Heilemann, Capehart Clash With Kristol Over Confederate Purge: 'Belittling, Trolling'

MarkF | June 24, 2015
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Bill Kristol has supported the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina capitol grounds for 15 years. But when he took to Twitter yesterday to criticize the left's "frenzy of self-righteousness" in the wake of Charleston, he brought down on his head a deluge of ugly criticism.

On today's Morning Joe, Jonathan Capehart and John Heilemann eschewed the kind of scatalogical suggestions that had been made to Kristol on Twitter, but engaged in a barrage of criticism of their own.  Capehart accused Kristol of "belittling" the families of the Charleston victims, while Heilemann--telling Kristol he was "trolling"--sarcastically said that the Left doesn't need his help.

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