Nicholas Fondacaro
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Nicholas Fondacaro | February 24, 2016
In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the Nevada Caucuses, many on the right are scrambling to point fingers at who is to blame for his dominance. A common place for blame to fall is the liberal mainstream media for not aggressively looking into his past, something they do as a matter of course for virtually every other Republican. MSNBC’s Chuck Todd washed the media's collective hands on …
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 19, 2016
Fox News Host, Bret Baier called the rest of the media out Thursday evening during his update of the story of the Marine assaulted and robbed by apparent Black Lives Matter supporters. “The story has received very little national attention, except on this channel.” Baier said of the media’s silence on the attack. Sargent Chris Marquez was knocked unconscious outside of a Washington D.C.…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 18, 2016
Andrea Mitchell decided to stump for Hillary Clinton Thursday afternoon by having reporter Jacob Soboroff, once again, pal around with Hillary’s volunteers as they try to get out the vote. Soboroff linked up with a Hillary volunteer in Nevada as she went door-to-door, but it was no average supporter of Hillary. “Jessica is one of scores of volunteers undocumented for the campaigns here, both…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 15, 2016
The polarizing former George W. Bush speech writer, David Frum was on MSNBC Live Monday afternoon to share his thoughts about Donald Trump attacking his former boss. Frum argued that the GOP needes to reflect on the Bush years, and described the GOP as a repressed mental patient. “And in Freudian psychology, the theory was, you suffered a trauma, you repressed it, but you could never make it go…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 15, 2016
Joe Scarborough and the panelists on Monday’s Morning Joe sat down to discuss Saturday’s GOP debate. During the segment, some of Scarborough’s most stinging comments were not about any of the candidates on the stage, but about the crowd that attended the event. “I tell you what, that was a horrible debate. I know it was like the most watched but not only what was going on on stage. I'm sorry, the…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 9, 2016
MSNBC continued to push the narrative of Marco Rubio being the robotic GOP candidate on Tuesday, the day of the New Hampshire primary. During the network’s live coverage of the state’s primary, host Savannah Guthrie and Chuck Todd performed their rendition of 1980’s classic Mr. Roboto by the band Styx. “Domo arigato, Marco Roboto.” The hosts sang in unison. 
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 8, 2016
Chris Matthews was on Morning Joe Monday to share his precious insight into the New Hampshire primary coming up on Tuesday. As part of his segment he was asked about how he would historically categorize Marco Rubio’s seemingly embarrassing debate performance the Saturday prior. “I put it with Blade Runner.” Matthews said. Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were very perplexed by Matthew’s…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 5, 2016
Joe Scarborough held a fiesta on Friday’s Morning Joe and Senator Marco Rubio was their piñata. The host let his panelist take several good hits on the presidential candidate on the topic of his alleged inexperience. “So after the campaign had all day to figure out what his big accomplishment was, what was his big accomplishment? What did he come up with on the list?” 
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 4, 2016
“What's so ironic is that the two candidates that have been around the longest, are the most versed on both sides, know issue by issue, could go toe to toe with anybody longer are Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side and Jeb Bush on the Republican side” Scarborough then turned his sights to a pair of GOP candidates he is known to have disdain for. “You look at the two people whose campaigns…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 4, 2016
If you’re a Hillary Clinton fan Thursday’s Morning Joe could help you get your fix of the presidential candidate. Joe Scarborough brought on Joe Klein to talk about his new pro-Hillary piece in Time magazine. Klein’s kind words about Hillary allowed Scarborough to reminisce about his days in congress and what he thought about the then First Lady. “I looked at the First Lady under siege and she…