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MSNBC launched another WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE ASSASSINATE TRUMP? dog whistle this week by directly comparing the former president to Adolf Hitler. On Wednesday, while discussing the results of Super Tuesday, Morning Joe regular, fabulist, and plagiarist Mike Barnicle talked about how he’s “rereading” some books about World War II and discussed the famous D-Day climb made by the Second Airborne Battalion up a cliff called Pointe du Hoc. Then he said this: A straight-up cliff, 125 feet to a German pillbox. And he went right at the Germans, right at the Germans. Fifty percent casualty rate. Why did they do...

When White House aides appear on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," they're often booked between 7 and 7:40 a.m. ET. That's so they'll reach one crucial and loyal viewer: President Biden. Why it matters: Biden's years-long love of MSNBC's staple morning show affects how the White House runs — and who Biden listens to. ,p> Zoom in: The president often calls co-host Joe Scarborough — a former Republican congressman who's now a harsh critic of Donald Trump — to get Scarborough's take on issues and sometimes vent about media coverage, according to people familiar with the relationship. ,p> During the day,...

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said Wednesday he would not vote for former President Donald Trump in November, breaking his debate pledge with the Republican National Committee (RNC), called the “Beat Biden Pledge.” The broken pledge and refusal to vote for the likely GOP presidential nominee appears to highlight Christie’s thirst to remain politically relevant, considering: Just two percent support Christie’s GOP primary bid, Fox News polling shows. He maintains a negative net approval rating (-55), according to the Wall Street Journal. “No,” Christie replied when MSNBC’s Mike Barnicle asked if he would vote for Trump, breaking his pledge with...

On Tuesday, Scarborough & Co. ran a clip of Comer on Fox Business lamenting the vote to dump Speaker Kevin McCarthy: "We've wasted three weeks, and this was a dumb move by those eight Members of Congress." Comer went so far as to say he was "ashamed" at what his colleagues had done. Far from lauding Comer for sounding "swampy" or "establishment," Scarborough dove again into derision: If James Comer is saying it's a dumb move, like, he trademarked dumb move. He's got a patent on dumb moves.Later, Mike Barnicle—who knows a thing or two about dumb moves—stole Scarborough's line,...

Given the occasion, we wouldn't blame Morning Joe for laying it on a bit thick, but there are limits. they were stretched beyond the breaking point when Scarborough hailed Barnicle as "one of the greatest columnists of the 20th century."It's true that for many years, Barnicle's columns at the Boston Globe had an avid following. But Barnicle's days at the Globe came to an ignominious end in 1998, when the paper forced him to resign over plagiarism. One in which he had lifted, without attribution, 80 humorous lines from George Carlin. The second, based on reporting by the Boston Phoenix,...

But the damage has extended itself, I believe, I think, into everyday conversations. In that this summer specifically, since all the indictments started pouring out, you cannot go anywhere, you cannot be eating a meal, you cannot be going to a ball game, you cannot be sitting alone on a park bench reading the paper, when someone doesn't approach you to ask you about Donald J. Trump. I mean, the cult of Trumpism is now verbal. It's passed on to people who ask the ever-present question, "How can people vote for this man? Who are these people?" And you tell...

VIDEOWARNING! If you vote a certain way in 2024, it could result in MSNBC's Mike Barnicle reaching for his pill bottle and swallowing it whole. If you think this is an exaggeration, you won't after watching this clip of Barnicle moaning how deeply deeply DEPRESSED he is over a certain Orange Man who ruined his life. Yes, it appears that poor Mike is suffering from terminal TDS to the extent that the Mean Tweeter has such complete control over him that it has removed any trace of happiness from his life resulting in sending Barnicle into a deep, deep depression.

On Thursday's Morning Joe, BBC correspondent and Morning Joe regular Katty Kay bemoaned that Dobbs and other court rulings restricting access to abortion represent a "blow" to the American tradition of expanding rights to those without power. It apparently doesn't occur to the clueless Kay that the most powerless of all are unborn children, and that limiting abortion expands their right to live. Ever heard of a movement called "right to life," Katty? Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Interviewed by Lesley Stahl, Taylor Greene defended her past comment that the Democrats are a party of "pedophiles." She said: "Democrats support -- even Joe Biden, the president himself, supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries. Sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children." On today's Morning Joe, loyal Democrat Mike Barnicle rose to Ol' Joe's defense, calling Biden:"One of the most normal, honorable human beings you will ever meet.""Normal?" Really? The guy with the well-earned reputation for inappropriately hugging, nuzzling, and sniffing women, including young ones. Readers will remember the iconic image of Biden, seen above, with the...

