On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday, unhinged leftist and supposed marketing expert Donny Deutsch actually admitted that Democrats could not run on the poor economy heading into the midterm elections. 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,” co-host Joe Scarborough sneered. 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:
You take this heinous platform and you make the Republicans own it. I want to say it again, make the Republicans own it. 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. But make it the Republican replacement theory, mainstream it. 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. And 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 is a Republican platform. It’s the racist Republican replacement theory.”
Deutsch was almost identically repeating the same screed he performed on Tuesday afternoon’s Deadline: 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 wants the Democrats to run against Tucker Carlson: "He is heinous, he is vulgar. Make him the face of the Republican Party…. Yes, he has 3 million viewers but to the mainstream Republicans, to the independents, he's vulgar. He's atrocious." Buffalo? You own that. pic.twitter.com/6ndQOkdkXa
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) May 18, 2022
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough claimed “an entire media ecosystem trading in great replacement theory” on the right was to blame for the horrific attack:
Well, the thing is, you spew hatred every day. You do your best to get rich off of white grievance. You do your best to make black and brown Americans suspects. You build a network strategy around that. You build an entire podcasting strategy around that. You build an entire media ecosystem strategy around that for growth, to attract racists and people infected 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.
Wife and fellow co-host Mika Brzezinski happily touted how they were trashing 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 Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page justified the disgusting, manufactured media narrative: “It’s all related.”
Brzezinski turned to fellow co-host Willie Geist and asked: “I wonder if many of these Republicans, if they were approached today and said, do you – do you reject racism? Do you reject 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. The hypocrisy knows no bounds.
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Here is a transcript of Deutsch’s May 18 Morning Joe commentary:
9:39 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.
The question is, what is the best way to push back on 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: You take this heinous platform and you make the Republicans own it. I want to say it again, make the Republicans own it. 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. But make it the Republican replacement theory, mainstream it. 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. And 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.
And if Democrats run from this fist fight – I know in the previous segment, [Politico’s] Eugene Daniels talked about the President not wanting to call out names. Call out Tucker Carlson, call out the politicians, and make this – make them own it. This is a 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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Here is a transcript of excerpts from the May 17 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: Right.
SCARBOROUGH: Throughout the day, people were trying to make excuses for an entire network, an entire media ecosystem trading in great replacement theory. 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. I think we just have to acknowledge 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. And, I mean, you can say this is deeply troubling. This is appalling. This is awful.
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6:18 AM ET
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: But then there’s the infection in our politics. New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, the third ranking House Republican, has denied any role in mainstreaming the so-called 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: Well, the thing is, you spew hatred every day. You do your best to get rich off of white grievance. You do your best to make black and brown Americans suspects. You build a network strategy around that. You build an entire podcasting strategy around that. You build an entire media ecosystem strategy around that for growth, to attract racists and people infected with white grievance. 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: So the transformation, Susan Page, of Elise Stefanik, to me, is tragic. Because I met her at 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: And some of these Republican candidates who espouse replacement theory or make a hat tip to it with language that echoes replacement theory, will they be penalized by voters or rewarded by Republican voters in these primaries? And at the moment, it looks like they will 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? Do you reject replacement theory? How many of them would walk away 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. She worked in the Bush White House, she worked on the Romney campaign, working with Paul Ryan there, getting him ready for debates. And then she found some currency in acting like Donald Trump, and she has accelerated up into a leadership position in the party.
Gene Robinson, this horror in Buffalo a couple of days ago seems to me to be sort of the culmination of all these conspiracy theories that used to live somewhere in the fringes of the internet, being completely mainstreamed by a president of the United States, by members of congress, by primetime cable, things that people dared not say in public now are just part of the conversation. They are. And that message is getting to the wrong people, including an 18-year-old in Buffalo who thought he was doing something in the name of his race, by going out and attacking 82-year-old women shopping at a grocery store.
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: And so Republicans, the party and the individuals who led it, would be out and would be forceful and would be forthright and would, you know, join hands, march across the Pettis Bridge, if necessary.
BRZEZINSKI: Right.
ROBINSON: And that Republican Party is gone.
BRZEZINSKI: No, they’re afraid to do that.
ROBINSON: What are you hearing from Republicans in the wake of 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? What is in your heart? What do you –
BRZEZINSKI: Right. Who are you?
ROBINSON: Who are you? Who are you? We thought we knew who you were, Elise Stefanik. 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? In fact, you go right back to it, even in the wake of Buffalo. Who are you? What kind of person are you?
BRZEZINSKI: And she’s one of many.
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