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On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough was dragging out the old DNC talking point that hey, the Republicans have lost the nationwide popular vote in seven of the last eight elections. This is how Electoral College Deniers argue. Eugene Robinson, MSNBC's chief political analyst, who is also an associate editor of the Washington Post, was responding to Joe Scarborough's question as to what Republicans should do, given their popular vote record. Here was Robinson's description of the Republican strategy to win the White House despite losing the popular vote: "Well, the first thing you do, is you gerrymander the hell out...

Joe Biden has the odd and at times inappropriate habit of crossing himself in public, political situations. Thus the self-described devout Catholic crossed himself while mentioning Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert -- then proceeded to attack her at length. On two occasions, Biden even crossed himself while interacting with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, including once while Netanyahu was making a speech to Congress. Oy vey! On the Sunday edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-anchor Michael Steele, the former RNC Chairman turned member of the disgraced Lincoln Project, made like Biden. Steele sort of half-crossed himself in a discussion of North...

To paraphrase Stalin about the Pope: How many nukes does Greta Thunberg have? On Thursday's The Lead on CNN, in a segment he entitled "Biden Unfiltered," anchor Jake Tapper reported Biden telling a group of high-rolling San Francisco donors that although Putin is a "crazy SOB, and we always have to be worried about nuclear conflict," the real existential threat is climate change.Get the rest of the story and view the video here. Tapper also highlighted Biden saying that he served with a "real racist," Strom Thurmond, but that today's GOP is worse. Not surprising from Biden, given that in...

On Wednesday's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski urged Nikki Haley to "hang in there"—to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination till the very end. Mika's reasoning: stay in with the hope of setting up "an American race" with an "American candidate"—instead of "Russian idiot" Trump. We need "a real race for the presidency. An American race."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Macho MSNBC host Joe Scarborough continued to expose his troubling obsession with outward manifestations of masculinity. Macho Joe was back at it Tuesday during Tuesday's Morning Joe, twice referring to the Republican Speaker of the House as "little" Mike Johnson.We've documented his multiple boasts about his own toughness, as when Macho Joe threatened to make a Capitol tourist "eat" his camera if Joe found him snapping pics somewhere Scarborough didn't like. And then there was Scarbrough boasting he'd never let anyone "emasculate" him the way Donald Trump supposedly did to J.D. Vance. Just to name a couple of examples. You'll...

As befits a careful lawyer who has served in senior positions in both Republican and Democrat administrations, Chuck Rosenberg is more even-handed than the typical MSNBC legal analyst. But there's nothing even-handed about Morning Joe regular Katty Kay, of the notoriously liberal BBC. And so, the pair had a polite but clear clash on today's Morning Joe in discussing the motion brought by one of Trump's co-defendants to have Fani Willis disqualified from the election interference case she has brought against them in Georgia. Rosenberg began by describing the issue of the potential conflict of interest if Willis benefitted financially...

CNN legal analyst Michael Moore is a former elected Democrat Georgia state senator, and later a US Attorney in Georgia appointed by Barack Obama. So, appearing on CNN This Morning today, you might well have expected him to toe the Dem line in defending Fani Willis in her fight not to be removed as prosecutor in the election interference case she has brought against Donald Trump and 18 other defendants. But Moore entirely upended any such expectations in his comments on Willis' testimony of yesterday, and on the broader issues surrounding the matter. Here were the highlights: Moore called Willis'...

"A district the Republicans should have won." That's how, on today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough described yesterday's special election in New York's 3rd district, won by the Democrat, Tom Suozzi, who represented the district from 2017 to 2023, and so was the virtual incumbent in the race. He won the district in 2018 by 59-41 percent, and in 2020 by 56-43. The election was held to fill the seat vacated by serial fabulist Republican George Santos, only the third person since the Civil War to be expelled from the House. There was surely significant voter sentiment wanting to punish Santos...

When Joe Scarborough's time at MSNBC comes to an end, perhaps he could get a gig at a smaller Vegas lounge doing impressions. The notion arises given Scarborough's penchant for imitating the accents of people he seeks to denigrate. Thus, as we have noted, he has put on a heavy southern accent to mock James Comer, who does have a southern accent, and has done the same re Mike Johnson, who doesn't. In doing so, Scarborough propagates the "dumb Southerner" sterotype. Not only false, but odd, coming from a born-and-raised southerner like Scarborough. Today, Scarborough not only made up a...

On today's Morning Joe, a screaming Joe Scarborough [see screencap] harshly condemned Speaker Mike Johnson as a liar and phony Christian for endorsing Trump's opposition to the border bill. Scarborough repeatedly imagined Johnson speaking in a heavy southern accent, though he has none, and made multiple snide references to Johnson's Bible. This, from the quondam conservative who, it was recently revealed, has turned into a Biden phone buddy and frequent adviser. You might call Scarborough a Biden flunky par excellence.As supposed proof of the border bill's conservative bona fides, Scarborough read at length from the Wall Street Journal's editorial board...

