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On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough went on a rumbling, bumbling, stumbling defense of Abrego Garcia--check the video beginning at 35 seconds for Scarborough doing his best bumbling Biden impression. But Scarborough ended by emphatically exclaiming: "This whole idea that he's a gang member: no he's not! It was never proved." During his jittery rant, Scarborough stressed that a court had granted "protection status" to Abrego Garcia. But Scarborough never mentioned the basis of that order. As per the BBC: "Mr Abrego Garcia's lawyers say that he was granted the status based on his 'well-founded' fear of persecution by Barrio-18,...

The same media schlub who waved around the “I told you so” foam finger when stocks whipsawed on April 7 over President Donald Trump’s tariffs is doing the backstroke now after the markets surged just a day later. “I spent three months after the election warning Republicans they needed to be careful. Three months. I've got -- we've got about ten minutes of clips we could play you,” boasted a snooty Scarborough during the April 7 edition of Morning Joe. Stocks were bouncing over and under the flat line Monday, with the Dow and S&P 500 eventually just being off...

If there's one guy in the liberal media who should be modest about boasting, "I told you so," it's Joe Scarborough. Scarborough is the guy who—in the face of Biden's undeniable decline—assured voters that "this was the best Biden ever," angrily bellowing, "and f-you if you don't believe it." Yeah, well, we told you so, Scarborough. Biden was obviously unfit to serve. [snip] But on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough, discussing the fallout from Trump's tariffs, boasted "I spent three months after the election warning Republicans they needed to be careful. Three months. I've got -- we've got about ten minutes...

Pontificating from his privileged perch as an MSNBC host with a multi-million-dollar contract, Joe Scarborough loves to sneer and condescend to what he views as his journalistic inferiors: bloggers. For years, Scarborough's standard shtick was to brand bloggers as losers littered with Cheetos crumbs, living in their mother's basement. As a NewsBusters blogger, that always offended me. My mother's house didn't have a basement. I lived in a loft in her garage. And Cheetos? No way. Pringles have always been my main food group. Scarborough was back at his supercilious worst on today's Morning Joe. He repeatedly said that he...

The blowhards at MSNBC’s Morning Joe should realize that continuing to shoot lies through their whitened tooth implants on the air about Elon Musk doesn’t make them any more true. What’s worse is that they don’t even attempt to be clever about it. Both hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were popping their brain corks over Musk’s March 10 interview with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow. Both just lied about the subject matter. Mika went first during the March 11 edition of Morning Joe, shamelessly claiming Musk “referred to the federal spending programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, as...

On today's Morning Joe, responding to President Trump in his Joint Address to Congress having called Joe Biden "the worst president in American history," Joe Scarborough said: "I'm quite confident that ten, 20 years from now, when they're ranking presidents, Joe Biden will be doing very well."Scarborough did stop short of adding, "and f-you if you don't believe it," in contrast to his claim last year that, contrary to reports of Biden's decline, "this is the best Joe Biden ever." Question: How is it possible to rank Biden as president at all, given that as many of us knew, and...

VIDEOChuck Todd was discussing the coverup of Joe Biden's loss of cognition on a podcast with Steve Schmidt. While piously (and inaccurately) defending the role of the press, Todd called Joe Scarborough an IDIOT for his absurd defense of Biden's mental abilities. In addition to Morning Joe, this video features a cameo appearance by another media person who acted like an ...IDIOT.

We've often documented Joe Scarborough's hypocrisy, most recently here. But even hyper-hypocrite Scarborough outdid himself this morning. Scarborough whined about Jeff Bezos announcing that henceforth, the editorial policy of the Washington Post, which he owns, will focus on personal liberties and free markets, with no opposing viewpoints published. Said Scarborough: "Most of us, when we saw this, we just said, what the hell? It is it's like something that we've never heard. I mean, it's obviously opinion pages can go their own direction, but to say we don't publish opposing viewpoints seems shocking at best."If ever there were a TV...

[snip] Close your eyes and listen to the video clip. If you didn't know better, you might have thought it was Bernie Sanders ranting about "millionaires and billionaires." But no, that was Scarborough on today's Morning Joe. Self-styled "small-government conservative" Scarborough first condemned the Trump administration's plans to reduce the number of IRS agents! Adopting the liberal lexicon, Scarborough complained that "working-class" people can't afford lawyers to take care of the problems with the IRS, unlike "millionaires and billionaires."A bit later, Scarborough condemned proposed tax cuts for "billionaires and millionaires. This is not about protecting Medicare or Medicaid of Social...

I'm not big on recycling, and have even run afoul of the volunteer recycling police at our little community here, who discovered that I had put cardboard in the garbage dumpster. So permit me to atone for my crimes against the planet by recycling one of my columns from five years ago. I do so in response to Joe Scarborough's castigation of President Trump on today's Morning Joe for having criticized Democrats at yesterday's National Prayer Breakfast, suggesting that they oppose God. (Some of us remember the 2012 Democrat convention, where a large number of Dems loudly screamed as they...

