MSNBC 'lecturing about misinformation' is 'quite a bit of chutzpah' on their part: WSJ editor-at-large

Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerry Baker mocked the thought that MSNBC hosts could lecture others astir "disinformation" after covering for President Biden.

Baker spoke connected Fox News’ "America Reports" astir "Morning Joe" big Joe Scarborough attacking his work for moving an op-ed by Republican vice statesmanlike campaigner JD Vance that criticized The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) effect to Hurricane Helene. Scarborough accused the insubstantial of "publishing disinformation."

"The Wall Street Journal is publishing disinformation that mightiness arsenic good beryllium successful the Epoch Times. The information that it’s from a vice statesmanlike campaigner matters not. This is the aforesaid antheral who lied astir cats and dogs being eaten erstwhile the politician of his ain authorities said stop. When you said determination are nary standards, this is simply a cleanable illustration of it," Scarborough said Wednesday.

MSNBC big Joe Scarborough attacked WSJ arsenic peddling "disinformation" for publishing Ohio Sen. JD Vance's disapproval of FEMA's Hurricane Helene response. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

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Baker responded, "To beryllium lectured by MSNBC connected disinformation is rather a spot of chutzpah connected their part. Remember, this is the aforesaid Joe Scarborough that told us, I think, days oregon weeks earlier that infamous statesmanlike statement that saw Joe Biden propulsion retired of the race, that Biden was successful unthinkable shape." 

"He besides attacked the Wall Street Journal nonfiction which had conscionable said Joe Biden was slipping. He is arsenic crisp arsenic he’s ever been, he’s brilliant. And of course, weeks later, we saw what Biden was like, and different period later, helium pulled retired of the race. We don’t request that benignant of lecturing," helium added.

Baker argued "it is precise aboriginal to marque definitive judgments astir whether FEMA messed up" but "there are immoderate absorbing questions astir wherever FEMA’s priorities are close now."

WSJ editor-at-large Gerry Baker connected Fox News' "America Reports" Wednesday. (Fox News screenshot)

"I retrieve specified upwind successful 2005 erstwhile Hurricane Katrina deed New Orleans peculiarly hard, and I was down determination for a week afterwards. And archetypal reactions, particularly from the media due to the fact that George W. Bush was president was ‘oh, my god, this is simply a catastrophe and FEMA is simply a catastrophe and the national authorities has failed.’ We learned really afterwards, you know, determination were galore much problems connected the crushed there, that FEMA really did a large job. It surely wasn’t that bad, truthful I deliberation it is excessively soon to accidental FEMA has messed up," Baker said.

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He concluded, "It whitethorn not beryllium really existent that FEMA resources that could person been disposable successful North Carolina had been fixed to migrants. But there’s nary question astir the broader predisposition of FEMA nether the Biden-Harris administration, which is to transmission immense amounts of wealth to communities and to non-government organizations to assistance with the monolithic influx of migrants that they themselves person created."

FEMA has been criticized for what radical considered a lackluster effect to Hurricane Helene. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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