Using Vice President Kamala Harris' sit-down interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle as well as a speech she gave on Wednesday as a leaping off point, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough ripped into his colleagues in the press for harshly covering Harris while giving Donald Trump a pass.
Contrasting answers given by Harris with Trump's rambling and often off-topic comments when questioned, the MSNBC host complained that reporters have long been too lazy when it comes to their Trump coverage.
Put simply, he called reporting on Trump a "joke."
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Speaking with the Washington Post's Jackie Alemany, Scarborough ranted, "What I find so striking, Jackie, is there are two standards. You've got Kamala Harris, and they're going, 'Oh, wait. What is the long-term impact of this, and why hasn't she called about the next round of qualitative easing?' While Donald Trump burps, and everyone laughs and goes, 'Oh, man, he tells it like it is.'"
"He's the beneficiary of what the Bush brothers used to call 'the soft bigotry of low expectations,"' he continued. "People don't expect anything from Donald Trump, so he gets a free pass. Then you have people going on TV shows and writing editorials going, 'Oh, my god. When is Kamala Harris going to get out and talk to America on policy issues as much as Donald Trump?' And it is laughable, it is a joke."
"There are absolutely two standards." Alemany agreed. "My reading of the speech, as well, is that it was a direct rebuttal of this caricature that Donald Trump tried to paint of Kamala Harris as this, you know, bomb-throwing, fire-brand progressive, as he's called her, 'Comrade Kamala.' She used deliberate language to describe herself as a pragmatic and centrist Democrat."
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