(Video: MSNBC)
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was joined by Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison Wednesday where the pair misrepresented statements made by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on the Senate floor to malign him as a “positively shameful” liar and a “little maggot-infested man.”
The segment on “Morning Joe” began with clips from Cotton’s Tuesday speech about his opposition to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, in part, because of her work as a prosecutor who voluntarily defended alleged terrorists.
When Cotton concluded his remarks suggesting Jackson may have gone to Nuremberg to defend the Nazis rather than prosecute them, Scarborough worked himself into a lather.
“That just made the ghost of Joe McCarthy blush,” he contended.
Scarborough recited portions of a March 22 piece by the Associated Press to point out the obligation that Jackson had as a public defender to take the cases that were assigned to her.
“He is twisting this so out of context. It is a wretched display for yet another Ivy League guy. Another Ivy Leaguer, who went to Harvard Law School, lying to you, acting stupid about what happens when you’re a public defender, what happens when you’re assigned a case,” he stated as he himself acted stupidly about the full remarks that Cotton had said.
“You know why you’re assigned those cases?” the host asked rhetorically, “Because the Constitution of the United States of America, which Republicans like Tom Cotton claim to defend, they carry it around in their pocket, hold up their little pocket-sized Constitutions, but don’t really give a damn about what’s inside of it!”
“Because if Tom Cotton did, he’d understand that she was doing what the Constitution of the United States guarantees every American, that lawyers will do, and that lawyers have done since the beginning of this republic,” he stated, while misrepresenting the foreign national Guantanamo detainees as American citizens. “He knows better. That’s what makes it so absolutely, positively shameful.”
Sen. Cotton cites Ketanji Brown Jackson’s past clients to say she might have defended the Nazis https://t.co/DKSSnF9WH6
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) April 6, 2022
“Now, it’s true that you shouldn’t judge a lawyer for being willing to take on an unpopular case,” Cotton conceded in a portion of the remarks not aired by MSNBC, “but you can certainly learn something about a lawyer from the cases they seek out. And for Judge Jackson and her friends in the liberal legal profession, these cases were not unpopular at all.”
“Morning Joe” played the next part of Cotton’s speech where he noted the cases Jackson took in her role as a public defender, with one being voluntary. But they also selectively left off his next statement where he said, “And she voluntarily filed multiple friend-of-the-court briefs on behalf of terrorists while in private practice.”
Furthermore, instead of presenting the senator’s statements on the questionable filings that Jackson had made, they jumped to his most incendiary remarks after building a narrative of vitriol. Cotton’s suggestion did not trivialize the Holocaust as the Anti-Defamation League would have one believe.
Absolutely shameful conduct from @SenTomCotton. To use a Nazi analogy as some sort of twisted way to attack Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is reprehensible. We've said it a thousand times and we'll say it again: stop trivializing the Holocaust for political gain. https://t.co/XwaF9mOLtk
— ADL (@ADL) April 5, 2022
Nor did it warrant the reaction from Harrison who stated, “It shows you who this little maggot-infested man is. He does not deserve to have that pin. He doesn’t deserve to be in the United States Senate representing the good people of Arkansas.”
“He put his hand on the Bible, took an Oath of Office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and he uses it as a play toy,” he asserted. “That is the Republican Party we see today. It is a party built on fraud, fear and fascism,” he told the panel that was perpetrating all three on a lawmakers character.
“They don’t deserve to be in power. Not because Democrats should,” Harrison attested, “but because they don’t deserve to be in power of this great nation.”
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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25 thoughts on “DNC chair calls Sen. Cotton a ‘little maggot-infested man’ over Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘Nazi support’ barb”
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harrison and scarredbro are both a total waste of oxgen, Flatulence from a cow is more beneficial to mankind. They are merely hate mongering dung flingers and their only purpose seems to be to rile, agitate and create hate. If they are beneficial for anything else then the public needs to hear about it.
As a kid, I often heard about the Soviet news TASS and Pravda and wonder what they sounded like! Now I know!
LET’S GO DNC!
(And their hacks in fake news)
NOW we’re getting somewhere!! First it’s NAZI’s and then it’s “maggot filled man”! Maybe this will escalate into one of those CANE BEATINGS on the Senate Floor!! My money’s on Cotton!!
What Cotton said and his reference are deplorable. There is NO room in the world for this type of comment.
But all the crap they said about Bork, Thomas, Alito, Goresuch, and Kavanaugh is acceptable and OK? Oh yeah, they are Conservatives so they deserve all the deplorable trash your Communist pals throw at them!
The Democrats in office are acting like Nazi’s.
Do not see any nazis, just you and your rude, loud mouth.
Can we just drop the nazis already? This beating a dead horse is past old.
THIS is what happens when you have the “chair” of the DNC that CANNOT hold an intelligent conversation on something he doesn’t agree with or just plain DOESN’T understand. This OBESE POS doesn’t have the grey matter that God gave a flea and that’s why he has to resort to VULGAR LOWLIFE comments about Cotton. Guess he’s jealous that Cotton has more brains in his AZZ than this IDIOT has in his entire body. WHERE did this term he used come from and what justifies him saying it ?? THIS is the Total Degrenation of Society as we once knew it.
DNC chair needs to resign, obviously Harrison lacking vocabulary had to result to middle school insults. But then he is a democRAT.
President Biden took an oath to enforce our constitution and laws, but I wonder if the one in this article has taken a look at the invasion on our southern border, or if collusion ever crossed his mind with his actions in Ukraine during his veep reign. Or how about putting enough border agents on the border, instead of allowing over 100 different countries sending their people across our border, many with criminal records. Does he remember taking that oath?
How about seeing to it that the citizens of this country come first, Joe??
Oh well, you can’t expect Joe or any Demorat to understand logical arguments.
DNC Jaime Harrison definitely raised the bar on civil discourse. Republicans need to bring it up a notch and do the same for Jaime.
Sometimes the truth hurts. Go whine to your momma.
joe is a syphlitic disease of a man, if he is really a man!
We are adding a new member to SCOTUS, an immoral, America/Constitution hating, agitating activist. Rush Limbaugh called it ‘Culture Rot’ With KBJ, it is on steroids.
She defended Al Qaida terrorists. As far as I’m concerned, that’s equal to defending KKK or Nazis.
Half truths, and more half truths. Must be a frustrated individual. Never watch, or put any stock in what is said on that show. Nothing entertaining about blatant partisanship.
Never ever would watch that show.
Jackson’s judgement, and essential talent for a “JUDGE”, is crap.
Being a judicial activist for infant/child torture and pedophilia DISQUALIFIES you from all judicial appointments.
Suck on that Harrison.
Awww, poor widdle wibbies are all twiggered. Lol!
The best part of anything from Joe Scarborough is that more people read about his stupidity here than ever watch it on TV.. FJB + FJS
If this is true then Cotton should apologize. The republicans (Trump) should have nominated a qualified black female. They knew the democrats was going to do it if they got in power. The republicans are playing basketball while the democrats are playing hockey. The republicans missed a great opportunity to take the thunder from the democrats and go to go down in history for this instead of the democrats.
To win the game you have to play the same game as the democrats on certain things.
Who was Judge Janice Rogers Brown? She was on track for an eventual nomination to the SC.