Willie Geist

Morning Joe Mocks Speaker Johnson's Snowstorm 'Spin' on NY-3rd Loss
Morning Joe mocks Speaker Mike Johnson for partially blaming the Republican loss in the NY-3rd special election on an Election Day snowstorm. But the show ignored the fact that Democrats enjoyed a major advantage over Republicans in early voting and mail-in voting, and thus were not as affected for same day voting by the snowstorm.

Scarborough Blames Trump For Special Election Loss In Santos District
Claiming it was a "district Republicans should have won," Joe Scarborough blames Donald Trump for the Republican loss in the special election in NY's 3rd congressional district to replace the disgraced George Santos. This, despite Biden having won the district in 2020, voters surely wanting to punish Santos retroactively, and the Republican candidate is still a registered Democrat who…

Morning Joe: Don't Bomb Iran's Oil, Higher Gas Prices Bad For Biden
On Morning Joe, Jennifer Palmieri, a Morning Joe regular and Obama's former communications director, opposes Joe Scarborough's suggestion of bombing Iranian oil fields in retaliation for the drone attack by Iranian proxies on a US military outpost that killed three US soldiers and wounded dozens of others. She says the result of such bombing would be to raise oil prices, and that "higher gas…

Morning Joe's Bloody Revenge on Trump: Speculates On Bleeding Hand
If there was one thing that transformed Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski from mere critics of Donald Trump into savage antagonists, it was Trump's tweets back in 2017 saying that Mika and Joe had begged to be invited to his New Year's Eve party, but he said no, noting that "Mika was bleeding badly from a facelift." Morning Joe got a measure of revenge today, speculating about Trump…

Joe Scarborough SMEAR: Iowa Republicans Like Candidates Who Rape Women
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough repeatedly claims that, judging by the caucus results in Iowa, Republicans there "like candidates who have raped women," as found by a New York judge.

Surprise! Mika Calls Out Trump's Kiss-and-Tell Fraud Investigator
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski challenges Ken Block, who had been hired by the Trump campaign to investigate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, on his decision to make all his findings, which were contrary to Trump's interest, public.

NYT's Mara Gay: Claudine Gay Victimized by Right-Wing Racist Attack
On Morning Joe, Mara Gay of the New York Times editorial board describes the resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay as the result of racist slander by conservatives.

Power Pals: ABC, CNN, MSNBC Begin New Year with Softballs for KJP
On Tuesday morning as more Americans returned to work, ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN This Morning, and MSNBC’s Morning Joe partnered with their allies in the Biden administration to forcefeed viewers White House propaganda in the form of softball interviews with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Morning Joe on Haley Slavery Slip: Doesn't Realize Can't Win MAGA Vote
On Morning Joe, self-described "Never Trump conservative" Matt Lewis says that in refusing to mention slavery when asked the cause of the Civil War, Nikki Haley misreads her core constituency. MAGA voters will never vote for her. She is running to win the primary in New Hampshire, not in Alabama or Mississippi.

'Morning Joe' Whines Hunter Biden Indictment Makes 'False Equivalency'
While ABC, CBS, and NBC dryly and seriously addressed the new Hunter Biden indictment on tax charges in California, MSNBC’s Morning Joe didn't discuss the new Hunter indictment until a half-hour had elapsed, and then they implied this shouldn’t have happened.

Mika: Halt U.S. Aid to Israel Till Bibi Explains Delayed 10/7 Response
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski suggests that the US halt its aid to Israel until PM Benjamin Netanyahu explains the delay in responding to Hamas's 10/7 terror attacks.

Morning Joe Blasts Those Refusing To Totally Condemn Hamas Use of Rape
The Morning Joe panel unanimously condemns people like Dem Rep. Pramila Jayapal and others who refuse to unequivocally condemn Hamas' use of rape as a tool of war.

Geist: 'Ideally,' Young People Will Vote For 'Pro-Choice' Candidates
On Morning Joe, Willie Geist says that when young, pro-choice voters go to the polls to vote for referenda promoting abortion rights, "ideally" they will also vote for "pro-choice" candidates.

'Squirrel Fryer' Hillbilly? Scarborough Mocks Comer's Kentucky Roots
On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough attacked House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer as a hillbilly, mocking the probe of Biden influence-peddling: "We ain't really got nuthin' but a squirrel fryer and a hound dog." Later, Scarborough piled on: "Comer and his gang are running for the hills in their coon hats, holding a squirrel fryer in their left hand and a shotgun in…