<p><em>More in the <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2015/01/30/msnbc-host-scolds-…; target="_blank">cross-post</a> on the MRC's NewsBusters blog. </em></p>
<p>Even as his fellow <em>Morning Joe</em> co-hosts praised John McCain on Friday for denouncing Code Pink anti-war protesters who attempted to disrupt a Senate hearing as "low-life sum," MSNBC's Thomas Roberts lectured the Republican Senator for shutting down the intruders: <strong>"If people want to show up and protest, right? They should be allowed to hear their voices. And instead of calling Capitol Hill police and them calling them 'low-life scum.'"</strong></p>
<p>Bloomberg's John Heilemann was incredulous: "Really? You think you should be allowed to show up at a Senate hearing and just like disrupt a Senate hearing? I mean, I'm all for peaceful protests and everything, but like, you know, you're in a Capitol Hill hearing room, you think people should just be able to like go in there and scream?"</p>