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Morning Joe has been among the most vituperatively anti-Trump shows in television. As NewsBusters has documented over the years, the show's stock in trade has been to vilify Trump as a fascist, a Hitler, and an existential threat to Madisonian democracy. So it would be a remarkable development if Morning Joe, in the wake of Trump's victory, were to drastically change course and go fair 'n balanced in its treatment of the incoming president. And yet, on Thursday's episode, that was Morning Joe's stated intention [snip] Mika Brzezinski also claimed "it goes without saying" that members of the Trump administration...

Attempting to undercut President-elect Trump's nomination of Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, Wednesday's Morning Joe misled on the key issue of the physical fitness of female soldiers. After playing a clip of Hegseth expressing his opposition to women in combat, and proposing that the military adopt the same gender-neutral fitness standards that were in place in 1995, the show brought on NBC national security editor David Rohde, who said: I think clips like the one you played will raise major issues. There are women in combat. And women who engage in ground combat have to take physical tests. Can they...

A furious former Biden staffer has blamed Kamala Harris and the Democratic party for their electoral loss.MSNBC's Symone Sanders-Townsend appeared on Morning Joe on Wednesday to discuss president-elect Donald Trump's landslide electoral win.The former advisor to president Biden and Harris said ousting Biden from the election was one of the reasons Harris lost the election.'The people that said Joe Biden was the problem… Where's my camera?' Sanders-Townsend said, 'I will just note that it is probably not the best idea that Democrats orchestrated a stab fest, a proverbial stabbing in the front of the sitting president of the United States...

On today's Morning Joe, NBC reporter Peter Alexander described the mood at a Kamala donor party in DC last night as being like "a funeral."And Mika Brzezinski certainly dressed for the occasion today, draped, as you see, in all black.Claire McCaskill was near tears as she acknowledged that Trump understood the electorate better than Dems: that "fear and anger" work, and that our "better angels" have fled. Al Sharpton predictably blamed racial and gender,"bias" and "misogyny" among black and Hispanic men for Kamala's poor showing with them. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

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...

A triumphant Joe Scarborough celebrated a surprising poll from Iowa showing Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump in the traditionally Republican state, calling it a 'canary in the coal mine.' The MSNBC host revealed he was in a media 'dark zone' over the weekend until his wife and co-host Mika Brzezinski called him up to reveal the news of pollster Ann Selzer's outlier survey showing Harris leading Trump in Iowa by three points. 'I’m like, what?' Scarborough exclaimed. 'Then I’m on the phone the rest of the night. John Heilemann... first of all, Ann gets it right every time. Just about...

VIDEOMorning Joe was obviously very upset over how President Donald Trump took the "Garbage" charge hurled at his supporters by Joe Biden and turned it into brilliant campaign shtick. Privately Morning Joe and poor Mika are seething over Sleepy Joe for recreating the 2024 version of Hillary's "Deplorables."

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.

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...

New York Times writer Mara Gay said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that podcaster Joe Rogan was converting angry men to fascism. Gay said, “My thoughts are I hope that women seeing this who are over half the population and vote more consistently than men. I hope that they see this and that they coalesce around the obvious choice. White women, I’m talking to you as well.” She continued, “I just think we really also might want to take a moment to, as Barack Obama did yesterday, speaking specifically to black men, but I think this is actually for all...

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump does not want to debate Vice President Kamala Harris again because “he got his ass kicked.” Co-host Joe Scarborough said, “You talked about the debate. Why do you think Donald Trump won’t debate her again?” Emhoff said, “Well, you saw the first debate, didn’t you?” Scarborough said, “Yeah, yeah.” Emhoff said, “Yeah. That’s why. He got his ass kicked. And so he’s afraid that that’s going to happen again. Rather he’s spreading this fog, this fog of misinformation and disinformation and gaslighting rather than face...

Earlier this year, we suggested that the fevered fearmongering of an MSNBC panel brought the mind the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter." After the rancid rabble-rousing of today's Morning Joe, perhaps, in the run-up to the election, the song should become the official anthem of the liberal media. Joe Scarborough, after calling Trump supporters "stupid" for believing his "lies," kicked off the fearmongering by alluding to, but failing to name, the host of a show on "another network" who supposedly said that elections don't work, and that war is the only solution. [snip] The BBC's "special U.S. correspondent" Katty Kay...

Q. When is an October Surprise not an October surprise? A. When it's aimed at Donald Trump. Just ask Morning Joe. On today's episode, Jonathan Lemire and Katty Kay agreed: Nope, Jack Smith's new filing in his election interference case against Trump was not an October Surprise. Lemire's first argument was particularly lame: Okay, yeah, the filing came in October. But it came at the beginning of October, not like Jim Comey's letter regarding the Hillary Clinton private email server probe that came about one week before the 2016 election. This -- we kid you not -- "much further out."...

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...

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Harris-Walz Co-Chair Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) stated that Hezbollah’s continuing “escalatory” attacks against Israel, “this striking incident where pagers and walkie-talkies were remotely detonated” in addition to the “ongoing ground war in Gaza” have all made it “harder than ever” to see the ceasefire deal that “President Biden very much urgently wants to get done” happening. But the Biden administration is pushing both Hamas and Israel to reach one. Coons said, “[I]t is heartbreaking how close we’ve come to a ceasefire and hostage deal. I know senior members of the Biden team are...

Joe and Hillary: a love story. Who knew? [snip] Scarborough then broke out an early Valentine, saying: "It really has always been disconcerting to my conservative friends, how much I, I, I loved you from the start."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Former President Donald Trump has explained his decision not to debate Vice President Kamala Harris for a second time saying that he clearly won their first debate. He used the metaphor of a defeated boxer who immediately demands a rematch to prove that Harris, who has called for a second debate, lost it. But on Friday's Morning Joe, the exclusively liberal panel tried to turn the tables on Trump, breaking out a string of boxing metaphors to assert that their candidate won the debate instead - and beat Trump badly. Co-host Willie Geist also found humor it: “I think the...

VIDEOThe mood on the set of the Morning Joe show just a day before the big debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is DEEP GLOOM. Special Kudos to Mourning Mika for bringing up a new term devised by the left namely "Sane Washed." They use that to describe when moderators or reporters ask President Trump normal questions about policy instead of constantly attacking him as a monster. This is described by them (and Mika) as "Sane Washing." I prefer to think of it as describing the sanity washed out of extreme TDS sufferers such as the Morning Shmoe Crew,...

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski claimed that 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) dismissed school shootings as “fact of life,” despite video that she played earlier in the segment that disproved her assertion and demonstrated that Vance advocated for stronger security at schools to help prevent shootings and said that it’s a “fact of life” that deranged people know schools are soft targets. Brzezinski played video of Vance, in which Vance said, “What is going to solve this problem, and I really do believe this, is, look, I don’t like this, I...