MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough To Kevin McCarthy: Stop ‘Lying To The American People’

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 27: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during his weekly … [+] news conference at the U.S. Capitol on February 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. The White House earlier this week put forward a $2.5 billion request for emergency funding to fight the coronavirus to which McCarthy responded, “I think $2 billion is a little low, I think we’re probably looking at $4 billion in this process, having spoken to Democrat House members from Appropriations.” (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Friday, co-host Joe Scarborough delivered a blistering commentary on comments made Thursday by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who defended Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene by hinting that—if Greene were to be stripped of her committee assignments for comments made before she was elected to Congress—many others might face a similar fate. “If people are held to what they said prior to even being in this House,” McCarthy said, “I hope you keep that standard, because we have a long list.”

“Do you have a long list, Kevin,” Scarborough asked. “Do you have a long list of a member of Congress calling for the assassination of Donald Trump? Do you have a list of Republican members of Congress calling for the lynching of George W. Bush?”

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 04: U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) walks toward the Capitol Hill … [+] Club February 4, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The House is scheduled to vote later today on removing Greene from committee assignments over her remarks about QAnon and other conspiracy theories. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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“You don’t. You’re lying. You’re lying again, but Kevin this is just what you do. You don’t have a list of anybody that has said anything remotely resembling what this QAnon Republican lady has said, talking about Jewish space lasers…she actually supported the assassination of your counterpart on the Democratic side, Nancy Pelosi.”

“Do you think we’re as stupid as you? Because I would love for you, go on the House floor today, Kevin, and give us the name of the Democrat who, before they were Democrat, called for your assassination, called for a bullet into your brain?”

“Give us the name, Joe McCarthy,” he continued, “or keep your mouth shut. We’re not that stupid. The four years of McCarthyism is over, all right? It’s over! So stop your lying to the American people!”