On Morning Joe, after criticizing Rand Paul for shutting down a reporter who wouldn't let him speak, Joe Scarborough shuts down a guest who wouldn't let him speak.
On Morning Joe, Donny Deustch defends Mike Huckabee's statement that he can be friendly with gays although he doesn't share their lifestyle, in the same way he can be friendly with people who drink alcohol, use profanity, or like classical music or ballet, even though he doesn't engage in or enjoy those activities.
But when Joe Scarborough states that for thousands of years Christians and Jews…
You say "Jeb Bush," Thomas Roberts says "the Kouachi brothers."
In one of the strangest political Rorschach tests of all time, MSNBC's Roberts, on Morning Joe, claims that Jeb would have a "big onus" around his neck if he runs for president because "if we hear 'Bush' we're automatically going to go to people bringing up the Kouachi brothers and their photos of Abu Ghraib that radicalized them…
Video cross-posted here at NewsBusters. NBC correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin suggests Chris Kyle was a “racist” whose missions were “killing sprees." Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist push back.
On Morning Joe, commenting on criticism of Sarah Palin's speech in Iowa, Nicolle Wallace—who was Palin's main handler during the 2008 campaign—says "This is who she is. This to me is evidence that she has finally shed last one of those annoying handlers."
On Morning Joe, commenting on the arrest of Dem NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on bribery charges, former Obama car czar Steve Rattner, a hedge fund partner worth at least $188 million, said that the $100G+ that Silver made as Speaker [in fact the number is $121,000] was not a :"full-time" salary.
Jim VandeHei sees dead people. On Morning Joe, the Politico honcho agrees with Joe Scarborough's suggestion that Chris Christie is like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense: [politically] dead but doesn't know it.
Tuning into the middle of a Morning Joe segment today, at first I assumed that MSNBC's Ari Melber was chatting with the Oscar nominees. But no, turns out Melber had scored interviews with President Obama's SOTU speechwriting team. You'll excuse my confusion, but as you'll see, just like the Oscar hopefuls, the SOTU writers were a panorama of people of pallor.
On Morning Joe NBC's Kate Snow serves up a smiley, unrelentingly upbeat segment promoting the glories of tourism in Cuba that will now be possible for Americans under President Obama's executive order relaxing former restrictions.
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says: "I have yet to hear one person on American television or European television, mainstream, say these people [right-wingers favoring immigration restrictions] may have a point."
