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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough made a fool out of himself on Sunday (he wasn’t even on his show) after tweeting an image of The New York Times Sunday Review front page comparing the fall of Kabul to the fall of Saigon. The self-righteous blowhard lectured the paper about how the obviously similar situations were nothing alike. The kicker? The author of the article was a Vietnamese-American who escaped Saigon as a refugee with his family.
And on Monday, NBC correspondent Vicky Nguyen fired back at Scarborough on Twitter as she teased her report on the comparison for NBC Nightly News.
“Please don’t embarrass yourself by comparing Afghanistan to Vietnam or the events of the past week to Saigon in 1975. Dear Lord,” Scarborough tweeted in disgust at the headline, “Our Saigon” and a picture of a jet taking off.
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