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Former President Donald Trump has explained his decision not to debate Vice President Kamala Harris for a second time saying that he clearly won their first debate. He used the metaphor of a defeated boxer who immediately demands a rematch to prove that Harris, who has called for a second debate, lost it. But on Friday's Morning Joe, the exclusively liberal panel tried to turn the tables on Trump, breaking out a string of boxing metaphors to assert that their candidate won the debate instead - and beat Trump badly. Co-host Willie Geist also found humor it: “I think the...

VIDEOThe mood on the set of the Morning Joe show just a day before the big debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is DEEP GLOOM. Special Kudos to Mourning Mika for bringing up a new term devised by the left namely "Sane Washed." They use that to describe when moderators or reporters ask President Trump normal questions about policy instead of constantly attacking him as a monster. This is described by them (and Mika) as "Sane Washing." I prefer to think of it as describing the sanity washed out of extreme TDS sufferers such as the Morning Shmoe Crew,...

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski claimed that 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) dismissed school shootings as “fact of life,” despite video that she played earlier in the segment that disproved her assertion and demonstrated that Vance advocated for stronger security at schools to help prevent shootings and said that it’s a “fact of life” that deranged people know schools are soft targets. Brzezinski played video of Vance, in which Vance said, “What is going to solve this problem, and I really do believe this, is, look, I don’t like this, I...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Friday on “Morning Joe” that if elected, former President Donald Trump will become an “autocrat” who will randomly jail people and take television stations off the air. Scarborough said, “This is one of the things that I’ve just not understood, and we’ve said it here. We all talk about saving democracy and how democracy is threatened by a man who said he was going to terminate the Constitution, a man who said he was going to be a dictator on day one, a man who said he was going to kill his political enemies with...

On today's Morning Joe, Conway self-owned, that he's been "yammering" on these same vicious anti-Trump themes for years. But Conway's accusations reached their apex today. Playing off Trump's Truth Social posts claiming that Kamala Harris's Michigan crowd size had been fabricated, Conway called Trump a delusional narcissistic psychopath, adding that if his family cared about him, they would have him committed to a psychiatric hospital.Working in the obligatory Nazi analogy, Conway compared Trump to Hitler in his final days in the bunker, moving around divisions that didn't exist. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

In The World According to Morning Joe, Kamala is Reagan, Trump is Biden. Joe Scarborough kicked off today's show by approvingly quoting this bit from Peggy Noonan's current Wall Street Journal column [emphasis added]: "For the first time this week I thought people were wondering about the impact of Mr. Trump’s age. He is 78. He hasn’t been able to focus, make his case. Is he, in another irony of 2024, turning into Joe Biden?"A bit later, Katty Kay claimed: "There's a lot more kind of sunny Reagan about the Democratic ticketat the moment then there is about the Republican...

Taunting Donald Trump as racist and sexist is getting a tad shopworn. Needing some fresh material, Morning Joe broke out a new attack line on Trump today, calling him "a badly damaged, deeply damaged man."In an opening segment devoted to trashing Trump over his performance at the National Association of Black Journalists forum yesterday, Mike Barnicle was the first to float the new line, saying: "What we saw yesterday is just another exhibit of a badly damaged man on stage. A bit later, Charlie Sykes echoed Barnicle, twice: "this is a deeply damaged man who, who is really sort of,...

On Saturday, Hezbollah, an Iran-sponsored terrorist group, attacked a sports center in Golan, killing 12 children and teenagers. A few days later, an Israeli airstrike killed a top Hezbollah commander in retaliation. Yesterday, another airstrike killed a senior leader of Hamas, another Iran-sponsored terrorist group. The bold strike took place in Iran's capital of Tehran. The views of experts on the region are reflected in this Financial Times column: "The risk of all-out Middle East war is rising sharply." CNN This Morning devoted a long opening segment to the ominous situation in the 6 am hour Wednesday. Meanwhile, over on...

Somebody might want to run an AI analysis of Eugene Robinson's current Washington Post column: "No, really, Republicans are getting weirder." It'd be interesting to see if it were written in the style of Kamala Harris speechwriters or some other member of her campaign. In both his column and his appearance on today's Morning Joe, Robinson repeatedly used the official Harris campaign attack word on the Trump-Vance ticket: "weird." Eight times in his column, and another six times in one shortish Morning Joe segment, Robinson deployed the w-word against the Republican ticket. Could a columnist possibly be a more faithful...

