Morn­ing Joe Hails Col­leges Crack­ing Down on Pro-Hamas Pro­test­ers!

Morning Joe Hails Colleges Cracking Down on Pro-Hamas Protesters!

On Thurs­day, Morn­ing Joe treat­ed us to sur­pris­ing praise for Speak­er Mike John­son — albeit regard­ing his sup­port for aid to Ukraine, some­thing dear to Joe Scarborough.Friday brought anoth­er sur­prise: tough talk about the pro-Hamas pro­test­ers wreak­ing hav­oc on Amer­i­can cam­pus­es, and praise for uni­ver­si­ty admin­is­tra­tors tak­ing action to curb their excesses.Thus, Joe Scar­bor­ough con­demned stu­dents occu­py­ing the offices of col­lege pres­i­dents, even sug­gest­ing that any pres­i­dent who tol­er­ates that should “seek employ­ment else­where.” At one point, Scar­bor­ough even called pro­test­ers who blocked grad­u­a­tion speak­ers “brats.“Willie Geist spoke pos­i­tive­ly about the chan­cel­lor of his alma mater, Van­der­bilt, who actu­al­ly expelled three stu­dents who had occu­pied his office.New York Times reporter Jere­my Peters has writ­ten an arti­cle on the mat­ter: “Col­leges Warn Stu­dent Demon­stra­tors: Enough.” As a pan­elist on Morn­ing Joe, he crit­i­cized pro­test­ers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, his alma mater, who had marred what was sup­posed to be a joy­ful event for out­stand­ing stu­dents. He also acknowl­edged that col­lege admin­is­tra­tors have been slow in deal­ing with these prob­lems. He cit­ed the Trump years dur­ing which speak­ers who were con­ser­v­a­tive, or affil­i­at­ed with Trump, were often can­celed or shout­ed down. Pres­i­dent Biden …