In a recent episode of Morning Joe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough pompously cheered on gun control activist Dr. Megan Ranney as she tried to correct Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) during a recent Senate hearing in which the liberal activist inaccurately claimed gun death rates for the state of Louisiana are higher than for the city of Chicago.
He also allowed co-host Mika Brzezinski and Washington Post columnist Alexi McCammond to accuse Senator Kennedy of racism for focusing on Chicago even though the chairman of the hearing, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), emphasized Chicago in his introduction, and Dr. Ranney even referred to the high-crime city right before Senator Kennedy’s question.
The segment began with a clip of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump referring to Chicago and New York City each as a “crime den,” leading Scarborough to respond:
So Donald…
