[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
On the 28 October 2014 edition of Morning Joe, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough prompted hippie icon Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, and Nash fame to promote his new song about the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Nash wildly contended that "what happened with...almost, the execution of Michael Brown, we had to say something."
Scarborough also asked the singer/songwriter to give his take about other political issues. Nash forwarded a standard left-wing talking point – that "the powers that be that run this world have us exactly where they want us. They want everyone to just lie down, shut up, while we rob you." He also took a shot at a regular boogeyman for MSNBC: the Koch brothers:
GRAHAM NASH, LEGENDARY SINGER/SONGWRITER: ...[I]t's appalling how many climate change deniers there are in this world that are paid to make sure that the Koch brothers can still sell all the stuff to us. And I often wonder, don't the Koch brothers have children? Don't they have grandchildren? Don't they know what they're doing in this quest for more money? They're already one of the richest families in the world. How much more do you need? I mean, seriously, it's a terrible thing that's going on, but we have to be able to rationally deal with it. And when – you know, 90 percent of the scientists say that climate change is happening, we have to listen.