On the previous day's Morning Joe, just after playing a clip of the pastor who delivered the eulogy at the Freddie Gray funeral leading the congregation in an empassioned chant of "no justice, no peace!", Joe Scarborough claimed that the riots that ensured were "something that no one inside that funeral could have ever have wanted." The chant wasn't the pastor's only incitement. He also told the…
Let's begin by answering Andrea Mitchell's question. "How would it have appeared" if the Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake had called the Maryland governor to request National Guard troops just afer Freddie Gray's funeral? It would have appeared that she was doing her job, protecting people and property, rather than being overly concerned with photo op politics.
On her MSNBC show today…
At the funeral service for Freddie Gray, Pastor Jamal Bryant ended his sermon by leading the congregation in a highly-charged chant of "no justice, no peace." Yet immediately after playing the clip of that moment, Joe Scarborough claimsd that the riots that ensued were "something that no one inside that funeral could have ever have wanted."
On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle claims there was no Clinton quid pro quo because Bill took their money but never made the promised phone calls. Mika Brzezinski says that Newt Gingrich's charges of illegality "made sense."
On the Melissa Harris-Perry show, Paul Raushenbush, an ordained American Baptist minister and a Huffington Post religion editor, argues against executing Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev because in 20 years he might become "a spokesperson for reconciling Islam with America."
On Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch declares that the string of scandals surrounding Hillary "really, really puts a dent in her candidacy and I really believe people are going to want to turn the page on Hillary Clinton." In contrast, Deutsch depicts Rubio as the candidate that people strongly associate with the future, making his candidacy "easy to manage. All he's got to say is 'future, future,…
Even by James Carville standards, this was bizarre. Toward the end of his appearance on the Ed Schultz show, the strange Cajun calls Clinton Cash author Paul Schweizer "this anti-Disney, gay bike bar Glenn Beck or whatever this guy is."
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, Jeremy Peters and Mika Brzezinski criticize Howard Dean for attacking the authors of stories exposing Hillary and Bill Clinton's financial dealings rather than discussing the substance of the allegations.
On With All Due Respect, Mark Halperin says that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio "may be playing a more dangerous game than he realizes" by failing so far to endorse Hillary Clinton.
On With All Due Respect, Hillary's New Hampshire campaign co-chair William Shaheen boasts that he could say where Hillary stands on 10 different issues. But when asked where she stands on the Keystone Pipeline and the Trans Pacific trade deal, Shaheen has to sheepishly admit that he doesn't know where Hillary stands on either issue.