Mika Brzezinski

Explaining Biden's Bad Polling, CNN Ignores His Afghan Fiasco
If there's one thing Democrats would like voters to forget, it's Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Thirteen US military members killed. Untold numbers Americans left behind. The country quickly seized by the Taliban. CNN did its part to advance Afghanistan amnesia this morning. In a New Day segment on Biden's bad poll numbers with poll maven Harry Enten, the Afghan elephant in…

'A Bit of a Hit': Mika Brzezinski Downplays Biden's Polling Plunge
President Biden's approval rating has plunged to a historic low of 38%, as per the latest Quinnipiac poll. But on Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski blithely characterizes it as "the president’s approval rating taking A BIT OF A HIT." She asks UT-Austin Prof. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto what the "way forward" is for Democrats. She advises Biden to focus on "everyday" Americans, and to warn them of the…

On Morning Joe, Lefty Brit Journo Sees 'Beginning of End' for Facebook
Morning Joe today brought on Carol Cadwalladr, an investigative reporter for the left-wing UK paper The Observer. Cadwalladr has been a fierce critic of Facebook. During her MSNBC appearance, she openly rooted for Facebook's demise, saying: "I think, there's some very, very serious trouble coming for Facebook . . . I do think we could be witnessing something of the beginning…

Joe Scarborough Slams 'Bizarre' Release of Sirhan Sirhan and Hinckley
On Tuesday's Morning Joe, Scarborough reacted vehemently to the news that a federal judge has ordered the unconditional release of John Hinckley Jr., the attempted assassin of President Reagan. Scarborough was similarly outraged at the recommendation of a California parole board earlier this year to grant parole to Sirhan B. Sirhan, the Palestinian who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy…

Screaming Scarborough Told Dems to Play Hardball With GOP
On Morning Joe, a screaming Joe Scarborough plays the hard-nosed Democrat strategist, telling Dems they need to play hardball with Republicans on raising the debt limit.

WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki PUSHES for Big Tech to Censor More
It’s as if Big Tech has not already been censoring enough. Now the Biden administration is pushing platforms in an even more censorious direction. COVID-19, like many national crises, has been used to push for more government tyranny. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki explained in a September 24 Morning Joe interview that platforms don't censor Americans enough: “As we’re in the…

Mika Plays Defense As 'Morning Joe' Blasts Biden's French Sub Fiasco
Morning Joe—in the persons of Scarborough, Richard Haass, Anne Gearan, and Willie Geist—tore into Biden's mishandling of the cancellation of Australia's submarine-building contract with France in favor of one with the US. But Biden had one, lonely, backer: Mika Brzezinski. She piped up throughout the long segment, doing her best to defend Biden.

Scarborough Suppresses Most Serious China-Call Allegation About Milley
The most serious charge against General Milley is that, without notifying the President and Commander-in-Chief, Milley agreed to give China advance notice of an impending attack. Yet in defending Milley on Morning Joe today, Joe Scarborough outrageously suppressed any mention of that allegation. Instead he cast Milley as issuing a stern warning to China.

WATCH: Reporters Remember Covering the 9/11 Attacks
On Friday, several journalists across multiple media outlets emotionally remembered where they were on 9/11, connections they had to the victims, and how they managed to cover the horrific attack on America 20 years ago.

WashPost's Max Boot on Afghanistan: Trump and Pompeo 'Need to Shut Up'
On Morning Joe, Washington Post columnist Max Boot says that Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo "just need to find a good opportunity right now to just shut up and stop criticizing" Biden's mishandling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. Boot argues that it was Trump and Pompeo who originally set the withdrawal in motion, and are now in no position to criticize what Boot admits is Biden's "very…
NBC's Engel Blasts Biden: 100 Times Worse than Saigon
In all my many years of blogging MSM outbursts against Republican presidents, I've never seen anyone angrier Richard Engel about Biden's Afghanistan fiasco. Well, there was Keith Olbermann. But for present purposes, let's leave aside the clinically disturbed. In a piece with which Morning Joe opened today's show, Engel absolutely unleashed on the Biden administration. Rolling heartbreaking…

MSNBC Hack on Afghanistan: Biden Couldn't Foresee, 'Boxed In' By Trump
Today's Morning Joe offered the spectacle of a stunning contrast between two Democrats, one principled, the other totally cynical, on the issue of Biden's Afghanistan fiasco. On the one hand, Mika Brzezinski. As anti-Trump as ever, but passionately blaming Biden for "leaving to die" Afghans who had helped America. Mika also said that as much as Trump can be blamed, ultimately, "Joe Biden made…

Column: Cable News 'Death Cult' Craziness Goes Unpunished
One of the regular tropes of liberal cable news in recent weeks is applauding how Big Tech is censoring any politicians or other leaders who are spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. They cheer when Sen. Rand Paul gets blocked by YouTube, for example, for questioning the effectiveness of masks. But these same liberal cable networks are spewing wild misinformation about the…