MarkF | February 26, 2015 On Hardball, Chris Matthews says that Jeb Bush is "the Hillary people's worst nightmare, if he runs, because he puts the middle in play."
MarkF | February 25, 2015 During his MSNBC town hall, President Obama says his is "the only office in which you are the president of all the people." Unless he meant to make the trivial point that at any one time there is only one President, he ignores the fact that as a matter of the Constitution, the Vice-President and the Chief Justice are also national offices.
MarkF | February 25, 2015 On With All Due Respect, John Heilemann, commenting on a speech Hillary Clinton gave at a women's conference in Silicon Valley, claimed Hillary was "much looser, much more spontaneous, much funnier" than she's been in the past.
MarkF | February 25, 2015 Who said?: "I've always believed the decline of the middle class could be tied to the decline of unions. And when you have 7%, 8% of the work force in unions, when you have CEO pay going up to record heights, you're going to have a hollowing out of the middle class." Was it a. Elizabeth Warren; b. Robert Reich; or c. Ed Schultz
Correct answer: d. None of the above. It was Joe Scarborough on…
MarkF | February 23, 2015 On Chris Hayes' MSNBC show, Howard Dean says that Scott Walker thinks that Barack Obama was "born in Kenya." It takes Hayes two attempts to state "I should note, you mentioned the Kenya thing, he has not been asked that."
MarkF | February 23, 2015 On the Ed Show, MSNBC contributor Steve Clemons, discussing the possible partial DHS shutdown, attacks the patriotism of Republican congressional leaders and accuses them of "undermining the security of the nation."
MarkF | February 23, 2015 On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski says "I question the patriotism of someone who questions the president's patriotism." Joe Scarborough points out that Keith Olbermann got away for years with saying outrageous things on MNSBC about President George W. Bush without Mika or anyone in the MSM getting upset about it.
MarkF | February 21, 2015 On Up With Steve Kornacki, the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart, when asked whether it's possible President Obama looks, thinks and talks about America in ways different from Presidents Reagan, Carter and Clinton, says "No. Rudy Giuliani is lying. And anyone who's been paying attention to Barack Obama since he wowed the Democratic convention in 2004 knows how much the president loves this …
MarkF | February 19, 2015 On Morning Joe, with HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell being interviewed about Obamacare, sports writer Mike Lupica says: "how did something that was this noble an idea become something over time that the other party uses against this president constantly. And is there a way, over the last two years of his presidency, for him to throw some sort of Hail Mary pass and make this look like the triumph he…
MarkF | February 18, 2015 On Morning Joe, after brushing off the suggestion by General Michael Hayden that she'd like a "mulligan" on her remarks earlier this week that we can't "kill our way" out of the ISIS problem and need instead to focus on the "root causes" of terrorism, State Department spox Marie Harf attempts to distract from the focus on Islamic terrorism. Discussing this week's White House summit on "extremism…
