It was almost a funny moment: until you realized that members of the press were openly laughing at the fecklessness of the ostensible leader of the free world.
On Morning Joe, the Washington Post's Gene Robinson, his voice cracking with emotion at times, repeatedly claimed that President Obama would use military force if necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. Andrea Mitchell…
On the Bloomberg TV show he co-hosts John Heilemann, asked today to quantify on a scale of "1-to-Godzilla" how "dumb" politically it was of Hillary Clinton to use personal email, answered "Godzilla wiht Mothra riding on his back." Heilemann also revealed having reached out to former Hillary aides and that "to a person" they responded that the situation is a political "disaster."
Mark Halperin…
In his speech to the joint session of Congress, Netanyahu took a not-so-subtle shot at John Kerry. The Israeli PM went out of his way to be bi-partisan in his speech today, finding ways to praise President Obama and even Harry Reid.
But Kerry came in for a stinging slight when Netanyahu said "last year, the same [Iranian foreign minister] Zarif, who charms Western diplomats, laid a wreath…
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have wondered out loud whether Michael Schmidt, the New York Times reporter who broke the story about Hillary using private email during her time as Secretary of State, might be fearing "retribution" from Hillary's camp.
When Joe and Mika interviewed Schmidt on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough had to work to get Schmidt to say something that was in his own…
Say "1964" and those of us old enough to remember it might do so for the appearance on Ed Sullivan's show of a little British group called the Beatles. But Chris Matthews recalls something else: the decision of the Republican party to nominate Mr. Conservative, Barry Goldwater, and his ensuing wipeout by LBJ.
On his MSNBC show tonight, Matthews suggested that Republicans are in a similarly…
MarkF | February 27, 2015 On today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski suffered an acute bout of PKSD Post Kiss Stress Disorder.
After a clip was rolled of John Boehner blowing kisses at a reporter, Mika got all verklempt, exclaiming "I know a lot of dirty old men who did that to me. I'm throwing up. That brought back bad memories." Things got so bad for poor Mika that she eventually fled the set and had to be coaxed back…
MarkF | February 26, 2015 On Hardball, Chris Matthews says that Jeb Bush is "the Hillary people's worst nightmare, if he runs, because he puts the middle in play."
MarkF | February 25, 2015 During his MSNBC town hall, President Obama says his is "the only office in which you are the president of all the people." Unless he meant to make the trivial point that at any one time there is only one President, he ignores the fact that as a matter of the Constitution, the Vice-President and the Chief Justice are also national offices.
MarkF | February 25, 2015 On With All Due Respect, John Heilemann, commenting on a speech Hillary Clinton gave at a women's conference in Silicon Valley, claimed Hillary was "much looser, much more spontaneous, much funnier" than she's been in the past.
MarkF | February 25, 2015 Who said?: "I've always believed the decline of the middle class could be tied to the decline of unions. And when you have 7%, 8% of the work force in unions, when you have CEO pay going up to record heights, you're going to have a hollowing out of the middle class." Was it a. Elizabeth Warren; b. Robert Reich; or c. Ed Schultz
Correct answer: d. None of the above. It was Joe Scarborough on…
