Eugene Robinson

LOL: Morning Joe Hails 'Sharp as a Tack' President Biden!
Who you gonna believe: Joe Scarborough or your lyin' eyes? The opening segment of Morning Joe was devoted to the panel making the collective claim that, the evidence notwithstanding, Joe Biden is not just "sharp," but in the words of Eugene Robinson, "sharp as a tack."

MSNBC’s Scarborough on America’s Major Alliances: Biden Built That!
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Eugene Robinson on Tuesday’s Morning Joe procured an excessively sycophantic rant about President Joe Biden’s foreign policy amid Russia’s war on Ukraine and an upcoming NATO summit he was in Europe to attend. They credited Biden for the introduction of Sweden and Finland into NATO, as well as for the existence of most of America’s military alliances across…

Would It Kill Morning Joe To Let A Republican Comment On GOP Race?
Morning Joe offers an all-liberal panel of Jen Palmieri, Eugene Jackson, and Jonathan Lemire to comment on the Republican presidential primary. Would it kill the show to have on a Republican to comment on the Republican race?

Morning Joe: Trump's a Pathological, Weird, Criminal Hoarder
Trying to explain why Donald Trump held onto classified documents after leaving the presidency, Morning Joe describes him as a pathological, weird, bizarre, criminal hoarder, similar to John Nash, the schizophrenic mathematician who was the subject of the movie, A Beautiful Mind.

Scarborough Slams Liberals Lecturing Sen. Tim Scott on Being Black
Tuesday’s Morning Joe featured a revealing segment dedicated to Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) appearance on The View and the left’s inevitable racial divisiveness. It ended up being a rather embarrassing admission of the left’s own racism disguised as an attempt to virtue signal how tolerant they were toward racial minorities with conservative views. Scarborough started out…

GO FIGURE: MSNBC Gives 10 Mins Less to Biden Fall vs. Trump on a Ramp
On Thursday afternoon, President Biden took a might tumble when he fell nearly flat on his face at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Such a fall drew eyeballs and defenses from the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC with the conservative drinking game words of capitalizing, pouncing and seizing on it. Over on the liberal cable networks CNN and MSNBC, both (largely) saw no reason to be concerned and…

Scarborough Scolds Democrat 'Bedwetters' Over One Bad Biden Poll
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough scolds Democrat "bedwetters" who are upset over an ABC News/Washington Post poll showing Joe Biden with historically low approval ratings and losing to Donald Trump in a head-to-head match-up.

'WHEEE!' Joe Scarborough Mocks DeSantis for Baseball Throwing Motion
Joe Scarborough goes "whee" 11 times in a segment mocking Ron DeSantis' baseball throwing motion.

'Take Him Down!' Morning Joe Mad at GOP For Not Hitting Trump Harder
Morning Joe expresses frustration with Republicans for not going after Donald Trump harder in the context of the 2024 GOP primary. Eugene Robinson best summed up the panel's mood: "If you're going to not have Donald Trump as your nominee, you'd better take him down! You better go after him."

Morning Joe Turns Gush Meter To 11 Over Biden's Ukraine Visit
Morning Joe turns the gush meter to 11 over Pres. Biden's trip to Ukraine, calling it "incredible, staggering, historic," and comparing Biden's bravery to that of Lincoln during the Civil War.

Scarborough's Incredibly Shameless On Gun/Abortion-Rights 'Fetishness'
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough denounces Republican "fetishness" over gun rights. But he ignores the Democrats extreme position on abortion, which supports the right to abortion up to, and in some cases even beyond, birth.

WORST OF 2022: The Media Heroes Award
Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The Media Heroes Award.

'Could He Perform Job?' Mika Speaking of Herschel, Or Fetterman?
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski asks, "can he speak to the issues? Does he have a grasp on the issues? Would he be able to perform the job as senator?" Mika was speaking of Republican Herschel Walker, candidate for Senate from Georgia. But the same questions could just as easily have applied to John Fetterman, the stroke-impaired Democrat from Pennsylvania. Except the liberal media never asked…

Media Throw World’s Sappiest Going Away Party for Nancy Pelosi
True, the media slobbering all over Democratic politicians is fairly unremarkable. But given the Republicans’ rather lackluster performance in the recent midterm elections, now more than ever it’s worth noting just how subservient the media are to Democrats.