Joe Scarborough from MSNBC went on this delusional rant where he pretended to have ‘conservative friends’ that he hopelessly tries to convince to trust the media. The political activist disguised as a tv host, went on to use Wall Street Journal to prove his point. Because this was on Joe’s platform, he went undisputed but we’re gonna take a minute and fact-check the lie.
What Scarborough claimed:
“I talk to friends. I talk to former business partners. I talk — I talk to everybody, and — they — they have a completely different worldview that is completely isolated from fact.
They argue things that are, that, that are, that they picked up on the internet. And you’re exactly right! They’ll go, well, you know, Joe, I just — I don’t really — I don’t watch news anymore, because you — you just don’t know what’s true and what’s — and I try to say, yeah, but you do go to websites that are run by Chinese cults [The Epoch Times]. And you do get Facebook pages that people just make up whole cloth. And that’s your new news source?
And as I say repeatedly to them, read the Wall Street Journal! Like, the Wall Street Journal news section. It’s great reporters, and it’s Murdoch’s newspaper! Ah, they’re, eh, I just don’t know. I say, oh. So you think Murdoch is involved in the deep state? That he’s a left-wing socialist?”
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“Kanye West is going out, talking about George Floyd being on fentanyl. You know — I guess people thought, Willie, in the age of Trump, that they could say whatever they wanted to say. They could spread whatever lies they wanted to spread.”
So…Wait. Floyd wasn’t on fentanyl?
What WSJ actually reported about Floyd:
“The county medical examiner found the cause of death was ‘cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.’ Its autopsy results also indicated heart disease, fentanyl intoxication, and recent methamphetamine use.”
Later, Floyd’s family hired a private autopsy which concluded that his death was a homicide. The private autopsy disregarded the drug in his system and his heart condition previously noted by the medical examiner. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner also concluded that Floyd’s death was a homicide but noted his heart condition and drug use were contributing factors.