Harvard president gives good advice!

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Scarborough doesn't listen: Not long ago, Harvard president Claudine Gay offered some good, sound advice.

It was part of a longer statement about events in Israel and in the Gaza Strip. The good, sound advice went like this:

"We will all be well served in such a difficult moment by rhetoric that aims to illuminate and not inflame."

That was Claudine Gay's advice. She graduated from Harvard in the class of 1998, became president just last year.

We thought Gay offered good, sound advice. In our view, Joe Scarborough and his "recitation chorus" have been strongly inclined to take things down a different, louder road.

Echoing Mike Barnicle, Scarborough offered some incoherent remarks about Harvard—and therefore, presumably about Gay—on his Halloween morning shoutfest. 

Tomorrow, we'll show you what he and Barnicle said. To see what the two fellows said, you can just click here. In our view, their highly imprecise ranting didn't serve to illuminate, but may well have served to inflame.

So it went on that "cable news" show, where The Guests All Say The Same Things. In an alternate vein, we recommend the Washington Post news report which appeared in print editions today beneath this regrettable headline:

DC-area schools report more bias incidents against Jews, Palestinians

Elwood and Asbury did the reporting. Their report started as shown:

Students on K-12 campuses throughout the Washington region have reported finding antisemitic graffiti in bathrooms, hallways and parking lots since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, and Palestinian students recount being called terrorists and feeling unwelcome in their school communities.

It’s difficult to quantify the number of incidents that students are experiencing. Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia’s largest school district, does not keep data on the types of hate or bias incidents reported in its schools, and police say they receive reports for only a small number of the episodes that do occur. Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland’s largest school district, did not provide data on the number of incidents.

Still, community organizations have seen a surge in reports. The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington said it has experienced a “dramatic uptick” in requests for assistance from students, parents and teachers since the Oct. 7 attack, said Guila Franklin Siegel, the associate director of the organization, which serves students in Maryland, Northern Virginia and D.C. And the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported a surge of complaints, with more than 770 since the attack—the largest wave the organization said it has seen since December 2015, when former president Donald Trump announced he would pursue a “total and complete shutdown” of the entry of Muslims into the United States.

Presumably, we don't want any kids, or any teens, subjected to threats or harassment. We want Jewish kids to feel safe and respected in their schools, Palestinian kids as well.

In our view, Elwood and Asbury did a good job supporting the ancient dream of Jewish and Palestinian kids together. The general atmosphere has been quite different on the daily Scarborough show. In our view, these very, very, very rich people are often just amazingly dumb, unimpressive, blind.

Claudine Gay offered good, sound advice. MoJo has featured few takers.