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Scarborough Desperately Clings to Wisconsin to Downplay Trump Win
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough repeatedly cites the election results in Wisconsin to downplay the scope of Trump's win. He doesn't mention that Trump flipped the state after having lost it in 2020. Scarborough also buries the fact that the electorate shifted right in all 50 states, and in 89% of counties.

Good Move, Comcast: MSNBC Fell Behind NewsNation in Saturday Beatdown
As per new Nielsen Media Research data from this weekend, MSNBC’s precipitous ratings decline hit a new low when the 28-year-old network has fallen behind NewsNation, which has only been around three years and added around-the-clock news programming on June 1. On Saturday, NewsNation topped MSNBC in the key 25-54 demographic for a total of six hours with the noon Eastern hour and then from 2:…

Bernie Sanders Kvetching About Billionaires? No, It's Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough is frustrated by the Democrats having lost Ohio to the Republicans, despite low household income in Ohio, and yet voters supporting a Republican government "of, by, and for" billionaires. If you just read the transcript, you might have thought it was Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont, not Scarborough.

MSNBC Whines About Defamation Settlement,Fearmongers 'Chilling Effect'
MSNBC’s Sunday shows followed a characteristically redundant script while discussing the newly reached settlement in President-elect Trump’s defamation suit with ABC News. The hosts were evidently convinced that the case spelled disaster for the “free press” as the Republicans realized their malicious plans, straight from the “playbook in authoritarianism.”

The Proliferation of Democrats’ Buts
Democrats are slowly, but surely, building a permission structure for progressive activists to kill those they determine are bad. From the rise of antisemitism to, now, the murder of an insurance CEO, few Democrats seem capable of condemning violence without adding a “but.” To their credit, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania have condemned both without buts.…

Morning Joe: 'Retrograde' Hegseth Would Take Military Back to Crusades
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says that Pete Hegseth's views on women in the military would take us back to the 11th century. Calling him a "retrograde throwback," MSNBC Republican Elise Jordan says his views would take us back to "the Crusades."

Recalling Media Hostility for Bill Buckley & Conservative Movement
For decades, the liberal media establishment showed open hostility toward conservative powerhouse William F. Buckley, as well as for the broader conservative movement he helped launch.

MSNBC Clamors For 'Smart and Fiery' AOC to Lead House Oversight Dems
On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, the three co-hosts and two guests all expressed support for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to supplant Gerry Connolly as the ranking minority member on the House Oversight Committee. Julian Castro hailed AOC's "fighting spirit." Michael Steele and Symone Sanders took some not-so-subtle shots at Nancy Pelosi for her support of Connolly.

Ruhle Ties Celebrating Murder To Taking Daniel Penny To Army-Navy Game
By her own admission, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle was making a bad analogy on Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour when she tried to compare the reaction to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson to the reaction to Daniel Penny’s acquittal of manslaughter after he subdued a threat to fellow New York City subway riders. However, Ruhle still tried to make the analogy work as she…

Reid Claims Trump Is 'In The Same Category' As Hitler, Stalin, Putin
As President-elect Donald Trump celebrated being named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2024, MSNBC’s Joy Reid tried to throw cold water on the occasion by pointing out that not everyone who has won the award historically has done so because they made the world a better place. The ReidOut host claimed “we all know” which side Trump is on, and it is the one with “Adolf…

MSNBC: Republicans 'Cheated' to Win House with 'Rigged' Districts
This past week, several MSNBC hosts pushed a sore loser narrative that the Republican House majority was won because of "rigged" congressional districts, with one host even claiming Republicans had been "cheating basically."

Regime Media DEVASTATED by Chris Wray’s Departure from FBI
The tone across leftwing news grew somber on Wednesday, as news broke during the 2:00 p.m. Eastern hour that FBI Director Chris Wray planned to resign from his post by the end of the Biden Administration. This announcement sparked another flurry of panic among corporate journalists, who worried that the FBI under incoming President Trump would rapidly morph into a political revenge machine…

Scarborough Makes Like He's Never Heard the Phrase 'Lived Experience'
Reacting to a clip in which accused murderer Luigi Mangione speaks of "lived experience," Joe Scarborough pretends to be unfamiliar with the phrase, saying "What does that mean? It's lived experience?" He later goes on a rant, criticizing the qualifications of Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth.

Scarborough Exploits Penny Acquittal To Suggest Trump Fairly Convicted
On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough somehow exploited the acquittal of Daniel Perry in his trial in NYC to suggest that Trump was fairly convicted by a jury there. Said Scarborough: "A jury of his peers found him not guilty. A lot of people that were also screaming when a jury of peers found Donald Trump guilty, of course. They [the jurors] were dismissed as hacks. Well, in the same…