the good news is that almost no one outside the Beltway watches his show - and basically no one is influenced by what he says.

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