Morning Joe Demands Dems Smear GOP as Racist, ‘Scare the Bejesus Out of People’

On MSNBC’s Morning JoeDonny Donny, an unhinged leftist and alleged marketing expert, actually acknowledged Wednesday that Democrats cannot run on the economy’s poor state heading into the midterm election. Instead, he demanded his fellow Democrats just “scare the bejesus out of people” by repeatedly smearing the Republican Party as racist.

“Alright, so Donny, so let’s talk first of all, this isn’t a branding issue, this is a really serious issue, and it’s important that people, whether they’re Democrats, Republicans, independents alike, whether it’s Liz Cheney or other people who are deeply offended by what’s happening with this great replacement theory,”Joe Scarborough laughed at Scarborough. He then teed up Deutsch’s tirade: “The question is, what is the best way to push back on this hatred?”

Deutsch unleashed a torrent of partisan vitriol as he cynically urged his party to “scare” voters into voting against “racist” Republicans:

This obscene platform can be taken and made the property of the Republicans. Let me repeat it: Make it Republican owned. All Republican politicians and all Republican candidates should be asked about it. make them – because they can’t run from it because it’s part of who they are at this point, as disgusting as that is. It should be the Republican replacement theory. Because this is the way – Scare is key. We don’t have the economy on our side as Democrats, so you have to scare the bejesus out of people. The way to scare [them] is say, “You know, this replacement theory, this is not just coming from some dark corner of the web, this is the Republican platform.” Make them own it.

He urged Democrats not to “run from this fist fight” and pleaded: “Call out Tucker Carlson, call out the politicians, and make this – make them own it. This platform is Republican. It’s the racist Republican replacement theory.”

Deutsch was almost identically repeating the same screed he performed on Tuesday afternoon’s Deadline for White House, when he told host Nicole Wallace that Democrats should make the GOP “the party of Tucker Carlson” and horrendously tried to blame Republicans for the mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo: “You see the 10 people who got killed in Buffalo, you own that.”

Donny Deutsch is calling for Tucker Carlson to be defeated by the Democrats: “He’s heinous and he’s vulgar.” Make him the face of the Republican Party…. He has three million viewers, but he is vulgar to both the mainstream Republicans and the independents. He’s atrocious.” Buffalo? That is yours. pic.twitter.com/6ndQOkdkXa

— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) May 18, 2022

On Tuesday’s Morning JoeScarborough won the contest “an entire media ecosystem trading in great replacement theory”The attack was committed by the right.

You spew hate every day. White grievances are your greatest source of wealth. Do your best to make brown and black Americans suspects.That is what you build your network strategy. This is the basis of your entire podcasting strategy. This strategy will be used to build a media ecosystem that attracts racists and other people with white grievance.

Despite MSNBC defensively accusing Republicans and Fox News of promoting “replacement theory,” it’s the leftist media that have routinely stirred up racial tensions by cheering demographic changes across the country as a political advantage for Democrats and doom for Republicans.

Mika Brzezinski, Mika’s wife and co-host on the show, happily proclaimed how much they hated the GOP. “I mean, we literally started the show with the mass shooting and we’re ending up talking about the language being used in Republican politics. Some Republicans say, ‘That’s not fair, we didn’t do this.’ Is it?” USA TodaySusan Page, Washington bureau chief was justified in defending the manufactured media story. “It’s all related.”

Brzezinski asked Willie Geist, his co-host, if he was okay. “I wonder if many of these Republicans, if they were approached today and said, do you – do you reject racism? Is it possible to reject the idea of replacement theory? How many of them would walk away without an answer?” Geist asserted: “Yeah, they’d be scared to say that they do reject it because they’d worry about losing votes and losing their power.”

This kind of vile rhetoric without any basis in fact routinely goes unchecked on irresponsible left-wing media outlets like MSNBC – only for bomb-throwing MSNBC personalities to accuse others of dangerous commentary. This hypocrisy has no limits.

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Here is a transcript of Deutsch’s May 18 Morning Joe commentary:

9:00 AM ET

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JOE SCARBOROUGH: Alright, so Donny, so let’s talk first of all, this isn’t a branding issue, this is a really serious issue, and it’s important that people, whether they’re Democrats, Republicans, independents alike, whether it’s Liz Cheney or other people who are deeply offended by what’s happening with this great replacement theory.

It begs the question, “What is the best method to counter this hatred?” What’s the best way to push back on this conspiracy theory that’s based on a Jewish international banker, I mean it is just so anti-Semitic and of course they’ve slotted George Soros in there, trying to make the country like browner and blacker? What’s the best way for people to push back on that lie?

DONNY DEUTSCH It’s time to make it the Republicans. Every Republican politician, every Republican candidate, ask them about it, make them –because they can’t run from it because it’s part of who they are at this point, as disgusting as that is. It should be the Republican replacement theory. Because this is the way – you have to scare. We don’t have the economy on our side as Democrats, so you have to scare the bejesus out of people. How to scare? [them] is say, “You know, this replacement theory, this is not just coming from some dark corner of the web, this is the Republican platform. Let them take it.

And if Democrats run from this fist fight – I know in the previous segment, [Politico’s]Eugene Daniels spoke out about President Trump not wanting to name names. Call out Tucker Carlson, call out the politicians, and make this – make them own it. This is the Republican platform. It’s the racist Republican replacement theory.

SCARBOROUGH: Well, you know, the thing is, I’m not so concerned at the end of the day about commentators as I am about politicians. If they’re pushing politicians around – I mean, I’m concerned about all of it – I’m just saying, though, the goal should be to get Republicans to actually condemn this.