A panel on “Morning Joe” spent over eight minutes discussing prayers at rallies held by former President Donald Trump during a Monday segment. In an article published Monday morning, McKay Coppins, a staff writer for The Atlantic, reviewed prayers at Trump’s rallies since he announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election in November 2022. Coppins told MSNBC contributor Jen Palmieri during the eight-minute segment that the text of the prayers could be planting “seeds of conspiracy theories,” after he said the prayers had not received what he considered to be sufficient “journalistic attention.” “If you imagine a loss for...

Gag me with an iPhone! Morning Joe opened Friday's show with a clip of Kamala Harris acting surprised as she was handed a phone, only to find it was -- what a shock! -- Barack and Michelle Obama on the line, expressing their endorsement!That was about as authentic as Kamala's laugh. You'll hear Kamala enthuse: "aww: you're both together"—as if she hadn't been entirely aware in advance that such would be the case! Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

The Morning Joe crew this morning was giddy with enthusiasm and excitement over Kamala Harris. Their delirium was epitomized by Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post columnist and MSNBC analyst, who said the feeling among his fellow Democrats is that: "This is not only a winnable race, but that they can really slam Donald Trump in this election coming up." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

VIDEOMorning Joe's little sidekick, Willie Geist, has switched fantasies from this version of Biden being the best version ever to suddenly declaring Kamala Harris to be an eloquent and brilliant debater. Really Willie? Perhaps in Morning Joe World but in the real world we already had a taste of Kamala's debating "skills." Was Kamala's encounter with Tulsi Gabbard during the 2020 election primary debates the best version of Kamala Harris ever?

Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon insisted Friday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that the president is staying in the race against all odds. “He’s our nominee and he’s going to be our president for a second term,” she said. She acknowledged “this has been such a hard week” for the campaign but insisted that Biden, who is sick with COVID, will be “back on the trail next week.” “This is an organization built for the Biden-Harris ticket,” she said, underscoring Vice President Kamala Harris’ prominence in a campaign that many Democrats, including powerful donors, would like to end as soon...

Jonathan, Jonathan: you're not supposed to say this kind of stuff on live national TV! Save it for whatever is the dark web successor to JournoList, where liberal media types can reach consensus on the approved lib talking points of the day! In a bizarre bit of saying the quiet part out loud, on today's Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire, MSNBC's Way Too Early host and Politico's White House bureau chief, issued marching orders to the rest of the liberal media. "I do think we need a moratorium here in the media about Donald Trump's -- praising Donald Trump's new tone....

In the wake of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, even MSNBC got a clue about the insanity coming over its airwaves: Network honchos pulled left-fest “Morning Joe” Monday. Gee, wonder why? Wait . . . . could it be that the show plays host to some of the most whacked-out Trump-haters in the media (and that’s saying something) and MSNBC was afraid of what might slip out of their mouths? Bingo! Reports have an inside source saying the decision came in part over worries that one of the show’s stable of talking heads “might make an inappropriate...

Turns out, Joe Scarborough wasn't telling the truth when for weeks and months he was talking up Biden's chances of winning, discounting any polling that indicated the opposite. We now find out that Scarborough knew better all along. On today's Morning Joe, Willie Geist told the truth. "I think what we saw yesterday was everything we'd been hearing in private. Not just, frankly, for the last three weeks, but for a long time, spilled out publicly. Which is that the polling now shows, private polling and now public polling, that we're seeing, internal polling and public polling, that this is...

On Tuesday's Morning Joe, NBC News law enforcement correspondent Tom Winter repeatedly cautioned people not to jump to conclusions about the shooter's motive. But Winter then proceeded to pass along this bit of anonymous conjecture: "It is possible that Donald Trump—and there's a bit of a theory in law enforcement—is it possible that Trump was not conservative enough for this individual?"So be cautious, people! But, there's "a bit" of a theory among some anonymous law enforcement sources that Trump wasn't "conservative enough" for the shooter. Does speculation get much more irresponsible than that? But anything goes, apparently, for Morning Joe...

Mika Brzezinski began today's Morning Joe with an apparent expression of discontent about the show having been yanked off the air yesterday, pointedly saying "It is VERY good to be here." That apparent discontent become absolutely explicit an hour later in the show. Joe Scarborough in effect accused the NBC News suits of having lied to them in saying that they'd been taken off the air because there'd be one unified feed across all their networks yesterday. That didn't turn out to be so. Scarborough ended with what sounded like a threat to quit, saying: "Next time we're told there's...

VIDEOMSNBC made the decision to YANK the Morning Joe show on their first scheduled day on the air after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. Even MSNBC was nervous about what the members of the Morning Joe show would say. It would have been like putting Keith Olbermann on the air to comment. Think I'm exaggerating? Watch Morning Joe go full TDS and you can understand why the show was yanked.