Joe Scarborough's 'Team' Asks for, Receives Special Treatment from Newsweek

By GottaLaff

Remember back on June 2 when I posted about this?

The frustrating search for an attorney for Michael F. Griffin, the man charged with killing an abortion doctor, ended with his hiring of Clearwater defense lawyer Patrick Doherty. [...]

Doherty agreed to take the Pensacola anti-abortion protester's case after a 3-hour meeting with Griffin and [Joe] Scarborough on Saturday.

Those were the days, weren't they, when nobody paid much attention to the information reflected in that rather startling little Tweet? Well Tee Vee Machine commentator Joan Walsh did.

She just tweeted:

Unfortunately, this Gawker story abt Scarborough/Newsweek rings true to me, & Jon Meacham should be ashamed

Here's the premise of the Gawker story Joan refers to:

Newsweek interviewed MSNBC morning host Joe Scarborough last week, and prominently mentioned when Scarborough defended the murderer of an abortion doctor. That didn't go over well in Scarborough country, so Newsweek editor— and frequent Scarborough guest—Jon Meacham changed it.

Follow the link for more.

Tuh-Weet! Scarborough helped "abortion doc killer" Griffin edition

By GottaLaff

Well, well, what have we here:

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Who is Michael F. Griffin?

Guilty

Michael Frederick Griffin (born September 11, 1961), murdered Dr. David Gunn in Pensacola, Florida on March 10, 1993. This was the first killing of an OB-GYN for performing abortions. [...] A jury deliberated three hours before finding him guilty on March 4, 1994. He was sentenced to life in prison.

Who is the attorney who represented him?

The frustrating search for an attorney for Michael F. Griffin, the man charged with killing an abortion doctor, ended with his hiring of Clearwater defense lawyer Patrick Doherty. [...]

Doherty agreed to take the Pensacola anti-abortion protester's case after a 3-hour meeting with Griffin and [Joe] Scarborough on Saturday.

Who went out of his way to help Griffin?

UPDATE: Allow me to add this, as iterated by Shoq, the author of the Tweet:

Not wrong to seek counsel for killers. Simply curious that the only time joe [...] does it, it' is for a domestic terrorist, eh?

Agreed. Our point is not that he found a lawyer for him, it's that when he goes out of his way to do so, it's for an extremist like Griffin.

UPDATE: More here. Looks like the story's growing. Aww, what a shame for ol' MoJo.