Do Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski want to force health care workers who are devout Catholics [in the non-Joe Biden sense of the term] and others with religious objections to abortion to participate in abortions under pain of losing their jobs?
Apparently so, judging by the pair's comments on today's Morning Joe. Joe and Mika, saying "there's always something," dismissed Senator Susan Collins for her objection to the pro-abortion "Women's Health Protection Act," a Democrat bill codifying Roe v. Wade, for its failure to include such a religious exemption.
But first, they mocked the "snowflake" Senator for calling the police after the sidewalk outside her home was chalked by pro-abortion people. Even the normally even-handed Willie Geist joined in.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: In Maine, the Morning Sentinel reports Senator Susan Collins' husband called police on Saturday upon discovering a pro-abortion message written in chalk.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well, of course, you know, you call the police, Willie, obviously, if somebody writes on a sidewalk, a public sidewalk with chalk, my God! I mean, what --
MIKA: Or you could just wait till it rains. .
SCARBOROUGH: What's next? What are they going it do next? Play hacky sack out in the street in front of you? This is something you must call police about!
WILLIE GEIST: Whenever there's little girls drawing chalk and playing double-dutch hop in front of my house, I always call police. Always. You just have to.
But Morning Joe ignored the fact that Fox News included: Collins called because she's previously received recent threats.
Collins' office included two examples of recent threats she had received in the statement: a letter that claimed the "angel of death" would "visit" her house soon and a voicemail in which a man said he would "kill" her if she voted a certain way.
The letter, which was titled "Behold the word of the Lord," said, "The angel of death is about to visit your house, for you have given yourself to the other side, just like so many others for money and power."
An under-informed Geist suggested "I mean, if it's threatening, if there's some direct threat, you might let law enforcement know." But Scarborough scoffed. "Come on Snowflake! Give us a break!"
You can be sure Morning Joe never noticed that in August 2020, two pro-life activists with Students for Life were arrested in D.C. for chalk messages in front of a Planned Parenthood office. No "snowflake" or rain jokes back then for Planned Parentood!
Here's a question for Scarborough. If you were back in office, how would YOU vote for the Democrat pro-abortion bill? You were strongly pro-life as a congressman. Have you now become so passionately pro-abortion that you would fire people who refuse to perform them?
Note that in addition to failing to provide an exemption for people with religious objections to abortion, the Democrat bill legalizes abortion up till the moment of birth, and prohibits laws requiring parent notification.
Morning Joe mocking Senator Susan Collins was sponsored in part by Unilever, maker of TRESemmé, and AT&T.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
5/11/22
6:57 am ETMIKA BRZEZINSKI: In Maine, the Morning Sentinel reports Senator Susan Collins' husband called police on Saturday upon discovering a pro-abortion message written in chalk.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well, of course, you know, you call the police, Willie, obviously, if somebody writes on a sidewalk, a public sidewalk with chalk, my God! I mean, what --
MIKA: Or you could just wait till it rains. .
SCARBOROUGH: What's next? What are they going it do next? Play hacky sack out in the street in front of you? This is something you must call police about!
WILLIE GEIST: Whenever there's little girls drawing chalk and playing double-dutch hop in front of my house, I always call police. Always. You just have to.
SCARBOROUGH: Willie, I have seen Willie before, like I go over there and we're going to talk about OTB, and he will run out, he's, he's in his robe.
MIKA: He gets really mad.
SCARBOROUGH: With his pipe, and going -- girls, girls, no chalk on -- So, yeah, so we understand. No, can you imagine, like we're all public figures here, just between us. Can you imagine calling the police if somebody's like writing like something in chalk? On a public sidewalk! I mean, why, why would you waste the police's time?
GEIST: Yeah, I mean, if it's threatening, if there's some direct threat, you might let law enforcement know. But compared to what we're seeing across the country outside some other homes, which, the chalk seems like small potatoes.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, and also, compared, some people pointed out yesterday, Mika, compared to what women and teenage girls have had to endure going into clinics over the past two decades.
MIKA: Yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: I mean, come on, seriously, snowflake? Give me a break!
MIKA: Well, police reported to the senator's home, but determined, as you all have very colorfully --
SCARBOROUGH: It was colorful chalk.
MIKA: Yeah, the message did not constitute a crime. So there you go: chalk art, not a crime.
All right. Since then the Bangor News reports that more abortion-rights chalk messages [chuckles] have appeared outside the senator's home.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, the horror!
MIKA: This is how you get more chalk art. Collins has said she will vote against the abortion rights bill.
SCARBOROUGH: Of course she will
MIKA: She claims it doesn't provide an exemption for health care providers who do not want to perform abortions --
SCARBOROUGH: It's always something, isn't it.
MIKA: -- because of religious objections.
SCARBOROUGH: It's always something.
MIKA: It always is something.
SCARBOROUGH: It's always something.
