On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, who has acknowledged receiving White House talking points on the controversy surrounding the Obama administration's attempt to force Catholic institutions to offer contraceptives and other services that violate their religious precepts, appears to consult her cell phone before awkwardly stating that "the Catholic hierarchy is male."
On Morning Joe, liberal Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein argues that quintessential big government programs like massive involvement in the housing finance and the imposition of a carbon tax aren't "progressive" but simply "good policy."
On Morning Joe, after Mark Halperin cites an ABC/Washington Post poll with many findings favorable to President Obama, Joe Scarborough facetiously asks "does [Obama adviser David] Axelrod poll for ABC?"
On Al Sharpton's MSNBC show, Professor Melissa Harris-Perry, soon to host her own MSNBC show, uses a combination of euphemisms to describe abortion.
In an MSNBC "Lean Forward" promo, Ed Schultz says those "standing up to the president" are "bullies."
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Howard Dean have a heated exchange on the issue of education reform, with Dean defending teachers unions and Democrats and Scarborough accusing them of thwarting education reform on every occasion. At one point, after Dean says he needs to take Scarborough on a tour of America's schools, Scarborough says "I do not need lectures from you on education reform."
On Ed Schultz's MSNBC show, former Dem congressman from Florida claims that Newt Gingrich is running "the most overtly racist campaign" since George Wallace.
In an MSNBC promo for his show, Al Sharpton says tax cuts for the rich are unacceptable, just as forcing blacks to the back of the bus and denying women the vote were acceptable until people started protesting.
On Morning Joe, responding to New York magazine reporter John Heiiemann's question as to why he didn't correct a town hall questioner who called President Obama an avowed Muslim who is legally unqualified to be president, Rick Santorum says "it's your responsibility to defend the president, not mine." Santorum also emphatically says he is nothing like John McCain when Heilemann mentions that as…
On Morning Joe, former Dem congressman Harold Ford, Jr. claims Republicans are wrong to believe that President Obama enjoys great favor from the media.