Jim VandeHei sees dead people. On Morning Joe, the Politico honcho agrees with Joe Scarborough's suggestion that Chris Christie is like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense: [politically] dead but doesn't know it.
Tuning into the middle of a Morning Joe segment today, at first I assumed that MSNBC's Ari Melber was chatting with the Oscar nominees. But no, turns out Melber had scored interviews with President Obama's SOTU speechwriting team. You'll excuse my confusion, but as you'll see, just like the Oscar hopefuls, the SOTU writers were a panorama of people of pallor.
On Morning Joe NBC's Kate Snow serves up a smiley, unrelentingly upbeat segment promoting the glories of tourism in Cuba that will now be possible for Americans under President Obama's executive order relaxing former restrictions.
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says: "I have yet to hear one person on American television or European television, mainstream, say these people [right-wingers favoring immigration restrictions] may have a point."
On his MSNBC show, Ed Schultz claims that conservatives are trying to convince Americans that Muslims in the US are "plants," e.g, secret agents.
On The Rachel Maddow Show, Dem Senator Chris Murphy says the Charlie Hebdo terrorists were radicalized not by ISIS but in reaction to the "decade long mistake" of the original Iraq war, thus laying the blame at the feet of President George W. Bush rather than President Obama.
On his MSNBC show, discussing the absence of any top US official from the Paris march, Ronan Farrow says "everyone here that I spoke to personally said they understood the limitations of schedule that led to that."
On Morning Joe, Christopher Dickey of The Daily Beast, asked to comment on the problem of Muslim preachers inciting people to violence, says that problem is exagrerated and that there are also Christian, Jewish and Hindu preachers who incite their congregations.
Joe Scarborough descrbies Dickey's comments as "nonsense" and "political correctness." NBC terrorism expert Michael Sheehan also…
In a speech on terrorism in France, French President Francois Hollande says that the terrorists "have nothing to do with the Muslim religion."
Appearing on Morning Joe, Zbigniew Brzezinski argues in favor of appeasing radical Islam.
