Liberal MSNBC Panelist Taunts Republican Candidate in Mississippi

The co-hosts and panelists of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program on Friday — which was done from the road in Oxford, Mississippi — welcomed various candidates for the Senate in that state, including Democratic Mississippi state Rep. David Baria, Republican candidate Chris McDaniel, and Mike Espy, former Democratic congressman and agriculture secretary under President Bill Clinton.

Well, the panel welcomed some of those candidates.

While Espy fielded friendly banter from the liberal talking heads — including commentary about football and softball questions such as “How’s the race going?” that was a cakewalk compared to what the Republican was put through, as Newsbusters noted.

The MSNBC panel included Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and liberal Princeton professor Eddie Glaude.

“Thirty-eight percent of Mississippi is black,” Glaude declared to Chris McDaniel at one point.

McDaniel replied, “Yes, sir.”

Glaude continued, “I’m from Moss Point. If you were elected to the U.S. Senate — you are supposed to represent the whole state.”

McDaniel again replied politely, “Yes sir.”

“Your position around the Confederate flag,” Glaude then said. “Your position around hip-hop as a source of gun violence. Your position around Robert E. Lee — I can go on and on and on.”

“Please do,” said McDaniel.

Ramping up the rhetoric that liberals claim to abhor, Glaude then said, “How do you convince black folk in this state that you are not a danger to them?”

McDaniel responded to that direct insult by saying that after 100 years of relying on big government, black people should have learned it won’t help them.

The words are similar to comments that President Donald Trump made during the 2016 presidential election, pointing out that black people have suffered under Democratic rule.

“You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed — what the hell do you have to lose?” Trump said to a black crowd back in August of 2016.

Here is how McDaniel responded to Glaude’s goading: “I am going to ask them, after 100 years, after 100 years of relying on big government to save you, where are you today? After 100 years of begging for federal government scraps, where are you today?”

The audience booed McDaniel’s response, but he didn’t back down.

“I’m talking about the state of Mississippi. To your question, the candidate I am is the candidate that wants to expand your liberty … break out of old ways,” he said, according to USA Today.

Check out the video of the exchange below.