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Mediaite @mediaite.com
Jul 11, 08:37 AM

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough unloaded on “hypocritical” Republicans “spending their time on Fox News and social media,” trashing Democrats for picking scandal-hit Graham Platner “after the past decade.”

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"things. First of all, he denied these charges as clearly and as strongly as you can deny these charges. Got to say, it's fascinating that there are people in the media, people that we know, just summarily calling him a rapist now. For Republicans listening, this is something that Mika and I also said about Brett Kavanaugh. So saying that people would come on this network and call Brett Kavanaugh a sexual harasser or a rapist without any due process at all. Perhaps they needed to take a deep breath. That said, regardless of how this was going to play out, the Democratic Party said, we're not going to support you. They weren't going to fund him. So he had no pathway forward. I just want to say, Willie, I mean, Republicans that are spending their time on Fox News and social media outraged that Democrats would support, dare support a candidate who was accused of sexual impropriety, even when that candidate vehemently deny that. That is beyond hypocritical. That is just sheer force. This is even beyond South Park levels of force. What I am reading on X, what I am reading in social media, what I am seeing on TV after the past decade. And by the way, if you want to talk about morally challenged candidates, you don't have to look at the White House. You don't have to look at Republicans bowing and scraping for the past decade. Just look at Texas. Look at who Republicans are behind as they're trying to suggest that Talarico is gay. Look at Paxson. He's not. I mean, the hypocrisy, you know, Republicans should just really just shut up. They really should just shut up if they're going to be critical of Democrats for supporting a morally challenged candidate or one who has been accused of doing things that are morally challenged. It is so hypocritical, Willie, and they should just leave this to the Democrats to clean up their own house."

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Mediaite @mediaite.com · Jul 9, 05:21 PM

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough unloaded on “hypocritical” Republicans “spending their time on Fox News and social media,” trashing Democrats for picking scandal-hit Graham Platner “after the past decade.”