MarkF | September 23, 2015 To quote the Church Lady: isn't that conve-e-e-e-nient?
On Chris Hayes' MSNBC show tonight, Dem congressman Luis Gutierrez claimed that while he found the church's teachings on abortion and gay rights "difficult" [but not difficult enough to change his typically liberal positions], you can't really argue the Pope's positions on illegal immigration and income redistribution.
MarkF | September 21, 2015 John Heilemann was a rather reluctant witness. But when called on to testify, so to speak, on today's Morning Joe, he confirmed a stunning fact: that during the 2008 presidential race, it was Hillary Clinton's campaign that started the rumor that Barack Obama might not be a Christian.
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MarkF | September 18, 2015 Maybe next week, Chris Hayes will share his views on Area 51, whether fire can melt steel and if the moon landing was faked . . .
On his MSNBC show this evening, Hayes floated the notion that the guy who told Donald Trump that President Obama is a Muslim was a plant. According to Chris, although the moment seemed to have happened "organically" [yes, but was it free range?], "who knows?"…
MarkF | September 18, 2015 In the view of this NewsBuster, Hugh Hewitt is the ablest conservative interviewer on radio. So it was surprising to see him serve as such a loyal CNN soldier on today's Morning Joe.Hewitt, a member of the CNN panel at Wednesday's GOP debate, refused to complain about the paltry opportunities he was given to question the candidates. And discussing the fact that Donald Trump had been given more…
MarkF | September 17, 2015 It's one thing for there to be a consensus among conservatives that Carly Fiorina was outstanding at last night's debate. But to hear a string of superlatives about Carly coming from committed liberal Mika Brzezinski was breathtaking.Over the course of today's Morning Joe, there was a stream of praise for Fiorina from Mika, capped by this: "my God, I have never seen anyone like her. Ever."
MarkF | September 16, 2015 On Morning Joe, Hillary supporter Steve Rattner says Hillary needs to "open the kimono" and be more forthcoming on issues relating to her email.
MarkF | September 15, 2015 Like someone looking for the first robin of Spring, this NewsBuster has been on the prowl for the first media person to suggest that Hillary Clinton is going to have to quit the race.Joe Scarborough didn't go quite that far, but let's just say his shirtfront was taking on a distinctly robin-red hue on today's Morning Joe. After lambasting her "dismal" performance on the stump, Scarborough--…
MarkF | September 14, 2015 Mika Brzezinski, fired up and ready to go . . . for Donald Trump? Not exactly. It isn't that Mika is jumping on the Make America Great Again express. It's just that she wants "intellectual honesty" from her peers when it comes to admitting that Trump has gone from amusing sideshow who's sure to eventually crash to true frontrunner.
You might not think of Brzezinski as being particularly data-…
MarkF | September 11, 2015 A few months ago, I took some flack in these quarters for suggesting that, his annoying liberalism aside, Chris Matthews is in his heart an American patriot.
That same patriotic proclivity displayed itself tonight. On the anniversary of 9-11, Matthews profusely praised his guest Rudy Giuliani for his leadership on that day. And in an a spontaneous aside, Matthews called RFK's assasin, the…
