On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe took a brief break from trashing President Trump to tout eager “anticipation” in foreign countries like Ireland for a Joe Biden presidency and “impatience” for the current occupant of the White House to leave. The left-wing show gushed over Biden’s Irish roots and even talked to one of his relatives in the country.
“There are plenty of billboards and posters of Joe Biden all over Ballina, in the west of Ireland, where – that’s his ancestral home where his great, great, great grandfather emigrated to the United States in the 19th Century,” NBC’s chief global correspondent Bill Neely enthusiastically declared during the fawning report. He then hyped the Irish government also cheering a future Biden administration:
But here in the capital, Dublin, while the celebrations are certainly over, now there is the sense of anticipation of Joe Biden, the president, someone who will be not just a voice for Ireland in the White House, but who will reset relations between the United States and Europe. And also, I think, Mika, here a sense of impatience for the end of the Trump administration and the beginning of what the Irish foreign minister calls a much warmer, much closer relationship based on partnership and friendship, not just friction.
Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin told Neely it was “a moment of celebration,” while Foreign Minister Simon Coveney predicted: “I think that we will see a much warmer and closer relationship that’s based on partnership rather than friction, across the Atlantic, coming from a Biden presidency. And I can assure you that the European Union and political leaders here will reciprocate...”
Following clips of those interviews, Neely hyped joy throughout the rest of Europe at the prospect of a Democrat being President of the United States: “And not just here in Dublin, but in London, in Paris, and in Berlin everyone anticipating that on January 20th, or shortly afterwards, the United States will rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, rejoin the World Health Organization, and in the words of the Irish foreign minister, will begin speaking the kind of language the world wants to hear.”
On Election Day, MSNBC hysterically warned that alliances like NATO couldn’t survive another four years of Trump. On NBC’s Today show that morning, international correspondent Keir Simmons described how many foreign governments were actively rooting for Trump to be defeated.
All of the swooning over Biden’s Irish roots echoed how NBC repeatedly hyped Barack Obama’s tenuous connection to country. When Obama visited Ireland in 2011, then-NBC correspondent Norah O’Donnell happily announced: “The Irish eyes are smiling today as this country welcomes President Obama. And I can tell you that the people here in Moneygall are overjoyed that Obama has Irish roots.”
One of the things the leftist media particularly love about Democratic presidents is how they kowtow to leaders in European capitals by downplaying American exceptionalism and sign on to international agreements that are not in the U.S. interest.
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Here is a full transcript of the November 18 segment:
7:53 AM ET
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: And we’ve been following the overseas response to the transition of power in America, including the reaction in Ireland. In fact, NBC News chief global correspondent Bill Neely caught up with one of the President-Elect Joe Biden’s own relatives there.
JOE BLEWIT [JOE BIDEN’S THIRD COUSIN]: He’s walked down the streets here in Ballina. You know, we know him as well, which is great, to talk to and stuff like that. We spent a little bit of time with him, myself and my wife were in the White House with him. And you know, he’s one of our own. Like he’s from Ballina, that’s the way it’s gonna be.
BILL NEELY: Son of Ballina.
BLEWIT: Son of Ballina, yeah.
BRZEZINSKI: And Bill Neely joins us live from Dublin with more on this. Bill?
NEELY: Yeah, good morning, Mika. There are plenty of billboards and posters of Joe Biden all over Ballina, in the west of Ireland, where – that’s his ancestral home where his great, great, great grandfather emigrated to the United States in the 19th Century. But here in the capital, Dublin, while the celebrations are certainly over, now there is the sense of anticipation of Joe Biden, the president, someone who will be not just a voice for Ireland in the White House, but who will reset relations between the United States and Europe. And also, I think, Mika, here a sense of impatience for the end of the Trump administration and the beginning of what the Irish foreign minister calls a much warmer, much closer relationship based on partnership and friendship, not just friction. I spoke to the foreign minister this morning, also spoke to Ireland’s prime minister. Here’s what they had to say about Joe Biden.
MICHEAL MARTIN [PRIME MINISTER OF IRELAND]: It’s a moment of celebration, at an emotional level, the fact that a man who is so proud of his Irish heritage, great, great, great-grandparents coming from Ireland. Probably the most Irish of presidents since John F. Kennedy. So there’s that sense of, you know, one of our own has made it to the top in the United States.
SIMON COVENEY [FOREIGN MINISTER OF IRELAND]: I think that we will see a much warmer and closer relationship that’s based on partnership rather than friction, across the Atlantic, coming from a Biden presidency. And I can assure you that the European Union and political leaders here will reciprocate to ensure that that relationship improves dramatically and quickly so that we can work together to solve problems together.
NEELY: And not just here in Dublin, but in London, in Paris, and in Berlin everyone anticipating that on January 20th, or shortly afterwards, the United States will rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, rejoin the World Health Organization, and in the words of the Irish foreign minister, will begin speaking the kind of language the world wants to hear. In particular, standing up for democracy, the values of democracy, in an increasingly authoritarian world. So, Mika, it’s not just culturally or in terms of his heritage and his Irish roots that Ireland is looking forward to a Biden presidency, it’s those very, very real geopolitical issues. Mika?
BRZEZINSKI: NBC’s Bill Neely. Thank you so much.
