Joe Scarborough Rips Fox News Host Over Trump-Like Joke On Violent Assault — Floats Firing Her

Joe Scarborough was left slack-jawed by Fox’s Rachel Campos-Duffy using the violent attack on Paul Pelosi as a punchline during an appearance Friday night.

During Monday’s show, MSNBC’s Morning Joe covered the ongoing saga of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) continued defense of killing her puppy as a display of her ability to make tough decisions. But Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski expressed their disgust that several Republicans have started to turn to “cruelty” as proof of their “toughness.”

They cited the recent segment from Fox News featuring Campos-Duffy joking about the assault of Pelosi during a home invasion in 2022, and Scarborough pointed out that such a comment would have cost someone their job, at least it used to:

Scarborough: This really goes to, again, Republicans trying to be tough. And I will say too, and this was sort of a phrase that people started talking about several years ago, that cruelty actually is the point. That somehow cruelty shows toughness. There was a Fox News conversation this weekend that a lot of people were talking about where the brutalizing of Paul Pelosi, the brutalizing of a man in his 80s, was a punchline. And again, something that would have gotten, pre-Trump would have gotten anybody fired from any network anywhere would have we would have had… You know, we go back to even at the beginning of [former President] Donald Trump’s presidency when he attacked Mika, talking about “bleeding badly from a facelift.” You had a lot of Republicans had spoke out against him.

Brzezinski: People were like, “No, that’s just… No.”

Scarborough: You’ve gone a step too far, face-shaming, all this other stuff. We’ve gotten to a point where those boundaries are off, where somebody can laugh about Paul Pelosi. Because people in the audience, when Donald Trump makes fun of Paul Pelosi being brutalized and attacked and almost bludgeoned to death by a hammer–

Brzezinski: Staggering.

Scarborough: People in the audience laugh and they applaud.

Brzezinski: So, this is normal now.

Scarborough: It’s sick. I want you, I want you to see this, this clip. Here are two hosts joking about the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi that fractured his skull in 2022, while they were talking actually on air about the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I’m not sure how they got to laughing–

Brzezinski: Well, we’ll see.

Scarborough: About an elderly man being almost beaten to death.

Brzezinski: In a home invasion.

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