On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough dragged out that empty, shopworn claim to be a "small-government conservative" like he was as a Republican congressman in the 1990s. But that was belied by what followed, full-throated scaremongering about Republicans killing people by pausing USAID funding for a week: "Question number one, when are we going to finally see the lawsuits move on USAID and actually an injunction that stops that, all of those actions right now that are literally, unless the reports are exaggerated, literally killing people across the globe right now, this morning, this instant. "Get the rest of the...

MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch said Tuesday on “Morning Joe” that President Donald Trump “has co-opted America’s heartbeat.” Co-host Joe Scarborough said, “Democrats quietly reminding each other this was a 1.5% election and that Republicans have a one vote majority in the House and a three vote majority in the Senate.” Deutsch said, “I just want to add one thing to that, we can say that to ourselves, he has co-opted America’s heartbeat.” Co-host Mika Brzezinski said, “Well, if America’s heartbeat is to have hostage families standing behind him.” Deutsch said, “I’m not saying you might not like that. Listen to...

Morning Joe on Tuesday descended into bitter infighting over Donald Trump's pardoning of the January 6 rioters. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski quickly turned on marketing expert Donny Deutsch for claiming non-MAGA Americans supported the dramatic move. Deutsch also argued the president's thumping election win in November meant he has 'co-opted America's heartbeat'. A furious Brzezinski rounded on him and the show quickly turned into a shouting match, with the married hosts insisting Trump is 'breaking one norm after another'. The couple had repeatedly slammed the president on air since he first ran for office in 2016, branding him a...

All that was missing was Joe Scarborough looking into the camera and saying—à la his recent claim that the current Biden was the best Biden ever and f-you if you didn't believe it—that Jimmy Carter was the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln. Today's episode Morning Joe engaged in some world-class revisionism in praise of Carter. Incredibly, citing supposed Soviet views at the time, Scarborough credited Carter [and Mika's dad Zbigniew Brzezinski] more than Reagan, for the fall of the Soviet Union.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

After Joe and Mika's post-election Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump, Mika Brzezinski admitted that her "hair on fire" attacks on Trump hadn't worked. A few days later, Scarborough acknowledged that his all-fascist-all-the-time Trump treatment also failed, and that voters were more interested in the price of groceries and gasoline. But that didn't stop Scarborough from covering Trump in the ugliest way possible today. Scarborough thus kicked off his comments on the certification later today of Trump's victory with the story of a Capitol Hill police officer who committed suicide after J6.[snip] Scarborough never mentioned Officer Liebengood by name, nor explained that...

Joe Scarborough chose a good day to be absent from Morning Joe. He wasn't exposed to direct contradiction and disgrace for his blatant lie to Americans about Joe Biden's mental acuity -- or lack thereof. Even so, the show did its best to cover for Biden -- and for itself and the rest of the liberal media -- which for years buried the truth about Biden's shocking decline. The clip that Morning Joe played of Biden's comments on the ISIS-inspired New Orleans terror attack was bad enough. Biden stumbled and slurred throughout. But you'll notice an editing pause midway through...

How pathetic was Joe Scarborough's desperate attempt to downplay the scope of Trump's victory? The best Scarborough could do was to repeatedly cite a state that Trump won! A state Trump flipped, after losing it in 2020!On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough repeatedly relied on the results in Wisconsin to make his flimsy case. Scarborough harped on Trump winning Wisconsin by "less than 1%" [the margin was 0.9%.] Scarborough conveniently ignored that Trump had lost the state by 0.7% in 2020, thus improving by 1.6%. Scarborough tried to bolster his case by twice mentioning that on the same day Trump carried...

All that was missing was Bernie's trademark "gr-e-e-e-e-d" . . . If you had only read the transcript, you might have thought it was the socialist senator from Vermont who was inveighing against a government for billionaires. "of the billionaires, for the billionaires, by the billionaires." But no! That was born-again liberal populist Joe Scarborough on today's Morning Joe. Scarborough demanded that former Ohio congressman Tim Ryan [who lost to J.D. Vance in the 2022 senatorial race] explain how Democrats have lost Ohio to the Republicans, given the disparity between the household income of only $34,000 in Youngstown, and the...

VIDEORage over plunging ratings. Rage over likely salary cuts. Rage over possible/probable cancellation. Watch as Morning Joe goes on a wild RAGE rant over his audience plunge due to crawling to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring of President Donald Trump after spending years of calling him a dictatorial Fascist monster.The looooong rant you see in this video was actually the tail end of an extensive rant over what David Frum said (smeared) the previous day on Morning Joe about Pete Hegseth that Mika subsequently apologized for. Later that day, Frum wrote an article about the incident in "The Atlantic" magazine...

Even for the shameless Joe Scarborough, this was shameless. Today's top story is, incontrovertibly, Joe Biden's pardoning of his son Hunter, and Ol' Joe having repeatedly lied in promising not to do so. But on today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough was unwilling to describe the pardon as even one of the two top stories of the day, saying instead that numbers one and two were Trump's nominations of Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth. [snip] Instead of leading with Biden's pardon and his lies about it, Scarborough buried the story 52 minutes deep into today's show. And even when he—finally— got...