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A year ago at this time, Eugene Robinson embarrassed himself. Pushing back at suggestions that Biden was badly showing his age, we caught the Washington Post columnist and MSNBC analyst claiming that Biden is not merely sharp, but "sharp as a tack."But the truth has finally caught up with Robinson. Biden's disastrous debate performance left him and other members of the liberal media with no place to hide. And so, on today's Morning Joe, Robinson sang a very different tune: "I have been coming on this show for a long time. I am a long-time critic of Democratic bedwetting. I...

On this past Friday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough strongly suggested that Biden should quit the race in the wake of his disastrous debate performance. But incredibly, Scarborough was AWOL today on the show's next episode. He abandoned the show to Mika Brzezinski, who opened with a lengthy defense of Biden, saying she was not even close to calling on him to drop out, and that he was still "the man for the moment." Mika claimed that Scarborough was away on a "planned vacation." Riight. With the Democratic Party in a state of panic and the Supreme Court scheduled to rule...

With headlines in the news about a potential civil war in France, looks like we've got the makings of a political civil war breaking out right here at home -- among Democrats and their media allies. In one camp, those calling on Biden to step aside in the wake of his debate debacle. In the other, those rallying around good ol' Joe. That split was on display on Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend. Co-host Michael Steele called the New York Times, and others calling on Biden to quit, "ignorant." Former Kamala Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders-Townsend then said that: "If...

Joe Scarborough—finally—had to stop lying to himself and to his viewers. The man who recently had the chutzpah to absurdly claim that this is the "best Biden ever and f-you if you don't believe it," has been forced to confront the truth. After Biden's disastrous debate performance, a shame-faced Scarborough [see screencap], analogizing the situation to when Barry Goldwater told Nixon during Watergate that it was "over" and he had to resign, suggested the time has come for Democrats to tell Biden he has to drop out.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

We recently caught Joe Scarborough humble bragging "I'm not good at this politics thing." At least, we thought he was humble bragging. Turns out, maybe Joe has plenty to be humble about. There was Scarborough this morning, now claiming that it is Trump who is very worried about the debate, with Scarborough actually suggesting that a "whining, whimpering" Trump is scared that Biden might "beat him really badly."This is a flip-flop from their earlier assertions that Trump was overconfident. Scarborough and his gang have been all over the Republicans for suggesting that Biden, with his loss of mental acuity, will...

Wow, talk about setting the expectations bar low! On today's Morning Joe, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson said that if Biden can "remain upright" and "make sense," that would be a "massive victory" in Thursday night's presidential debate.. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

On today's Morning Joe, there wasn't much of interest in any of the panel's jabber about next week's presidential debate, until . . . Jonathan Lemire said this: "Some Democrats have said privately, that if Biden has a very bad night, there'll be real worries about whether he can continue forward with his campaign."Whoa! Democrat knives out for Biden! Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

All you need to know about the objectivity of retired Admiral and MSNBC analyst James Stavridis is apparent from two statements he made on today's Morning Joe regarding a video Bibi Netanyahu put out calling on the US to stop holding up arms deliveries to Israel. First, Mika Brezinski teed up Stavridis to attack Bibi, asking, "Is Benjamin Netanyahu a good partner in this?" Stavridis answered: "Clearly he's not."Then in the same breath, Stavridis added, "My good friend Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, his head must be exploding this morning." So, Bibi's a bad partner, and Biden's security adviser's...

If you're explaining, you're losing. -- Ronald Reagan Applying the Gipper's timeless rule, Morning Joe was losing today. Except for a few minutes of gloating over the Celtics NBA championship, Morning Joe spent the remainder of the first half-hour trying to explain away recent videos displaying a dazed and confused Biden.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

"There is an old trial lawyers saying: 'When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on you side, pound the table.'” -- Patrick Buchanan, 1975 When it comes to making the case for Hunter Biden, Mika Brzezinski has managed to devise an alternative to pounding the table when the facts and the law are against you. On today's Morning Joe, Mika repeatedly got choked up when discussing the trials and tribulations of Hunter, and the Biden family at large.Get the rest of the story and...

You'd have to be some sort of hick from the sticks to take a Hunter Biden criminal conviction into account in deciding on your 2024 presidential vote. That was Molly Jong-Fast's gist on today's Way Too Early, the Morning Joe pregame show. When host Jonathan Lemire asked the MSNBC political analyst whether there could be a negative political impact for Joe Biden stemming from a Hunter conviction, she suggested only hayseeds who can't make fine moral distinctions could be misled: "Yeah, I mean, I think, look, you know, there are low-information voters who are like, oh, they're both in trouble...

