Scarborough Gives Pass to Pastor Who Incited Gray Congregation

MarkF | April 29, 2015
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On the previous day's Morning Joe, just after playing a clip of the pastor who delivered the eulogy at the Freddie Gray funeral leading the congregation in an empassioned chant of "no justice, no peace!", Joe Scarborough claimed that the riots that ensured were "something that no one inside that funeral could have ever have wanted." The chant wasn't the pastor's only incitement.  He also told the congregation that "somebody is going to have to pay" for Gray's death. 

So when that pastor, Jamal Bryant, appeared on the followng day's Morning Joe, don't you think Scarborough would have challenged him over his incendiary remarks?  Think again.  There was not a word of Bryant's incitement.  To the contrary, Scarborough gushes: "we were all moved by that extraordinary eulogy you gave a couple days ago," and a bit later former RNC Chairman Michael Steele thanks him for "your voice in this time in the city." 

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