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Scarborough: 'I Blame Cable News' for Cops Being Less Safe
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/31/2015 6:05:09 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

You wish he had named names . . . On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough flatly stated "I do blame it on cable news" for "people wearing uniforms being a lot less safe today than they were before Ferguson."

So just which cable networks did Joe have in mind? Until last week [when he was relegated to the Sunday morning desert], Scarborough's own MSNBC was the Al Sharpton network. So surely Scarborough was pointing the finger at least partially at MSNBC. But as he continued, Scarborough also identified other unnamed cable networks that he accused of "glorifying" Vester Flanagan and "promoting the next Roanoke-style shooting" by displaying his Twitter feed and other such info, which is what killers like Flanagan seek.

View the video here.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; cablenews; darrengoforth; harriscounty; houston; houstoncopshooting; joescarborough; morningjoe; msnbc; roanoke; texas; twitter; vesterflanagan; vesterleeflanagan; virginia

1 posted on 08/31/2015 6:05:10 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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Scarborough blames “cable news” for making cops less safe.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 08/31/2015 6:06:18 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

MSNBC needs ratings. Fox News has abandoned conservatives. Is MSNBC changing its attitudes, to earn that audience?


3 posted on 08/31/2015 6:08:41 AM PDT by grania
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Why doesn’t he go to the office next door and tell Sharpton to stop it? He is closer to the problem than anyone watching on TV.


4 posted on 08/31/2015 6:09:32 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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To: grania
Is MSNBC changing its attitudes, to earn that audience?

Joe always does what his puppet masters/check signers tell him to do so it could be an indication of MSNBC change.

5 posted on 08/31/2015 6:11:40 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What, it’s not Bush’s Fault©?


6 posted on 08/31/2015 6:11:42 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

How about interns found dead in the bottom of a parking garage stairwell, Joe? Who do you blame for their lack of safety?


7 posted on 08/31/2015 6:19:53 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Scarborough actually publicly thanked his MSNBC boss last week for cancelling Sharpton’s daily show and relegating him to the desert of early Sunday morning.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2015/08/27/scarborough-thanks-msnbc-boss-booting-liberal-hosts


8 posted on 08/31/2015 6:26:38 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Carol Costello on CNN this morning showed clips of the Blacks chanting about pigs in a blanket and frying them.

She just could not understand how her guest could link those making the chant to the execution of the Texas officer.

She went on to basically claim ignorance that we don’t know what the motive of the [alleged] killer was.

[CNN sure does not mind replaying that chant clip over and over and over and over. Then, they want to claim they are not part of the problem — they just report the news.]


9 posted on 08/31/2015 6:29:49 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Thanks for watching, Mark (I haven’t in years). You’re remarkable at “deprogramming” yourself.


10 posted on 08/31/2015 6:31:19 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: PGalt

Many thanks, PG!


11 posted on 08/31/2015 6:32:10 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Some people on the thread are agreeing. I couldn't disagree more.

It's not cable news, it's a racial war on cops by people of color.

12 posted on 08/31/2015 6:41:26 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

He can’t because Sharpton is a “leader” of a protected minority.

Even though MSNBC has taken away Sharpton’s daily show and cut his visibility dramatically, he is still protected.
Anyone knocking on his door and saying “hey slick, turn down the volume and bile a little” would find themselves hit with charges of racism and whatever else Al could pull out of his nether extremity.


13 posted on 08/31/2015 6:52:47 AM PDT by oldvirginian (A proud CRUZ CRAZY. Let the election games begin!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Farrkahn has been calling for a race war for years. The New Black Panthers are calling for cops to be killed. And we got a president and an entire black culture who run to blame whitey anytime there is an incident.

Yeah, let's blame cable news.

14 posted on 08/31/2015 7:06:49 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I would place much of the blame on the POTUS, FLOTUS, and the ex-USAG. Their insane rants and commentaries embolden the idiots who have done the horrific murders.


15 posted on 08/31/2015 7:08:23 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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