This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski suggesting that President Trump is developing a “dictatorship” while co-host Joe Scarborough suggests it’s closer to “Hogan’s Heroes.”
On Friday’s Morning Joe, Brzezinski rambled about Trump after she said, “It does feel like a developing dictatorship.”
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: This is unprecedented, to have a president who behaves this way. Can anyone go back in history–
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well, you asked Jon Meacham yesterday.
BRZEZINSKI: I tried
SCARBOROUGH: He went back to Thor.
BRZEZINSKI: He stretched as best he could to Nixon, and then we had to move outside the United States of America to find a parallel, and I believe it was North Korea.
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SCARBOROUGH: I can’t wait to hear what Kasie Hunt has to say, once we read the news on health care.
BRZEZINSKI: It does feel like a developing dictatorship. Anyhow, Senate Republicans rolled out their healthcare bill yesterday, and it took little time before they were met with internal resistance.
SCARBOROUGH: See, that’s the sort of thing – that’s an inside voice saying what you just said.
BRZEZINSKI: No, it’s not.
SCARBOROUGH: You say you want to be like Greta [Van Susteren], who’s like – Greta pulls back before she says things like that.
BRZEZINSKI: I’m going to actually channel Greta, and have an even tone. But I will say you can do some work reading history, and reading books about how dictatorships happen, the development of very negative forces taking over. And what you are seeing is either this, happening right now, or someone who’s not well. There’s very few options.
SCARBOROUGH: I think it’s actually more like Hogan’s Heroes, you know, than anything else. Oh, we have a Sergeant Schultz, and we have a Klink.
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “Nothing like some illogical free association in the morning to confirm Brzezinski’s deep antipathy toward President Donald Trump, comparing him to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, only to be topped by her fiancé making condescending comparisons to a sit-com about dummkopfs. Both should follow the advice they’ve offered about Trump’s tweets. Take a breath before spouting your inner id.”
Rating: Five out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
