Appearing on MSNBC in the 3 p.m. ET hour on Thursday, during breaking news coverage of a shooting along the Champs Elysees in Paris, Daily Beast World News Editor Christopher Dickey was more worried by the prospect of France’s “very far-right party” using the incident as an issue in the nation’s upcoming presidential election than he was with the welfare of people caught up in the violence.

Talking to anchor Brian Williams, Dickey warned: “Marine Le Pen, who is the head of a very far-right party that will – believe me, will exploit this to the maximum if the shooter, the man who was shooting on the Champs Elysees, turns out to have been an immigrant or the child of immigrants in any way, shape, or form, or a Muslim in any way, shape, or form.”

Dickey continued his rant by decrying: “Because she is running a very anti-Muslim, very anti-immigrant campaign and always has. It’s – some would say it is racist, many people do say it’s racist. But it certainly builds on the divisions that already exist in this society.”

Williams framed Le Pen’s candidacy as part of a “global situation” that included Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and “fears about Angela Merkel’s successor in Germany.” Dickey wrung his hands: “Oh, absolutely. I mean, I think, you know, everybody is thinking, well, Brexit and then Trump and now Marine LePen?...And so, if that sounds like an echo of things we've seen in the United States, and to some extent, heard in Britain, it is.”

At the same time on CNN, Foreign Correspondent Hala Gorani expressed similar fears: “Sunday is the presidential election. The front-runner is Emmanuel Macron, he’s a centrist politician, but very, very close in the polls after him is Marine Le Pen, who’s a far-right candidate, who has spoken a lot about the terrorist threat. She’s anti-immigration, she wants to close the borders.”

She scolded: “And it's mainly the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen who’s talking about this terrorist threat because she is linking it to mass immigration she is linking to the refugee crisis, and she is hoping to score political points by putting it in that context, if you will.”

In January, Dickey appeared on MSNBC to link Donald Trump to "fascism" and to say that Europe thinks he is "out of his mind."

Here are transcripts of the April 20 exchanges on MSNBC and CNN: