MarkF | November 25, 2015 You name the problem, Tom Friedman's got the answer: raise taxes on gasoline. Looks like Tom Brokaw's caught Friedman's gas-tax raising fever.On today's Morning Joe, Brokaw proposed, as part of fighting the war on terror, raising gas taxes by five cents per gallon. Brokaw argued that it is wrong that the burden of fighting falls on just 1% of Americans, and that the result of his tax increase…
MarkF | November 23, 2015 Death of a Salesman's Willy Loman was a guy "out there in the blue riding on a smile and a shoeshine." President Obama sees ISIS as Willy's bad mirror image, dismissing the Paris terrorists as guys with "conventional weapons and good social media."On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough blasted Obama's dangerous insouciance, calling it "staggering to our allies. It is staggering to people like…
MarkF | November 21, 2015 I turned on MSNBC this morning in the admittedly masochistic hope of watching Melissa Harris-Perry, only to find Harry Smith--of all--people hosting cotinuing coverage of the Paris attacks and related issues.After running clips of Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee questioning the admittance into the US of Syrian refugees, Smith immediately displayed on screen and read the passage of Matthew…
MarkF | November 21, 2015 I turned on MSNBC this morning in the admittedly masochistic hope of watching Melissa Harris-Perry, only to find Harry Smith--of all--people hosting cotinuing coverage of the Paris attacks and related issues.After running clips of Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee questioning the admittance into the US of Syrian refugees, Smith immediately displayed on screen and read the passage of Matthew…
MarkF | November 20, 2015 Joe Scarborough opened today's Morning Joe with a report on the unfolding terror attack in Mali, and promptly turned to Ayman Mohyeldin for a report.
The very first words out of Mohyeldin's mouth were "it's important to emphasize we still don't know the identity of these gunmen who have taken the hotel hostage." Great point, Ayman. I mean, sure, they were yelling Allah Akhbar, and released…
MarkF | November 18, 2015 I took some flak awhile back for saying that--his liberalism notwithstanding--Chris Matthews has a patriotic streak.
More evidence for my theory on this evening's Hardball, when Matthews, twice called the president's response to the ISIS terror threat "dainty" and said "I don't see us doing anything."
MarkF | November 18, 2015 There's been a lot of arrant nonsense spoken since the Paris attacks, but Margaret Carlson's might just take the cake . . .
On today's Morning Joe, Carlson suggested that because the US is better than Europe at assimilation, terrorists sneaking into our country might not carry out their plots. "Maybe they become Americanized and the anger goes away. What they snuck in to do they are not going…
MarkF | November 18, 2015 Maybe John Kerry should stay home in the State Department and conduct his diplomacy by Skype . . . On today's Morning Joe, here's how Mark Halperin explained Kerry's despicable statement about the "legitimacy" and "rationale" of the Charlie Hebdo attacks: "Secretary Kerry has a history when he's tired in particular after he hurtles around the world of speaking imprecisely." Was Kerry speaking "…
MarkF | November 17, 2015 Mike Huckabee might be down in the polls, but he's still up to throwing a good political punch. On this evening's MTP Daily, Chuck Todd suggested, by way of advocating the admission of Syrian refugees, that the US is better than Europe at "assimilation." Retorted Huckabee, speaking of one of the Boston bombers, "he really assimilated, until he blew up the Boston Marathon with a pressure cooker."…
MarkF | November 17, 2015 Maybe Mike Barnicle should start referring to ISIS as Borg. After all, he apparently believes that resistance is futile . . . On today's Morning Joe, Barnicle criticized the notion of NATO forming a force to combat ISIS. The cringing former Boston Globe columnist worried "wouldn't . . . creating a NATO force just add fuel to the recruiting fever that ISIS employs within Europe?" Great point, Mike…
