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On Wednesday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough said Democrats’ “intellectual laziness” and “groupthink” are making them “lose elections.” Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks said, “The truth of the matter is, we need more people that actually think differently than the masses. We need more people than just sort of 20 to 1 liberals to conservatives, and we need to be on top of that and see this as an opportunity to get more ideological balance. Why? Not because we believe that you have to go 1 to 1 in fairness, none of that. We don’t need affirmative action for...

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...

There’s a lot up in the air right now about what will unfold after the biggest and most historic election of our lifetime. One thing we know for certain is that President Trump is assembling the ultimate America First team, but we also know the Deep State will stop at nothing to stand in his way. This is truly a battle of good versus evil, and our fight is just getting started. Amid all the questions and uncertainties, one thing is crystal clear: the fake news media is crashing and burning before our very eyes, and we have President Trump...

Who said Joe Scarborough was consumed with hatred of President Trump? Take it back! Because on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough showed such remarkable restraint, saying Trump should only "maybe" be compared to the perpetrators of genocide and gas chambers.Ed Luce of the Financial Times had mentioned that the UN had observed World Genocide Day earlier this week, and that the Secretary-General had issued a statement saying that "the Holocaust didn't begin in the gas chambers. It began years before with hate speech." Luce gave the standard liberal disclaimer, claiming he wasn't suggesting "for a moment" that America's heading toward genocide....

Left-wing “Morning Joe” hosts and vicious Donald Trump critics Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski revealed Monday they had a “personal” sit-down with the president-elect in Florida to “restart communications” — after conceding that voters overwhelmingly made their choice. The MSNBC co-hosts, who have repeatedly bashed the Republican on air over the years, said they had a face-to-face with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Friday — their first meeting in seven years — after reaching out in the wake of his election win. “Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country. We have been as clear...

Watching Democrats try to figure out how they lost the election is a lot like watching a baby try to take their first steps – sometimes they get very close, then they fall right on their ass. They get there eventually; balance isn’t that difficult to achieve. However, unlike walking, Democrats will lose their life balance repeatedly throughout their lives, even though people do not forget how to walk. Some of them remember how to walk, while others may never stand upright again. Let me say from the start I’m enjoying the hell out of this. Most of these leftists...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Monday on “Morning Joe” that “white progressives” who had been “spouting extreme positions” have been setting up the Democratic Party party to lose. Scarborough said, “It was true in ’17, and it was doubly true in 2024, that these white progressives on the far, far left said, ‘We’re going to save you, black and Hispanic people of America.’ A lot of black and hispanic people of America say, ‘No thanks. you’re kind of wild. You’re too far left. We believe in the American dream. We want to be part of the American dream. Thanks but...

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...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough claimed Monday on “Morning Joe” that supporters of former President Donald Trump have a twisted point of view. Scarborough said, “They laugh and they applaud at him saying they’d have to shoot the press and I don’t mind that. In 2024, that’s a laugh and applause line at a political rally. Just like in 2023, Donald Trump mocking Paul Pelosi for being bludgeoned nearly to death, making jokes about that and that was applause line. I will ask the question they think is a fair question to ask, who raised these people? Because they were not...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough claimed Monday on “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump was “preparing for civil war.” Saturday in Pennsylvania, Trump said, “Those who want to stop us from achieving this future have slandered me, impeached me, indicted me, tried to throw me off the ballot. And who knows? Maybe even tried to kill me.” He continued, “You know, I always say there is an enemy from within, and there is an outside enemy. If you are smart, the outside enemy is not going to be a problem. Russia, China, North Korea, we are not going to have...

