“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough says he’s baffled that some right-wing podcasters are now calling for “civil war” – despite having shared no concern for the Democratic leaders who were recently targeted.
“So here these people are talking about civil war now, just again, is baffling when they seem so disinterested when the killings, when the attempted killings, when the assaults were on the other side,” Scarborough said during the Monday morning MSNBC segment, noting that he’s certain that most people would agree that conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting was a “tragedy.”
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“I think every sane American, every American I’ve actually spoken to in person since the terrible, terrible tragedy, the assassination of Charlie Kirk have been horrified and asked the same question, when is this going to end?,” Scarborough said. “How can we come together? Had one law enforcement officer say, ‘How do we keep social media away from our children? How much longer does this continue?’ But we’re just not hearing it from people that are trying to fan the flames and talking about civil war.”
According to the New York Times, the use of “civil war” has surged online last week following Kirk’s death on Wednesday. The news site reports that the term, was mentioned on Wednesday more than 129,000 times on X and 210,000 times on Thursday, primarily by those with right-wing ideology.
Scarborough said that’s what’s creating the issue.
“We’ve seen it since the tragedy of Charlie Kirk, a lot of it is that there are people on cable news networks,” Scarborough said. “There are people running podcasts that are talking about civil war. Of course, they talked about civil war before, but they’re talking about civil war and needing to go after the left, and they’re coming after us.”
He continued, laying out examples of attacks against Democrats that have been overlooked by conservatives.
“Some of the same people certainly didn’t talk or call for civil war after a Democratic legislator this past summer, the leader of the Democrats got slaughtered in her home, along with her husband, by a man with a Democratic hit list of 42 Democrats, a kill list,” he said. “We heard nothing about that from these people who are now talking about the need for civil war and to go after the left, the wackos on the far left … After Josh Shapiro and his family were sleeping inside their home when somebody tried to burn it down and said they wanted to take a hammer to Gov. Shapiro’s head, we heard nothing about a civil war then.”
Kirk was fatally shot during a public speaking appearance at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. His suspected shooter has been identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson.
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