While discussing the rampant antisemitism sweeping college campuses this week, MSNBC’s Morning Joe panel tried to predict what the fallout would be for the violent protests. Guest Rev. Al Sharpton appeared to strike a nerve while comparing the campus chaos to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
According to The Daily Caller, the particular exchange occurred “as MSNBC discussed the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and California Highway Patrol (CHP) clearing out the encampment set up at a plaza on the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus early Thursday morning. Sharpton and ‘Morning Joe’ co-host Joe Scarborough were discussing political difficulties that the campus protests created for Democrats.”
“Let me say this: The politics of that, what is being robbed by them not doing that, Joe, where you and I agree, how do the Democrats, how do the Democrats, how do all of us on that side say January 6th was wrong if you can have the same pictures going on on college campuses? You lose the moral high ground,” Sharpton asked in response.
“Good Lord!” Mika Brzezinski said. “Don’t make a parallel to Jan. 6.”
Watch the clip below:
Al Sharpton on Morning Joe: “How do the Democrats, how do all of us on that side, say January 6 was wrong if you can have the same pictures going on, on college campuses?”
Mika Brzezinski: "Good lord, don't make a parallel with January 6." pic.twitter.com/ATvL86XPWx
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