On Thursday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski defended Dick Durbin, saying his claim that "Loretta Lynch...is asked to sit in the back of the bus on the Senate calendar" was "not race baiting."
Following a recap of Durbin’s comments, Brzezinski mentioned in passing that black Republican Senator Tim Scott charged Durbin with race baiting, which she mockingly dismissed without so much as a display of Scott’s comments. “Really?”
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March 20, 2015, 11:44 AM EDT
March 19, 2015, 8:47 AM EDT
With the Supreme Court’s potential overthrow of 239 years of tradition, law, and morality on marriage growing ever closer, Emma Margolin of MSNBC.com shamelessly plugged a book by former Congressman Barney Frank. Frank’s life, says Margolin with a spirit of lamentation, “offers a stark reminder of the way things used to be for a gay man living a public life at the end of the Reagan Era.”
It was filled with tragic moments, like the time in 1989, when Frank “suffer[ed]...at the hands of...The Washington Times – which exposed his two-year relationship with a male prostitute, Steven [sic] Gobie.”
March 18, 2015, 9:33 AM EDT
While conducting a discussion about Iran on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday, host Joe Scarborough proclaimed that he has "just written all of [the conservative blogs’] headlines today...‘Joe Klein: I trust [Iran’s] Revolutionary Guard.’"
Klein claimed the International Atomic Energy Agency says they're "getting access to everything" -- but in fact, the IAEA has recently complained about Iran's lack of cooperation.
March 17, 2015, 3:27 PM EDT
On Sunday, police charged 20-year old Jeffrey Williams with shooting two Ferguson police officers. The officers are alive and recovering. There is cause for rejoicing, unless you're attorney and radio show host Lizz Brown, who thought that was a sideshow to be quickly dismissed.
Appearing with Jose Diaz-Balart on MSNBC’s The Rundown on Monday, Brown glossed over it: “I think that the arrest is fine. But the challenge, Jose, is the conversation that we’re having about what's going on in Ferguson...we spent less than 24 hours discussing the resignation [of the Ferguson Police Chief], and the importance, and the significance, and ramification of that.”
Joe Scarborough's Rhetoric Slowly But Surely Tacking Leftward on 47 GOP Senators' Challenge to Obama
March 16, 2015, 5:23 PM EDT
Relax folks. The planet is back on its axis. The momentary blips of genuine journalism are over and MSNBC is back to toeing the leftist line. Case in point is the evolution of Morning Joe’s token "conservative" host Joe Scarborough.
March 16, 2015, 7:07 AM EDT
With her 21-minute press conference admitting she should have had two phones for her e-mail practices, Hillary Clinton wants to put the matter behind us, the media wants to move on, and it looks like Americans are going to be forced to watch the Clintons dodge another scandalous bullet.
But during his guest appearance on Thursday’s Special Report With Bret Baier, Charles Krauthammer supplied a different take: too much is in play, and too many people want her e-mails for the scandal to simply disappear into oblivion.
March 13, 2015, 7:47 AM EDT
Mika Brzezinski has never been short on hyperbolic statements when it comes to Republicans. But she outdid herself in her Wednesday Morning Joe rant on their letter to Iran. She claimed “Senator Tom Cotton either wants to help out Iran, as Hillary Clinton said, or he doesn't understand politics...and foreign policy.”
Joe Scarborough was quick to label the outrageous remark as "deeply offensive," but Brzezinski doubled down, insisting that "they either wanted to embolden Iran or at least help them or they just were delivering a self-inflicted wound to themselves, with the collateral damage being the President and Iran, possibly. But it was idiotic, really stupid, totally out of step, and as damaging as it gets. Congratulations, Republicans."
March 12, 2015, 1:35 PM EDT
Now that Hillary Clinton has finally revealed that she broke e-mail protocol for the sake of convenience, CNN can now direct the nation’s fury toward the evil Republicans who sent a letter to the world’s foremost sponsor of terrorism, explaining that President Obama’s deal is as constitutionally strong as Iran’s sincerity in cultivating nuclear energy.
Enter CNN’s David Gergen, who, despite working for the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan Administrations, announced on Tuesday night's Erin Burnett OutFront that he “can't remember an instance in which such a letter has been sent. This much of an interference has been launched from the halls of Congress with the President in the midst of negotiations.”
March 10, 2015, 6:18 PM EDT
MSNBC seems to be full of surprises this week. On Monday the Morning Joe crew hosted a genuine conservative from National Review. On Tuesday, they called out Democratic strategist James Carville and dogpiled on former DNC chairman Howard Dean.
March 10, 2015, 6:17 AM EDT
MSNBC is not known for its showcasing conservative voices. When conservatives are invited, they are ruthlessly grilled and struggle to get a word in edgewise. With this in mind, it was surprising to see Andrew McCarthy of National Review on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Even more surprising was his comments on Benghazi and Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.
Willie Geist got to the heart of the discussion by asking McCarthy what his stake was in Clinton email controversy, “Is this about security? Is it about accountability and transparency?”
