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It’s been something of a joke in conservative media that MSNBC should really call itself “MSDNC” because some of the cable network’s hosts often echo talking points of the Democratic National Committee.
But this week, it’s become clear that it’s not a joke anymore, especially among the leading hosts who have been near tears since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dobbs case and sent the matter of abortion law to the states.
This week’s Liberal Media Scream features one of those hosts, Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski, who ranted against former President Donald Trump for naming the key conservative judges who have brought several victories to the Right this month. She didn’t just complain about the decisions of the court but implored her viewers to vote for Democrats.
“For all the Democratic Party’s flaws, they’re the only party that can stem this continued rise of fascism. Register and vote. Work toward an overwhelming majority that can protect your body, protect your freedoms, and just may save our country,” she said in a speech that the show aired twice.
Mika Brzezinski on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:
<mediadc-iframe data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1656358077965,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b3-de22-a173-2ffbab450000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1656358077965,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b3-de22-a173-2ffbab450000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"iFrameEmbedCode":"","_id":"00000181-a6a2-d447-ad8b-f6e260780000","_type":"00000161-b425-d761-a563-f7e77e270000"}”>iFrame Object“I’ve been hearing from women all over the country and even around the world. This is devastating. And, you know, they asked me what we can do, and I’ve got two words: ‘Please vote.’ It was Winston Churchill who said that ‘democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried,’ and the same might be said of the Democratic Party at this point. Democrats somehow managed to get the most votes and lose the most elections. So they need more. Even when they win, they lose.
“It could be argued that today’s Democrats are too weak, too fragile, too woke, too elitist, too disconnected from the realities of working Americans, and yet the Democratic Party is the world’s last best hope against fascism, against an extreme, autocratic, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-contraception, anti-freedom collection of fascists who dominate the Trump wing of today’s Republican Party. A group of fascists who even refuse to investigate the violent riots that their president launched on January 6 to overthrow a legitimately elected president. Why? Because they are fascists.
“And now, they’re claiming control over your bodies, your health, your life. And they’ve promised they’re coming next to take away your birth control pills, and even what you do with another consenting adult in the privacy of your bedroom. To call Trump’s Republican Party and Trump’s Supreme Court extreme understates the danger these institutions pose to American freedom, to our democracy. They are fascists who have contempt for what 70% of Americans believe about Roe v. Wade, what 90% of Americans believe about universal background checks, and what you believe about your right to control your own body and your life.
“So what does Donald Trump’s America look like? Joe sort of described it there. In reality, it looks like a 13-year-old rape and incest victim being ordered by the state to have a forced birth of her rapist’s baby. That’s where we are in 2022. And for all the Democratic Party’s flaws, they’re the only party that can stem this continued rise of fascism. Register and vote. Work toward an overwhelming majority that can protect your body, protect your freedoms, and just may save our country.”
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “Unhinged seems the best word to describe Brzezinski’s angry rant, in which she not only impugned a good portion of her fellow Americans as ‘fascists’ but explicitly turned partisan in urging her viewers to vote for Democrats. So much for Morning Joe pretending to be any kind of ‘news’ program. And so much for her really having any kind of anti-fascist faith in democracy. The court’s ruling simply lets the elected official in each state determine its rules on abortion. What could be any more, small d, democratic?”
Rating: FIVE out of FIVE SCREAMS
