While Mika Brzezinski is leftist enough to be an Elizabeth Warren fan girl, this has not stopped her from being a vocal critic of Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal. However, if her treatment of John Boehner's attack on Hillary's e-mail practices is any indication, Brzezinski seems to believe that only a select few can legitimately criticize Hillary.
Brzezinski kicked off the discussion by noting that "it does seem like there are a lot of politics involved" with Speaker Boehner's openness to the possibility of subpoenaing Hillary's e-mails for the sake of the Benghazi investigation.
Mark Halperin of Bloomberg Politics conceded the point, but said there was more to it than that, "Well look, there's a ton of politics but make no mistake, John Boehner's got moral indignation about what he sees Hillary Clinton having done in destroying the emails on her server."
In response, Brzezinski reverted into her default talking points:
This moral indignation and this going after her, and this looking at a full house of...this is the same guy and this is the same party that has been doing this to President Obama for as many years as President Obama has served as president, from health care to the latest kerfuffle with Netanyahu trying to undermine the president. Why wouldn't we think now that they would do everything they can to undermine the, quite frankly, the only Democratic front runner who looks like she could win? It just seems political from every angle. It's not, I can't see anything else but a pattern here.
So this "moral indignation" over Hillary's deletion of potentially vital national security e-mails -- the same kind of indignation displayed by Brzezinski -- cannot be exercised by Republicans because they "undermined" the President by opposing the nationalization of health care and obstructing a questionable deal with the largest terror sponsor in the Middle East?
If policy opposition is a form of undermining, why are the Democrats not disqualified from moral indignation for "undermining" the Iraq War? Or for their opposition to Bush's plan to privatize Social Security?
In the end, Brzezinski's behavior can be explained through the lens of family dynamics. If she attacks a family member she doesn't like, it is legitimate. An outsider is knocked out for the same behavior. By the same token when she criticizes Hillary's e-mail scandal all is well. When Boehner does the same thing it is "political from every angle."
