Tommy Christopher Goes After Joe Scarborough On Autism Comments
The rule is three strikes and you’re out. last I heard, and Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough whiffed again Tuesday morning in covering UCSB mass killer Elliot Rodger. For a third time in less than two years, the self-professed autism “awareness” activist falsely linked mass shootings with autism, slandering people like his own son in the process. There is absolutely no link between mass shootings and autism, and there is actually scientific research on the topic.
On Tuesday’s show, it was dim-bulb adman Donny Deutsch who first brought up the subject of Rodger’s Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and given Morning Joe‘s well-known history of autism buffoonery, the whole thing was handled with muttering hesitation.
“Supposedly he was on the spectrum, he had Asperger’s,” Deutsch said, “and that was also supposedly a syndrome of the last horrible mass killing, and sometimes there are problems without solutions. I don’t know what.”
Scarborough jumped in and referenced his horrible history of lies about autistic people, but only as it related to him getting “pounded,” because that’s obviously the real tragedy here, not the dangerous prejudice he exposed autistic people to.
“I did not hear about the — him being on the spectrum,” Scarborough said. “I brought that up before and got pounded for that, even though I think eventually it ended up being true in another case.”
In this case, Scarborough was simply using autism as a way to distract attention away from guns. “There may be one thing we can talk about here,” he said. “Maybe we can talk about mental health in America,” as opposed to guns, but then he referenced his previous autism lies again, fairly boasting, “So many times, as I said in Newtown, before Newtown when we first saw the news, I described the kid. Without knowing anything about him.”
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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BanditBasheert May 27th, 2014 at 17:04
I think many of us are really sick and tired of the RW’s attempt to link “being on the spectrum” to violence. The idea that a babbler like Morning Joe would discuss a topic like autism as an expert is sad and pathetic. Even if the shooter did have a diagnosis of Aspie, there is no indication that it would be related to a spree killing. Aspies are not known to be violent.
Heaven help us from talk show idiots who spew garbage in attempt to try and be relevant. He knows nothing about this subject, he is just talking to hear his own voice.
BanditBasheert May 27th, 2014 at 17:04
I think many of us are really sick and tired of the RW’s attempt to link “being on the spectrum” to violence. The idea that a babbler like Morning Joe would discuss a topic like autism as an expert is sad and pathetic. Even if the shooter did have a diagnosis of Aspie, there is no indication that it would be related to a spree killing. Aspies are not known to be violent.
Heaven help us from talk show idiots who spew garbage in attempt to try and be relevant. He knows nothing about this subject, he is just talking to hear his own voice.