Fake News So Bad MSNBC Notices: Matthews Debunks ‘Brown Scare’ Quote

Scott Whitlock | February 5, 2019
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[See NewsBusters for more.] You know it’s bad when Chris Matthews is your fact checker. The MSNBC host on Tuesday inadvertently took on this role when his colleague Joy Reid claimed Donald Trump has been talking about the “brown scare at the border.” He hasn’t. Reid was awkwardly forced to admit she made up the quote, saying, “That’s not his exact text.” Reid began by telling Matthews that the real Donald Trump is someone who “makes up nicknames for people and demand they give him a border wall and talk about the brown scare at the border. That's the Trump he wants to be.” The Hardball host interrupted, excitedly wondering, “Has he actually used that awful phrase? Like the yellow scare? Did he say that?” 

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