On Morning Joe, after panelist Donny Deutsch harshly criticizes Sen. Rand Paul for telling Hillary Clinton that had he been president he would have fired her over her handling of the Benghazi attack, Willie Geist defends Paul, saying he "had a right to challenge" Clinton and that he was "doing his job."
On his MSNBC show, Ed Schultz calls Republcans "damn good" liars, and says that when in coming political battles with them, President Obama's plan is to "grab the jugular."
On Morning Joe, Andrea Mitchell, speaking of President Obama's inaugural speech, says that she found it "uplifting" and that "I was very moved, being up there . . . looking out over the masses."
In a minute-and-a-half long segment, ABC's 'Good Morning America'' fails to mention that indicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is a Democrat.
On Morning Joe, John Heilemann of New York magazine sneers at conservative pundit S.E. Cupp when she asserts, discussing the NRA ad referring to President Obama's children, that "every president's kids have been misused."
On Morning Joe, Tom Brokaw says that the refusal of people to speak out against solutions to gun violence "reminds me a lot of what happened in the South in the 1960s during the civil rights movement," in which good people declined to speak out in support of civil rights and against people like Bull Connor.
On Al Sharpton's MSNBC show, Dem Rep. Jim Moran says that "older white guys are the most insecure component of our society" and "much the problem with these kind of things", in a possible allusion to gun control. Joan Walsh offers comfort and support.
The Morning Joe panel reacts with disgust to an NRA ad criticizing the hypocrisy of the elites over armed guards in schools. Mike Barnicle calls the ad "political pornography." Donny Deutsch says it's "one of the grossest things I've ever seen in my life." Joe Scarborough asks "what's wrong with these people, Mika [Brzezinski]", who replies Brzezinski by saying some of the people running the…
On Morning Joe, Arianna Huffington and Joe Scarborough claim that William F. Buckley, Jr. would have supported President Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.
On MSNBC, NBC senior political director Mark Murray says there's a "big difference" between then-Senator Barack Obama's 2006 against raising the debt ceiling and a potential vote it against raising it now.
