MarkF | December 10, 2014 On Morning Joe, Mark Halperin of Bloomberg TV says the Senate report on the CIA was not "political," and Jeremy Peters of the New York Times said that in releasing it the Senate conducted itself in a "sober" way.
On Morning Joe, Howard Dean approves of athletes wearing "I Can't Breathe" t-shirts but attempts to distinguish a hypothetical in which athletes would wear "Abortion is Murder" shirts. Dean says it's "not the same analogy . . . a different kind of debate."
On his Bloomberg TV show, John Heilemann mocks the British monarchy as "undereducated," says it should be "done away with tomorrow," and says the real royalty on display on the evening's Brooklyn Nets basketball game will be Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Lebron James.
On her MSNBC show, commenting on the news that authorities are considering charges against Michael Brown's stepfather Louis Head, who on the night the grand jury declined to indict, jumped on a car and implored the crowd "burn this mother------ down! Burn this bitch down!," Melissa Harris-Perry argues that "arson and looting . . . are not necessarily violence,"
On Good Morning America, host Dan Harris at the end of a segment about the unraveling of a story about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia that the "one big fear . . . is that this will scare other victims" from coming forward.
On Ronan Farrow's MSNBC show, former NAACP head Ben Jealous says "if you think about the founding of our country, these young [black] people are as worried about their lives at the hands of the local cops as the colonists were at the hands of the Redcoats."
After describing various elements of the cult of personality surrounding North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, MSNBC's Alex Wagner says ""to all the detractors who compare our American president to an emperor and a dictator, this is what a dictatorship actually looks like."
On Morning Joe, when Mika Brzezinski begins to praise NYC Mayor de Blasio for the absence of violence in the wake of the grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer in the death of Eric Garner, Al Sharpton jumps in to silence her and grab credit for his organization.
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough criticizes the St. Louis Rams players and the congressmen making the "hands-up, don't shoot" gesture.
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough rips media "cowards," including people at his own network, who have spewed "BS" about the Ferguson, MO situation, leading St. Louis Rams players to enter the field in their game of November 30 making the "hands-up, don't shoot" gesture.
