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…
MarkF | February 23, 2015 On Chris Hayes' MSNBC show, Howard Dean says that Scott Walker thinks that Barack Obama was "born in Kenya." It takes Hayes two attempts to state "I should note, you mentioned the Kenya thing, he has not been asked that."
MarkF | February 23, 2015 On the Ed Show, MSNBC contributor Steve Clemons, discussing the possible partial DHS shutdown, attacks the patriotism of Republican congressional leaders and accuses them of "undermining the security of the nation."
MarkF | February 23, 2015 On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski says "I question the patriotism of someone who questions the president's patriotism." Joe Scarborough points out that Keith Olbermann got away for years with saying outrageous things on MNSBC about President George W. Bush without Mika or anyone in the MSM getting upset about it.
MarkF | February 21, 2015 On Up With Steve Kornacki, the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart, when asked whether it's possible President Obama looks, thinks and talks about America in ways different from Presidents Reagan, Carter and Clinton, says "No. Rudy Giuliani is lying. And anyone who's been paying attention to Barack Obama since he wowed the Democratic convention in 2004 knows how much the president loves this …
