‘Working at the Morning Joe weekday program apparently has its advantages. One of those was demonstrated on Friday, May 26, when co-host Joe Scarborough aired a fake 30-second television advertisement he had told “the kids in the back that work for us” -- and were “out in the street playing stickball” at the time -- to “draw up an ad that will look like what we’re going to see next year.”
The result was “predictable campaign fare, focusing on the Republican health-care bill” and claiming that the GOP measure would slash everything from Medicaid to payments for pre-existing conditions while generating “huge tax cuts for the rich.”
That description came from Mark Finkelstein, who worked on the NewsBusters website for more than 10 years before joining the staff at the Legal Insurrection site.
“These kids are really good,” Scarborough stated before airing the half-minute video, which he claimed was “an idea by [diplomat and occasional guest] Uncle Richard [Haass],” began with Donald Trump in a gathering of Republicans stating:
How’m I doing? I’m doing okay. I’m president. Hey, I’m president. Can you believe it?
As the screen quickly changed from full color to stark black-and-white, the male announcer noted: “The Republican health-care plan,” with a group of cheerful GOP officials in the background. “While they’re laughing, 23 million Americans lose their coverage.”
Next came: “Protection for pre-existing conditions? Gone! Medicaid slashed, and older Americans hit especially hard. All to give huge tax cuts to the rich” with images of President Trump against a backdrop of yachts and mansions.
The ad ends with the disclaimer: “Another broken promise by politicians.”
The ad then returned to video of Trump, who stated: “I am going to take care of everybody. Everybody’s going to be taken care of.”
“Donald Trump’s Republican Party,” the announcer states, “bad for your health” before concluding: “Not an actual ad, but probably will be.”
“How about those kids?” Scarborough asked triumphantly after the video finished airing.
Finkelstein replied by claiming the “ad” was “predictable: Republicans want to kill granny and children.”
As NewsBusters previously reported, the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN began his show on Sunday, April 16, by admonishing liberals for reflexively opposing anything President Donald Trump does -- calling it "Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
One example of this condition was found during NBC Nightly News on Friday, May 12, when correspondent Hallie Jackson filed a report that focused on concerns by liberals about Attorney General Jeff Sessions giving orders for federal prosecutors to charge criminals with the aim to give tougher punishments, reversing former President Barack Obama's trend toward releasing criminals and seeking softer charges.
Then on Wednesday, May 24, Scarborough noted that “when I look at the budget, the blueprint that the president has proposed, it is nothing less than hateful.”
“It guts basic services,” he continued, “it slashes cancer research, it slashes health care for the poor, it slashes money for rural hospitals, it slashes money for rural hospice care, it slashes money for anything involving health care in rural America!”
Then on Monday and Tuesday, May 22 and 23, the broadcast networks all read from the same liberal script as anchors and correspondents blasted the Trump administration’s proposed budget for making “deep cuts” to “social safety nets” that would be “especially cruel” to the poor. Not once was the nation’s nearly $23 trillion debt mentioned in any of the one-sided coverage.
And of course, on Thursday, May 25, the people in the “mainstream media” whined that Trump “lectured to NATO allies” instead of “making nice” to them.
Naturally, with Scarborough and the other staff members at MSNBC’s Morning Joe giving “kids” practice in making television advertisements before next year’s mid-term elections, it’s easy to tell where they got their wildly liberal bias.