Care to hear the sound of nervous, forced, phony, laughter? Check out Joe Scarborough at the beginning of the video clip, which we've looped three times for your listening pleasure. That was Scarborough, on today's Morning Joe, feigning laughter at Mike Barnicle's mention that Kevin McCarthy and the new Republican majority intend to subpoena 51 members of the intelligence community who signed a letter that falsely called the New York Post's Hunter Biden exposé "Russian disinformation." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Finally, something we can agree with Mike Barnicle about! Like Mike, millions of us are worried that Joe Biden isn't up to the job! On Monday's Morning Joe, Barnicle asked Al Sharpton whether he was "worried" about his "friend" Joe Biden because the presidency is "enormously difficult." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

What, no leg shackles? There was tough talk from the Morning Joe crowd today regarding measures to force Republicans to testify before the tilted (and now jilted) January 6th committee. Mike Barnicle—possibly still feeling the effects of his celebration of the Red Sox's upset ALDS victory—then upped the ante. Barnicle proclaimed: "There'll be no action on this until we see someone like Steve Bannon—in handcuffs—brought to the Capitol and forced to testify under oath. Period!" Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

On today's Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle sought to absolve President Biden for yesterday's terrorist attack that killed 13 American service members and scores of Afghans. Barnicle thrice claimed that "it was always going to end this way," in "chaos and death." Translation: it was inevitable. Don't blame Biden. Nothing he could have done better. Move along.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Thursday, MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle blamed former President Donald Trump for the Atlanta-area massage parlor shootings that left eight dead, six of which were Asian women. Barnicle acknowledged on “Morning Joe” that Trump’s “didn’t pull the trigger in Atlanta” but said his “language” and “behavior” makes him “responsible” for the attack. He explained Trump’s rhetoric has enhanced racial strife in the country.

Joe Scarborough has once again proved that there is virtually nothing that the liberal media can't spin into a positive for one of its own. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough claimed that Joe Biden having told a construction worker that he was "full of s---" on gun control proved both Biden's humanity, and that he was a "fighter."Scarborough's comment came in response to Mike Barnicle's assertion that in recent times, Biden is resonating with voters as he demonstrates his "humanity, empathy, stability and experience." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

It's not just Mayor Pete, Amy Klobuchar, and Beto who have climbed on the Biden bandwagon. Morning Joe has jumped on there, too. Just two weeks ago, Joe Scarborough was penning what amounted to a political eulogy for Biden. Today, the show was portraying Biden as a virtual goliath. Leading the pack was Mike Barnicle, who claimed that in the free media that followed his South Carolina win, Biden: "looked like an ordinary empathetic, humble, compassionate human being. A striking contrast to the president of the United States." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski made a failed attempt on Monday morning to rile up her "Morning Joe" panel to bash President Trump on a segment dedicated to Memorial Day. In the segment, Brzezinski began by asking the "reflections" of MSNBC commentator Mike Barnicle by invoking Trump's deployment of troops at the southern border. “I want to ask you what your reflections are during this time in terms of our attitudes in America, our knowledge and our understanding of people who serve in the military, who serve multiple tours of duty, who have taken part in wars on behalf of this...

Think back on all the journalistic grifters whose bylines and totally made-up crap have disgraced the dismal pages of the Boston Globe – Mike Barnicle, Kevin Cullen, Patricia Smith and Jayson Blair, among others. But even those recidivist frauds must be shaking their pampered, protected-class heads over this latest embarrassment to befall the failing broadsheet – a column by a “journalist from Massachusetts” named Luke O’Neil. So far, at least three versions of his piece have appeared on the Globe website. Let’s go over the first sentences – the lede, as they say – in order of their appearance. “One...

Mike Barnicle was conducting a humdrum conversation about the shutdown with Dem Sen. Sherrod Brown on Wednesday's Morning Joe when—out of the blue—Barnicle dropped this bombshell: "Let me ask you: do you think that Donald J. Trump presents a clear and present danger to our democracy?"Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Question for Mike Barnicle: do the names "Bill Clinton" and "Ted Kennedy" ring a bell? We ask because they make a mockery of his professed concern about "damage" to the "revered" institutions of the presidency and the Senate. On today's Morning Joe, Barnicle said: "[T]he institution of the presidency, and the United States Senate, that everyone so revered not that long ago, is now so badly damaged that one question that might be asked is how long will it take to repair the damage that is being done on a daily basis to both institutions?"Get the rest of the story...