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Year-End Awards: The Pantsuit Patrol Award for Boosting Hillary Clinton

By Rich Noyes | December 29, 2015, 12:29 AM EST

This week, NewsBusters is presenting the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Pantsuit Patrol Award,” for boosting Hillary Clinton. (As always, thanks to our 39 judges w ...

Willie Geist: MSM Bias in 'Disgusting' WaPo Cartoon Mocking Cruz Kids

By Mark Finkelstein | December 23, 2015, 10:35 AM EST

There was surprising consensus on today's Morning Joe concerning the Washington Post cartoon that depicted Ted Cruz as an organ grinder and his youngs girls as monkeys. From Mika Brzezinski to Joe Scarborough to Harold Ford, Jr., there was universal ...

Best Bet to Beat Hillary? Mika Says It's Trump

By Mark Finkelstein | December 18, 2015, 12:26 PM EST

The polls might currently be suggesting something else, but Mika Brzezinski's view on which Republican has the best shot at beating Hillary Clinton might surprise you. On today's Morning Joe, Mika said "If you want someone to beat Hillary C ...

Morning Joe Gushes Over Graham for Ripping Republicans on Muslim Rhetoric

By Mark Finkelstein | December 16, 2015, 9:57 AM EST

When tagging items at NewsBusters, one of our Media Bias sub-categories is "Sudden Respect." The notion is that to win the affection of the MSM, all a Republican or conservative needs to do is turn against members or positions of his party. A gr ...

Purged! Morning Joe Drops Ted Cruz from Vegas Debate Image

By Mark Finkelstein | December 15, 2015, 9:14 AM EST

UPDATE: Scarborough just discussed blooper on air, mentioning NB and this NewsBusters. Video clip below!---------------------------------------------------- Ted Cruz: MSNBC's modern-day version of Nikolai Yezhov! Yezhov was the head of Stalin's ...

Mournful Mika Wonders If Anyone Can Improve on Trump Muslim Ban

By Mark Finkelstein | December 10, 2015, 9:00 AM EST

The last person you'd imagine backing Donald Trump's Muslim ban might be Mika Brzezinski. Yet on today's Morning Joe, a reluctant Mika came close to doing just that. Brzezinski springboarded off the news that the visa screening program fail ...

Mika On Trump Muslim Plan: I Blame George W. Bush

By Mark Finkelstein | December 8, 2015, 8:25 AM EST

One of James Taranto's tongue-in-cheek tropes at his  Best of the Web Today   column   is "We Blame George Bush." As Wikipedia describes it, the trope "is a play on the perceived tendency for many of his detractors to lay the blame for ...

When Obama Loses Mika's Daughter...

By Mark Finkelstein | December 7, 2015, 2:54 PM EST

Given the Morning Joe reviews, if President Obama's terrorism speech were a Broadway show, it would have closed after one night. From Richard Haass to Richard Engel, Joe Scarborough to Willie Geist, the prez's performance was universally panned. ...

Scarborough Rips GOP on Gun Laws: You Pick the NRA Over Public Safety

By Michael McKinney | November 23, 2015, 1:55 PM EST

On Monday's  Morning Joe, the crew discussed New York Police Commissioner William Bratton's appearance on Sunday's Meet the Press. Joe Scarborough played a clip of Bratton begging Congress to pass a law preventing people on the government&# ...

Scarborough Questions President’s Mudslinging, Ignatius Says Governors Are Worse

By Michael McKinney | November 18, 2015, 11:32 AM EST

Morning Joe on Wednesday discussed the recent remarks by President Obama on Republicans who are “afraid of orphans and widows.” When the discussion turned to David Ignatius for commentary, he gave a defense of Obama stating, “The  President is standing up ...

Mika Brzezinski: There Is Vetting Despite No Records to Verify

By Michael McKinney | November 17, 2015, 1:56 PM EST

Morning Joe featured on Tuesday, an interview with Congressman Peter King. Early into the segment, Mika Brzezinski began a war of words with Congressman King. After Brzezinski introduced the topic, King stated, “ I'm extremely concerned  because what ...

Mika Attacks ‘Hateful’ ‘Stupid’ GOP Governors for Questioning Syrian Refugees

By Jeffrey Meyer | November 17, 2015, 10:06 AM EST

On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski went off on a number of governors who have vocally expressed their opposition to allowing Syrian refugees into their state without a proper vetting process, calling their views “hateful” and “stupid.” The ...

Barnicle Frets Creating NATO Force Would Fuel ISIS Recruitment

By Mark Finkelstein | November 17, 2015, 8:22 AM EST

If Mike Barnicle were around at the beginning of WWII, perhaps he would have written "we better not fight back. It might make Hitler mad."    On today's Morning Joe, the cringing former Boston Globe columnist, second-guessing a united front ...

Morning Joe Sees the President Disengaged Against ISIS

By Michael McKinney | November 16, 2015, 12:19 PM EST

Monday’s Morning Joe began with an evaluation of the actions of the White House prior to and after the attack on Paris Friday night. Joe Scarborough began by demanding to know if the roundtable thought the President actually looked involved and engaged in ...

Former CIA Director Hayden Stuns Mika With Praise of Carson's Foreign Policy Approach

By Mark Finkelstein | November 13, 2015, 8:33 AM EST

"Wow... I'm absolutely surprised by that answer...  Are you sure?... Are we talking about the same person?" That was Mika Brzezinski's stunned response after her attempt to recruit retired General and former CIA Director Michael Hayden ...