On Hardball, Chris Matthews asks President Obama to discuss Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton in the context of qualities required in a president. The president says he is not "going there," but cites as important "more than anything a sense of connection with the American people," something at least in Dem circles associated more with Biden than with Hillary.
On Morning Joe, Chris Matthews describes as "pissant" John Boehner's blaming of congressional inaction on divided government.Get the rest of the story at NewsBusters: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2013/12/05/chris-matthews-pissant-boehner-blame-inaction-divided-government
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough uses the occasion of Chris Matthews' impending interview of President Obama to mock Matthews' shrinking on-air schedule. Mika Brzezinski joins in.
Responding to Robert Gibbs' acknowledgement that large parts of the back-end of the Obamacare website haven't even been built yet, Joe Scarborough describes the site as akin to a Hollywood Western set: push the facade's wall over and there's nothing behind it.
On 'This Week With George Stephanopoulos,' far-left Dem congressman Keith Ellison quotes President Obama as having said "if you like your decent insurance, your insurance that works, you can keep it." He also said that by his apology, President Obama was saying "if you misunderstood what I was trying to say, I'm sorry."
MarkF | November 26, 2013 On Morning Joe, Tina Brown says the problems with Obamacare are "transient," but that President Obama's legacy will be his "smart" and "nuanced" handling of Syria and Iran.
MarkF | November 25, 2013 On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough describes the nuclear deal with Iran as "bad" and "horrible" and suggests that President Obama agreed to it because he was "desperate" in the light of his poor popularity ratings.
MarkF | November 22, 2013 On Morning Joe, Zbigniew Brzezinski says he believes that Iran is, very reluctantly, willing to abandon its ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons. He says the current negotiations have been "serious" and "substantive" and that the Iranians have been "very accomodating."
MarkF | November 21, 2013 On Morning Joe, Nicolle Wallace praises Republican governors as the party's "stars" who "can speak English." In contrast, claims Wallace "you go to Washington and somehow Republicans are speaking another language."
MarkF | November 20, 2013 On his MSNBC show, Ed Schultz claims there's "no doubt" that an African-American who committed the same misdemeanor drug possession crime as Republican congressman Trey Radel "would be facing jail time."
