Morning Joe might have been more motivated by concern for Democrats than with upholding journalistic standards. But the show did today rip the New York Times for its "glaring omission" in failing to include in the original version of its article about a new accusation against Brett Kavanaugh the fact that the alleged victim doesn't want to speak and that friends say doesn't recall the incident.

Joe Scarborough also criticized the Times for failing to mention that the person who brought forth the new allegation, Max Stier, was on the other side from Kavanaugh in the Ken Starr probe into Monica Lewinsky and other scandals.

Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski warned Democrats that jumping on this latest story could backfire on them. They suggested that the presidential candidates calling for Kavanaugh's impeachment speak with Claire McCaskill and ask how the Kavanaugh hearings worked out for her and other Democrats in 2018 -- McCaskill lost her Senate seat.

Scarborough tweeted on the same subject earlier this morning, and both in his tweet and on the air credited Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway with having broken the bombshell of the Times having to correct its original story by acknowledging that the alleged victim declined to be interviewed and that friends say she does not recall the episode.

Here's the transcript.

MSNBC

Morning Joe

9/16/19

6:36 am EDT