With Joe Scarborough leading the charge, today's Morning Joe mounted a furious attack against yesterday's Wall Street Journal article, "Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping." The article really was nothing much more than a recapitulation of what is obvious to anyone who has observed Biden in recent times. Although he has his relatively cogent moments—notably during this year's State of the Union—Biden suffers "senior moments" with such regularity that the Free Beacon has been cataloging them every week -- now at Week 96 and counting. Joe Scarborough, soccer fan that he is, committed an horrendous own goal in...

Was this a Sunday morning political talk show—or thMichael Beschloss MSNBC The Weekend 6-2-24e trailer for Mad Max: America? Appearing on MSNBC's The Weekend, leftist NBC historian Michael Beschloss painted a picture of what America would be if Trump won the presidency that was so apocalyptic, Mel Gibson might reject the script as too over the top. [snip] Beschloss promptly turned the panic meter up to 11. He described a desolate American landscape in which Trump would be a dictator not just for a day, but perhaps for "the rest of our lifetimes." A wrecking of the rule of law...

The liberal media often accuses former President Trump of endangering the lives of his various antagonists with his criticisms of them. The notion is that a deranged supporter might act out violently. So, it was shocking to hear Alicia Menendez, on Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, tee up Michael Cohen to say something that could endanger the life of President Trump. At the end of multiple segments in which he appeared, Menendez put it to Cohen: "When you say you want peace, you say you'll never get peace so long as Donald Trump is here?"Cohen agreed: "Yeah. I don't...

It's not just Joe Scarborough's phone buddy Joe Biden with troubling issues of memory loss. It's also 61-year-old Scarborough himself. Concerns continue to mount over the Morning Joe host's apparently failing memory. [snip] Now, more troubling evidence has emerged of Scarborough's apparent memory loss and declining mental acuity. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough mocked Rudy Giuliani for creating his own eponymously-named brand of coffee. It obviously escaped poor Scarborough's memory that Rudy is not the only one in the political/media world to have his own coffee brand. There's also . . . you, Joe! Perhaps the image here will refresh...

Muy Macho Joe Scarborough has once again proven himself the toughest hombre this side of Nantucket. Among several past displays of his sizzling manliness, Scarborough once boasted he'd force a tourist to eat his camera if he found him snapping pics inside the Capitol somewhere Scarborough didn't approve. [snip] Scarborough then trained his macho sights on Trump. Joe said that Judge Merchan has shown "restraint" in the face of Trump "going out and, and attacking him personally, suggesting that he's corrupt, suggesting that the court system is rigged, making it extraordinarily personal toward him and members of his family." Scarborough...

Evidence? Joe Scarborough don't need no stinkin' evidence. On today's Morning Joe, the Biden phone buddy and informal adviser felt entitled to make a very grave--and entirely evidence-free--accusation against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Thus it was that in a segment devoted to a New York Times story skewering Alito for permitting the flying at his home of an upside-down American flag, Scarborough accused Alito of having leaked the draft of the Dobbs opinion [which Alito wrote], overturning Roe v. Wade. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

As we've noted in the past, Mika Brzezinski has expressed concerns over the fragile psyche of her husband and co-host Joe Scarborough, at one point ordering him to take an extended break from the show. Mika might be inclined to give Joe another long time-out after his disturbed and disturbing performance on Wednesday's Morning Joe. Scarborough absolutely freaked out [see screencap and Mika's stone-faced reaction] over a New York Times/Siena poll showing Trump leading in five out of six swing states. Scarborough was dead serious when he accused the Times of rigging the polls against Biden in order to write...

Regular Morning Joe viewers are all too familiar with Joe Scarborough's annoying habit of working the fact that he used to be a congressman into conversations. But for a bragging change of pace, Scarborough somehow managed to slip into his Mother's Day reminiscences that in high school, he apparently was a multi-sport star. In baseball: "I played baseball. All-Star, had a high average, all this stuff."In basketball: "I was scoring like 30, 35 points a game."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

On CNN This Morning, CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston said that porn star Stormy Daniels claiming in court that Donald Trump didn't use a condom ("protection") during their alleged sexual encounter constitutes a "sordid detail" that will hurt Trump with women voters in swing states. Host Kasie Hunt gleefully agreed with Preston, chuckling as she said, "It's all very sordid." No qualifiers from anyone on the panel about the porn star's claims being "alleged." The veracity of her testimony was seemingly taken as a given. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.