MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski’s alarmist rhetoric went code red as she recounted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress. The speech was not the work of a statesman trying to do what he felt best for his country, but a “disappointing and possibly horrifying....hostage situation” that was engineered by the Republicans who “are getting involved in destructive politics, and undermining the president.”
A speech on Iran put Americans in a "hostage situation." That's a wild metaphor.
Stopping just short of claiming the sky was falling, Brzezinski was “horrified about what happened in terms of the political destructiveness of it. The way Netanyahu used the Republicans, or they used him to undermine the Democrats and make the president look bad. And I thought it was a side show and a conversation that should be had in the White House. And between world leaders. And with the Republicans. But the way they used this platform was really disturbing. And disappointing."
In Brzezinski’s mind there is not much room for debate on this issue, “if you don't think [Netanyahu’s speech] was remarkable and weird at the same time, I don't think you're being honest. I mean, that just, that was really difficult. That was strange."
Joe Scarborough tried to calm his co-anchor by assessing the threat of a nuclear Iran, “There are those of us who believe this is the gravest threat Israel has faced since 1948. If you asked me to talk about what's the gravest risk to America, comparing ISIS to Iran, the epicenter of terrorism since 1979, and put that on the scale, I would say ISIS is more like a JV team compared to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the epicenter of terrorism since 1979, having a nuclear weapon. A nuclear weapon that not just Israel and the United States fears, but a nuclear weapon that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the entire Middle East fears.”
Brzezinski said "Point made," but not even Scarborough’s invocation of President Obama’s infamous JV-team analogy was enough to stop her rage at Netanyahu’s speech, “He has a platform. It’s not like the guy can't get a megaphone, it's not like he couldn't gone on 60 Minutes. It’s not like he could have spoken somewhere, couldn’t have spoken somewhere else. He went before Congress.”
She claimed "It's not shocking, it’s disappointing and possibly horrifying what we saw yesterday." Scarborough shot back "It's called democracy." She replied: “That wasn’t democracy actually...That was a hostage situation.”
How a foreign leader who relies on America for survival managed to hold America hostage with a speech that will likely be ignored by the current administration, was never explained.
