While listening to Tammy Bruce filling in for Laura Ingraham, she covered the Mika Brzezinski mugging.  The MSNBC host was waiting for a car outside her ”nice” D.C. hotel when someone walked across the street and told her to give him $20 and nothing would happen.  She excuses the mugger because he probably “just needed the money.”

On the radio show, Bruce said she felt that type of excuse denegrates poor people, because most poor people, no matter how desperate, would never dream of mugging someone. 

I absolutely agree.  Poor people don’t mug; criminals do.  I wonder what Mika would tell the victims, many of them charities, of Bernard Madoff?

Update: Allahpundit over at Hot Air points out that the “Morning Joe” guest that prompted the mugging retell was D.C. Mayor Fenty.