Willie Geist

Morning Joe devoted a segment on Thursday to supporting taxpayer funding of PBS, with a series of softball questions for PBS CEO Paula Kerger.

If you tuned into CNN and/or MSNBC on Thursday morning, the message was clear based on their coverage of supposed “anger” at congressional Republicans over the Trump agenda and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and hits from the left at Democratic town halls: Blue wave incoming! Nevermind these protests at GOP town halls — including one Wednesday night they were warm and…

Snobby Joe Scarborough repeatedly condescends to bloggers, saying that he will talk slowly so they'll be able to understand. His condescension comes in the context of saying that federal judges do have the authority to enjoin actions by the federal branch, and in particular, that Judge Boasberg had the authority to order the Trump administration to cease deporting members of violent gangs…

On Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN gave liberal Senator Angus King (I-ME) a forum to accuse President Donald Trump of abusing his constitutional power with his actions since taking office. And on Thursday morning, MSNBC's Morning Joe followed suit with their own interview with him entirely devoted to this topic.

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski chokes up in praising Caroline Kennedy for her "painful" decision to put out a video trashing her cousin RFK Jr. and his nomination as head of HHS.  Among other things, Caroline calls RFK a "predator" and accuses him of being responsible for the death of relatives by allegedly enticing them into drug abuse.

On Monday's Morning Joe, MSNBC co-host Joe Scarborough proclaimed that "the only reason" that Republicans will have a majority in the House of Representatives is because North Carolina Republicans "rigged" the state's congressional districts to take three seats from Democrats. The MSNBC host did not mention that there are plenty of states (California, for example) where Republicans…

Attempting to undercut Trump's nomination of Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary, Morning Joe misled on the key issue of the physical fitness of female soldiers. After playing a clip of Hegseth expressing his opposition to women in combat, the show brought on NBC national security editor David Rohde, who said: "I think clips like the one you played will raise major issues. There are women in…

Throughout the Biden-then-Harris campaign, Joe Scarborough had been an all-in flunky, an avid supporter, and a virulent critic of Trump. But now that Kamala has lost, on today's Morning Joe Scarborough suddenly became an objective critic, condemning the failure of the Democrats to understand and connect with Americans and their valid concerns. 

The morning after the election, "Mourning" Mika is dressed all in black. Claire McCaskill is near tears, saying Trump understood the electorate better than the Democrats, that "anger and fear" work, and that America's "better angels" have fled. Al Sharpton blames racial and gender bias, and says there's a lot of "misogyny" among black and Hispanic men.

On Election Day, trying to build optimism for Kamala Harris, Joe Scarborough brags that she has "900,000" volunteers in Pennsylvania. A recent Time magazine article suggests the true number is 110,000, and an internet search suggests that Scarborough used the total number of Kamala volunteers in the entire country!

On Morning Joe, reacting to Trump having called America a "garbage can for the world," Joe Scarborough breaks out a variation on America, love it or leave it. He says: "If anybody believes that America is a garbage can, that's voting this election, they're just stupid. They just don't know the facts. They may want to move somewhere else if they think it's such a hellhole."

Morning Joe devoted much of its opening segment on Kamala Harris's Fox News interview to attacking the host, Bret Baier. Mika Brzezinski calls it an 'embarrassing, bad-faith effort by a once-respected host.' Donny Deutsch says he was 'repulsed' by Baier. Anand Giridharadas accuses Baier of racism and misogyny, saying he interrupted her because as a member of the "old guard," he could…

Dem Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff and ex-mayor of Chicago, famously said that you should never let a crisis go to waste. Morning Joe took Emanuel's words to heart today. On a morning when people were desperately searching for information about the effects of Hurricane Milton, the show gifted a big chunk of its opening hour to Kamala campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu to blast Trump…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough expressed what could be considered a form of buyer's remorse over the Dems' defenestration of Biden and his replacement by Kamala Harris on the top of the ticket. Commenting on a number of swing state polls that show Trump with a narrow lead or tied with Harris, Scarborough said: "This election is tied. I will say, I'm almost getting the feeling, I don'…