LOL: Scarborough Accuses Media Of 'False Moral Equivalency' In Trump-Harris Coverage

Posted • September 3, 2024: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, live in such thick bubbles that they unironically argued on Tuesday’s Morning Joe that the news media is pretending this election is just like any other election and that they are creating a “false moral equivalency” between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Scarborough lamented that, “Jeff, you made the point to your guests that Donald Trump will be brutish at Arlington, going places that no other politician has gone. He will have bizarre tweets daily that suggest he is deeply unwell. He will flip-flop on issues like abortion and immigration and just about everything else, lie constantly, and yet, the media will pretend like this is 1996 and its Clinton-Dole and they'll go, ‘Yes, but Kamala Harris had Tim Walz with her in her first interview.’”

He further mourned, “This is -- I notice the pace of -- and I hate criticizing the mainstream media because, mainly, they do things right, but there is almost a desperation for them to pretend this race is like every other race, and the false moral equivalency is getting pretty bad, and we're just one day past Labor Day. Talk about that, if you will.” (…)

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