MarkF | December 13, 2013 The Morning Joe panel dismisses criticism of the Obama selfie at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.
MarkF | December 11, 2013 On Morning Joe, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn says the budget compromise forged by Congressman Paul Ryan "sells out" what needs to be done and compromises "core values." Nicolle Wallace proclaims herself a "groupie" of Coburn and David Axelrod, and says she is "inspired" by Ryan's leadership on the budget deal.
MarkF | December 10, 2013 On Morning Joe, discussing the way American kids are falling behind children in other countries on academic achievement scores, and describing how they are coddled, giving trophies for non-existent achievement and protected from stress, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says: "stress will be not understanding the thick Chinese accent of your first boss. That will be stress."
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Howard Dean squabble over reports of Dem infighting and indications that the party is moving left. Scarborough accuses Dean of spouting "Carl Bernstein nonsense," Dean tries to shut Scarborough down, and Mika Brzezinski makes clear her support for the prospect of a presidential run by Elizabeth Warren.
On Hardball, Chris Matthews asks President Obama to discuss Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton in the context of qualities required in a president. The president says he is not "going there," but cites as important "more than anything a sense of connection with the American people," something at least in Dem circles associated more with Biden than with Hillary.
On Morning Joe, Chris Matthews describes as "pissant" John Boehner's blaming of congressional inaction on divided government.Get the rest of the story at NewsBusters: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2013/12/05/chris-matthews-pissant-boehner-blame-inaction-divided-government
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough uses the occasion of Chris Matthews' impending interview of President Obama to mock Matthews' shrinking on-air schedule. Mika Brzezinski joins in.
Responding to Robert Gibbs' acknowledgement that large parts of the back-end of the Obamacare website haven't even been built yet, Joe Scarborough describes the site as akin to a Hollywood Western set: push the facade's wall over and there's nothing behind it.
On 'This Week With George Stephanopoulos,' far-left Dem congressman Keith Ellison quotes President Obama as having said "if you like your decent insurance, your insurance that works, you can keep it." He also said that by his apology, President Obama was saying "if you misunderstood what I was trying to say, I'm sorry."
MarkF | November 26, 2013 On Morning Joe, Tina Brown says the problems with Obamacare are "transient," but that President Obama's legacy will be his "smart" and "nuanced" handling of Syria and Iran.
