Earlier this year, we suggested that the fevered fearmongering of an MSNBC panel brought the mind the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter."
After the rancid rabble-rousing of today's Morning Joe, perhaps, in the run-up to the election, the song should become the official anthem of the liberal media.
Joe Scarborough, after calling Trump supporters "stupid" for believing his "lies," kicked off the fearmongering by alluding to, but failing to name, the host of a show on "another network" who supposedly said that elections don't work, and that war is the only solution.
John Heilemann, while denying that he is a fearful person, stammered out that if Trump loses: "I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm nervous, very nervous" about what will happen.
In the morning's laugh line, Scarborough responded by saying that he's not a "catastrophizer," but, like "everybody," is very concerned.
Not a catastrophizer? The guy's the catastrophizer-in-chief!
Scarborough has spewed out an endlessly putrid stream of accusations about Trump the fascist, the Hitler, the existential threat, the man who will end "Madisonian democracy."
The BBC's "special U.S. correspondent" Katty Kay then made explicit the threat of MAGA political violence, saying that:
"In a country with so many guns it doesn't take very much. People, perhaps not a huge leap of imagination, to imagine communities that, were Donald Trump were to lose, would see this as a, as a reason, as a giving them permission, if you like, to take out some kind of vengeance on people who didn't vote for him and didn't support him."
Kay prefaced her remarks by citing the book "How Democracies Die," in which the authors argue that among the things needed for a democracy to die is the "demonization" of other groups.
It was lost on Kay that the liberal media, as epitomized by Scarborough and his ilk, have made a cottage industry out of demonizing Trump and his supporters.
PS: Kay recently complained on Instagram alongside Anthony Scaramucci that Kamala's surrogates aren't out their spreading her narrative (as if the media isn't doing it). Scaramucci told Kay her Kamala spin is better than the Kamala spinners.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
10/7/24
6:05 am EDTJOE SCARBOROUGH: I saw part of Donald Trump's speech this weekend. It was remarkable, the lies. Not, not, not just on things [inaudible], but on policy, he'd just make up things, and just throw it out there. And I, I, I was shocked that the audience was really that stupid, to believe the crazy lies that he was throwing out there.
. . .
JOHN HEILEMANN: It is, I think, obvious where the Republican ticket now, what they imagine happening, and what they are preparing for in the wake of a possibility that they lose this election on November 5th. And I, I, I, I'm not a very fearful person. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm nervous about, very nervous about what that will look like.
SCARBOROUGH: I, I, I am not a catastrophizer. I obviously, like everybody, concerned about where this country's going. This is something to be so concerned about.
. . .
KATTY KAY: I keep thinking back to that book, "How Democracies Die" by Ziblatt and Novitsky. And they talk about the two things that are needed for democracies to die in countries that have been democratic.
And one is the demonization of the other, of any other group, or kind of a minority group, andthe normalization of the rhetoric of violence.
. . .
And in a country with so many guns it doesn't take very much. People, perhaps not a huge leap of imagination, to imagine communities that, were Donald Trump were to lose, would see this as a, as a reason, as a giving them permission, if you like, to take out some kind of vengeance on people who didn't vote for him and didn't support him.
