it might be apocryphal, but the famous quote attributed to Pauline Kael, the late film critic of the New York Times, is along the lines of "how could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him." Mika Brzezinski had her Pauline Kael moment on today's Morning Joe. Mika declared herself "very surprised" by poll numbers showing there are more Americans dissatisfied with Hillary Clinton's response to…
Mika's Pauline Kael Moment on Benghazi: 'Disconnect Between People I Talk to and Rest of Country'
It might be apocryphal, but the famous quote attributed to Pauline Kael, the late film critic of the New York Times, is along the lines of "how could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him."
Mika Brzezinski had her Pauline Kael moment on today's Morning Joe. Mika declared herself "very…
This could be the worst whitewashing since Tom Sawyer suckered people into helping him with that fence . . . On today's Morning Joe, Joe Klein cleared Hillary of responsibility for American deaths in Benghazi, and blamed the CIA.
According to Klein, "we haven't heard enough about the fact that this really was a CIA station there, not so much a consulate, and those guys should be able to…
Basta: enough already! It's not that John Heilemann thinks Joe Biden is a liar, it's just that he's not convinced that Biden knows his own mind yet. And so it was that on today's Morning Joe, Heilemann declared "if he called me this morning and said I'll get into at noon I wouldn't believe him because by noon he would change his mind.'
Mark Halperin has alleged that the FBI agents conducting the investigation of Hillary's emails are driven in part by personal animus toward the Clintons.
Appearing on today's Morning Joe, Halperin said that "of all the entities in the United States that represent a threat to Hillary Clinton being the next President of the United States, those FBI agents [conducting the email investigation] are…
After tape rolled of Black Lives Matter demonstrators repeatedly chanting "pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon," you might have thought a BLM leader would either apologize, or at least seek to miminize the incident as the excesses of an irresponsible and unrepresenative few.
But no. On today's Melissa Harris-Perry show, after just such video was played, BLM leader issued not one word of…
Joe Scarborough swung a double-edged sword on today's Morning Joe, simultaneously swiping at his MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews and at conservative radio host and debate panelist Hugh Hewitt. The subject was Marco Rubio, with Hewitt calling him perhaps "the most dynamic speaker the Republican party has seen ever, since Lincoln." "Since Lincoln," inquired Scarborough incredulously, asking "do you…
Even for conservatives who aren't inclined toward Trump, the sneering condescension to him of the New York Times might be enough to rally them to The Donald's defense.On this evening's With All Due Respect, the Times' Jonathan Martin, asked, after viewing a clip of Ivanka Trump, how her more active involvement would affect the campaign, responded "the comments that you heard right there are so…
Even for conservatives who aren't inclined toward Trump, the sneering condescension to him of the New York Times might be enough to rally them to The Donald's defense.On this evening's With All Due Respect, the Times' Jonathan Martin, asked, after viewing a clip of Ivanka Trump, how her more active involvement would affect the campaign, responded "the comments that you heard right there are so…
