On Wednesday's Morning Joe, MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski desperately tried to outdo her still-vacationing and virulently anti-Trump husband Joe Scarborough. Right off the bat, her opening monologue ripped into President Trump for his Rose Garden speech the day before:
So, they will turn away from him, which again shows this Rose Garden debacle, this completely inappropriate act, you know, completely defying tradition on every level, total abuse of power, using the Rose Garden as a campaign event, because you can't have your pitiful little rallies, because people won't come. So, you have a captive audience of reporters and cameras, and you use it for politics.
The leftist media have no problem when former President Barack Obama breaks tradition and attacks Trump, but they suddenly get all high and mighty when Trump breaks certain traditions that come with the presidency.
But Morning Joe wasn’t done there, they had to cover for their preferred candidate Joe Biden and guest John Heilemann was a willing tool for that goal, proclaiming:
I will say over and over again, not a perfect candidate, has his flaws, has his weaknesses, as all of us do, but the president's incredibly frustrated in that he cannot find an effective frame for Joe Biden. This is like the nightmare candidate for him. Another septuagenarian, relatively culturally moderate conservative even, white guy, that is not the person the president wants to run against, and he has yet to. We are now in July and the president does not know how to make the case against Joe Biden and that was vividly on display yesterday in the Rose Garden.
Co-host Willie Geist similarly rushed to lie to viewers and paint Biden as some kind of moderate:
They're trying to put Joe Biden in the same category with members of Congress who are Progressive boogie men and women that they've been using now for a couple years. The label doesn't fit. Donald Trump knows that, on Joe Biden that he's a wild leftist, that he's a tool of the radical left. So instead, you get what we saw yesterday, which is this kind of hodgepodge, this mash-up of incoherent attacks on Joe Biden and not really a frame that he can use going into November.
There was no mention of Bernie Sanders and other far-left socialists dictating policies to Biden. The Biden backers also ignored that just yesterday the Democratic candidate called for $2 Trillion dollars to be spent chasing after Green New Deal proposals, wants to put radical gun-grabbing Beto O-Rourke in charge of his gun policy, and called for the most sweeping economic policies since FDR.
But according to the media enablers, that is not radical. That's because they are the radicals and they see nothing wrong with his left-wing agenda.
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MSNBC’s Morning Joe
7-15-20
6:07 AM
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: They need to know whether it's safe enough to send their kids to school. And they have to make their own decisions. So, they will turn away from him, which again shows this Rose Garden debacle, this completely inappropriate act, you know, completely defying tradition on every level, total abuse of power, using the Rose Garden as a campaign event, because you can't have your pitiful little rallies, because people won't come. So, you have a captive audience of reporters and cameras, and you use it for politics. You use it to go after Joe Biden. Bret Baier of Fox, of Trump-friendly Fox News, tweeted this, that you know, had President Obama done this -- he actually talked about this -- he said, had President Obama done this, people would have gone crazy. Take a listen.
BRET BAIER: Presidents in the past, by tradition, have stayed away from overt campaign rhetoric from the Rose Garden or the White House, but it is the president's discretion. It is worth noting, however, to be fair, that had President Obama made this kind of speech from the Rose Garden, Republicans on Capitol Hill would likely have been up in arms.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: So, John Heilemann, it seems to me that his desperation, and maybe, you know, doesn't it seem more and more obvious that he's desperate to grab the limelight wherever he can and with people looking for leadership in a crisis, it actually may turn them off?
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JOHN HEILEMANN: But I'd say one more thing, which is, just even if you forget about all of that, the grotesque abuse of public resources. The taxpayer-funded stage. Forget about all that. Just take it as pure politics. If you just evaluate what he did yesterday in terms of his attacks on Joe Biden, did anybody hear an effective attack on Joe Biden? Did anybody hear a frame on Joe Biden that might have a chance of, I mean, improving his political standing, of taking Joe Biden down a peg? Quite the contrary, if you listened to that thing for an hour yesterday, I defy you to tell me what the president's argument is against Joe Biden on the basis of what he said yesterday. It was just incoherent rambling, and I think that's one of the other elements of what's happening here is the president is incredibly frustrated with the fact that in Joe Biden, who is not, I will say over and over again, not a perfect candidate, has his flaws, has his weaknesses, as all of us do, but the president's incredibly frustrated in that he cannot find an effective frame for Joe Biden. This is like the nightmare candidate for him. Another septuagenarian, relatively culturally moderate conservative even, white guy, that is not the person the president wants to run against, and he has yet to. We are now in July and the president does not know how to make the case against Joe Biden and that was vividly on display yesterday in the Rose Garden.
WILLIE GEIST: Yeah, it's probably not a good sign for your campaign when in mid-July of your election year, your attack on Joe Biden is that he wants to, quote, abolish the suburbs and maybe even get rid of windows altogether, which was definitely begging for a couple follow-up questions about what he meant there in terms of climate change. But Shawna, to John's point, this has been a frustration for this campaign. They're trying to put Joe Biden in the same category with members of congress who are Progressive boogie men and women that they've been using now for a couple years. The label doesn't fit. Donald Trump knows that, on Joe Biden that he's a wild leftist, that he's a tool of the radical left. So instead, you get what we saw yesterday, which is this kind of hodgepodge, this mash-up of incoherent attacks on Joe Biden and not really a frame that he can use going into November.
SHAWNA THOMAS: Yeah. I mean, in some ways, it was sort of as President Trump was playing his own version of 2020 bingo. He mentioned AOC. He mentioned Bernie Sanders. He mentioned Green New Deal. And it was a hodgepodge. But in some ways, I can imagine a world where, if he says all these sound bites and he says all these quotes, even if when you watch the whole thing together it doesn't make that much sense, then he's creating ads for his campaign. He's creating sound bites for certain shows on Fox News or OAN, who he called on an OAN reporter in that press conference yesterday. And he is looking in some ways for the best possible sound bite.
