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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...

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...

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday and called on lawmakers not to give President Donald Trump their authority.Co-host Jonathan Lemire said, “Certainly there’s a lot of debate among Democrats right now as to who is that face, who is the leader for the party right now? Who’s going to play the role that Nancy Pelosi did during those first couple of years of Trump’s initial term in office? So now let’s take a look at more from Ryan Noble’s interview with Senator Murkowski, who warned her Republican colleagues not to cede their authority to President...

Morning Joe devoted a segment today to fretting over Trump arranging peace talks with Russia on Ukraine without, at this stage, the participation of Ukrainian officials. But the show couldn't process Zelensky's stunning statement on yesterday's Meet The Press: that Putin is "scared" of Trump and that as a result, Trump, who is "strong," can push Putin into peace negotiations.Morning Joe aired the clip of Zelensky. But not one word was subsequently devoted to it or to the stunning contrast in Putin's attitude toward Trump compared to his predecessors. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

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...

VIDEOIn an extremely mournful tune, Morning Mika announced drastic cutbacks at USAID as MAGA reacts to the news. Poor Mika was so sad you could almost think those cutbacks would affect her salary as well as that of Morning Joe.

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...

Poor Jon Meacham. The resident Morning Joe historian and occasional Biden speechwriter was in a decidedly dark and depressed mood on this Inauguration Day. Just look at the guy! Meacham was down on the United States in general, claiming that "for 250 years, [America] more often than not has gotten things wrong." And he was down on Trump in particular. Meacham compared, albeit via a John Belushi line, Trump's impending presidency to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Meacham addressed himself to his fellow Trump detesters. He warned them that the days ahead will be "hard" and "depleting," and acknowledged that...

On today's Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire said there's skepticism the hostage deal will hold because Netanyahu -- not Hamas! -- might "submarine" it. Yes, you can always trust the sterling citizens of Hamas to be good to their word. But Bibi? Not so much--you know those tricky Israelis! Lemire also got in an unintentional laugh line, saying: '"Biden privately blames Netanyahu for prolonging the war, which he believes hurt his re-election chances." As I posted at X: "Yes, if only Bibi had been more malleable, Biden wouldn't have said 'we finally beat Medicare' during the debate." Get the rest of...

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.

Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass flew off from her city this past Saturday. As per this report [emphasis added]: "Her departure coincided with escalating warnings from the the National Weather Service about strong winds and 'critical fire conditions' across Los Angeles. By Tuesday, fires had erupted in Pacific Palisades, Altadena, Malibu, and other regions, causing widespread destruction." Bass had flown to the African nation of Ghana to attend the inauguration of Ghanian President John Dramani Mahama. When Bass finally made it back to Los Angeles on Wednesday, a Sky News reporter at the airport asked her repeated questions, specifically...

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...

Michael Tomasky was back on Morning Joe today, beating his dour, one-note samba: right-wing media is the root of all evil. Last month, we caught New Republic editor Tomasky blaming conservative media for Kamala Harris's defeat. He even claimed that right-wing media is more powerful than the MSM. As we wrote: "If only!"Today, Tomasky blamed right-wing media, singling out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium, for Trump's current popularity, as reflected in majority support for his handling of the transition. Trump has nominated "unqualified extremists" across the board, and yet the public approves of the transition. He doesn't blame "people," he...

Presumably, even Morning Joe's fierce feminist warriors wouldn't have ordered female soldiers to storm the beaches and scale the cliffs of Normandy on D-Day. But that didn't stop today's panel from hammering Pete Hegseth for his views on women in the military. Retired Admiral James Stavridis, Joe Scarborough, and "MSNBC Republican" Elise Jordan misrepresented Hegseth's position. They suggested that he opposes allowing women in the military, full stop. That's entirely false. In his very first statements on the subject as Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Hegseth praised the important role that women play in the military. But Hegseth draws...

Representative Robert Garcia (D-CA) claimed Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies were “out of step” with what “most Americans” want. Co-host Willie Geist said, “Let’s start at the end with birthright citizenship, President-elect Trump says he will get rid of it the day he gets into office. What’s your reaction?” Garcia said, “Look, I think all these new ideas that Trump is coming out with and his proclamations over the weekend, besides being unconstitutional are quite un-American and shameful. I’m an immigrant myself. I came in this country part of the time, I was not...

Monday's Morning Joe devoted a segment to an Axios article, 'Shards of glass: Inside media's 12 splintering realities.' The notion was that, depending on demographics, people get their information from very different media sources and are often unaware of the information that others were receiving. One of Axios' 12 categories is "Right-wing grandpas," a reference to people who get their news largely from Fox News. What was not revealed was that the average age of Fox News viewers is 68, whereas the average age of MSNBC viewers is 71! Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

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...

VIDEOThe pain! The pain! Oh, the unbearable PAIN!!! Yes, PAIN is what one of the extreme TDS hosts of Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire, was experiencing right after asking a question to the new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte which was obviously meant to elicit a critical Trump slamming answer. What Lemire got from Rutte instead caused him PAIN so severe that it is probably still reverberating inside his tortured TDS soul.