Arrested Washington Post Reporter Wesley Lowery Unloads on Joe Scarborough

‘He’s sitting, sipping his Starbucks smugly ... I have little patience for talking heads’

LOWERY: “Well, I would invite Joe Scarborough to come down to Ferguson and get out of 30 Rock where he's sitting there sipping his Starbucks smugly. I invite him to come down here and talk to the residents of Ferguson where I've been Monday afternoon having tear gas shot at me, having rubber bullets shot at me, having mothers and daughters crying, having a 19-year-old boy crying that he had to run and pull his 21- year-old sister out from a cloud of tear gas. He thought she was going to die. I invite Joe Scarborough down here and to do some reporting on the ground, and then he can -- and then maybe we can have an educated conversation about what's happening here. Frankly, as a reporter on the ground, and I'm certainly not perfect and it's not to say I couldn't change little pieces of what I've done. But let me be clear about this -- I have little patience for talking heads. This is too important. This is a community, a community in the United States of America, where things are on fire. There are things on fire, this community is on edge. There's so much happening here, and instead of putting more reporters on the ground, we have people like Joe Scarborough who are running their mouth and have no idea what they're talking about.”
 

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