MSNBC host rips Elizabeth Warren: ‘Stop insulting our intelligence’
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough sharply criticized Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday for her furious attack on Republican attempts to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
“For Elizabeth Warren to try to conflate the right of a woman to choose with the horrors and callousness and grotesqueness of what was discussed over lunch is really unfortunate,’’ Scarborough said. “Nice try, Elizabeth Warren. Nice try.’’
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On Monday, Warren raged against Republicans in the Senate for almost seven minutes just before a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood. The vote, which failed, was called in the wake of videos released by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress. The videos appear to show employees from the women’s health clinic discussing the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses.
Warren accused Republicans of using the videos as an excuse to defund women’s health programs.
“I come to the Senate floor today to ask my Republican colleagues a question: Do you have any idea what year it is?’’ Warren said. “Did you fall down, hit your head and think you woke up in the 1950s? Or the 1890s? Should we call for a doctor? Because I simply cannot believe that in the year 2015, the United States Senate would be spending its time trying to defund women’s health-care centers.’’
Scarborough rejected Warren’s comments as a “red herring,’’ and said that it wasn’t a contradiction to support women’s health care overall and reject Planned Parenthood’s “callousness.’’
“There are troubling things on those tapes and everybody needs to open their eyes and see that instead of reflexively talking about right-wing attacks on a women’s right to choose,’’ Scarborough said. “Please. Stop insulting our intelligence Elizabeth Warren. Stop.’’
Republicans have been outraged by the videos, and presidential candidates Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina pledged to shut down the government in an attempt to end the $500 million of funding that goes to Planned Parenthood.
Federal law already prohibits any of that funding going toward abortions.
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