NewsBusters Podcast: Mika Rips Fox For Deciding Trump's NOT a Dictator

June 10th, 2024 8:22 PM

On 'Morning Joe,' Mika Brzezinski ripped Fox News for deciding Trump is not a dictator-in-waiting. He only joked with Sean Hannity about being a "dictator" on Day One. Trump is insane, she said, and "loves dictators and wants to be one." So you have to vote for Biden because only he "endorses democracy." 

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Mika Gets Choked Up Defending Hunter Against Mean Republicans

June 10th, 2024 10:40 AM

"There is an old trial lawyers’ saying 'When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on you side, pound the table.'”  -- Patrick Buchanan, 1975. When it came to making the case for Hunter Biden, Mika Brzezinski has managed to devise an alternative to pounding the table when the facts and the law are against you. On today's…

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Mika Hopes D-Day Opens GOP's 'Hearts To The Concept Of Democracy'

June 6th, 2024 1:28 PM

It was inevitable that with the 80th anniversary commemorations of the D-Day landings in France, MSNBC’s Morning Joe would politicize possibly the last major anniversary with living veterans by attacking Republicans. Sure enough, co-host Mika Brzezinski did precisely that on Thursday, as she demanded, “with respect,” that party leaders “open their hearts to the concept of democracy…

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Morning Joe's Attack on WSJ Article on Biden's 'Slipping' Mental State

June 5th, 2024 10:14 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough stages a counterattack on a Wall Street Journal article suggesting that Pres. Biden "shows signs of slipping." Scarborough claims that Biden is "light years ahead" of other leaders on foreign policy, ignoring the fact that Biden in just the past months claimed to have spoken with two foreign leaders who had been dead for years. 

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Scarborough Mocks Rudy For Having Coffee Brand—Forgets He Also Has One

May 22nd, 2024 1:38 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocks Rudy Giuliani for marketing his own eponymously named coffee brand, lamenting, "Unfortunately, this is our world, 2024." Scarborough apparently forgot that for years, he's had his own "Morning Joe" brand of Starbucks coffee.  Scarborough also slurs Trump voters as "stupid."

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Evidence? Joe Scarborough Accuses Justice Alito of Leaking Dobbs Draft

May 17th, 2024 5:25 PM

On Morning Joe, in the course of a segment devoted to criticizing Justice Samuel Alito for permitting an upside-down American flag to be flown at his house, Joe Scarborough accuses Alito of having leaked the draft Dobbs opinion, which overturned Roe v. Wade.

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Scarborough: Biden Campaign 'Supremely Confident, Holding Four Aces'

May 16th, 2024 9:52 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says that, based on his conversations with top Biden campaign aides, the campaign acts like they are holding 'four aces,' and is 'supremely confident.'

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Scarborough Accuses New York Times Of Rigging Polls AGAINST Biden!

May 15th, 2024 6:46 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough accuses the New York Times of rigging polls against Biden in order to create clickbait news stories.  Scarborough also shouts down John Heilemann, who politely sought to slightly differ.

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Joe Scarborough's Mother's Day Brag: I Was A Multi-Sport Star!

May 13th, 2024 10:28 AM

In his Mother's Day remembrance, Joe Scarborough manages to work in claims that in high school, he was a mult-sport star. In baseball, an "All-Star with an high average," and in basketball, "scored 30, 35 points" per game.

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Morning Joe: Stormy Daniels' Testimony 'Major Issue For Appeal'

May 8th, 2024 9:30 PM

On Morning Joe, MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos says that Stormy Daniels' testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York state court could be a major basis to appeal and overturn any possible conviction, because it was too prejudicial to Trump. 

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Scarborough: Failure To Put Down Campus Protests Could Elect Trump!

April 29th, 2024 11:15 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough condemns weak college administrators for their failure to put down pro-Hamas campus protests. He warns that, just as protests in the 1960s led to the election of Richard Nixon, the current protests could lead to the election of Donald Trump, which may be "the last election in American history."

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Scarborough Commends Reaganesque Speaker Johnson For Stand On Ukraine

April 18th, 2024 1:21 PM

Saying, "credit where credit is due," Joe Scarborough praises Speaker Mike Johnson for his stance in support of aid to Ukraine in which he described himself as a Reagan Republican who believes in peace through strength and sees the United States as the greatest country in the world. 

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Metaphor Amnesia? 'Morning Joe' Says Trump's an 'Animal' to No Outrage

April 17th, 2024 10:23 PM

On Morning Joe, Mara Gay, an MSNBC analyst and member of the editorial board of the New York Times, says of Trump: "He's like a caged animal. And that's a dangerous situation. He's feeling very threatened. He's out of control. And so we do expect him to lash out."

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On Abortion, Scarborough Slurs 'Old, Fat, White Men In Mississippi'

April 9th, 2024 9:11 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough pulls off a quintuple-header of prejudice, slamming "old, fat, white men in Mississippi" for their alleged radicalism on abortion. Scarborough thus in one phrase engages in ageism, fat-shaming, racism, sexism, and negative Southern stereotyping.