On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle makes the absurd claim that the shady dealings described in Clinton Cash,won't hurt Hillary much because they're too hard for Americans to understand: "I challenge you to explain in one or two minutes to, you know, anyone, what is going on here with the Clintons and all this foundation money."
On With All Due Respect John Heilemann has the chutzpah to suggest that Mike Huckabee doesn't meet the Commander-in-Chief bar because he lacks a degree from the Kennedy School at Harvard or the Woodrow School at Princeton. Huck has merely picked up some foreign policy talking points from Fox News, huffs Heilemann.
Asked by Andrea Mitchell today to comment on footage of poor ol' Bill saying he would continue to give paid speeches because he's "gotta pay our bills," senior Hillary campaign official Amanda Renteria said "that's President Clinton. We are focused on her."
Whatever happened to "two for the price of one?"
On Morning Joe, after viewing comments by Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, Mika Brzezinski says: I think what the state's attorney has done was brave and world and I watched her speaking and I was thinking, gosh, it seems political. Not sure I care. I'm really glad her voice is at the table. I'm really glad that she's there. "
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough calls Hillary defender Howard Dean "a New England version of James Carville."
On the previous day's Morning Joe, just after playing a clip of the pastor who delivered the eulogy at the Freddie Gray funeral leading the congregation in an empassioned chant of "no justice, no peace!", Joe Scarborough claimed that the riots that ensured were "something that no one inside that funeral could have ever have wanted." The chant wasn't the pastor's only incitement. He also told the…
On the previous day's Morning Joe, just after playing a clip of the pastor who delivered the eulogy at the Freddie Gray funeral leading the congregation in an empassioned chant of "no justice, no peace!", Joe Scarborough claimed that the riots that ensured were "something that no one inside that funeral could have ever have wanted." The chant wasn't the pastor's only incitement. He also told the…
Let's begin by answering Andrea Mitchell's question. "How would it have appeared" if the Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake had called the Maryland governor to request National Guard troops just afer Freddie Gray's funeral? It would have appeared that she was doing her job, protecting people and property, rather than being overly concerned with photo op politics.
On her MSNBC show today…
At the funeral service for Freddie Gray, Pastor Jamal Bryant ended his sermon by leading the congregation in a highly-charged chant of "no justice, no peace." Yet immediately after playing the clip of that moment, Joe Scarborough claimsd that the riots that ensued were "something that no one inside that funeral could have ever have wanted."
On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle claims there was no Clinton quid pro quo because Bill took their money but never made the promised phone calls. Mika Brzezinski says that Newt Gingrich's charges of illegality "made sense."