March 7, 2015, 7:39 PM EST
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski’s alarmist rhetoric went code red as she recounted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress. The speech was not the work of a statesman trying to do what he felt best for his country, but a “disappointing and possibly horrifying....hostage situation” that was engineered by the Republicans who “are getting involved in destructive politics, and undermining the president.”
A speech on Iran put Americans in a "hostage situation." That's a wild metaphor.
March 6, 2015, 5:06 PM EST
Ben Carson has committed the ultimate sin against the religion of modern liberalism: he dared to question the orthodox doctrine that people are born gay. It’s not allowed to suggest it might be a choice, not a gene.
MSNBC’s new afternoon host, openly gay Thomas Roberts, mockingly dismissed Carson’s comments as if they were self-evidently ridiculous, “Dr. Ben Carson…says gay prisoners are proof that homosexuality is a choice. Seriously, that happened….Who knew being a gay is apparently a choice?”
March 6, 2015, 8:45 AM EST
Try as he might, Joe Scarborough cannot understand why the Clinton family won’t admit to their moral failures. On Thursday's show, he said “There is something…in the Clintons…there's always a vast right wing conspiracy. There's always the media coming after them. There's always a blood sport. It’s never about them when, in fact, it's always about them.”
But Mike Barnicle was on site to explain away Hillary Clinton’s feeling that she is above the law: politics ruined her childhood. Hillary behaves as she does because “the Clintons have been in a cocoon of practically in a weird way privacy, their own privacy, the presidential privacy, the Hillary Clinton, I'm Hillary Clinton privacy, a security bubble for over a quarter of a century and they are precluded from leading a normal life.”
March 4, 2015, 9:33 AM EST
Criticizing Elizabeth Warren’s "angry" rhetoric is not just unacceptable, it is sexist. At least that’s the contention of Mika Brzezinski’s tantrum over Warren Buffett’s remarks about the Massachusetts Senator on Tuesday’s Morning Joe.
What terrible misogynistic screed did Buffett unleash that made Brzezinski so upset? He observed that Warren "would do better if she was less angry and demonized less.” Mika announced “I think that’s sexist. I think it’s preposterous."
March 3, 2015, 1:26 PM EST
What was supposed to be a report on a constitutional battle in Alabama by CNN’s Elliott C. McLaughlin quickly transformed into what can only be described as gushing celebration of a triumph over traditional marriage advocates who are stuck living in the past.
McLaughlin began his piece on CNN.com with the story of a father of a gay man calling his son’s wedding "disgusting." He then poured contempt on the father as if he were a Klansman saying, "Disgusting, a word one might use to describe child molesters or a dead opossum in the road, was being applied to a couple of seven years exchanging vows that they'd love and cherish each other forever.”
February 28, 2015, 7:32 AM EST
The inverted morality of the pro-abortion movement has surfaced again. At MSNBC.com, Ali Vitali, a producer of The Cycle, barely contains her inner fangirl as she squeals in delight over the HBO’s Girls for a “refreshing” take on a woman terminating her child’s life.
“On TV and film, the decision for a woman to have an abortion is often fraught with remorse and tinged with regret, perpetuating the stigma that women who have abortions should be ashamed of themselves.”
February 27, 2015, 2:52 PM EST
Chris Matthews continues to be MSNBC’s unending source of enlightened commentary on race relations and Republican guilt. This time on Thursday’s edition of The Reid Report he suggested that conservative opposition to executive amnesty is rooted in southern racism and was sure to remind everyone that Republicans alone will be blamed if Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shuts down “because they don't like government."
February 27, 2015, 9:07 AM EST
In anticipation of his town hall meeting with the president, José Díaz-Balart dedicated a little over an hour and a half of his four prior broadcasts of The Rundown to the subject of immigration and to the battle over the funding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). While he occasionally hosted conservative voices on these issues, he overtly sacrificed his objectivity on the altar of advocacy in a number of ways.
Díaz-Balart downplayed the conservative contention that Obama's completely exceeded his constitutional authority, insisting to guests that Obama's the only one that's moving the issue forward (so who really cares about the niceties?)
February 24, 2015, 4:59 PM EST
After careful consideration, Mike Barnicle has figured out why Giuliani questioned President Obama’s patriotism. In an article for the Daily Beast, Barnicle says Giuliani questioned Obama’s love for the nation, not for the reasons he clearly outlined, but because he is a “nut boy” full of “bitterness and a contempt that borders on hate” who engaged in an “off-the-cliff assault” against the President as part of a “loud, please notice me, clown act.”
And he might be racist. Barnicle went to former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs for the usual race-baiting.
February 23, 2015, 2:32 PM EST
The Islamic State is beheading Christians and sex trafficking young girls as it ruthlessly consumes everyone in its path. The Islamic group Boko Haram is wreaking havoc across Nigeria. An Islamic terrorist murdered Charlie Hebdo staff over cartoons. But Newsweek -- or the wandering ghost of the old Newsweek brand, now owned by IBT Media -- has identified a much graver threat than Islamic terrorism: Islamophobia.
On the Opinion section of Newsweek.com last week, an article explored a Center for American Progress report called “Fear 2.0" which explored “The Islamophobia Network’s Efforts to Manufacture Hate in America.” But in fact, the article was simply a reprint directly from the CAP website.