Scarborough: On Voting Rights, GOP Like Wallace 'In Schoolhouse Door'

Mark Finkelstein
October 21st, 2021 12:16 PM

Joe Scarborough has a bad habit of riding verbal hobbyhorses into the ground. As we've often documented, as here and here, once Joe gets what he thinks is a catchy phrase into his noggin, he repeats it—ad nauseum. This morning, Scarborough's hobby horse o' the day was "schoolhouse door," with an explicit reference to George Wallace, who infamously blocked desegregation in such manner.…

 

NBC's Todd and Brokaw: Romney Looking 'Backwards' to Less 'Inclusive

Geoffrey Dickens
August 31st, 2012 2:15 AM
Just moments after Mitt Romney finished his acceptance speech, NBC’s Tom Brokaw and Chuck Todd painted the GOP nominee as a backwards-looking candidate who was going back to the GOP’s “extreme” and less “inclusive” past. On NBC’s live coverage of Thursday’s Republican National Convention, Brokaw recalled covering Romney’s father and observed that while George Romney “fought” to make the GOP…