On Morning Joe, Howard Dean calls National Review editor Rich Lowry a "right-wing nutcase."
On Morning Joe, John Heilemann of "New York" magazine says of "Vanity Fair" magazine: "it's well known "Vanity Fair" has a pervasive alcohol dependency problem . . they're all drunk over there."
Discussing the Justice Department's targeting of Fox News reporter James Rosen, Al Hunt says that when it comes to the press, President Obama is no better than Richard Nixon. He also suggests that AG Eric Holder should leave office.
On Morning Joe, meteorologist Bill Karins airs dramatic footage of the weatherman at the NBC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas ordering his colleagues to take shelter because a tornado was headed right at the station. Says Karins: "By the grace of whatever, God or whatever else, it lifted the second it got right to the TV station."
On Morning Joe, NBC reporter Luke Russert says the Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee are "smart," not the "God, guns and guts people."
On Morning Joe, Chris Matthews says the IRS scandal will be worth 5-10 points to Republican candidates. He specifically mentions Republicans Mitch McConnell, Tom Corbett and Ken Cuccinelli as being helped in their 2014 races.
On Morning Joe, NBC investigative reporter Lisa Myers, speaking of the damage the AP spying scandal has done to President Obama, says the effect of the scandal has been to turn "one [sic] of the President's most important constituencies, the press and the left, against him."
On Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC show, former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs criticized President Obama's response to the IRS scandal as "exceedingly passive." Gibbs says that Obama's statement that he was "losing patience" is "what I do with my nine-year old."
On Morning Joe, Andrea Mitchell calls the IRS and AP wiretapping scandals among "the most outrageous excesses I've seen" in all her years in journalism. When Ron Fournier suggests that huge troubles would arise for the Obama administration if it is discovered that anyone in the White House or the Obama campaign new about the IRS targeting of conservative groups, Carl Bernstein pipes up to say…
In a clip aired on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," President Obama is seen pronouncing the name of Syrian dictator Bashir Assad as "Bassar Ashad."