In the wake of yet another foiled ISIS-inspired terrorist plot, this one by a Canada-based Pakistani seeking to kill Jews in New York on the anniversary of last year’s Hamas attack in Israel, everyone is loudly proclaiming: “ISIS is back.”And yet, this analysis is wrong.For someone or something to “be back,” it has to have left in the first place. This return can be surprising or expected, but in the end it is of note. With respect to the ISIS terrorist group, it has not “resurged” because it never went away in the first place.The group has been around since...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Monday on “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump’s supporters “deliberately choose lies” by believing the 2020 election had problems. Scarborough said, “You know, Donald Trump’s own staff members watched in 2020, and do you know what they said? The persons who are in charge of actually watching the election, that Donald Trump put in charge Chris Krebs said it was the cleanest, fairest election on record.” He continued, “People go, I don’t know what to believe because Donald Trump says this, but then I turn on this cable news channel that’s lying for 24...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Friday on “Morning Joe” that if elected, former President Donald Trump will become an “autocrat” who will randomly jail people and take television stations off the air. Scarborough said, “This is one of the things that I’ve just not understood, and we’ve said it here. We all talk about saving democracy and how democracy is threatened by a man who said he was going to terminate the Constitution, a man who said he was going to be a dictator on day one, a man who said he was going to kill his political enemies with...

Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough praised Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the Democrat presidential and vice-presidential nominees, respectively, for their policy proposals and endeavors. According to the former Republican congressman turned MSNBC co-host, such proposals were not “socialism,” but “pragmatic politics.” “[H]ow right the senator is that often what’s branded as far-left and progressive is right in the middle of where so many Americans are,” he said. “Like, for instance, Tim Walz is being attacked as a communist, as a socialist. Why? Because he wanted hungry kids in Minnesota to have breakfast and...

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough offered his thoughts on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago a night earlier. Scarborough touted the DNC as a “joyous occasion,” which he said was something the GOP “feared.” “You look at a convention like that — you can’t calculate it,” he said. “You have, in two Republican candidates, two guys who at least publicly, in their public persona, project misery. They are not happy. They’re always looking for retribution. They are looking for people to blame. They are looking for a reason to be upset.” “They are looking for a reason,...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Monday on “Morning Joe” that Vice President Kamala Harris should not go on Fox News to debate former President Donald Trump because they mispronounce her name. Referencing Trump, Scarborough said, “He obviously is now proposing something that is no more likely for Kamala Harris to attend than than him attending something on MSNBC in prime time. It’s just not going to happen, which means he’s trying to figure out a way to get out of this debate gracefully and just not going to be able to do it.” Co-host Jonathan Lemire said, “No. And let’s...

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough blasted former President Trump’s pick of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his vice presidential candidate on Monday, predicting that the selection could hurt Trump’s campaign. “I’ve never got a good answer in my own mind figuring this out. I can usually figure some things out in politics, not all, but I’ve never figured out this JD Vance pick,” Scarborough said on “Morning Joe.” “It just strikes me as one of the dumbest picks ever,” he continued. “It adds nothing. It accentuates [Trump’s] weaknesses, accentuates his weaknesses on abortion, accentuates his weaknesses on women.” Vance, a first-term senator...

Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” knocked Democratic strategist David Axelrod on Wednesday for continuing to criticize President Biden publicly — as the president maintains he’s committed to staying in the race. Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski in their newscast rebuked Biden’s critics and defended the president for occasionally stumbling over his words. 2024 ELECTIONS Scarborough knocks Axelrod over Biden criticism BY SARAH FORTINSKY - 07/17/24 1:16 PM ET SHARE POST Joe Scarborough speaks April 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images) Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” knocked Democratic strategist David Axelrod on...

New York CNN — MSNBC will not air “Morning Joe,” its celebrated politics roundtable program, on Monday, opting to instead air continued breaking news coverage of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The progressive news network confirmed the decision to preempt its influential and top-rated morning show after a CNN inquiry Sunday evening. The network said the show will resume airing Tuesday. The decision by MSNBC to leave one of its most recognizable programs on the sidelines amid a seismic politics-driven news cycle, with the Republican National Convention getting underway in the wake of the Saturday shooting at...

On Thursday, "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough made a striking claim: he asserted that President Joe Biden’s campaign believes that former President Barack Obama is working behind the scenes to pressure Biden to exit the presidential race. Former Obama advisers have indeed pounced on Biden since his disastrous debate performance last month, and this week, actor George Clooney, a friend of Obama's, wrote an op-ed declaring that Biden should step aside. Scarborough believes that the Biden campaign and Democratic officials suspect that Barack Obama is personally behind it all. “What’s going on behind the scenes is the Biden campaign and...