Joe Scarborough Stumbles as Marjorie Taylor Greene Corrects Him On-Air About Don Lemon’s Arrest
Joe Scarborough faced an on-air correction from Marjorie Taylor Greene on “Real Time with Bill Maher” for repeatedly misstating the name of the FACE Act during a discussion of Don Lemon’s arrest.
Both Scarborough and Greene served as Maher’s panelists on Friday’s episode of the HBO show, where Lemon appeared in St. Louis earlier this month. They shared their conflicting stances on his arrest, which occurred after he attended an anti-ICE protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Limon faces charges pursuant to two federal statutesconspiracy to deprive of rights and violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act; This law, in part, prevents someone from interfering with someone’s First Amendment right to religious freedom.
Greene made clear that she “fully supports” the Justice Department’s decision to charge the independent journalist, claiming Lemon violated the FACE Act by vandalizing a house of worship and comparing parishioners to “white supremacists.”
“This isn’t journalism, this is activism,” the former Congressman from Georgia said. “Disrupting the worship service, impeding people’s right to worship God, that’s a violation of the FACE Act… I don’t think that’s journalism. That’s not the First Amendment, walking in the middle of the church and harassing people.”
After Greene finished, Scarborough tried to jump in with his own idea, but initially had trouble clarifying the details of the case.
“While I disagree here, I think the people who went to church were protesters under the Faith Act,” Scarborough said, gesturing to Greene in support.
Greene quickly made a correction, drawing attention to the “FACE Law.” But Scarborough didn’t seem to hear him and was repeating the “Act of Faith” once more.
Greene reaffirmed Scarborough, telling the TV personality that the federal law is called the “FACE Act.”
“Faith, it is true,” replied Scarborough. The two former politicians went back and forth over the name a few more times before Scarborough realized his mistake.
“Ah, FACE” he said. “I thought it was ‘You’ve Got to Be a Faithful’ ’cause [a] church. “
As the audience in Maher’s studio burst into laughter, Greene added: “The parishioners, the Christians, were believers and were trying to own the church, and Don Lemon and a group of activists came in and harassed them so much that the children cried.”
But Scarborough doubled down on his stance, sharing, “Whatever that action is, whether it’s the FACE Act, whether it’s the Faith Act, whether it’s the Counterfeit Act, whatever action it is, I think the people who come into that church and disturb that church, if [DOJ] He wants to prosecute them, they certainly have the right to consider that.”
He continued: “I don’t think anyone could walk in there and say, ‘I’m not with them. Can I ask you a few questions?’ I think there should be some kind of distinction between saying. Because you will take part in the war, you will take part in the protests.”
According to Scarborough, he had “no doubt” that the arrests of journalists Lemon and Georgia Fort were meant to “intimidate other reporters.”
Lemon expressed a similar sentiment following his release “There is no more important time than now for a free and independent media that shines a light on the truth and can hold those in power to account,” he told reporters on Friday.
He added: “Last night, the Department of Justice sent a team of federal agents to arrest me in the middle of the night for something I’ve been doing for the last 30 years — and that was covering the news. The First Amendment to the Constitution protects this work for me and countless other journalists… I will not be silenced.”
New episodes of “Real Time With Bill Maher” air Fridays at 10pm ET on HBO.
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