Joe Scarborough—recently revealed to be a frequent phone buddy and adviser to Joe Biden—was hard at work on behalf of his man this morning. Morning Joe waited till the end of its first hour to breathe any mention of a new NBC News poll. But even then, Scarborough only discussed the poll's findings showing Americans still dissatisfied about the economy, and expressing much more confidence in Trump's ability to deal with it. There was nary a mention of the headline number of the poll: that among registered voters, Trump is beating Biden by 5 points, his largest lead yet! Get...

Of all the people who shouldn't go on national TV and mock men obsessed with proving that they're "manly," Scarborough's got to be near the head of the list. Wednesday's Morning Joe devoted an elongated segment to the phenomenon of some conservatives complaining about Taylor Swift showing up during NFL broadcasts, and the prospect that Swift, who endorsed Biden in 2020, might do so again in 2024. [snip] Scarborough then interrupted to say: "By the way, that's kind of a checkmate, right? These snowflakes are like [puts on a nerdy voice and imitates a weakling's flex -- see screencap] "Oh,...

It was too good to be true -- and sure enough, it wasn't. Joe Scarborough began a segment about illegal immigrants being released the day after they viciously beat two NYC cops by calling the outraged reaction a "bipartisan issue." But when all was said and done, Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski couldn't resist turning the "bipartisan" issue into a highly partisan one, by blaming--you guessed it--Donald Trump. The segment started out well, with Scarborough blasting the fact that: "You have illegal immigrants in New York, who beat the hell out of cops. They get sent to jail. They get released...

Yesterday, we noted a hawkish Joe Scarborough calling for an aggressive response against Iran for the drone attack that killed three US soldiers and killed dozens of others in Jordan. Jen Palmieri, Obama's former Communications Director and another Morning Joe regular gave away the game, putting things in bald political terms. Scarborough asked, "What's the administration's problem with going in and taking out some of their oil infrastructure?"Responded Palmieri: "Higher gas prices."Scarborough: "I don't care. Dead Americans." Palmieri: "Anytime you're doing anything that's going to mess with oil markets, higher gas prices are -- can be an existential threat to...

Joe Scarborough, Super Hawk! Reacting to the drone attack on US troops in Jordan by Iranian proxies that killed three soldiers and wounded 25-30 others, on today's Morning Joe Scarborough called for direct strikes against Iran itself. As Scarborough put it to NBC analyst and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James Stavridis: "How much longer is the United States going to allow its troops to be shot at by people who are being funded by Iran? At what point do we not just go to the source of the problem, which has been the source of the problem since...

As a lead prosecutor in her Georgia state case against Donald Trump, Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis hired Nathan Wade, a married man with whom, despite being given every opportunity to do so, she has not denied having an affair. He is unqualified, apparently never having handled a major felony case. She claims to have paid Wade at the same rate she paid the other lead prosecutors. In fact, she paid one of the other prosecutors $100 per hour less than Wade, despite the other prosecutor's incomparably better credentials. She paid her apparent paramour in excess of $650,000 of...

CNN's John Avlon has a habit that we've noted of cooking up a comment designed to focus attention on himself. But although he was on the CNN This Morning panel today, it was CNN host and commentator S.E. Cupp who grabbed the spotlight with a very vulgar line. [snip] "Maybe one of the only people who can sidestep the great emasculation of the GOP by Donald Trump is a woman. Maybe, just maybe, Nikki Haley has more balls than the rest of them."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Morning Joe despises Donald Trump. So yes, the show would clearly be delighted to see him humiliated by Nikki Haley in the GOP primary. On the other hand, Morning Joe just as clearly wants Biden to win re-election. So why, on today's show, were Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski so happy that Haley declared that she is staying in, despite losing the New Hampshire primary to Trump? After all, the strongest argument that the show made for Haley was that she can beat Biden, whereas Trump supposedly can't. Why would Morning Joe be boosting the Republican who, in their opinion,...

What's up with these Morning Joe regulars who had cultivated something of a benign image suddenly turning nasty? Yesterday, we noted BBCer Katty Kay with a mocking laugh as she suggested to Charlie Sykes that they do a DeSantis post-mortem, "before we consign him to oblivion and forget his name." Today, it was Eugene Robinson's turn to turn mean. Though Robinson is an ardent liberal, he has something of an avuncular air about him. But both in his current Washington Post column, snidely entitled "The Nation's Gain is Florida's Loss," and on today's Morning Joe, Robinson took nasty swipes at...

In its second half-hour, today's Morning Joe eventually got around to the DeSantis news--and did so with a nasty smirk. Katty Kay kicked things off. You might imagine that BBCer Kay represents the more refined wing of the liberal media. But there she was with a mocking laugh as she suggested to Charlie Sykes that they do a DeSantis post-mortem, "before we consign him to oblivion and forget his name." Scarborough took it from there. His theme was that Trump is "Fat Elvis," the "sweaty Fat Elvis" of 1977, and that's what his fans want. Thus, they were not going...