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From Waukesha to San Fran: Why Did Morning Joe Suddenly Go Law & Order?
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/24/2021 6:28:07 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

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To: aces
If America abandons Israel which looks likely we will be judged as Babylon.

Based on the reports I've been seeing over the last six months, I'd say Israel is effectively a Nazi country right now. Who the hell would ever stand by a country like that?

41 posted on 11/24/2021 8:06:15 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest, ‘til a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: joshua c

Soros wants total anarchy and no laws. He funded this destruction with the rest of the Democrats.


42 posted on 11/24/2021 8:10:59 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
So what's behind this outbreak of tough-on-crime talk on MSNBC this morning?

I think it's because the thieves are starting to steal from the stores that the Democrat donors like to shop at. They didn't care if Walgreens or Target or Walmart are ransacked, but Louis Vuitton and Nordstroms? That's going too far.

43 posted on 11/24/2021 8:11:48 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What are the odds of the likes of Tlaib and her ilk backing off?


44 posted on 11/24/2021 8:13:31 AM PST by rwa265
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What are the odds of the likes of Tlaib and her ilk backing off?

0.00000000000001%

45 posted on 11/24/2021 8:15:05 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Why are you excerpting a blog that isn’t on the excerpt list?

From Waukesha to San Fran: Why Did Morning Joe Suddenly Go Law & Order?
Mark Finkelstein
November 23rd, 2021 10:48 PM
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What’s behind a liberal-media outlet like Morning Joe sounding so law-’n-order on Tuesday? From Joe Scarborough to Willie Geist to—yes!—even Al Sharpton, there was unanimous condemnation of “progressives,” “permissive” prosecutors, and “latte liberals” for their soft-on-crime philosophy.

The panel harshly condemned the low bail that led to the release of Darrell Brooks in Waukesha, Wisconsin, just 11 days before he allegedly killed five people and injured scores of others.

The panel expressed similar outrage for the lax policies in cities like San Francisco, where the refusal to prosecute thieves has led to a wave of looting, or “smash and grab” crimes, in the current lingo. Scarborough scoffed at San Francisco Mayor London Breed suddenly condemning such lawlessness, after tolerating it for years.

Sharpton strikingly said that the “real racism” is not holding people responsible for their criminality, on the theory that they don’t have “the mentality to do anything other than beastly acts.”

Joe Scarborough Al Sharpton MSNBC Morning Joe 11-23-21So again, what’s behind this outbreak of tough-on-crime talk on MSNBC this morning? Let’s grant that there could have been some righteous outrage involved.

But politics is pervasive. Surely the liberal media is painfully aware that the headlines reflecting out-of-control crime are politically damaging to Democrats. After all, the Dems are the party of defund the police, don’t prosecute thieves, and in the case of Squad members like Rashida Tlaib, close all federal prisons within 10 years and free the inmates.

So it’s pretty easy to assume that Morning Joe was playing defense on behalf of the Dems, and trying to send a message to the party’s dominant left wing to back off policies that could prove disastrous at the polls in 2022 and beyond.

Morning Joe getting tough on crime from Waukesha to San Francisco was sponsored in part by Liberty Mutual, GoDaddy, and Away.

Here’s the transcript.

MSNBC
Morning Joe
11/23/21
6:33 am ET

REPORTER: [Brooks] was released released from jail just 11 days ago after posting a $1,000 bail, according to the Milwaukee district attorney, who called that, “inappropriately low.”

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Willie: inappropriately low? A thousand-dollar bail for domestic abuse, and trying to run over the mother of his child?

. . .

And no cash bail? Which a lot of people on the far-left love to talk about. That people that actually live in New York City and are dealing with skyrocketing crime? That’s why that was a huge issue in the New York mayor’s race.

. . .

WILLIE GEIST: We want to turn now to the series of brazen smash-and-grab robberies on the West Coast.

. . .

SF MAYOR LONDON BREED: We can’t continue people to allow people to freely flow in and out of this city, commit these acts, and get away with it.

. . .

SCARBOROUGH: I’m not sure what the mayor of San Franciso is talking about. We must stop this? I mean, it’s been happening for a couple of years now!

. . .

GEIST: These incidents we’re watching these last two days did not fall out of the sky. They happen because there’s a permissive environment in these cities where we’re not going to prosecute property crimes.

. . .

AL SHARPTON: These latte liberals that justify this. This has nothing to do with poverty, this has nothing to do with you couldn’t get a job.

. . .

SCARBOROUGH: I just wonder, like, who decided that this was enlightened? Who decided that this was progressive?

. . .

SHARPTON: There is nothing progressive about acting like this kind of vile behavior is normal. To normalize it is to act like certain people, or certain communities or certain races, we don’t expect you to do no better. Aww: you tried to run your wife down, or your lady down, that’s what y’all do. Let ‘em go. Rather than having a standard there that is fair for everybody. But if you break what is criminal or not criminal, you pay a price. That is real racism, when, when you expect people of a certain community and a certain background not to be able to behave other than somebody that is out of control, that doesn’t have the mentality to do anything other than beastly acts.

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46 posted on 11/24/2021 8:48:17 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Alberta's Child

God will, they are not perfect, but know more about God’s way, all will be the teachers of mankind, once the fake dead righteousness burns off..

Reject Israel, accept God’s curse


47 posted on 11/24/2021 8:53:38 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

That makes sense.


48 posted on 11/24/2021 8:57:11 AM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Maybe when the elite see their status symbols sold on eBay for a tenth their status price, they put out the word that this thing has gone too far.


49 posted on 11/24/2021 9:54:59 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The word of the day is “Beastly”.


50 posted on 11/24/2021 12:07:02 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Kevmo

I have been posting NewsBusters excerpts at FR for about 20 years. I haven’t heard of the excerpt list, and have never had a complaint from the moderators, but will check with them.


51 posted on 11/24/2021 12:29:30 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You won’t get complaints from mods for excerpting. But why send traffic away from FR?


52 posted on 11/24/2021 5:48:35 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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