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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Wednesday on “Morning Joe” that Democrats lost the election because of identity and cultural politics. Co-host Willie Geist said, “I live in a relatively rural area outside the city. There was a local race there, and the Republican changed her signs picking up on this. And every sign said ‘Save Girls Sports.'” Scarborough said, “Let’s dig a little deeper because you have that stacked on top of what happened on college campuses this fall, stacked on top of what’s been happening on college campuses over the past four or five years. I have said this...

Are you sure it isn't 900 MILLION? I mean, as long as you're gonna exaggerate, Joe, why not shoot for the moon? On the Election Day episode of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough made a pathetic attempt to build optimism for Kamala Harris. [snip] Even more deceptively, Scarborough claimed that Kamala has 900,000 door-knocking volunteers in Pennsylvania. A recent Time magazine article indicated the real number is 110,000. An internet search suggests that Scarborough claimed for Pennsylvania the total number of Kamala volunteers in the entire country! Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Today's Morning Joe served up a festering stew, a farrago of lies and misrepresentations aimed at boosting Kamala Harris and trashing Donald Trump. [snip] Scarborough twice recycled the lie to which he had devoted endless airtime last week. As he put it today, Trump "called to have Liz Cheney shot by a firing squad." That lie has been so thoroughly debunked by people across the political spectrum, that it took a special kind of Scarborough shamelessness to mouth it again today. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough attempted a two-part defense of Joe Biden having yesterday called Trump supporters "garbage." [snip] Part Two: When forced to address the controversy, laugh it off. When Jonathan Lemire later raised Biden's "garbage" line, Scarborough put on a big, phony smile [see screencap] and emitted a faux chuckle.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Wait a second! We thought "America: Love It Or Leave It" was a phrase used by jingoistic, racist, sexist, homophobic, right-wing Neanderthals! But there was Joe Scarborough on today's Morning Joe, breaking out a close facsimile of the phrase to condemn . . . Trump supporters! Scarborough was reacting to Trump having yesterday said, in reference to the porous border that Biden-Harris have created, "We’re a dumping ground. We’re like a garbage can for the world." Scarborough and Willie Geist got up on their super-patriot high horses to condemn Trump and his fans, with Scarborough finishing with this: "If anybody...

I’m not ready. I have to get there where I'm ready for either scenario,' Kimmel told Joe Scarborough Late night host Jimmy Kimmel said during an interview on Wednesday that he was not "mentally prepared" for Vice President Kamala Harris potentially losing the election to former President Trump. "I was telling my wife, I don’t feel like I’m mentally prepared for the possibility of a loss. I’m not ready. I have to get there where I'm ready for either scenario," Kimmel said, speaking to MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, who wondered whether he looked forward to a time when they weren't...

oe Scarborough loves to describe himself as a conservative. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough boasted at length of his conservatism, describing Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind (first published in 1953) as his philosophical North Star, keeping a copy of it on his desktop throughout his adult life. The show opened with a clip of Liz Cheney endorsing Kamala Harris. Scarborough praised Cheney for it, calling her a "real conservative" in the Kirkian tradition. [snip] So let's do a little thought experiment. What if, by some miracle, Liz Cheney had won the Republican nomination? And if that is too far-fetched, what...

After Joe Biden's disastrous debate in June, Joe Scarborough was among the first to try to push him out of the race. On the very next day's Morning Joe, Scarborough disagreed with David Plouffe's position that Dems should wait several days before deciding whether to boot Biden. Instead, Scarborough voiced the fear that Trump would win the election "unless things change." Translation: don't let the door hit you on the way out, Joe! But on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough expressed a form of buyer's remorse over the Dems' defenestration of Biden and his replacement by Kamala Harris on the top...

Have you ever wondered, given how much Joe Scarborough despises Donald Trump, if there were any Democrat Scarborough wouldn't support over the Don? Scarborough went a long way in answering that question on today's Morning Joe, saying: "If Mike Pence were president or Bernie Sanders were president, I'd worry much less than if Donald Trump were president."So, since Scarborough prefers Bernie Sanders over Trump as president, might he push the envelope even further? Sadly, Ilhan Omar's out of the running, not being a natural-born citizen [but hey!—constitutional amendment, anyone?] Rather than Trump, how's about a President AOC, Joe? Or why...

Wait! We thought it was those scary right-wing Christian nationalists who were dragging their religion into politics! So what the heck was Joe Scarborough up to on today's Morning Joe, when he echoed some Bible verses about the coming of Jesus, but invoked it to celebrate Democrats having a couple of good weeks in the presidential race? "Gene Robinson, before we get to the news of the day, behold, you bring tidings of good news to Democrats east, west, north, and south, for unto them is born the reason for exuberance." Get the rest of the story and view the...

Pro Political Tip For Mika Brzezinski: When praising Joe Biden, DO NOT, under any circumstances, talk about his "touch." And yet, on today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski violated that rule. Expressing her sadness at Biden leaving the race, Mika thrice extolled Biden's "touch."Mika, Mika, Mika! You say "touch," and for millions of Americans it brings to mind unsettling images. Biden's "touch" with the daughter of Dem Sen. Chris Coons, seen here, is just one of many such examples. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Ex-MSNBC host Keith Olbermann called for CNN to fire one of their most prominent political commentators for juxtaposing former President Trump and President Biden in a way that put the Republican in a positive light. In the weeks following Biden’s widely criticized performance in the presidential debate, the president’s supporters have feuded with his critics who are calling for him to step down in lieu of another candidate.

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...

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...

MSNBC has elected to air an NBC News special report rather than Morning Joe Monday morning, after former President Donald Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt on Saturday. The show, which features several panelists and has been critical of the former president, was not aired, but the show's X account did say it would return on Tuesday. A CNN report alleges the network pulled the show Monday due to concerns over a potential inappropriate comment about the assassination attempt by one of the guests on the show. The Washington Examiner has reached out to MSNBC for comment. This...

Joe Rogan roasted Joe Scarborough after playing a clip of an MSNBC segment in which the host claimed Joe Biden was “sharper than ever.” The podcaster and comedian played the clip of Scarborough, which started with his rant, which ended with an “F you” to the viewers, “if you can’t handle it.”

Who got to Joe Scarborough? Last Friday, the very next day after Biden's debate debacle, Scarborough strongly suggested that Biden needed to quit, pronto. Scarborough analogized that just like Goldwater went to Nixon during Watergate and told him it was "over," Democrats now need to say the same thing to Biden. Scarborough has now drastically changed his tune. On today's Morning Joe, he stressed that Democrats shouldn't rush into a decision: "it's only July 5th!", he repeatedly exclaimed. So, who got to Joe Scarborough? And what leverage did they use on him? A likely possibility: Scarborough has been bragging about...

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...

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...