Amazing exchange between Morning Joe co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough today.
Reacting to Republican Senate Majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who said…
“You may recall my election last year. The gender card alone is not enough. I beat my opponent with women in my race because the gender card alone is not enough.”
Ms. Brzezinski, informed us that…
“This is now sexist. It\’s just unfortunate. It\’s like those words you can\’t say, but some people can say. I mean, it\’s the same thing as when President Obama was running for President, there were people who could be very excited about the historic nature of it. Republicans can\’t. They couldn\’t, they couldn\’t figure out how to get around that. And whenever they did, they looked like racists. And, so this is now sexist. It\’s just unfortunate.”
“Well, is it sexist for you to say it\’s gonna be hard to beat Hillary Clinton because everybody\’s excited about that fact she\’s a woman which is, in fact, what you said?”
And Ms. Brzezinski retorted…
No, that\’s not what I\’ve said, that\’s absolutely not what I\’ve said. I\’ve said that people are excited about the historic nature of her candidacy, especially a lot of women…”
Uh…..let\’s think about this.
-Mitch McConnell, in a clear reference to Hillary Clinton\’s candidacy – and its heavy lean on the fact that she is a woman – pointed out that he beat a woman last time around, so the “gender card” by itself is not enough. Which is intuitively correct.
-Mika Brzezinski, incredibly, informed us it is sexist to point out that running a sexist campaign does not guarantee a win.
-Joe Scarborough asked if it was sexist for Ms. Brzezinski to say that Hillary would be hard to beat because she\’s a woman.
-And Mika Brzezinski, again incredibly, vehemently disputed that she said any such thing. See, she only said that Hillary Clinton\’s campaign is historic in a way that would excite a lot of women…which we, evidently, are supposed to think means something different.
Do these people ever listen to themselves?
