Our political Quote of the Day comes from Joe Scarbourough on the Sanford, Florida’s handling of the killing of 17 year old Trayvon Martin, armed with Skittles and iced tea, who was shot dead by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, armed with a gun:
“They have acted shamefully,” Scarborough agreed, adding that they have proven themselves “unworthy of representing the people of Florida.”
It came in this “Morning Joe” segment:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.