'The wrong thing to do!' Morning Joe pounces on Katie Britt for attempt to spin Biden lie
On Monday morning, the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" jumped all over Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) for running to Fox News on Sunday and attempting to clean up the mess she made in her much-maligned response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address.
After earlier showing Britt's speech interspersed with clips from Scarlett Johansson's parody of the talk on "Saturday Night Live," co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski shared a clip of the Alabama Republican insisting to host Shannon Bream that she did nothing wrong by linking a horrific decades-old story about sex trafficking to Biden that has been proven to be a misrepresentation at best.
Co-host Scarborough at first expressed sympathy for Britt's egregious blunder, saying she should have admitted she went too far, but grew incensed at her latest attempt to spin her way out the episode that has turned her into what one Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist from Alabama called "a joke."
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After running the Fox News clip, Scarborough patiently explained, "Stuff happens in politics, bad speeches are made. You know, it is always better to say, 'Man, I blew that one.' People will forgive you for it and will even like you better for it, for saying, 'Boy, man, I just — wow, was I off on that. I'm so sorry. By the way, I told a story and I conflated some facts and issues and dates. I'm really sorry for that. I hope you understand my bigger point is that the Biden administration's policies from day one have been disastrous.'"
"She could have said that, but, again, I don't know who is advising her, but to double down after that performance is the wrong thing to do," he continued. "Own it like Biden is owning his age."
"Being a Republican these days is never having to say you are sorry. That was not just misleading, I mean, that was a purposeful lie. I think we're seeing this again and again."
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