And let’s hope, if they put pressure on it, then you will start having Republicans saying, “Listen, I’m off this train, I’m out of this, I’m going to speak truth to this power and I’m going to tell the truth about it and I’m going to do what Liz Cheney did and I’m going to condemn it.” I think that’s actually the most important thing for these elected leaders to do.

And yes, I am concerned about commentators, but when you start having elected leaders – we’ve always had crazy commentators, we’ve always had crazy people online – but when this is mainstreamed and House Republican leaders are spitting this trash out, I think you’re right, you need to call them out. And you want to get Republicans like Mitt Romney and others to call this out, say, “Absolutely no, no place for it in the party.”

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This transcript contains excerpts taken from the May 17th meeting. Morning Joe coverage:

6:02 AM ET

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JOE SCARBOROUGH: We’re going to be starting in Buffalo in just a minute. I’ve got to say, the media reaction to it, especially on the hard right, the Trump right, was – well, it would have been laughable last night if it weren’t so tragic.

MIKA BRZEZINSKI :

SCARBOROUGH – People tried to find excuses for an entire media network and an entire media ecosystem that traded in great replacement theory throughout the day. And then after, of course, the tragedy, trying to back up and say, “Oh, no, we weren’t talking about that. We haven’t been talking about that,” despite the fact they’ve been talking about it by name.

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6:12 AM ET

EUGENE ROBINSON [WASHINGTON POST ASSOCIATE EDITOR]: But we have gone backwards, Joe, in terms of what’s right and what’s wrong on race. We just need to admit that. In the past decade, we have seen, I have seen, a kind of vicious, overt, unapologetic racism surfacing, resurfacing in a way that I haven’t seen since the Jim Crow days of my childhood in South Carolina. This is deeply concerning. This is a terrible situation. This is terrible.

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6:18 AM ET

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: But then there’s the infection in our politics. Elise Stefanik of New York, third-ranking House Republican, denies any involvement in the mainstreaming of the replacement theory. She tweeted a statement from a senior adviser that reads, in part, “Despite sickening and false reporting, Congresswoman Stefanik has never advocated for any racist position or made a racist statement.”

But 20 minutes later, the House Republican conference chair tweeted using the same language of racist ideology, claiming, quote, “Democrats desperately want wide open borders and mass amnesty for illegals, allowing them to vote.” She followed that up with this tweet an hour later, “It is a fact that Democrats have been explicitly pushing for amnesty for years, specifically for political and electoral purposes.”

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6.19 AM ET

SCARBOROUGH – You spew hate every day. White grievance is your greatest source of wealth. It is your job to make brown and black Americans suspects. That is what you build your network strategy. An entire podcasting strategy is built around this. To attract people with white grievance or racists, you build an entire media environment strategy. And then this happens and you have to spend the next day going, “Oh, we didn’t mean what we’ve been saying every day, what our strategy has been every day to get more viewers, to get more listeners.”  And they can’t address it directly, and so they lie.

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6:26 AM ET

MIKA BRZEZINSKI Since I had met her in the beginning. But this is what’s happening throughout the politics and even in local and Senate races. How do you see what’s happening here in Washington with the – I mean, we literally started the show with the mass shooting and we’re ending up talking about the language being used in Republican politics. Some Republicans say, “That’s not fair, we didn’t do this.” Is it?

SUSAN PAGE [USA TODAY WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF]: It’s all related.

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6.27 AM ET

PAGE: Will these Republican primaries see some candidates for the Republican Party who support replacement theory? Or will voters reward them with a vote of confidence in their support or penalize them? At the moment it seems like they’ll be rewarded.

BRZEZINSKI: Well, Willie, I – I wonder if many of these Republicans, if they were approached today and said, do you – do you reject racism? Is it your belief in replacement theory? I wonder how many would leave without an answer.

WILLIE GEIST: Yeah, they’d be scared to say that they do reject it because they’d worry about losing votes and losing their power. And you’re right, Mika, Elise Stefanik was a garden variety establishment Republican. While she was employed in the Bush White House as a staffer, her role on the Romney campaign involved working alongside Paul Ryan, and getting him ready to debate. She found some currency by acting like Donald Trump and has since risen to the top of the party’s leadership ranks.

Gene Robinson’s horror at Buffalo two days ago seemed to me like the culmination all the conspiracy theories that once lived somewhere on the fringes. Now, they are fully mainstreamed in America by the president and members of Congress. Things that were not allowed to be said in public today are part of the conversation. These are. That message is reaching the wrong people. One example of this was an 18-year old in Buffalo, who believed he was attacking women 82 years old shopping in a grocery shop.

ROBINSON: Yeah. And, Willie, we hope it’s the culmination which implies an end point. I fear, in fact I’m sure, that it’s not.

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6:30 AM ET

ROBINSON – So Republicans and its leaders would march to the Pettis Bridge if needed.

BRZEZINSKI: Right.

ROBINSON

BRZEZINSKI: No, they’re afraid to do that.

ROBINSON, What do you hear from Republicans after Buffalo? You’re hearing these sort of lame, weak defenses, “Oh, we didn’t say that. Oh, we didn’t mean that. I’ve never said a racist thing.” What do you believe? Which beliefs are deep in you? What do you –

BRZEZINSKI: Right. Who are you?

ROBINSON – Who are YOU? ROBINSON: Who are you? Elise Stefanik, we thought that we were familiar with you. Clearly you’re not that. You’re not that conventional Republican we thought maybe you were at one point. But what is this now, that you can’t even – you can’t even forcefully denounce racism and replacement theory? You actually go back to it even after Buffalo. What kind of person are you? Which type of person are YOU?

BRZEZINSKI: And she’s one of many.

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