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Bitter Scarborough: ‘Change the Channel’ if You Don't Want the Truth

May 22nd, 2018 6:07 PM
During Tuesday’s edition of Morning Joe, MSNBC co-host Joe Scarborough had a surprising recommendation for viewers: “If you don't want to hear the truth, you can change the channel!” Scarborough made the remark after fiancé and fellow co-host Mika Brzezinski finished an interview with anti-Trump Republican Max Boot, who noted in an opinion column from the Washington Post “the five political norms…
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'Morning Joe' Praises Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller as a 'Cyborg'

August 31st, 2017 5:43 PM
Mark Halperin, one of the regular panelists on MSNBC’s Morning Joe weekday program and a senior political analyst for the cable television channel, demonstrated yet again on Thursday, August 31, why he and his fellow participants are not interested in being “fair and balanced."
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CNN's John Avlon: 'Hatred of Hillary Clinton Uniting Trump Coalition'

July 25th, 2017 6:02 PM
During a panel discussion on the Cable News Network on Tuesday, July 25, John Avlon -- editor-in-chief of the liberal Daily Beast website and a CNN political analyst -- claimed that with all the turmoil surrounding GOP President Donald Trump, “the only thing that unites his coalition right now seems to be hatred of Hillary Clinton.”
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‘Morning Joe’ ‘Kids’ Produce False Anti-Republican TV Advertisement

May 27th, 2017 2:57 PM
‘Working at the Morning Joe weekday program apparently has its advantages. One of those was demonstrated on Friday, May 26, when co-host Joe Scarborough aired a fake 30-second television advertisement he had told “the kids in the back that work for us” -- and were “out in the street playing stickball” at the time -- to “draw up an ad that will look like what we’re going to see next year.” The…
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DNC Chair Donna Brazile: 'Hillary Is Truth-Shaker, Jelly-Maker'

September 26th, 2016 4:55 PM
During an appearance on Monday's edition of the Morning Joe program on the liberal MSNBC cable TV channel, Donna Brazile -- the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee -- behaved in what can best be described as an “animated” manner from swaying in her seat to making a number of expressive gestures. According to an article by Mark Finkelstein of the legalinsurrection.com website, “…
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Rachel Maddow Slams RNC Speaker, Woman Golfer for Modest LPGA Ranking

July 21st, 2016 5:23 PM
Judging from MSNBC weeknight anchor Rachel Maddox's actions while covering Wednesday night's events at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, she has never heard the motto “If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.” In an obvious attempt to diminish the importance of GOP speaker Natalie Gulbis before she had a chance to utter a single word, the liberal host stated…

Delusional Ed Schultz Claims GOP Rep. Wants Media Censorship of Wall S

October 11th, 2011 5:38 PM
The inevitable question about radio blowhard and MSNBC action hero Ed Schultz -- is he dense or dishonest? That he's both is also a distinct possibility. Schultz piously fulminated against Republican congressman Peter King of New York on his radio show yesterday for suggesting that public policy enacted in response to mob demands from the streets, as occurred during the '60s that liberals…

New York Times Profile Still Trying to Link Loughner to Right-Wing Ext

January 16th, 2011 11:21 AM
The New York Times simply can’t help themselves.  They simply cannot leave their opinions out of supposedly objective pieces of journalism.  Which begs the question, if the bulk of the articles contain this type of reporting, why does the Times even bother having a separate opinion section? In a profile piece on Tucson gunman Jared Loughner titled, Looking Behind the Mug-Shot Grin of an…

NewsBusters 5th Anniversary: A Look Back at Some of Our Top Posts on M

July 29th, 2010 5:35 PM

FNC's Pinkerton Cites NB Coverage Of Rand-Scarborough-Maddow Kerfuffle

May 22nd, 2010 3:24 PM
On this weekend's Fox News Watch, panelist Jim Pinkerton cited this NewsBusters item in which Joe Scarborough passed along the comment from an unnamed conservative insider questioning "what the hell was [Rand Paul] doing on MSNBC?", a reference to Paul's appearance on the Rachel Maddow show in which he made comments on the 1964 Civil Rights Act that have caused controversy.  The irony of course…

Fox News Watch 'Hats Off' To NewsBusters On Obama Admin Leak Of Mutall

February 6th, 2010 3:36 PM
On February 2nd, NBC correspondent Pete Williams announced Breaking News during the 5 PM ET edition of Hardball: the Christmas Day Bomber, Umar Abdul Mutallab, was giving fresh, actionable information to the FBI which the United States was in turn "aggressively chasing down."Less than an hour later, this NewsBuster blogged on the matter, wondering whether by leaking the news, "the Obama…

News Watch NewsBusters Shout-Out On Obama Refusal To Defend Japan Nuki

November 15th, 2009 7:44 AM
On Friday, this NewsBuster noted how Pres. Obama, questioned at a news conference in Japan, twice refused to say whether he thought the United States' dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was "the right decision."Yesterday on Fox News Watch, Jim Pinkerton noted the NewsBusters nugget.  The Fox News contributor and New America Foundation fellow observed that PBO's failure had huge…

NewsBuster Finkelstein On Joe-Mika Radio Show Spars On Fat Tax, Fox Ne

October 29th, 2009 1:19 PM
Earlier today, the Joe Scarborough radio show, with Mika Brzezinski, aired a wide-ranging interview with this NewsBuster.  Highlights:Mika justified her nanny-state proposal of a tax on fatty foods by saying eating habits are not a matter of personal choice because others must bear the health care cost.  Finkelstein's response: kill two birds with one stone by getting government out of the health…

NB's Finkelstein To Scarborough On Obama School Speech: It's Not The I

September 9th, 2009 10:36 AM
NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein was a guest yesterday on the Joe Scarborough Show, the nationally-syndicated radio show that the Morning Joe anchor co-hosts with Mika Brzezinski.  Listen to audio here. For days, Scarborough had been lambasting Republicans for going after Pres. Obama on his speech to schoolchildren.  Finkelstein argued that it was not so much the potential for indoctrination as the…