{"id":1807671,"date":"2023-01-16T17:18:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T22:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807671"},"modified":"2023-01-16T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T22:24:16","slug":"morning-joe-fakes-just-enough-outrage-over-bidens-illegal-dangerous-handling-of-classified-docs-before-excusing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morning-joe-fakes-just-enough-outrage-over-bidens-illegal-dangerous-handling-of-classified-docs-before-excusing-him\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Morning Joe\u2019 Fakes Just Enough Outrage Over Biden\u2019s Illegal, Dangerous Handling Of Classified Docs Before Excusing Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmorning-joe-fakes-just-enough-outrage-over-bidens-illegal-dangerous-handling-of-classified-docs-before-excusing-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807671&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>There\u2019s a delicate balance at play as more and more information <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/12\/we-need-a-special-counsel-to-investigate-joe-bidens-classified-documents-case-pronto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dribbles out<\/a> about Joe Biden having illegally retained unknown numbers of classified government documents as a private citizen: How much concern can the national media show without appearing to suggest in any way that he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/11\/bidens-doj-knows-exactly-what-to-do-to-his-political-opponents-without-needing-to-be-told\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guilty of the same thing<\/a> they\u2019re hoping to see Donald Trump indicted for?<\/p>\n<p>They know that after months of ceaseless heaving over Trump leaving the White House with documents he wasn\u2019t entitled to keep, they can\u2019t pooh-pooh it that Biden has been in illegal possession of government material for years after his stint as vice president in the Obama administration. At the same time, they can\u2019t stray from the Trump-is-an-evil-without-peer line that they\u2019ve been so committed to for seven years.<\/p>\n<p>For everyone in the media struggling with this dynamic, you need look no further than the misfits of MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d for help. On Monday\u2019s show, they delivered a master course on how to fake just enough outrage over Biden, while simultaneously excusing him for the same behavior they claim makes Trump a democracy-ending fugitive.<\/p>\n<p>As demonstrated by John Heilemann, Mika Brzezinski and Jonathan Lemire (the Grinch-looking Jonathan Lemire), the formula is to adopt a disapproving, grave tone. Focus not on illegally possessed or dangerously handled documents but on how White House officials discuss it; and then, finally, say that this is a disappointing mistake but not more. It&#8217;s even better if you have a few asides that make any commentary seem illogical.<\/p>\n<p>Brzezinski: <\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden \u2026 is very good at owning it and pushing for transparency. I believe the explanation is where things went wrong, honestly. The White House was very defensive, there was much pushing back, and lots of hedging. You can&#8217;t hedge in this situation. You\u2019ve got to know your stuff. You\u2019ve got to understand it and quite frankly, it might have been good to bring in someone who understands the handling of classified material\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Tsk, tsk. If only there hadn\u2019t been so much hedging. Kudos on \u201cowning it\u201d The \u201ctransparency,\u201d though!<\/p>\n<p>Heilemann came next, with what can only have been described as a babbling stream of a response (generously cleaned for some clarity). <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Mika, I do think you\u2019re putting your finger on something important, which is that, you know, Ron Klain, the White House chief of staff, is a lawyer and a really smart lawyer. And it seems like in how they\u2019ve dealt with this \u2014 they have handled, in terms of ethics, in terms of transparency internally to the Justice Department, in terms of responsiveness, in terms of straightforwardness, on all the legal fronts, they have handled this extraordinarily well.<\/p>\n<p>Heilemann, just like Brzezinski was certain to praise Biden before offering any criticism.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more of his comments here <\/p>\n<p>Public-facing parts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Morning Joe&#8217; delivered a master course on how to fake enough outrage over Biden, while also excusing him for the same behavior they claim makes Trump a democracy-ending fugitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1807674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3706,7372,5359,7077,15152,12130,6919,9164,4207,7189,7044,6955],"class_list":["post-1807671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-bidens","tag-classified","tag-dangerous","tag-docs","tag-excusing","tag-fakes","tag-federalist","tag-handling","tag-illegal","tag-joe","tag-morning","tag-outrage"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}