Cackles & Evasions
December 17th, 2007 1:06 PM
Is Hillary Clinton's campaign still communicating with Billy Shaheen? And does Hillary still consider Obama's youthful drug use a relevant campaign issue? Clinton wouldn't say this morning. Hillary sandwiched her evasions between two moments of mirth and hilarity on today's Morning Joe.View video here.Earlier in the morning, Hillary began her Today interview with David Gregory with a smile.…
Revisionist Mika Credits Dinkins, Not Giuliani, for NYC Crime-Stopping
December 12th, 2007 1:17 PM
Mika Brzezinski: back on the crime beat with another loopy liberal take on reality . . .Yesterday, the resident lefty on the Morning Joe panel -- defying the facts of the volunteer guard who stopped the Colorado church shooter -- labeled as "the most inane thing" she'd ever heard the notion that one armed citizen could make a difference.Today, in a breathtaking bit of revisionist history,…
MSNBC's Shuster: Waterboarding Equivalent to Shooting Legs Off
December 11th, 2007 1:20 PM
MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and David Shuster squared off in a heated battle on Tuesday over whether waterboarding constitutes torture. Scarborough appeared exasperated with his left-leaning guest and, at one point, derided, "Are you an expert? When did you decide and when did the liberal media decide and when did all of us in Manhattan, Georgetown and West Hollywood decide that waterboarding was…
Mika on Church Shootings: 'Inane' To Think Armed Citizen Can Make a Di
December 11th, 2007 9:59 AM
Don't confuse Mika Brzezinski with the facts. She's anti-gun and is not about to let some stunning counter-evidence change her mind.If ever there was an illustration of how an armed citizen can make a difference, it is the case of Jeanne Assam, the brave woman who took out the killer at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs. And yet . . . On today's Morning Joe, Mika -- in newsreader mode --…
Frank Rich Hearts Huckabee
December 10th, 2007 7:21 AM
As Republican primary campaign slogans go, "Endorsed by Frank Rich!" might not be a candidate's strongest play. But for better or worse Mike Huckabee is essentially stuck with it after Rich's NYT's column of yesterday. The ostensible theme of "The Republicans Find Their Obama" is that Republican voters are leaning toward Huckabee for the same reasons that Dems are trending to Obama: that both…
Shuster Imagines Evangelicals Going to Gitmo To 'Torture People Just f
December 7th, 2007 8:17 AM
"We'll go to a revival and then go to Guantanamo Bay and torture some people just for fun." -- David Shuster on evangelicals, 12-7-07So astonishingly malicious were the words of David Shuster today that they leave me at a loss for words of my own. So let's just say it simply: David Shuster is an anti-evangelical bigot. Video (0:35): Real (991 kB) and Windows (1.11 MB), plus MP3 audio (274 kB).
MSNBC's Scarborough Skewers the Moral Relativism of 'View' Crew
December 4th, 2007 11:16 AM
On Tuesday's "Morning Joe," hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist skewered the morally relative, anti-American comments made by the women of "The View" on last Friday's edition of the ABC program. As reported on NewsBusters, hosts Sherri Sheppard and Whoopi Goldberg assigned blame to a British schoolteacher who was being persecuted in the Sudan for naming a teddy bear Muhammad. After playing a…
Clinton Campaign: Kindergarten Crack Just a 'Joke
December 4th, 2007 8:13 AM
That Hillary Clinton -- such a prankster! Yes, if there's one thing Hillary is known for, it's her great sense of humor and light touch. So when she included Barack Obama's statements as a third-grader and kindergartner in her press release for purposes of demonstrating he was lying when he said he hadn't long harbored presidential ambitions, we should have all realized it was just one more of…
Erin Burnett Apologizes and Howard Kurtz Defends Her
December 4th, 2007 2:45 AM
In a follow-up report, Erin Burnett made a half-hearted apology for her failed joke about President Bush being a monkey on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Monday, November 26. The video is posted below: Do you believe her? Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post does.
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: November 24 to
December 1st, 2007 10:10 AM
CNN's Clinton Crasher at GOP DebateFrom CNN's perspective, what would be the perfect addition to its YouTube Republican debate? Why, someone who is on a steering committee for the Hillary Clinton campaign! Keith Kerr, a retired, gay general was in the audience for the November 28 debate and grilled the Republican candidates over the issue of homosexuals in the military. Somehow, CNN forgot to…
Erin Burnett Calls Bush AND Angela Merkel a 'Monkey' on Morning Joe
November 30th, 2007 11:25 AM
With embedded video below the fold On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," back on Monday, Erin Burnett let loose with her real feelings and laid it on the line right on the air, calling President Bush a "monkey" during a business news piece about the Nicolas Sarkozy visit to China. During the news piece, Burnett said that she couldn't see how anyone couldn't have a "man-crush on that man," in an apparent…
MSM Laughs Along As Chris Rock Tells Harlem Crowd Not to Vote for 'Tha
November 30th, 2007 7:15 AM
A conservative comedian [yes, there are some], appears at a venue in a heavily-white suburb at a campaign event for a white candidate and tells his audience composed overwhelmingly of people of pallor they'd be embarrassed if they supported a black candidate and the white candidate won, saying "Oh no. I can't call him now. I had that black guy. What was I thinking?"What are the odds the MSM…
Scarborough: 'Total Crap' CNN Didn't Know Gay Questioner Is Clinton Ca
November 29th, 2007 7:24 AM
Update | 8:05 AM: Hillary's Howard tries to weasel out. See update at foot.Like Rudy and Romney going after each other over immigration last night at the GOP debate, MSNBC was taking some jabs at rival CNN this morning on the issue of the gay questioner who turned out to be a member of Hillary Clinton's campaign."Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough scoffed at the notion that no one at CNN was…