Reacting to President Joe Biden's largely successful press conference on Thursday night, MSNBC "Morning Joe" regular Mike Barnicle diverged from the topic at hand and criticized the press — including himself — for over-dwelling on the president's "flubs" while disregarding Donald Trump's more egregious comments.
Speaking with co-host Wille Geist and "Way Too Early" host Jonathan Lemire, Barnicle said a little self-reflection by the Washington media mob would go a long way.
"What's amazing to me is the amount of attention we pay in the media, all of us, to the flubs," he began before noting Biden meant to say Vice President Kamala Harris and substituted Trump's name.
"You know, Vice President Trump instead of Vice President Harris — things like that," he continued. "That stuff has come with the dinner with Joe Biden for 40 years and we regard it each and every time he makes a flub, it's shocking. It's not shocking."
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"What is truly shocking in terms of balance, and you referenced it, is Donald Trump's, not flubs, his incendiary rhetoric. Rhetoric aimed at dividing the country, at turning one group of people against another group of people, of threatening institutions like NATO, of threatening a country like Ukraine, things like that," he added.
"We pay less attention to his rhetoric than we do," before adding a mocking "'Oh, my god, he called her Vice President Trump.' No, we have to get our act together and balance this thing out."
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