On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough continued his network’s inglorious habit of portraying ICE as some sort of cartoon villain. In this case, Scarborough compared ICE to both the Soviet Union and today’s Russia under Vladimir Putin while talking beside footage of an operation at a gas station that he ignored the context of.
Earlier in the segment, Morning Joe played a clip that showed part of the incident where an ICE agent clearly stated the man in the car was from Honduras and they were doing a status check. However, Scarborough didn’t seem to care. Talking with New York Times columnist David French, Scarborough declared, “And then finally, I’m just curious, as a constitutional lawyer. I mean, I see these people being dragged in the street. I see masked people coming up demanding papers. I see a guy sitting in a gas station parking lot, and ICE officers breaking the window and then dragging him out and putting their knee on his back. I just, again, this—we went to law school. We practiced law. This looks like Russia.”
Portraying the man as a simple protestor, Scarborough continued, “It really does. This looks like something that you would expect in Russia. That protesters—this is happening to protesters, not suspected murderers or rapists. This is what America looks like in 2025 for protesters.”
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