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MSNBC's "Morning Joe" panel did not circle the wagons around Democratic candidate for Virginia Attorney General, Jay Jones, who was reported this weekend to have texted some extremely violent things about killing a GOP colleague. "He should probably be forced to withdraw from the race," Joe Scarborough said. "And 'probably' is doing a lot there." "Republicans and Democrats alike" are criticizing Jay Jones, Mike Brzezinski said. "NBC News is reporting that Jones did not deny the accuracy of these texts on Friday night, and says he takes full responsibility for his actions." "Horrible, I didn’t want to read them out...

On Monday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough trashed President Trump for saying at the Charlie Kirk memorial service that he hates his opponents. Referring to Jesus' instruction to forgive and love one's enemies, Scarborough declared, "You either get it or you don't get it." Scarborough thereby clearly placed himself in the category of those who follow Jesus' words. But Scarborough is the same person who, over the years, has attacked Trump in the most vicious terms. Earlier this year, we compiled this list of some of Scarborough's ugliest hits on Trump. Scarborough:Called President Trump a "thug" and a "goon." Written that...

In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, there were surely many people who would have liked to speak with President Trump. So, it's notable, for better or worse, that the president apparently accepted Joe Scarborough's call. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough described some of their conversation, noting that the president called Kirk "a great man," and gave him credit, with his organizing and fundraising efforts, for making the difference in some of the swing states. Scarborough also commended MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler for having condemned the words of Matthew Dowd on Katy Tur's MSNBC show yesterday, in which...

On Wednesday's Morning Joe, Scarborough offered a profoundly deceptive defense of DEI. Scarborough claimed that the 'E' in DEI stands for "equality." But as he well knows, it stands for "equity"—the diametric opposite of equality. The American ideal is equality of opportunity. Equity stands for equal outcomes, regardless of merit. It's the difference between the right of people to the "pursuit of happiness" and the government being in the happiness-providing business—for favored groups. Scarborough also claimed that "diversity" is fundamentally American, citing E Pluribus Unum—out of many one. But DEI advocates don't call for assimilation into "one" America of shared...

Expect Joe Scarborough & Co. to soon return to their regularly scheduled programming of trashing President Trump. But at least in this moment, the show has struck a very different tone on the issue of Trump's moves to use federal agents to bolster crime-fighting in DC. On today's show, Susan Page of USA Today was the first to suggest that Trump has set a "trap" for Democrats. Oppose Trump's crime-fighting efforts at their peril. As Page mordantly put it: "There are very few politicians who want to stand up for crime." Joe Scarborough ran with that, repeatedly referring to Trump's...

With Stephen Colbert canceled, and Morning Joe in perilous straits as MSNBC is discarded by its parent company, could Joe Scarborough be making a pitch for a late-night gig? The question arises in light of Scarborough's antics and bell-ringing stunt this morning, bringing to mind a late-night host's desperate bid for laughs.Scarborough went on a rant against Tulsi Gabbard's White House briefing room appearance in which she laid out accusations against Obama in connection with Russian-collusion conspiracy claims about the 2016 election. During vaudeville days, a judge would ring a bell to remove failed acts from the stage. Claiming that...

VIDEOThose of you who live in South Florida might know about Democrat pollster Fernand Amandi. He was a host on WIOD Radio in Miami in the months leading up to the 2016 election. This shmuck's big shtick was inviting callers who supported Trump to tell why they think Trump could win that election... and then he proceeded to mock them. Oh, how Amandi laughed at anybody who claimed Trump could win. It was all great fun for Fernand Amandi to mock Trump supporters ...until Election Day. After that poor Fernand suffered a mental breakdown of such epic proportions that WIOD...

Pathetic. Weak. Intimidated. Discussing the shooting of a federal LE officer by an illegal alien, the guest was a senior NYC police official, John Chell. He gave off the vibes of a traditional cop. But after years of immersion in New York's liberal politics, and likely haunted by the specter of an imminent Mayor Mamdani, Chell chickened out. Instead of stating the obvious — that sanctuary city laws need to be utterly abolished — Chell suggested that they merely require "thoughtful change."Translation of Chell's mealy-mouthed proposal for "thoughtful change": Keep sanctuary city laws on the books for the great majority...

On Tuesday's Morning Joe, suggesting he had merely made a "mistake," Joe Scarborough said he "got it wrong" when "I talked about Biden at his best." No, Joe. You didn't make a "mistake." And it's not that you "got it wrong." You lied. You looked into the camera, and angrily lied to your viewers. As we noted at the time, you said: "Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I've...

Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” while insisting to “keep it peaceful,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) called for more protests around the country as rioting is underway in Los Angeles tied to the Trump administration’s deportation effort. The Connecticut Democrat lawmaker argued President Donald Trump was inciting behavior so he could invoke the Insurrection Act. “I mean, my first message is to keep it peaceful,” Murphy declared. “I mean, obviously, this is a moment where we have to be on the streets all over the country to protest what’s happening to our immigrant community, but more broadly, to protest what’s happening...

VIDEOWillie Geist just barely worked in a mention of the victims of the terrorist attack in Colorado while the Morning Joe crew was wailing with concern for the family of the terrorist who tried to burn people alive. The best way to describe Geist's mention of the victims was reluctantly obligatory as if he knew he had to put in a word for the victims while the real thrust was deep, deep concern over the fate of the terrorist's family who were due to be deported. It really pained Willie to take THREE seconds to mention the victims during a...

Friday, in a clip that aired on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Big” was unacceptable in its current form, as passed by the House of Representatives. Johnson told a reporter on Capitol Hill, “I couldn’t care less if he’s upset. I’m concerned about my children, my grandchildren, and the fact that we are stealing from them. We are stealing from our children and grandchildren. $37 trillion in debt, and we’re going to add to it as Republicans? That is unacceptable.” He added, “And that’s why there’s no way I’m going to...

It's only taken Joe Scarborough 441 days to "handle the truth." As late as yesterday, in a conversation with Mark Halperin in his excellent "Next Up" series, an intransigent Scarborough was still defending the absurd claim he made on March 6, 2024: "F-you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.">/B> [snip] But finally, on today's Morning Joe, in a conversation with "Original Sin" co-authors Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, Scarborough finally admitted that in making his "best Biden ever" claim, "I was obviously wrong."Get the rest of the story and...

Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a former associate professor at Harvard Medical School, tells Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough that Joe Biden definitely had prostate cancer while he was president

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...