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With control of the Senate at stake in next month's elections, Republicans have been bracing for the Democrat/liberal-media complex to drop an "October surprise" on one of the GOP candidates engaged in a tight race. And, sure enough, the left-wing Daily Beast yesterday published an article alleging that Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate from Georgia, who has taken a strong pro-life stance, paid for a girlfriend's abortion 13 years ago. Walker has emphatically denied the allegation, calling it a "flat-out lie." On Tuesday, Morning Joe, doing its bit on behalf of the Democrat cause, devoted over 15 minutes...

In a sign of just how desperate Democrats are to rid themselves of the Biden millstone around their necks, yet another Democrat Member of Congress has refused to say Joe Biden should run for re-election in 2024—even adding that she spoke for "a lot of us" within the Dem party! On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski pressed Dem Rep. Elissa Slotkin to say she would want Biden to run again. Said Mika: "President Biden speaks really eloquently about [abortion and other issues] . . . You would think that the Democratic party would be quite proud of his accomplishments." But Slotkin...

No one has ever accused Joe Biden of being a genius—evil or otherwise. But, at least as of this morning, the same cannot be said of Ron DeSantis. On today's Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle, with Claire McCaskill concurring, conferred the "evil genius" sobriquet upon the Florida governor.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

At the end of his rant, Scarborough again poured gasoline on the fires of racial and religious resentment. Repeating an accusation that we noted last year, Scarborough said: "Most of the people you see in these videos are white. I said it the day after, if these were black protesters, you better believe the cops would have been up there in a second. If they were Muslims, there would have been cops standing on top of the buildings with rifles and gunning them all down. I mean, there's no doubt! There's no doubt in my mind that these people were...

Mark this down as the year's most grotesquely insensitive metaphor. On Friday's Morning Joe—hours after the news broke that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been assassinated with shots to the back—Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, in a scathing statement about Boris Johnson, said: "He sort of failed up, upward through his career until he became Prime Minister after knifing Theresa May in the back." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

At NewsBusters, our mission is to expose and combat the bias of the liberal media, AKA, the "mainstream media." But if you believe Joe Scarborough, anyone who shares our view -- most importantly the Giant Hate Object Donald Trump -- must "hate democracy and press freedoms," and want Trump to be a "dictator." Who knew!? Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Joe Scarborough is at it again: getting fixated on a word or phrase, and repeating it ad nauseam. Joe might think he's being clever or impactful, but eventually, people become inured and bored by his endless repetition. We've documented sad Scarborough's verbal compulsions before, on everything from "bedbugs" to "toilets." Scarborough's Morning Joe hobby horse o' the day was "prairie dogs." In the first hour, the panel pronounced the term no fewer than 19 times. It came in the context of denouncing Sen John Thune (R-S.D.) and other Republicans who decline to ban "assault weapons" because they say their constituents...

Can Joe Scarborough and the Morning Joe crew really be this clueless? On Thursday's show, Scarborough and Willie Geist repeatedly claimed that it was "paranoid" for people to think that the government could be coming for their guns. But there's just one problem: in that same segment, Scarborough praised Beto O'Rourke for the political stunt he pulled yesterday, in which he interrupted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during his press conference on the Uvalde school shooting. Beto O'Rourke, Joe. Surely you remember that in a Democratic presidential debate in 2019 during his failed, short-lived run, O'Rourke said: "Hell yes! We're going...

You'd think Joe Scarborough—who frequently touts his Baptist roots—would be cautious when it comes to criticizing another religion. But on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough jumped in with both feet in slamming the Roman Catholic church over the excommunication by the archbishop of San Francisco of pro-abortion Nancy Pelosi. Scarborough said after the exposure of child sex abuse, "They should thank God that Nancy Pelosi has remained a Catholic through their torrent of the most grotesque sins imaginable."Somehow, abortion is never a "grotesque sin." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Do Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski want to force health care workers who are devout Catholics [in the non-Joe Biden sense of the term] and others with religious objections to abortion to participate in abortions under pain of losing their jobs? Apparently so, judging by the pair's comments on today's Morning Joe. Joe and Mika, saying "there's always something," dismissed Senator Susan Collins for her objection to the pro-abortion "Women's Health Protection Act," a Democrat bill codifying Roe v. Wade, for its failure to include such a religious exemption. But first, they mocked the "snowflake" Senator for calling the police...

Morning Joe reacted with predictable horror to the news of the leak of a reported draft Supreme Court decision overturning Roe vs. Wade. On this morning's show, Joe Scarborough said the opinion is illegitimate: "Obviously, the perception for 70 percent of Americans waking up this morning, is, is going to be, most likely, that this is an illegitimate decision by an illegitimate court." Former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham portentously proclaimed that the decision is a "nightmare scenario . . . . we're entering the darkest period."Obama's former Acting Solicitor General, Neal Katyal, said "Honestly, I wanna cry. You know, I...

When it came to defending Biden's Putin regime-change gaffe, you could be excused for figuring that Morning Joe had hit rock bottom on yesterday's show in its pathetic pro-Biden sycophancy. After all, as we noted, Mika Brzezinski praised Biden's remarks, claiming he had "put the Kremlin back on his heels." And Joe Scarborough agreed, calling the gaffe "a good thing," ludicrously adding that Biden had engaged in "psyops." But Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough demonstrated today that there are apparently no depths to which they won't sink in their dogged defense of Biden. After playing a clip of Biden's bumbling...

"Justice will not be served . . . It's just not going to happen . . . Everybody's gonna walk!" Poor Joe Scarborough. The Morning Joe host sputtered with impotent rage today at the prospect that Donald Trump and certain of his associates won't be criminally prosecuted. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

On Tuesday's Morning Joe, even liberal co-host Mika Brzezinski sounded like a hawk on Ukraine. She approvingly cited foreign policy experts calling the Russian move into the eastern provinces an "invasion," and suggested the steps taken by Biden so far are "inadequate." Brzezinski surprisingly reacted to the escalating crisis by: Approvingly citing two people flatly calling Putin's move into eastern areas of Ukraine an "invasion." Suggesting that Biden's response has been "inadequate" and "not strong enough." Supporting those saying we shouldn't "parse words" over whether it's an invasion. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Anyone recall Morning Joe complaining about a conservative being canceled? Or defending all-purpose iconoclast Joe Rogan, currently in the crosshairs of the cancel crowd? Usually, they're pushing for some Republican to resign. But let a fellow liberal come under scrutiny, and Morning Joe will passionately protest cancel culture!The latest example of Morning Joe's selective outrage over cancellation came on today's show. Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough were indignant over the two-week suspension meted out to Whoopi Goldberg of The View for her insensitive and ill-informed comments on the Holocaust. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Pro tip for Joe Scarborough: If you want to deny that you're comparing Joe Biden to Neville Chamberlain, don't breathe Biden's name anywhere near that of Chamberlain's. Sadly for Scarborough, he has ignored our tip. On Morning Joe, he said: "If you are so desperate for peace, if you are so desperate. Neville Chamberlain was desperate for peace. I'm drawing no comparisons. I'm just saying, if you are so desperate for peace that you just won't consider war, or at least aggressive countermeasures. They need to start sending the right signals. They [Obama-Biden] sent the wrong signals in 2014. They're...

In a speech on voting rights he's giving in Georgia today, Biden boasts: "I will not yield. I will not flinch."Tough guy, that Biden! Let's remember: he's the hero who single-handedly took on "bad dude" Corn Pop! But the White House press-shop moment was washed out by the news that Stacey Abrams, who's again running for governor of Georgia, has announced she won't be attending Biden's speech, citing a "scheduling conflict." That led Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist to facetiously muse that Abrams' appointment for a car tune-up and tire rotation is keeping her away. Get the rest of the...

Joe Scarborough's leftward lurch continues apace. We've reported Scarborough's support for a variety of liberal positions, with a particular emphasis on what the Democrats euphemistically call their "voting rights" bill. Last month, we documented Scarborough analogizing Republican opposition to the bill to George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door. On Thursday's Morning Joe, Scarborough took it a step further. He didn't merely urge Democrats to abolish the filibuster regarding "voting rights" [and "civil rights']. A seething Scarborough repeatedly insisted that there is "no excuse" for Democrats not doing so.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

During Donald Trump's presidency, Joe Scarborough's favorite parlor game was to trumpet every dip in the president's poll numbers. But back in August, when Biden's numbers started to slide, Scarborough went strangely silent, prompting us to ask Scarborough: "Cat got your tongue?" Now, Biden's poll numbers have gotten so bad that even dead-enders like Scarborough can no longer ignore them. On Monday's Morning Joe, Scarborough was thus forced to acknowledge the latest bad news, and do his best to whistle past them. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Will Jeff Bezos proclaim himself "President of Prime America?" Or will it be Elon Musk, issuing an edict anointing himself "Emperor of Teslamerica?" Morning Joe was baying for Steve Bannon's blood this morning, demanding that the Justice Department prosecute him after the House held him in criminal contempt for refusing to testify before the January 6th committee. Joe Scarborough took things to an outlandish extreme, predicting this dire consequence if the DoJ doesn't prosecute Bannon and other Trump allies who might refuse to comply with congressional subpoenas to testify: "I swear to God: 10, 15 years from now, if people...